Jamie Hyneman Quotes

If two people live together, one has to be patient, and typically, the other one is very annoying.

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.

We were married for almost 45 years. We fought all the time, it wasn't a great love or anything, it wasn't a great, all-consuming passion. She was just there. A lot of people were startled because we didn't seem devoted but we were.

I guess you kind of got to realize that once you in a marriage, whatever it is, you gotta deal with it. Not necessarily that you got to accept it, but you have to deal with it and try your best to make it work for you, for the both of you.

Which is, I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship.

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

Relationships are a constant negotiation and balance.

Men rarely worry about using or being used because all relationships work that way. A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman. 'Use' is a dirty word only when there's an imbalance in the relationship.

I have begun to sympathetically understand Paul, though I don't like him much.

Agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

You cannot work with men who won't work with you.

My wife disagrees with 100 percent of what I say. That's the same marriage I have.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ali would not be Ali unless I had come along. Him and me had three fights.

Some people put up a peace sign with one hand. Some people put up the middle finger instead. I use two hands and put up both.

I think when you're in a relationship, either you have something or your partner generally has something that you're having to deal with.

I think that can happen, that two people can love each other and not be able to get on at all.

In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?

It takes two to make a relationship, but only one to screw it up.

I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.

I like conflict - someone who challenges me, someone who I can look up to, someone who can keep me in check. Love has to be extraordinary; otherwise, there's no point in it. I just haven't met anyone who's made me feel that way.

There is no living with thee, nor without thee.

Unfortunately, I think we've probably all had the experience that if we're in a relationship where one of the partners is doing it 'my' way, that relationship is not going to survive.