David Graeber Quotes

When I used to perform weddings, the image I always had was the image of a triangle, in which there are two partners and then there is this third force, this third being, that emerges out of the interaction of these two. The third one is the one that is the shared awareness that lies behind the two of them.

It was a mutual relationship.

A relationship takes two people to make or break it.

As far as 'Final Destination' and its creator, Jeffrey Reddick, are concerned, whenever Jeffrey calls, because of our friendship, I have to listen.

I don’t know what world you live in, but in mine, people only do things for you for one of two reasons. The first is if they want something in return. And the second is if they feel like they owe you something.

I think for a lot of people, friendship is a relationship that gets devalued once they move on to what people consider to be more important relationships: once you find a partner or when you have kids.

I don't know if you're married, but sometimes there are times where one is really together with their partner. And then there are times when you're both just in your own thing, but you're there together.

We realized that the only persons we can truly trust in this world is each other and our families.

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.

I believe in singularity in relationships because you've got to have trust on both sides.

You can be committed to somebody because of ego: 'I said I was going to be with this joker for the rest of my life, so I'm just going to do it.' Or you can be committed because you have a deeply rooted connection.

I am not afraid to say my relationship with my man is important, even vital, to who I am as a person.

I owe baseball. Baseball don't owe me a damn thing.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

There was a glamorous Nick-and-Nora element to my parents. If you remove one from the other, you're left with neither. But parents are parents.

There's the bond of a connection and the bond of bondage... When you are connected to somebody, everything each one does affects the other, and it's a kind of bondage. You're not as free as you would be if that person wasn't in your life.

Trust implies that both parties participate in the relationship with both 'gives' and 'gets.'

Georgians understand obligation, love of family, and payment plans.

I think faith is the very foundation of a relationship.

I brought what I could of myself to this thing, because between Henry Warnimont and I - not a hell of a lot of difference.

I find that when I'm in a relationship, I'm just so 'in it,' you couldn't even call it an art; it's such embroilment. With a friendship, you can choose a little bit more how to behave. You can be guided more.

I never wanted something from somebody without being able to kind of reciprocate, I guess.

All of us have been through relationships; there have been periods of time when we've been single. It's something that everyone experiences. It's a matter of making that observation and then start to ask questions about it: Why is it like that? And why do we feel that? And why are we organized this way? Isn't there any other way?

I don't owe nobody nothing.