Partner Quotes
1015 quotes by 776 authors
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What are you thinking of so earnestly?" said he, as they walked back to the ballroom; "not of your partner, I hope, for, by that…
— Jane Austen
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The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but rather for one…
— J I Packer
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Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair…
— Mitch Albom
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Warriors fear surrender. They are proud and defiant. They will fight to the death for what they believe in. They will struggle to conquer. Love…
— David Gemmell
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It is strange,' pursued he, 'that while I love Rosomond Oliver so wildly-with all the intensity, indeed, of a first passion, the object of which…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Sometimes I would make left turns all the way around a block, and when I returned to the original intersection, I would feel disappointed to…
— Miranda July
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Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from our partner instead…
— Milan Kundera
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You would be miserable if you had to go through life with a human doormat with 'Welcome' written on him. You want some one made…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Get yourself in that intense state of being next to madness. Keep yourself in, not necessarily a frenzied state, but in a state of great…
— Tom Robbins
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When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was…
— Dashiell Hammett
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I need someone. I need to hold somebody close. And I need more than this holding. I need someone to understand how I feel at…
— Betty Smith
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The marriage partner is not really the problem. No other person can ultimately make you happy. You must learn how to be happy within yourself.
— Joel Osteen
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Maybe you once were excited about that person God supernaturally brought into your life as a marriage partner, but now all the excitement has worn…
— Joel Osteen
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The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the…
— Milan Kundera
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I am reminded of a story of Lord Krishna when he was a cowherd. Every night he invites the milkmaids to dance with him in…
— Yann Martel
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Why? Why does what was beautiful suddenly shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths? Why does the memory of years of happy marriage turn…
— Bernhard Schlink
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All students enter law school with a certain amount of idealism and desire to serve the public, but after three years of brutal competition we…
— John Grisham
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When I return to the world, I will be a man. I will walk among you. I will lick my lips with my small, dexterous…
— Garth Stein
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Women don't want all that. Women just want a partner who is considerate and attentive, who will spoon with them while reciting Keats, and feed…
— Stephen Colbert
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all the advice you ever gave your partner is for you to hear
— Byron Katie
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