Emma Thompson Quotes

Relationships can go wrong very simply, very quickly, and when you have children you become more aware of relationships around you.

It sounds so trite but in relationships, you have to communicate.

I would never say don't have an argument.

In my own experience, I've found that it's very difficult to make peace with women. We tend to be competitive and feel angry.

I think the greatest challenge between child and parent is communication.

The kind of issues that we face as detectives are similar to what the other married couples out there are facing, or the brother and sister, or the brother and brother are facing. Relationships are universal.

I have an amazing relationship with my wife, but sometimes there are arguments. It happens.

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.

Relationships survive on trust, and if that is broken at any point, it's pretty much the end of the relationship. Besides, inability to communicate leads to problems.

Be part of the solution and answer to the problem versus part of the problem and continuing argument around it.

So many bad things happen in this world because people don't know how to express things.

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

It's difficult to love someone you don't respect, which is hard to remember when you're having an argument.

The rule with marriage is the less you talk about it the better, as far as I can tell.

To assume that any couple goes without arguing is just nonsense.

Filtering can be a very good thing when it comes to human relationships and familial harmony. Yeah, filtering is often an absolute necessity.

And I think if you look at any relationship, for the relationship to be productive and to move forward and to grow, sometimes things have to be said that one person or the other person is not going to like to hear.

If I differ with my husband, I certainly would not tell you.

You have to negotiate with people who don’t trust you and vica versa. You have to be very careful but you can’t be paralyzed.

I blame all of Egypt, because they do not know how to talk to each other.

In any relationship, there's gonna be conflict.

I'm a pretty good listener.

Lack of communication is the key to any successful relationship going wrong.

Communication, that keeps everything cool. Not holding anything back, you got to tell each other what's on your mind, that's really it. Otherwise when one gets mad at one, it can burst and you just let it out and it can just come out wrong.