Partners Quotes - Page 14

• Very serious mistakes were made by previous governments, and Greece was ready to be abandoned by its partners and to leave the eurozone, which would have created total catastrophe.

  Antonis Samaras

  Mistake, Government, Serious

  "Everybody Knows We Are Serious". Interview with Lally Weymouth, www.slate.com. September 14, 2012.

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• Never undervalue the idea of partners. Understanding your strengths and then going out trying to find like-minded people who will be another pillar of your success.

  Rob Dyrdek

  Ideas, People, Understanding

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• You're better off owning 30 percent and having two amazing partners who compliment you and are equally as driven as you are than having 100 percent and only having one aspect of it, unless you're a super genius who is creative and business-minded at the same time.

  Rob Dyrdek

  Compliments You, Two, Creative

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• I knew absolutely nothing about bondage. I'd always presumed it was just an inventive way of keeping your partner from going home.

  Kathy Lette

  Home, Way, Bondage

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• Buying a bicycle is a momentous event, akin to marriage: you are acquiring a partner.

  Dervla Murphy

  Events, Buying, Bicycle

  Dervla Murphy (2001). “South From the Limpopo”, p.235, The Overlook Press

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• a revolutionary marriage ... [is] one in which both partners have work at the center of their lives and must find a delicate balance that can support both together and each individually.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Marriage, Support, Balance

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• Only a marriage with partners strong enough to risk divorce is strong enough to avoid it.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Marriage, Strong, Divorce

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• I'm not sure there can be loving without commitment, although commitment takes all kinds of forms, and there can be commitment for the moment as well as commitment for all time. The kind that is essential for loving marriages - and love affairs, as well - is a commitment to preserving the essential quality of your partner's soul, adding to them as a person rather than taking away.

  Merle Shain

  Marriage, Commitment, Soul

  "Some Men are More Perfect Than Others". Book by Merle Shain, 1973.

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• It is high time that the American people should remember a few home truths, and that we should refuse to become partners with a militarism which is still stalking unchecked under the pretense of national needs and of international justice.

  Elisabeth Marbury

  Home, People, Justice

  Elisabeth Marbury (1924). “My Crystal Ball: Reminiscences”, New York : Boni and Liveright

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• Prostitution is really the only crime in the penal law where two people are doing a thing mutually agreed upon and yet only one, the female partner, is subject to arrest.

  Kate Millett

  Law, Two, People

  Kate Millett (1976). “The prostitution papers: "A quartet for female voice"”

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• The fun, joy, and humor dry up in a relationship when one of the partners is swimming in gin. To my way of thinking, it is selfishness personified to see life through the bottom of a liquor bottle.

  Ginger Rogers

  Fun, Drinking, Swimming

  Ginger Rogers (1991). “Gineger My Story”

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• Pot is an insidious drug because it can steal your life away from you, without you even being aware of it. I had a love affair with pot for ten years. Pot was my most devoted partner.

  Margaret Cho

  Years, Drug, Affair

  Margaret Cho (2007). “I'm the One That I Want”, p.64, Ballantine Books

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• Many species reciprocate, but only humans gossip, and much of what we gossip about is the vale of other people as partners for reciprocal relationships.

  Jonathan Haidt

  People, Gossip, Humans

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• If anybody wants to engage in any kind of sexual activity with any consenting partner, that is their business. Anybody can do anything they damn well please, as long as the relationship isn't exploitive. And I don't feel that legality should have anything to do with it. There are certain bodily functions of mine which I will not allow to be supervised.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Should Have, Long, Want

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• I loved dancing with a delirious 'I wish I could die' passion, especially when the music appealed to me ... but alas! only one in ten partners had any notion of time, and what made it worse, the nine were always behind, never before the beat. ... Sometimes I would firmly seize smaller, lighter partners by the scruff of the neck, so to speak, and whirl them along in the way they should go, but I saw they were not enjoying themselves, and oddly enough I wanted these wretches to like dancing with me.

  Ethel Smyth

  Dance, Passion, Dancing

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• We have to use all of America's strengths to build a world with more partners and fewer adversaries, more shared responsibility and fewer conflicts, more good jobs and less poverty, more broadly based prosperity with less damage to our environment.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, Responsibility, America

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2014). “Hard Choices”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• More broadly, strategic alliances are more difficult to manage and coordinate than single ventures; the potential for misunderstanding and disagreement, particularly between partners from different cultures, is great. Certainly many such alliances are short lived.

  Peter Dicken

  Alliances, Venture, Different

  "Global Shift: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy". Book by Peter Dicken, 1986.

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• The three short years I spent at Harvard, where I lived with excellent people, taught me not only that I must know how to choose my partners but also that choosing excellent partners is a skill you can learn. Obviously, when you spend time with the best, you learn how to choose among them.

  Jorge Paulo Lemann

  Years, Skills, People

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• I like my coffee like I like my romantic partners: cold and bitter and prone to giving me anxiety attacks.

  Moby

  Coffee, Giving, Anxiety

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 5, 2014.

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• Mexico is an important trading partner, it's the number one trading partner for the state of Texas. We have had dealings with them, shared a border with them. We have had our challenges, but at the end of the day we want a good relationship with Mexico.

  Rick Perry

  Texas, Numbers, Good Relationship

  "Rick Perry talks immigration reform, fixing the economy". "Special Report" with Bret Baier, www.foxnews.com. July 1, 2015.

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• I think the best partner you can have is someone who makes you want to be the best form of yourself.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Thinking, Want, Being The Best

  "Jennifer Talks". Interview with Veronica Chambers, www.glamour.com. July 1, 2007.

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• Realizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies.

  Byron Katie

  Children, Lying, People

  "The Turnaround: A Byron Katie Interview" by Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. December 3, 2013.

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• When you are in love with a man or a woman, the love you feel does not come from him or her; it is the love flowing from you own heart that you feel. Your partner is simply giving you an excuse to love. Love is always found flowing in your heart, not in your family, lover, career or art.

  David Deida

  Love, Family, Art

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• I've found that people with flexible ears are the least rigid in life. Best way to find yourself a perfect partner may be as easy as squeezing their ears.

  Siddharth Katragadda

  Perfect, People, Finding Yourself

  "The Other Wife: A Novel in Verse". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2003.

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• Who you are is always enough. If your partner wants something different, it does not reflect upon you, but upon their needs and fantasies.

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Want Something, Doe, Different

  Brenda Shoshanna (2004). “Zen and the Art of Falling in Love”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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