Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all the others, remains indelible and indestructible, the strongest relationship on earth
Theodore Reik
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES It's about strengthening the relationship and the bond of parent to child. BLAIR UNDERWOOD We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart.... P.C. CAST 90% of relationship issues are caused by misunderstandings, 9.9% by conflicts of interest. Luckily, ... STEFAN EMUNDS You are ridiculous, Khalid Ibn al-Rashid. I am just one girl. You are the Caliph of Khorasan, and yo... RENEE AHDIEH There's a really unique relationship between a single parent and their child. Marriages so easil... JEREMY SISTO I think sometimes there is no right thing. ROSAMUND HODGE The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one... DEYTH BANGER Pride adversely affects all our relationships—our relationship with God and His servants, between ... EZRA TAFT BENSON While Maddox now believed the demon did not want to hurt Ashlyn, he wasn't willing to take a chance.... GENA SHOWALTER The erosion of extended family concept and losing out on values are the two things that are primaril... SHIV KHERA It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long a... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The power to know if a relationship is on the precipice is by knowing how hard you try not to offend... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Forever is a long long time and time has a way of changing things WALT DISNEY COMPANY When we put LIVE backwards it spells EVIL, interesting how one word can have two totally opposing me... GARY F EVANS... I love you." she whispered into the rough wool of his sweater. L.J. SMITH And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three,... MONTY PYTHON I make mistakes. That's what I do. I speak without thinking, I act without knowing. I d... CANDACE BUSHNELL Everyone gets dumped and everyone gets hurt and there's karma to love in regards to what you'... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS My dad's quite a conservative person, and he brought me up to be very questioning of the commerc... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I don't think she's a lesbian. I think she just ran out of men. [Charlotte] SEX AND THE CITY When you are with the wrong person, who doesn't really love you, all you want is to be adored. I... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I really like the look of the 1950s, lots of suburban Americana influences. I'm 5'4', so... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I am very curvy, so the vintage stores suit me better than most designers. I just can't seem to ... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I have quite a lot of plastic sunglasses. It's just a nice accessory, it adds a final thing, and... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I lived in Greece for about four years of my life, and living there had a huge impact on my life gro... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I love natural beauty, and I think it's your best look, but I think makeup as an artist is so tr... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I think celebrity culture and sexuality in pop music is really important, but I want there to be an ... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I'm not really part of that 'L.A. thing' or that celebrity culture. I'm more like so... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS This obsession with celebrity culture is really unhealthy. I don't want to live my life like tha... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Even when I see a beautiful woman, I think, 'Aw, her life must be amazing.' Everyone does it... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Blonde symbolises sexuality and power - it holds very different connotations. The archetypal star ha... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Love is really my nemesis. I never really allowed myself to indulge in such basic things because I w... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Britney Spears is a big influence. Huge. I think people thought I was joking about that for a long t... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Puberty is a phase... fifteen years of rejection is a lifestyle. [Stanford] SEX AND THE CITY I criticized the whole American songwriting industry and the pop side of it and I was bitter about i... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I often take things I find in vintage crawls and hand them to a very good seamstress, who then repli... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I've read every Madonna biography. I've also looked up every pop star to see how they first ... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Oh my God, she's fashion road-kill! SEX AND THE CITY I love you, but I love myself more. SEX AND THE CITY Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had ne... SEX AND THE CITY Desperate Housewives. SEX AND THE CITY Sean (while ice-skating with Carrie): I'm guessing it's easier to balance when you're not smoking.Ca... SEX AND THE CITY I want you to look at me, connect with me. This is lovemaking, it's not a porno flick. [Maria] SEX AND THE CITY I once was broken up with by a guy's doorman. 'I'm sorry Ms. Hobbes, Jonathan won't be coming down. ... SEX AND THE CITY I feel like everyone has the right to privacy, even if you're the most famous person in the worl... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS When you are in the studio, you don't have anybody to feed off of; meanwhile, when you are playi... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I am absolutely not a roll-on-stage kind of girl! I would be totally freaked out if I didn't war... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS It's a slippery slope, Carrie. Without boundaries you never know what might happen. [Miranda] SEX AND THE CITY the sort of person who'd back Proposition 14. SEX AND THE CITY A stud is born! [Stanford] SEX AND THE CITY Maybe we should get married.[Charlotte] Alrighty.[Trey] SEX AND THE CITY My Zen teacher also said: the only way to true happiness is to live in the moment and not worry abou... SEX AND THE CITY Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story. SEX AND THE CITY No lady likes to dance or dine, accompanied by a porcupine. Burma Shave. SEX AND THE CITY I don't think I'm an instantaneous act the whole world will love in one second - but that... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS What's the big mystery? It's my vagina, not the sphinx! [Miranda] SEX AND THE CITY My style icons are Leigh Lezark, Gwen Stefani and Shirley Manson. MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I do have a memo all the time because I need to be guided by something in my life. I'm not relig... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I'm masquerading as an innocent pop star. MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS the lights fade to black. SEX AND THE CITY Yeah, I would love to. I don't know if I'd do another singing one. SEX AND THE CITY Bellhop: "this is a non-smoking floor."Carrie: "I have an addiction sir!" SEX AND THE CITY F*** me badly once, shame on you. F*** me badly twice, shame on me. SEX AND THE CITY Hasty Pudding is no small potatoes (sorry to mix the food references), known for its famous alumni a... SEX AND THE CITY I knew I wanted a handbag, but they were so pricey. I love Marc Jacobs. SEX AND THE CITY All other documents in the Getty's possession that could in any way be relevant to the Italian inves... SEX AND THE CITY 'Rome' vital to HBO TV empire. SEX AND THE CITY Sex and the City. SEX AND THE CITY Suicide is not glamorous and should not be portrayed in a glamorous light. SEX AND THE CITY When an opportunity comes, I don't question it. I grab it, drop its ring on the nightstand and swing... SEX AND THE CITY Having money isn't the answer but it makes your life a hell of a lot nicer. If you have the choice t... SEX AND THE CITY Despite the fact that there are over eight million people on the island of Manhattan, there are time... SEX AND THE CITY When Charlotte really liked somebody she said their whole name. It helped her picture their future m... SEX AND THE CITY I love you but it's not my job to fix your finances. [Charlotte] SEX AND THE CITY It took me a really long time to get here, but I'm here. Carrie, you're the one. [Mr.Big] SEX AND THE CITY Life is not all about sex. [Samantha] SEX AND THE CITY When Charles Dickens wrote "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," I believe he must ... SEX AND THE CITY From my experience, honey, if he seems too good to be true—he probably is. [Samantha] SEX AND THE CITY Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. There was no one there. SEX AND THE CITY Maybe all men are a drug. Sometimes they bring you down and sometimes, like now, they get you so hig... SEX AND THE CITY My character, she's kind of gotten away with her looks, gotten away with her ability to charm people... SEX AND THE CITY I admit it's tempting to wish for the perfect boss - the perfect parent - or the perfect outfit. But... SEX AND THE CITY Charlotte: So how are you? Carrie: I'm good. How are you? Charlotte: Great. Carrie: I to... SEX AND THE CITY I had often fantasized about running into my ex and his wife. But in those fantasies, I was running ... SEX AND THE CITY From my experience, honey, if he seems too good to be truehe probably is. [Samantha] SEX AND THE CITY I'm thinking balls are to men what purses are to women. It's just a little bag, but we feel naked in... SEX AND THE CITY They practically chased me with torches like I was Fuckenstein! [Samantha] SEX AND THE CITY Middle-Age Girls Gone Wild. SEX AND THE CITY You in a threesome? You won't even wear a thong! [Samantha] SEX AND THE CITY The only thing worse than a liar is a bad liar. [Lucy Liu] SEX AND THE CITY It's my birthday. I'm officially old. [Carrie on her 35th Birthday] SEX AND THE CITY You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suctio... SEX AND THE CITY But the most exciting, challenging and significant relationship of all is the one you have with your... SEX AND THE CITY Junkyard Wars. SEX AND THE CITY Kitchen SEX AND THE CITY Sometimes we need to stop analyzing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely ... SEX AND THE CITY You shouldn't have to sacrifice who you are just because somebody else has a problem with it. SEX AND THE CITY I don't believe in the Republican party or the Democratic party. I just believe in parties. [Samanth... SEX AND THE CITY
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THEODORE WHITE Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by... THEODORE ROOSEVELT In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an A... THEODORE ROOSEVELT It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where th... THEODORE ROOSEVELT The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the ... THEODORE ROOSEVELT Clown and guru are a single identity: the satiric and sublime side of the same higher vision of lif... THEODORE ROZAK The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing ... THEODORE ROOSEVELT Remorse is the pain of sin. THEODORE PARKER Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. THEODORE PARKER The spirit of brotherhood recognizes of necessity both the need of self-help and also the need of he... THEODORE ROOSEVELT [America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we wer... THEODORE PARKER My hat is in the ring. THEODORE ROOSEVELT The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he should be able and willing... THEODORE ROOSEVELT Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft! THEODORE ROOSEVELT The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly... THEODORE ROOSEVELT The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the
well-being of society, but only if they k... THEODORE ROOSEVELT Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood—the virt... THEODORE ROOSEVELT Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft. THEODORE ROOSEVELT A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square dea... THEODORE ROOSEVELT Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure,... THEODORE ROOSEVELT Every man owes a part of his time and money to the business or industry in which he is engaged. No ... THEODORE ROOSEVELT Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure t... THEODORE ROOSEVELT We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or... THEODORE ROOSEVELT I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart, and that is softness of head. THEODORE ROOSEVELT The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer THEODORE ROOSEVELT If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for... THEODORE ROOSEVELT I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his... THEODORE ROOSEVELT To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society. THEODORE ROOSEVELT Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the hist... THEODORE ROOSEVELT No man needs sympathy because he has to work. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the ch... THEODORE ROOSEVELT Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience. THEODORE ROOSEVELT The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to do, a... THEODORE ROOSEVELT No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him t... THEODORE ROOSEVELT