Human Relations Quotes

148 quotes by 127 authors

We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers. — Bernard Malamud
The famous carry about with them a great weight of patriarchal baggage-the footnotes of their lives. — Elizabeth Hardwick
I like the rough impersonality of New York ... Human relations are oiled by jokes, complaints, and confessions-all made with the assumption of never seeing… — Bill Bradley
Let us say your wife, husband, boyfriend, girlfriend makes you happy. If they leave, you're bound to be unhappy. You are the slave of the… — Frederick Lenz
The inherent preferences of organizations are clarity, certainty and perfection. The inherent nature of human relationships involves ambiguity, uncertainty, and imperfection. How one honors, balances,… — Richard Pascale
In Europe, where human relations like clothes are supposed to last, one's got to be wearable. In France one has to be interesting, in Italy… — Sybille Bedford
I think in a country like mine, violence is at the root of all human relations. — Mario Vargas Llosa
I think that the relationship between two top-level athletes who are rivals is one of the most fascinating human relationships to explore. It's always one… — Chris Cleave
I don't make romantic films. I make films about human relationships. — Yash Chopra
Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely… — Jeffery Deaver
Promotion of health generally by improving the standard of living. From the health point of view we are in this connexion first and foremost interested… — Karl Evang
There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship. — Franz Kafka
I do not see class as a 'structure', nor even as a 'category', but as something which in fact happens (and can be shown to… — E. P. Thompson
No other human relationship can approach the potential for intimacy and oneness than can be found within the context of a marriage commitment. And yet… — Dennis Rainey
It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control tradition and assume a critical… — Albert Einstein
Art problems are problems of human relationship. — Josef Albers
The ability to break a loved one's heart is the essential contradiction in human relationships. — Amy Dickinson
The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In… — Graham Greene
The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and… — John Maynard Keynes
No human relation gives one possession in anotherâ€”every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands… — Khalil Gibran

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