My nemesis - my downfall, if you will - was relationships, and trying to fulfill them.

It's always intimidating to meet an icon.

I would rather have gotten married than have a Hollywood contract.

I came to Christ when I was thirty-eight. That transformed my life.

John Wayne was a consummate gentleman. Bigger than life.

When a person goes into a relationship emotionally needy, they are not going to have discernment in choosing people.

A lot of people got lost in Hollywood while trying to become a star. They lost themselves.

When people realize that they have been forgiven of everything, it becomes a little bit easier for them to forgive others.

My nemesis - my downfall, if you will - was relationships, and trying to fulfill them.

Forgiveness isn't about condoning what has happened to you or someone else's actions against you.

If you go into a relationship expecting someone else to fill you up, you're doomed right off.

We all have human emotions that rob our lives.

Very few cinematographers, other than the Europeans, know how to light women like they used to in the old days.

Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual.

I had low self-esteem.

Blaming is so much easier than taking responsibility because if you take responsibility then you might be to blame.

When a person goes into a relationship emotionally needy they are not going to have discernment in choosing people.

If we lived in a world with no fear, then you would never discover the courage you have within.

People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.

How strange it is that murder has the sanction of law in one and only one of the human relationships, and that is the most important of all, that of nation to nation.

I've had a couple of long relationships. And I've had a couple of shorter relationships.

I'm very excited to see where the characters and their relationships go. But in the end, it really boils down to the people who have more power than me, who control the money.

I'll miss the relationships I have built with these actors. I'll miss the devotion we have to this work. Over this length of time, the tendency is to think it will never end.

You can have all sorts of relationships, but there's something with musicians working together where you can have relationship that can just continue to grow in a beautiful way.

It's so hard to have relationships when there is so much scrutiny.

I think I am too interested in my own ideas to copy anyone else's, but I find that other people's imagery, the flow of language in the outside world, games with words, and ideas about relationships are all most important to me.

You have to stick out the toughness of the business and form relationships with the people in it.

When the Negro cries with pain from his deep hurt and lays his petition for elemental justice before the nation, he is calling upon the American people to kindle about that crucible of race relationships the fires of American faith.

Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.

The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that it's not all about characters, relationships and themes, it's also about place and the poetry of place. It's about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across.

Every society in the history of man has upheld the institution of marriage as a bond between a man and a woman. Why? Because society is based on one thing: that society is based on the future of the society. And that's what? Children. Monogamous relationships.

Call it holistic or holographic thinking, it's been quite effective imagining the world's problems are all right in front of you on a smaller scale with your band. You deal with those relationships, and that's where real major change begins.

You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.

Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.

And I maintain good relationships with all the studios so I've never been bullied into any cut, frankly.

This radical transformation of world power relationships reflects primarily in the case of both the USA and the USSR the growth of the productive forces.

I've exchanged messages and photos of an explicit nature with about six women over the last three years. For the most part, these communications took place before my marriage, though some have sadly took place after. To be clear, I have never met any of these women or had physical relationships at any time.

The only way you do anything is to become really active. And the most effective way to get your message to your elected representatives is to make campaign contributions and develop relationships with them.

One of the things we want to do is find ways, first, to impress these parents how important it is to have children in a situation where they can respond to them and, second, to bring intergenerational relationships into play.

The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it.

Assumptions are the termites of relationships.

Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and therefore of the pattern of human relationships in society.

The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.

You show your vulnerability through relationships, and those feelings are your soft spot. You need to have a soft spot.

I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all my relationships, on my physical health, my emotional and mental health.

Actors are not all there when it comes to things like relationships. The thing about us is we still greatly enjoy each other. If it weren't for her support it would be hard for me to do what I am doing now.

I have been heartbroken once and it has affected all my relationships from there on. But now I look at it as a occupational hazard. If you are in the meat market at some point you are gonna get mad cows disease.

Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.