Quotes about Relationships
It's safer knowing more about people than they know about you.
— Barbara Kingsolver
The thing is, it's my own fault. I just can't put up with a person that won't go out of his way for me. And that's what a man is. Somebody that won't go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in the dictionary.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Keeping secrets from young ears only plants seeds in between them
— Barbara Kingsolver
Mother, you can still hold hold on but forgive, forgive and give for long as long as we both shall live, I forgive you, Mother.
— Barbara Kingsolver
He got born in the historical moment of no more free lunch. Friends will probably count more than money, because wanting too much stuff is going to be toxic.
— Barbara Kingsolver
I didn't wish to be comforted. "You can't replace people you love with other people," I said. "They're not like old shoes or something." "No. But you can trust that you're not going to run out of people to love.
— Barbara Kingsolver
You can fool history sometimes, but you can't fool the memory of your intimates.
— Barbara Kingsolver
I shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Somehow it had come to pass that this man was her whole world, and she had failed to take his measure.
— Barbara Kingsolver
A wife had greater wants, naturally, and could do nothing to help her own situation.
— Barbara Kingsolver
I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow.
— Stephen Covey
people have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well.
— Stephen Covey