Doormat Relationship Quotes & Sayings

See, you feel better now that you've hit something. — Molly Harper

A lot of relationships have ended for me in my 20s, because I knew that eventually those people would wanna settle down and have kids. — Jen Kirkman

One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression. — Jack Dee

Rule books are paper - they will not cushion a sudden meeting of stone and metal. — Ernest K. Gann

Coffee is dehydrating, creates hormonal imbalance, blocks iron absorption, stresses the body, and gives you a false sense of energy. — Judita Wignall

Truth could be violent, could strip you of dignity and hope just as quickly as a gun. — Laurell K. Hamilton

When I looked into the eyes of the people who knew Laci best, I saw something I didn't want to see: a group of people who desperately loved Laci, and who were beginning to suspect she wasn't coming home. — Amber Frey

For no matter how many battles had been won or lost, no matter how many friends and soldiers killed, every battle felt like the first. And I realized that it wasn't the training, nor the pain of seeing friends die, nor the will to win that made the men fight, but their will to survive that made them soldiers. — Magus Guidan

Anatomists today would be hard put to identify the brain of a visual artist, a writer or a mathematician - but they would recognize the brain of a professional musician without moment's hesitation. — Oliver Sacks

Here is the kind of thought pattern that runs through the mind of the child in the alcoholic family system: "If I feel guilty, then I am responsible. And if I am responsible, then I can do something to fix it, to change it, to make it different." Giving up your guilt also means giving up your sense that you have control over the situation. And, of course, loss of control is a disaster. You have grown up to be the perfect doormat for an inconsiderate person. Often you end up in a perfect give-and-take relationship . . . you give, they take. — Janet Geringer Woititz

You're pulling 4-5G for a lot of the corners around the lap. We build up lactic acid because there are a lot of vibrations in the car, and you have to have strong legs to hit the brake pedal. We need to be fit to do every lap at 100%. — Jenson Button

In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly. — Neil Gaiman

Life is having its way with me now. And I'm really pleased. — Jeff Bridges

My mum was crazy. And her mum was crazy. And her mum's mum was crazy. Is it my turn? Am I going to live the rest of my life giggling at raindrops, wearing paper slippers? When I go to dinner with friends should I not use a fork 'cause I just might snap? Hey, you guys look great. How's the baby? — Christopher Titus

He'd hated being separated from her in the aftermath of something so traumatic but he'd had no choice. When — Kaylea Cross