Eva LaRue Quotes

It's a good thing that me and Coach Gruden think the same way. Him and I are more similar than people even know. We just are... him and I think the same way, we watch, we study the same way and all those kind of things.

When looking for a partner, definitely find someone who has shared values. Really talk to them about what their values are, what their goals are, and how they wish to achieve those goals. Problems always do arise, but when a problem arises with someone who shares your values, you'll know that you'll want to attack that problem in the same way.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

The idea of appealing to people of a like mind and like spirit always appealed to me.

Peter Beard is one of those people I've known a long time. We have an affinity. We share certain values.

What I think is key is everybody has to approach a relationship from a realistic standpoint. Everybody has stuff in the back of a trunk. The key is what kind of stuff can you deal with. There are some women who can deal with a relationship that I can't.

If you're with someone, it's because you're moving in the same direction, and you both are looking for the same thing. Both of you have to share the same concept of what a relationship means.

Just because you fall in love with someone doesn't necessarily mean they're a good partner for you to be with over the long term.

I like surrounding myself with people who think in sort of the timeframes I do, which is often longer.

If a relationship is going to work, it will require compromise and, even then, it is not always going to end the way you want it to.

Your best friendships are with people who share your world view.

Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.

At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we agree with them.

We need more than individual value systems; we need a shared vision. A nation is held together by shared values, shared beliefs, shared attitudes. That is what enables a people to maintain a cohesive society despite the tensions of daily life. That is what enables them to rise above the conflicts that plague any society.

It is my hope that inter-religious and ecumenical cooperation will demonstrate that men and women do not have to forsake their identity, whether ethnic or religious, in order to live in harmony with their brothers and sisters. If we are honest in presenting our convictions, we will be able to see more clearly what we hold in common.

All the media and the politicians ever talk about is things that separate us, things that make us different from one another

I have a philosophy that you've always got to honor the past, acknowledge the present and leave room in your space for the future... Talk to the person you are in love with that you're sharing with, understand what's important to them.

The trouble is you almost have to marry a man before you can find out the sort of wife he needs; and usually it's exactly the sort you are not.

We shared the same vision.

Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.

We must realize that it is best to focus on our oneness, to re emphasize what is the same about each of us rather than dwell on what is different.

Lasting harmony with a woman (was) an undertaking in which I twice failed rather disgracefully.

See... Relationships are hard, man. For order, for any relationship to work, both people have to be on the same page, both people have to have the same focus, and we all know what that page is. We all know what that focus is. In order for the relationship to work both people have to have the same focus, and what's that focus? That focus is all about HER! It's all about her!

We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.

The way to go from discord to harmony is to go from concentrating on differences to concentrating on similarities.