I feel like you don't know if someone's equipped for a romantic relationship until they're out of their twenties.
— Lena Dunham
Women always left me because I wouldn't commit, but then nothing changes a relationship like commitment. If you move in with someone, you lose all respect for them.
— Lemmy
In a romance novel, the core story is the developing relationship between a man and a woman. The other events in the story line, though important, are secondary to that relationship.
— Leigh Michaels
My worldview, my philosophy, my attitudes, my relationships, my parenting, my marriage - everything has been transformed by my relationship with Christ.
— Lee Strobel
Yes, I don't believe that the inter-Korean relationship has, quote, 'deteriorated' since I assumed office. Rather I believe that the relationship between the two Koreas is entering into a new phase - a time of transition. And so I think that the North Koreans are trying to see what they can build with this, with my new administration.
— Lee Myung-bak
I hope to develop our relationship with the Trump administration and with the United States. It's a very sound relationship that's based on the basic strategic congruence of views about the world, about the region.
— Lee Hsien Loong
You know, women are as promiscuous as men and yet, of course, people are inhibited from having an affair or a relationship because the real-world consequences are a drag.
— Lee Child
I think Man Repeller is more about self-confidence than it is about a woman's relationship with a man.
— Leandra Medine
Growing up in New York has influenced my style so much, and I have an amazing relationship with my stylist, Estee Stanley. We have so much fun with the whole process. She picks out dresses, I try things on and play dress up, and we get creative to see what works.
— Lea Michele
I am not married yet, but I think ultimately in a good marriage it is the relationship which is the most important thing. It is not a matter of who is right and who is wrong; it is a one plus one equals more than two.
— Lawrence Bender
It's a complicated relationship with a guitar. I love the Bullet, for sure.
— Laurent Brancowitz
I have a relationship with the southern hemisphere that's a really good one. I love it there.
— Laurence Fishburne
Crushes start out as that teenage phenomenon, life-affirming and cute, but as you wander into adulthood, they seem to end up more painful, harrowing, and uncertain, especially if you have just come out of the relationship you thought would finally, maybe, maybe be the one that stuck.
— Lauren Mayberry
While I very much wanted to be in a relationship, I didn't want to be in the wrong one.
— Lauren Graham
Just as you go to the gym regularly to keep your body fit, regular couples counseling can keep your relationship fit as well.
— Laura Wasser
If some people try to make a prenup into a pre-negotiation of a divorce... Well, that's really sad. But I do think that it's important to understand what each person has coming into the relationship, and what each person expects from the relationship. They aren't always fun discussions to have, and they can be very eye-opening.
Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.
— Laura Schlessinger
My parents are artists; in their world, in the world of modern artists, you are supposed to just go into your studio and tune everything out, and your entire relationship with your work is supposed to be a super private one. That was the way to do it and you weren't deeply truly artistic if that wasn't the way you were engaging the press.
The way I become friends with somebody is a slow process. You can't just spill your guts and tell them everything about yourself and expect them to listen and understand you because you don't know them. It's the same thing with a relationship.
— Leighton Meester
Our relations - the United States and Canada, that trade relationship is vitally important. There's a long history.
— Lee Zeldin
To some degree, I consider myself a writer, and so I have a strong relationship with literature.
— Lee Ranaldo
If I get married in the future, I want to have a relationship like friends with my other half. It'd be best if we can communicate often.
— Lee Min-ho
When I meet the right girl I'll definitely have no hesitations to a relationship.
— Lee DeWyze
My stepdad didn't have a father growing up, so he didn't know how to have a father-son style conversation. Plus, we had a tense relationship in which he never really offered me advice.
— Lecrae
If I have to give up good fashion for a relationship, I don't want a relationship.
When it comes to 'Glee,' I feel like I've been in a relationship, and now I can mingle a bit.
I really don't have a relationship with LeBron. I like it. He ain't done nothing bad to me, I ain't done nothing bad to him. So, as long as we good, we'll be all right.
— LaVar Ball
My relationship with money is that it's a tool to be self-sufficient, but it's not something that is a part of who I am.
— Laurene Powell Jobs
One of our fundamental human needs is finding our partner that we hope we will stay with for the rest of our lives. You often find the same search in other genres. The mystery novel has a romance subplot. Literary novels often focus on that relationship but do not often end well.
— Lauren Willig
I like being in relationship because of the comfort it provides.
— Lauren London
Nobody ever seems to want my advice about serious stuff. People will be like: 'Who made that sweater?' Or 'How did you get your hair so straight?' They don't to come to me for the relationship advice or deep stuff. In fact, my little sister actually hides from me.
I'm not a divorce monger by any means, but if you're not happy in a relationship, and you've grown apart, it's not healthy for a couple to stay together. It's better for kids to see two happy parents than two miserable parents.
As a genre, the best horror poses central human questions - Who can you trust? What is the cost of our secrets? What is our relationship to history? What are we blind to? What evils are lurking under the smooth surface of the self? - through radical dislocations.
— Laura van den Berg
I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed; it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest.
— Laura Riding
My real mother is a survivor, very strong and respected by the people who know her, but our relationship is not easy - but then, it was never going to be.
— Lemn Sissay
I think you have to know how you feel when you're sad and it's healthy to mourn if a relationship ends.
Israel is our greatest ally in the Middle East. And it's a relationship we should be strengthening, not weakening.
Marriage is an extremely difficult relationship.
— Lee Radziwill
Singapore needs to be able to continue to add value to China in order for the relationship to be worthwhile for both sides.
People are doing too much e-mail. The basic thing is eyeball-to-eyeball. Business relationships are made to be personal. The more people get away from it, the more they are going to lose that personal relationship. That's what I learned - to develop personal relationships with people.
— Lee Corso
My relationship with Dean was great, but ultimately it wasn't a fulfilling marriage for either of us.
— LeAnn Rimes
I have always had a fleeting relationship with clothing.
I mean, the trouble with some of the kind of relationship movies I've done, is there's only so many ways you can shoot a conversation. I was really tired of talking heads.
— Lawrence Kasdan
Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.
— Lauryn Hill
It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.
— Laurence J. Peter
A relationship can be deeply damaging without anyone leaving marks on you. So many people - especially young women - end up trying to maintain those emotionally abusive relationships because we don't think it's that bad and that we are really some of the lucky ones because we haven't experienced 'real' abuse.
People should accept being single, because those are the moments you can really focus on yourself, and learning who you are. Then when you get in a relationship, you will be stronger and have a little bit more self-awareness, self-love, and the other ingredients for a healthy relationship.
Couples counseling gets many couples back together. But not all, and not always. For your own sake and that of your children, however, I recommend it - I almost insist on it - as the first step for anyone unhappy in a relationship.
I think if you're going to be in a relationship with someone, you need to be able to share the responsibility, the knowledge, the worry. It's not like it was when our parents or their parents were having lives where the mom just baked bread, and the husband worried about it, and the wife didn't know there was any problem.
I am a pretty omnivoracious reader in respect to prose style, but if the prose doesn't have its own music, if the relationship to the sentence seems unconsidered or superficial, I have a really hard time reading the work.
