relationships quotes

No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you’re going to bump into somebody that makes you go, ‚Hmm, I don’t mind seeing this person every day.‘

Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it’s a green light.

When people say ‚marriage‘ to me… It’s always a means to an end. Everyone’s so in a rush to define the relationship.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

I’m not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I’m the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.

It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

Really showing love requires more than just words.

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about – having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

I’m not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.

My dad was never married. He was kind of a rolling stone. But he was never disrespectful. At the same time, even though he had women in his life when I was a kid, there wasn’t any consistency.

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Speak low, if you speak love.

Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

They do not love that do not show their love.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

It’s so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

It’s very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

Every single one of the guys that I’ve written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

If I’d married someone in show business, there’d be too much competition.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

It’s hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don’t always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn’t bother me too much.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

You can draw inspiration from anything. If you’re a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you’re casually talking to says something that makes you so mad – you can create an entire scenario around that.

My husband says I look like a Q-tip.

I didn’t have a father figure in the house.

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

She’s been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.

Love is an interesting thing.

I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you’re supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

I can’t deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

Alimony – the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

I’m the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that’s horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

I’m drawn to bad romances.