Partnership Quotes

“It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.”
― John Joseph Powell, The Secret of Staying in Love

“Care to join me, Goodfellow?”
“Oh, ice-boy. A moonlight stroll with you? Do you even have to ask?”
― Julie Kagawa, The Lost Prince

“Together, we form a necessary paradox; not a senseless contradiction.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“We think the fire eats the wood. We are wrong. The wood reaches out to the flame. The fire licks at what the wood harbors, and the wood gives itself away to that intimacy, the manner in which we and the world meet each new day.”
― Jack Gilbert, Collected Poems

“I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison. Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.”
― Jeff Bezos

“For me, marriage should be about partnership. How can you love someone you have to take care of like a child all the time? A wife is supposed to be a partner, and yes partners help each other when they need it, but they are supposed to be together because they want to in my book, not because one needs the other.”
― Lynsay Sands, A Quick Bite

“You are curious and quick, you have a deft mind, and for some unaccountable reason, people tell you things -- useful things.”
― Deanna Raybourn

“Your job is to find better ideas, mine is to cut holes in the ones you have, and you've already done that pretty well.”
― Steven Brust, Iorich

“What do you want in a woman, in life?'

I thought a moment...'The Rangers...we began to describe one another in a few simple words: El es muy bueno para cabalgar el rio. Meaning, 'He'll do to ride the river with.' In Texan, it means, 'I'd trust him with my life.'

I scratched my head. 'I want someone to ride the river with.”
― Charles Martin, Thunder and Rain

“He knew himself well enough to know his own faults. Impatient and judgmental and stubborn and often too quick to act: he would try never to crush her, never to overwhelm her or bend her to his will, but if she did not demand only the best from him, it would happen. It might happen. Possibly.”
― Meredith Duran, Wicked Becomes You

“....though modern Marriage is a tremendous laboratory, its members are often utterly without preparation for the partnership function. How much agony and remorse and failure could have been avoided if there had been at least some rudimentary learning before they entered the partnership....And that statement is equally valid for all relationships.”
― Leo Buscaglia, Loving Each Other: The Challenge of Human Relationships

“It had evidently not occurred to her as yet that those who consent to share the bread of adversity may want the whole cake of prosperity for themselves.”
― Edith Wharton, The Glimpses of the Moon

“I know it’s not popular to say. I know everybody’s looking for some sexy marriage nowadays. But I was really happy with your father. I really loved having someone look out for me, having someone to look out for. Having someone to share my days with.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Marriage is not the end of the search for love. It’s the end of the search for a person to love. The search for ways to love that person has just begun.”
― Unknown

“May you fall in love with someone, who never gets tired of saving you from your own chaos.”
― Unknown

“A partnership is about who takes out the garbage. The two might take turns dumping out the can. One might dump it out every time. It doesn’t work if you both wait for the other to do it. If you can manage that problem, you can figure out the rest.”
― Ethan Chatagnier, Singer Distance

“Everything is uncertain. Friends become enemies, health becomes sickness, wealth becomes ruin. But we two, we will create one small space of order in the chaos. I will rest on you, you on me, and we will not break. And in that small space, we will have room for human feelings, maybe cruel, maybe tender, full of arguments or never-ending kindnesses, but more important than the nature of the love is the space we create for it to exist.”
― Phil Klay, Missionaries

“We don't fortunately need those we love to be sane (or we would be forever alone). We merely need them to be able in their calmer moments - to admit to their strangeness with a degree of grace and good humour. They would ideally be able to tell us, before they have hurt us too badly, some of what is likely to be most difficult about living close to them. They will warn us about their bad moods after work, their awkwardness around their mother or their tendency to panic at airports. Their confessions won't magically remove every problem, but they will hugely attenuate their impact. We are infinitely more likely to forgive someone who has a good sense of what they need to be forgiven for than someone who maintains their innocence against all odds.”
― The School of Life, How Ready Are You For Love?: A path to more fulfilling and joyful relationships

“I was always an independent, even when I had partners.”
― Samuel Goldwyn

“You know exactly what I’m offering you. All of you. I’m offering the impossible. I’m giving you both of the options you deliberated over for so long. I’m offering to save this world…” I pressed my teeth together, flicking my eyes to the three figures now huddled in the corner of the room, cowering away from our tense discussion. “And I’m offering to share in the benefits,” I finally hedged. “A six-way share. A six-way partnership.”

“You can’t cram six people into a two-person carriage”
― Jane Washington, A Dream of Embers

“Aimer quelqu'un, c'est l'aider à vivre.”
― Marceline Loridan-Ivens, L'Amour après

“c'est que je ne suis pas nette, pas franche, je n'ai pas grand-chose à donner et je ne sais pas le donner, je ne sais pas lâcher prise, je n'aime pas qu'on me touche, je n'aime pas me déshabiller. Sans qu'ils le sachent, et sans que je le sache non plus d'ailleurs, je déposais mon passé, mon impasse, ma dureté entre leurs mains, même brièvement.”
― Marceline Loridan-Ivens, L'Amour après

“J'étais tellement sûr que tout était possible. Il m'était si facile d'être heureux. Je croyais qu'il était si facile pour moi de te rendre heureuse–au-delà du monde – dans un quotidien banal et sans histoires – simplement parce que nous savions nous comprendre.”
― Marceline Loridan-Ivens, L'Amour après

“Without partnership between two, it is not realistic to expect a community of thousands to survive let alone thrive.”
― Jacob L. Wright, Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins

“Startup founders often overlook the value of the knowledge and experience that angel investors and venture capitalists bring, focusing solely on securing financial backing. The key misstep for many entrepreneurs is concentrating exclusively on acquiring capital, missing the strategic insights that investors can offer”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“Partnership is the best strategy for mass attracting new customers and increasing profit!”
― Ruben Nersesian, Sharks Strategy: Insider Secrets Successful Business People Use to Get Clients Without Advertising: The Step-by-Step Guide for Small Business & Entrepreneurs

“At the meeting with a potential partner, it is necessary to put him at ease so that he does not perceive your information as a threat to his business, but is ready to accept your offer. This can be done by saying a couple of positive words about him. Sincerely praise him.”
― Ruben Nersesian, Sharks Strategy: Insider Secrets Successful Business People Use to Get Clients Without Advertising: The Step-by-Step Guide for Small Business & Entrepreneurs

“On activism and influencing people:

"You approach such people by first accepting they don’t want the world you want. Their vision is different.”
― Loretta Ross

“Choosing a partner mainly for sex, without having much of a personal relationship, is like playing tiddly-winks instead of chess — because friendship is what provides any relationship with its complexity, substance, subtlety, sustainability and enjoyment.”
― George Hammond

“That’s the problem, Gorgeous. You fell in love. You’re supposed to rise in it. It’s supposed to set you free. Falling hurts. You’re supposed to take time to get to know somebody’s light and darkness. Make sure they benefit you and are aligned with your path. If they ain't, don’t fuck with them.” He spoke.”
― Shantel Davis, Over Him: Not a Love Story- A F*cking Story