The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship.

I don't make romantic films. I make films about human relationships.

That's my biggest struggle, is maintaining a personal romantic relationship. It takes a lot of effort.

“People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.”

“Far from a normal-functioning relationship, but normal has never been our thing.”

“I could relate to him so easily and truthfully, ... I was leaving home for the first time, and (Justin's) about to leave home. He has a weird and good relationship with his parents, and I have a weird and good relationship with my parents. I take relationships way too seriously, and that's exactly what he does. Coincidentally, the similarities were relatable. It's so damn lucky.”

“Law is a personal service business and building a firm is very much tied to building personal relationships. I spend a good chunk of my time as I travel building and maintaining personal relationships with existing partners and colleagues and developing new relationships with clients and recruits. Lawyers who can work anywhere tend to want to join a firm where they can be successful and where they can have friends and be liked.”

It reached a point where the paranoia was getting to me. Everywhere I looked, it seemed like people were hanging out, wanting to date, hooking up, wanting to hook up—it was relationships, relationships, relationships everywhere. Guys checking out girls, girls checking out guys. Dudes checking out dudes, chicks checking out chicks. Fuck! That’s what being a teenager was all about.

For every relationship involves two related terms. Sometimes relationships are not real in either term, but arise from the way we think of the terms: we think identity, for example, by thinking one thing twice over and relating it to itself; and occasionally we relate what exists to what does not exist, or generate purely logical relations like that of genus to species. Sometimes relationships are real in both terms: grounded in the quantity of both, in the case of relationships like big/small or double/half, or in their activity and passivity, in the case of causal relationships, like mover-moved and father/son. Sometimes relationships are real in only one of the terms, with the other merely thought of as related [reciprocally] to that one; and this happens whenever the two terms exist at different levels. Thus seeing and understanding really relates us to things, but being seen and understood by us is not something real in the things; and similarly a pillar to the right of us does not itself have a left and a right.

“We had certainly hoped for a favorable decision by the parliament, but I want to emphasize our relationship and the importance of the work we have done thus far, and the fact that the United States is still a friend of Turkey and we consider this relationship to be very important.”