I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shattering blow when she died. I was 16.
— Joan Lingard
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
— Joan Baez
America won the Cold War by protecting our strategic resources from the threat of foreign control. We must bring the same attitude to our trade relationship with China.
— Jo Ann Emerson
The relationship between the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala fundamentally changes with meditation.
— Jim Yong Kim
The general rule is to not jump into moving in with whoever you're nutty for. But, you know, I was in a bad relationship, and the day I got out of it, I moved in with Ciera, and she ended up becoming my wife.
— Jim Parrack
I'm really proud to say that in the recorded history of our family, we've never had a divorce or any kind of homosexual relationship.
— Jim Inhofe
Yeah, we pretty much had a form and a shape by that time - a style - and I think one of the advantages of not having any relationship to any other puppeteer was that it gave me a reason to put those together myself for the needs of television.
— Jim Henson
For decades, Japan has been a friend and reliable trading partner with the United States, and I anticipate that relationship will prosper.
— Jim Costa
I believe the relationship you have with your government is not so different to a love relationship.
— Jill Scott
It was important to me that Beau and Hunter felt our family was whole, and that meant we got to define our relationship, not anyone else.
— Jill Biden
For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.
If you look at my characters as a group, they all have a different relationship with the way that places can signify emotion in them - and the way those bonds can be shattered.
— Jhumpa Lahiri
It's like a garden: Whatever you water the most will do the best. At some point, you decide whether you'll water your career or your relationship more.
— Jewel
I'm always battling how to be in a relationship while simultaneously maintaining my independence and my career.
— Jessica Williams
I work in response to the limitations of any situation and in relationship to what's possible.
— Jessica Stockholder
I've been training myself and listening to other artists and seeing where their emotion comes from, singing a heartbreak song when they're in a happy relationship.
— Jessica Sanchez
A relationship is hard in and of itself. And having kids is really hard work, but I think it's really meaningful, as is a relationship. But they all take work.
— Joan Cusack
It's important to really listen to the other person and have them feel like they're heard, to make sure the relationship feels equal.
— Joan Allen
I think there's a special relationship between the center and quarterback.
— Jimmy Garoppolo
Not exactly sure there can be a final chapter to Thanos, considering what he is and his relationship with Mistress Death. Might just be that as long as there is a Marvel, there will be a Thanos to plague that universe's heroes.
— Jim Starlin
I met Roy's father once... And I think that Roy's relationship with his father is still at the heart of what Roy does. But at the end of the day, he's trying to prove himself to a father he'll never really please.
— Jim Lampley
We saw what happened in Jimmy Carter's administration. President Carter was a good man with the best of intentions. But he came to Washington without a good working relationship with Democratic members of Congress, which played a big part in his administration's problems.
— Jim Hunt
I've never had an easy relationship with critics. I hold a lot of homicide in my heart. If this was another time, I'd be packing a piece.
— Jim Dine
I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.
— Jim Carrey
I am a huge Prince fan. It's a very rare thing for him to have people open for him. It's been the Time and Sheila E., and that's about it. Building a relationship with him has been like a dream come true. I've been looking for a mentor, and I feel like I have that in him.
In one's relationship with dogs and with a newsroom, a generous amount of praise and encouragement goes much better than criticism.
— Jill Abramson
If we could establish a deep abiding relationship with nature, we would never kill an animal for our appetite; we would never harm, vivisect, a monkey, a dog, a guinea pig for our benefit. We would find other ways to heal our wounds, heal our bodies.
No 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.
My parents' relationship with Kolkata is so strong. Growing up, the absence of Kolkata was always present in our lives.
I still speak with David Silva. We have a personal relationship, and we talk about personal things, but we've not got into football that much.
— Jesus Navas
I don't want my daughters to grow up the way that I grew up. I want them to actually see Mommy in a fulfilled relationship that's amazing for her.
— Jessica White
I love Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox's real-life relationship.
— Jessica St. Clair
When I was younger, the idea of the bad boy was appealing, but then I grew up and realized that stable people are more fulfilling. Bad boys need more time to themselves. I want to be in a relationship with someone who knows how to take care of himself and is therefore able to take care of me. That way, we can put each other first.
— Jessica Parker Kennedy
I spend a lot of time with Buddhists. I'm not a Buddhist, but their relationship with death interests me.
How do you conduct an intimate relationship where no one ever loses it? Where no one ever lashes out, where no one ever smacks anyone in the mouth?
— Jo Brand
My brother and I had a real love-hate relationship with my success. There was some bitterness there that I didn't understand until recently, but I told him that if I ever did a record I wanted him to play on it.
— Jimmy Chamberlin
With writing, I love doing it, but there's that love-hate relationship: You're not having a good run, you've hit a wall; it's frustrating.
— Jim Rash
I've always felt like I had a personal relationship with fans. I'm not afraid to be emotional or vulnerable or humble.
— Jim Irsay
It's as if I were collaborating with myself, revealing my relationship to the material. My hand would make the drawing. Then my mouth would transmit it.
— Jim Hodges
The Commonwealth Prize is about celebrating the Commonwealth and the special relationship we have with the ex-colonies - which is part guilt and part warmth - and the Booker Prize isn't an essential part of that, but it is part of that.
— Jim Crace
An adversarial relationship between the president and members of the press can be expected.
— Jim Acosta
As a matter of historical analysis, the relationship between secrecy and privacy can be stated in an axiom: the defense of privacy follows, and never precedes, the emergence of new technologies for the exposure of secrets.
— Jill Lepore
Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.
It is odd that we have so little relationship with nature, with the insects and the leaping frog and the owl that hoots among the hills calling for its mate. We never seem to have a feeling for all living things on the earth.
Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.
I think it's always natural for children to rebel against their parents and establish their own identity. And also, I think parents get invested in, you know, doing the right thing? And so their anxiety about being good parents might, in a way, affect a relationship negatively.
— Jewell Parker Rhodes
I do have some songs where it is about my relationship with my husband, and it does get very personal.
— Jessie James Decker
I have a very close relationship with my mom, and I'm able to talk to her about anything.
— Jessica Szohr
The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best.
— Jessica Savitch
