Human Relations Quotes
148 quotes by 127 authors
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We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
— Bernard Malamud
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The famous carry about with them a great weight of patriarchal baggage-the footnotes of their lives.
— Elizabeth Hardwick
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I think in a country like mine, violence is at the root of all human relations.
— Mario Vargas Llosa
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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
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I don't make romantic films. I make films about human relationships.
— Yash Chopra
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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
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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
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There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.
— Franz Kafka
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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
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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
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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
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Art problems are problems of human relationship.
— Josef Albers
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The ability to break a loved one's heart is the essential contradiction in human relationships.
— Amy Dickinson
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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
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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
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No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands…
— Khalil Gibran
Who Wrote These Human Relations Quotes
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