Terrence Howard Quotes

Research shows that couples who have a lot of similarities, including intellectual compatibility, end up staying together.

Lust fades, so you'd better be with someone who can stand you.

Everyone says romance goes flying out the window when you've been together for an X amount of time. I think it's all up to you.

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Most of the longer-term relationships I've known have been gay relationships. They seem to be able to hang out longer.

Virginity is such a personal thing. You can't judge anyone on it. A lot of young women feel they want to save themselves for the man who they think they'll love forever.

I can't even find someone for a platonic relationship, much less the kind where someone wants to see me naked.

You get your heart stomped by the opposite sex, and you're hurting so badly that you write 'Sometimes When We Touch.' But then what happens when you've been married for 25 years? You can't rely on those emotional male-female roller coasters. You have to start using your imagination and the powers of empathy more.

All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.

Once respect comes, then loves come, and when love comes, a really healthy relationship comes, you know? If you don't have that, things just crumble.

A relationship will be futile if it's based just on physicality. Intellectual stimulation is a must for me.

I'll be honest and say that looks are important for me. But ultimately, it all boils down to how much a girl loves.

It's all about long-term, sustaining relationships.

Tis better to have love and lust Than to let our apparatus rust.

Love is born in sexuality but sexuality is not love. The lotus is born in the mud, but the lotus is not just mud. And if mud remains mud of course there are bound to be tears on the cheeks.

Aye, well, he'll be wed a long time," he said callously. "Do him no harm to keep his breeches on for one night. And they do say that abstinence makes the heart grow firmer, no?" "Absence," I said, dodging the spoon for a moment. "AND fonder. If anything's growing firmer from abstinence, it wouldn't be his heart.

Human beings are social animals and nearly all of us are driven by the need to be loved and the desire to successfully sustain meaningful romantic relationships for life.

I was single long enough, and when I was, it wasn't about putting notches in the bedpost.

I'm just a relationship girl. I fall in love and I usually have long relationships. I like getting to know people well and having substantive, long relationships.

A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing is lacking, Yet all were lacking if sex were lacking, or if the moisture of the right man were lacking.

Much as we might wish it, looks don't always last forever. That's why, if you're looking for a long-term relationship, it's extremely important to take into consideration qualities that will last.

The early days of any relationship are punctuated with a series of firsts - first sight, first words, first laugh, first kiss, first nudity, etc., with these shared landmarks becoming more widely spaced and innocuous as days turn to years, until eventually you're left with first visit to a National Trust property or some such.

Sex is good for about two years, and then you need love.

... I think I know the secret to a long and happy marriage - just choose someone you can't live without.

Ordinarily we think sex makes people loving - sex can never make people loving. In fact, it is sexuality that prevents love from growing - because it is the same energy that has to become love. It is being destroyed in sex. To become love, the same energy has to move to the heart centre.