Stalin was born Joseph Dzhugashvili in 1878 in Gori, Georgia, on the periphery of the Russian Empire. His father was a hard-drinking cobbler whose relationship with Joseph's mother, Keke Geladze, came to an end when the boy was around six years old.
A lot has been written about Tony Perkins and myself and I figured, Let's get it straight. I had a relationship with Tony for two to three years, but those are only threads in the tapestry of my whole life.
In other relationships, it may be permissible to overpower people, but not between people who are living together. That relationship is supposed to be between equals.
I think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which the victim agrees to remain silent.
In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?
I had to learn that this whole God thing isn't just this big religion. It's really that He wants this relationship with us on a personal level.
All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.
I began to meet young men and women who talked about having a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, and while I cherish my Catholic upbringing and the foundation that it poured in my faith, that had not been a part of my experience.
Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity.
I always want to have a personal relationship with everybody that works for me.
I love what I do, but it is hard to have a personal relationship when you're never home.
No fake stuff. If you have a personal relationship with a female, it'll be easier and more real to do a song.
Lil Wayne and I are really close. We have a really close, personal relationship, and I really like him a lot. We have a great chemistry.
Abraham is such a fascinating figure. Three world religions - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - all claim him as a patriarch. He was raised in a religious home. And yet he rejected religion in order to pursue a personal relationship with God.
And one thing that I always believed and that I knew for certain was that I could never have sustained a personal relationship while I worked this hard, or while I was that driven this intensely by the story.
The columnists have a very personal relationship with their readers, and the readers deserve to hear directly from the columnists.
I think there is a longing in everyone for a personal relationship with God.
I have nothing against the veil. And I think that, wrongly, many in the West look at the veil as a symbol of oppression. Now, as long as a woman chooses to wear the veil, because that's her belief and because of her own - that's a personal relationship with God, so she should be free to dress in whichever way she wants.
Most of my relationships have been like that - with record companies. I've never had a legitimate business relationship with a company. I've always had a personal relationship with someone in the company.
At this moment I do not have a personal relationship with a computer.
