You can stroke people with words.
F. Scott FitzgeraldWhen you’re traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I’ve met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.
The WeekndThe royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Dale CarnegieThere are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.
Samuel JohnsonI am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.
Edmund HillaryWe’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.
John LennonI should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.
VoltaireI married my best friend that happens to be a girl.
Kevin GatesIn truth, I did enjoy the benefits of a Harvard connection.
Ruth Bader GinsburgThere is no such thing as a lovers‘ oath.
PlatoUnless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
E. E. CummingsFriend, there’s no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.
Joel OsteenA lot of Jews are great friends of mine.
Billy GrahamA goal is a dream with a deadline.
Napoleon HillThere is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
Oscar WildeOne of the reasons I connect to the Super Bowl is that I approach my shows like an athlete.
Beyonce KnowlesI maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.
Blaise PascalMisfortune shows those who are not really friends.
AristotleTaylor Swift’s audience can listen to me, but so can the street kids. I want to touch it all.
The WeekndI believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?
John LennonA man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.
Taylor SwiftI soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
Anne FrankBasically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.
Warren BuffettThere is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
C. S. LewisLove… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
Khalil GibranI learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman’s skillet and the man’s ax-helve.
Abraham LincolnTreat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.
ChanakyaYou can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.
Ruth Bader GinsburgIf we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
Maya AngelouTrust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.
Christopher HitchensThe most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
Khalil GibranThe strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
Tennessee WilliamsA friend to all is a friend to none.
AristotleBut there is a difference between cozying up to power and being close to power.
BonoI think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it’s my mind.
Lady GagaLong before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
C. S. LewisPride 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.
Joyce MeyerCulture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.
Paulo CoelhoI wouldn’t say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don’t think there’s anyone on my side.
Kanye WestI’ve known and continue to know every one of these major world leaders by their first names, and I have access to them.
Joe BidenKnavery and flattery are blood relations.
Abraham LincolnOnly enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
Stephen KingI want people to follow their dreams, yes… but I’m not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers… I want to show them that there’s so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.
J. ColeThe best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
Audrey HepburnYou 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.
Taylor SwiftCouples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.
HeraclitusNot cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.
Marcus Tullius CiceroAlmost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
Arthur SchopenhauerI like to reminisce with people I don’t know.
Steven WrightFor years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it’s time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.
Erma BombeckTo love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
William Makepeace ThackerayNo one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiI think we all change each other’s paths. I don’t know which law idea that is in physics, but I don’t think any of us can live without affecting one another.
Frank OceanI like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
George EliotAs a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.
ChanakyaI met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn’t care about any of it.
Dolly PartonDo not rebuke mockers, or they will hate you; rebuke the wise, and they will love you.
King SolomonI’ll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it’s disappointing.
Marilyn MonroeIf I love you, what business is it of yours?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe