Strained Relationships Quotes

It's very alienating to become a target, and it can be really difficult to try and explain to people, to family members.

It's not the best between my family and me. There are so many crimes left unpunished, debts unpaid, white elephants in the middle of the room that no one will even offer a peanut to. We are in the red, emotionally speaking.

My family is broken.

But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.

They're always saying that tragedy brings family closer, but unfortunately, sometimes it doesn't work like that.

I'd say that if you had a strained relationship with your mom, for whatever reason, the best thing to do is be open with each other, talk it over, try and work it out somehow as opposed to just putting a wall up and pushing them away.

I didn't like most of my boyfriends. I'm a perfect example of somebody who will make it work no matter what. Like, I once had a guy move in with me. He was my least favorite. Nobody who went out with us knew that we were together. I just would not give off the vibe.

Law sutes consume time, and mony, and rest, and friends.

A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.

[On her troubled relationships with her daughters:] You can acquire enemies. Why give birth to them?

I've already put my parents through the wringer with a number of my jobs!

Many relationships can become difficult, and it can be hard to find a way back.

No enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a friend,and there are many more of these than one would suspect.

The cracks in old friendships are measured in awkward pauses.

Traveling together is a great test, which has damaged many friendships and even honeymoons, and some people such as [Thomas] Gray and Horace Walpole, never feel quite the same to one another again, and it is nobody's fault, as one knows if one listens to the stories of both, though it seems to be some people's fault more than others.

Whenever someone says the words 'Our friendship is more important than this,' watch out, because it almost never is.

You have family", Bob said. "You have a wife who hates you. Kids who are furious with you. A brother and sister who make you insane. And a nephew who used to be kind of a drip but apparently is not so much of a drip now. That's called family".

I get along really well with [my father] now, but I had a terrible time with him in my teenage years. All we did was scream at each other, and when we weren't screaming at each other, we just wouldn't talk to each other.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy.

He's one of the last friends I have," she says, her voice breaking. "I don't know if I'll ever be able to look at you the same way again.

Looking back, the only person that really surprised me was Chris Vrenna only because I've known him since 1992, and for him not to be able to say it to my face, "Hey, I don't want to do this anymore." Instead, he said "I'll see you tomorrow" and then he never came back. I find that strange. I don't know if he is afraid of me or thinks I'm going to beat him over the head with something. I'm not like that.

Many of the snarly bad-tempered teachers whom we remember with hatred were really nice people soured by years of anxiety and penny-pinching.

The people I work with are like family. I don't mean this in a nice way.

You can have a good moment with a parent you are estranged from, and you have a great moment, and then the next time you see them, everything's back to the way it was before and you guys are throwing knives at each other.