Rick Derringer Quotes

You've got to be in a bad relationship to really understand what a great one is.

In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.

I've definitely been in relationships where I've given too much, and I've been in relationships where I haven't given enough. I think it's a work in progress. I have to find that person where it clicks.

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.

The great marriages are partnerships. It can't be a great marriage without being a partnership.

I have a lady, she's a great lady. I love her a lot, she loves me. We're on the same page. Whenever that day happens when we're not on the same page we'll move forward with it. We're interested in having our lives be our lives right now and not a third person's vis-a-vis marriage and whatever that means.

When I look at relationships, my own and others, I see a wide range of reasons for people to be together and ways in which they are together. I see ways in which a relationship - which means something that exists between two or more people - for the most part reinforces people's separateness as individual entities.

Trust is important in any relationship, not just a romantic one.

Every marriage is different, but the most important factor in a strong relationship is the love and harmony between the couple.

I tried marriage. Do I advocate it? Yes. Marriage is a wonderful institution, provided you meet the right person and you be the right person.

Great men marry great women.

I have an idea of marriage as being a sharing type of deal.

Marriage should never become an adjustment or a compromise. Both the partners should be equally happy and willing to invest their love, care, and respect in the relationship - only then it works.

I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.

Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too.

I have a very intense marriage.

The best relationships develop out of friendships.

In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known.

I'm such a relationship guy. I really am.

Every relationship probably has, at its inception, a hundred things that you could pick on and divert you from it, but the feeling is there. You figure out a way to make it work.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Marriage: love, honor, and negotiate.

I think for love to work you have to be with someone who you want to talk to before going to bed at night.

If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!

The only time a relationship is good is when you really love them.