Top 1200 Dysfunctional Relationship Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I had a picture-perfect childhood. My parents were like June and Ward Cleaver; there was nothing dysfunctional about them.

Our relationship would never vary from its allegiance to the shared values, the shared religious heritage, the shared democratic politics which have made the relationship between the United States and Israel a special-even on occasion a wonderful-relationship ... The United States admires Israel for all that it has overcome and for all that it has accomplished. We are proud of the strong bond we have forged with Israel, based on our shared values and ideals. That unique relationship will endure just as Israel has endured.

A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother.

I'd once read somewhere that is takes about half as long to recover from a deep relationship as the relationship lasted.

Relationship is the mirror: see your face there. Always remember relationship is the mirror. If your meditation is going deep, your relationship will become different - totally different. Love will be the basic note of your relationship, not violence. As it is, violence is the basic note. Even if you look at someone, you look in a violent way. But we are accustomed to it.

I hope everyone can examine what is the most important relationship in life - the relationship between parent and child.

I always notice the dysfunctional dynamic of human relationships because most places where you encounter it, people are trying to pretend it isn't happening.

If I have to give up good fashion for a relationship, I don't want a relationship.

Just as the right relationship with Christ generates a Christian, so the proper relationship with the Holy Spirit breeds a spiritual man.

My dad sacrificed his relationship with me so I'd be stronger for it. But I could never do it to my kids - I like to have a happy relationship with them.

I think everyone is fairly fed up with mildly dysfunctional people being put under pressure and then behaving abysmally.

You just have to keep in mind that the important relationship is the relationship with the audience. That's what I try to do. Everything else is secondary.

Any person in a relationship has to see what they gain from those things and if it's worth what you have to sacrifice to be in a relationship. I don't think that's a terrible thing.

There has never been a merging of two lives where significant problems of daily living did not occur. One way or another, your relationship is going to be affected. The only question is how. There's a big difference between knowing and doing. It's not what happens between partners that determines the outcome of a relationship, it's how they handle what happens. If all you deal with in your relationship is problems, then you will have a problem relationship. If you want your pound of flesh with full acknowledgement that you're right, your future will be dim.

We have a relationship with our customer, and that relationship translates into sales.

Once you lose the honesty in a relationship, I mean, I think you don't have a relationship at all.

The extent to which two people in a relationship can bring up and resolve issues is a critical marker of the soundness of a relationship.

My relationship with my mother has always felt like the most complicated relationship of my life. I know I have a lot more writing to do on this.

The relationship between Cathy and Mom in the strip is the one relationship drawn from real life that I have proudly never even tried to disguise.

Me and Kanye have a relationship - not as close as him and Trump, but we have a relationship.

It's good to learn early that every show is a family - -complete with dysfunctional relationships, tough love, and plenty of occasion for forgiveness.

The relationship between reader and writer is reciprocal in a way. We co-create each other. We are constantly emerging out of the relationship we have with others.

We were made for each other, in a work relationship. There's real love there. We're so proud of the business relationship we have.

When you're in a relationship with someone you have to be in control of that relationship and you have to be as open as you can about everything, straight up, out the gate.

Refuse to disconnect from love and every relationship will be totally transformed; even the relationship with yourself.

If you want to improve a relationship, it's not that you demand your spouse to change. You have to ask, 'Where did I fail in this relationship?'

Japanese moe relationships socially dysfunctional men develop deep attachments to body pillows with women painted on them.

A relationship with lots of pain, it's not a relationship that will last long.

I've come to learn that what really matters is the relationship, the quality of the relationship.

My relationship with the track was, I would say, at least fractionally as complicated as my relationship with my old man. So it kept me coming back.

The value of a relationship is in direct proportion to the time that you invest in the relationship.

You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self.

Men have been intimidated by my relationship with Howard. You know, it's hard for them to imagine that they could be number one, seeing this relationship.

If people want to legalize a particular relationship, we need to be careful if that kind of relationship has been disapproved for millennia.

Yoga is a part of who I am. It has given me a permanent relationship. A relationship between my body, my mind, and my emotions.

I imagine that all Americans have a unique relationship in their individual present to their collective past and how that relationship might shape their identities and experiences.

If you're worried about the deficit, pay attention to the fact that it's almost all attributable to military spending and the totally dysfunctional health program.

I bet a guy at a bar 50 bucks that I was more dysfunctional than he was. He raped me. So I tipped him. I'm very competitive.

There's no relationship that I find that's closer than a creative relationship.

Educating the masses was intended only to improve the relationship between the top and the bottom of society. Not for changing the nature of the relationship.

The relationship between me and President Mandela right at the beginning was not a very well-established relationship. It was based on two meetings.

Did Romeo and Juliet have a ... "relationship"? The term "relationship" ... betokens a chaste egalitarianism leveling different ranks and degrees of attachment.

When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.

Not having a great relationship with my brother Aaron, or what people think that relationship should be, didn't define me.

I believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley.

Women often have a fraught relationship with their mothers, even though that's the most important relationship in their lives.

The relationship I have to everyday life is very European. We have a different relationship with religion, with faith, with nudity, with sex, with food.

The artist-audience relationship is the most valuable thing, and anything you can do to fuel the long-term potential of that relationship is of value to you.

It's important to me to be in a relationship when I'm in one, but I'm not someone who needs to be in a relationship.

I believe the relationship you have with your government is not so different to a love relationship.

The only and dearest relationship is the mind's relationship with itself.

I have an odd relationship with motherhood. I've never had that relationship of this unconditional friendship, deep bond that you have with somebody, but I have it now with my son.

The purpose of relationship may not be what you think. If you are excited about forming a relationship based on what it looks like you can get, rather than what you can give, you have started off on the wrong foot entirely, and you could be heading for a big disappointment. The purpose of all relationships is to create a sacred context within which you can express the fullness of who you are. And who you are is an experience you have before you enter relationship, not because you did.

Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

The relationship with yourself is the most important relationship you’ll ever have.

It's not a coach relationship: he's a mentor; it's a life relationship. If I didn't make it in fighting, I didn't have anything else to fall back on.

Am I in a relationship? Yeah. I'm already in a relationship with everybody that likes me.

I view the relationship with Canada as a vital relationship for the United States. The relationship, of course, is defined government-to-government. It's also defined people-to-people, and there's a lot of people in my country who respect Canada and have great relations with Canadians, and we intend to keep it that way.

Prayer as a relationship is probably your best indicator about the health of your love relationship with God. If your prayer life has been slack, your love relationship has grown cold.

A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one.