Tancredo Neves Quotes

I think maintaining relationships with my friends, my mother, my manager, they're all important.

I don't think anything's ever simple. Everyone's just trying to understand each other, and whether that's because you're in a relationship or because you're meeting their friends or because their meeting your brother or whatever it is, nothing like that is ever smooth running.

It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend.

As we mature, there are people with whom we run out of steam, but there are also those with whom a little straight talking would prove rewarding.

The person who is truly best suited to us is not the person who shares our tastes, but the person who can negotiate differences in taste intelligently and wisely.

I definitely have had fights with best friends. Some of them have led to me and said friend not being friends anymore, but it always turned out to be for the better. I think if you fight with someone, and you can just never reconcile, that just goes to show that maybe you shouldn't have been friends in the first place.

When leaders choose to burn bridges instead of build them, they sacrifice their ability to do their jobs.

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.

I don't even have a type, I don't think. My type is just whoever can get along with me.

But I think that sensitivity is also a good counsellor when it comes to enforcing one's interests.

What I tell young couples that are getting married is: you're going to have quarrels, and on some things, you're just going to have to agree to disagree. And when you go to bed at night, kiss each other and tell each other that you love each other. Don't go to bed mad. Life is too short. Keep it simple.

It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in; external situations cause internal friction; you grow apart and then bounce back together.

The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.

Working with people, the musical part is one thing but the personal part is totally different and just as critical. If the friendship is there and it's a lasting friendship, then it will take care of itself.

Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together - that's the most complicated thing we all face.

I think in most relationships that have problems, there's fault on both sides. And in order for it to work, there has to be some common ground that's shared. And it's not just one person making amends.

Better talk than fight, if nothing of sovereign value is anyway lost. Dialogue has achieved more than confrontation in many parts of the world.

I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.

We're quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn't work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie.

You can be happy, or you can be right. If you want to be part of a couple and win every argument, you're in trouble.

Relationships are interesting to me. Not just between men and women, but fathers and sons, brothers and sisters and friends.

My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you and when they respect you they don't love you.

Friends confront each other sometimes, and sometimes the friendship lasts, and sometimes it doesn't.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.