Relation famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
-- Agnes Repplier -
Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description - an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations.
-- Alan Keyes -
We can be ethical only in relation to something we can see, feel, understand, love, or otherwise have faith in.
-- Aldo Leopold -
Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
-- Alfred de Vigny -
Right human relations is the only true peace.
-- Alice Bailey -
The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed.
-- Anthony Burgess -
There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation.
-- Arthur Helps -
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
-- Baron de Montesquieu -
Politics is too often regarded as a poor relation, inherently dependent and subsidiary; it is rarely praised as something with a life and character of its own.
-- Bernard Crick -
If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.
-- Bernard Meltzer -
Sound science must be a basis to governing our trade relations around the globe.
-- Bill Frist -
Good policy always trumps bad public relations. And the best PR can't trump bad policy.
-- Bob Schieffer -
Science is the description of phenomena and the formulation of their relations.
-- Boris Sidis -
The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive peoples.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss -
People can find eroticism in relations with people whom they respect and whom they see as equals.
-- Catharine MacKinnon -
Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life
-- Charles Darwin -
It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
The house itself is of minor importance. Its relation to the community is the thing that really counts.
-- Clarence Stein -
I love pensioners. My closest relations are pensioners,
-- Clive Palmer -
The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
A sense of contentment is crucial to being happy. Physical health, material wealth and friends contribute to this, but contentment governs our relations with them all.
-- Dalai Lama -
Gratitude is something you show in relation to others.
-- Dalai Lama -
The ultimate aim of the CFR (Council on Foreign Relations) is to create a one-world socialist system, and to make the U.S. an official part of it.
-- Dan Smoot -
Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings.
-- David Biespiel -
The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.
-- David Tang -
Time Is Speeding Up In Relation To Corruption. Hold On Tight.
-- Dean Cavanagh -
Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.
-- E. M. Forster -
I understood public relations and always maintained a high profile.
-- Earl Butz -
Unlike solidarity, which is horizontal and takes place between equals, charity is top-down, humiliating those who receive it and never challenging the implicit power relations.
-- Eduardo Galeano -
I reckon there's as much human nature in some folks as there is in others, if not more.
-- Edward Noyes Westcott -
One can only define the unknown by its supposed and supposable relations with the known.
-- Eliphas Levi -
No truth can be said to be seen as it is until it is seen in its relation to all other truths. In this relation only is it true.
-- Elizabeth Prentiss -
A person is not merely a single subject distinguished from all the others. It is especially a being to which is attributed a relative autonomy in relation to the environment with which it is most immediately in contact.
-- Emile Durkheim -
Macedonia's handling of ethnic relations and other issues is encouraging.
-- Emma Bonino -
Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family.
-- Ferdinand Mount -
Politics is activity in relation to power
-- Francis Parker Yockey -
It's a difficult question of relations between people.
-- Frank Press -
We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.
-- Franklin P. Adams -
What are you?" I am no What! I am only I ... In relation to you!
-- Frederick Franck -
The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes a proletarian; the proletarian can free himself only by abolishing private property in general.
-- Friedrich Engels -
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.
-- G. I. Gurdjieff -
Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everythiong else.
-- Gautama Buddha -
For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.
-- Georg Simmel -
I have known the Indians intimately - known them in their private relations - I think I understand the Indian character pretty well.
-- George Crook -
The transcendent importance of love and goodwill in all human relations is shown by their mighty beneficent effect upon the individual and society.
-- George David Birkhoff -
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
-- George Eliot -
Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.
-- George Eliot -
Above all, it behooves us to repress, and if possible to extinguish once and for all, our inveterate tendency to judge others by the extent to which they contrive to be like ourselves.
-- George F. Kennan -
Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.
-- Gerard Manley Hopkins -
The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.
-- Guy Debord -
Unity should be the cornerstone of relations
-- Haile Selassie -
At the same time, you have to find the right distance between people. Too close, and they overwhelm you, too far and they abandon you. How to hold them in the right relation?
-- Hanif Kureishi -
By and large my relations with the US were good.
-- Hans Blix -
Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects.
-- Henri Poincare -
Mathematicians do not deal in objects, but in relations between objects; thus, they are free to replace some objects by others so long as the relations remain unchanged. Content to them is irrelevant: they are interested in form only.
-- Henri Poincare -
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
-- Herbert Spencer -
I did not have textual relations with that server.
-- Hillary Clinton -
Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
-- Hosea Ballou -
Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism.
-- Imre Lakatos -
Good human relations not only bring great personal rewards but are essential to the success of any enterprise.
-- J. R. D. Tata -
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
-- Jacques Delille -
Meaning is produced not only by the relationship between the signifier and the signified but also, crucially, by the position of the signifiers in relation to other signifiers.
-- Jacques Lacan -
One's faith is kept alive as one occasionally meets a realized ideal of better human relations.
-- Jane Addams -
My work is largely concerned with relations between seeing and knowing, seeing and saying, seeing and believing.
-- Jasper Johns -
In our depths, I think we all feel very small in relation to the greater universe and God.
-- Jessi Colter -
The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most basic, ongoing impulse of my life.
-- Jhumpa Lahiri -
It is not wise [for Chinese] to do things to artificially disrupt relations with the U.S.
-- Jiang Zemin -
I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music.
-- Joanna Newsom -
What knowledge is there of which man is capable that is not founded on the exterior,--the relation that exists between visible and invisible, the perceptible and the imperceptible?
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater -
We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
-- John Berger -
It's proper and appropriate to remind the Chinese about what they get out of solid relations with the United States.
-- John Breaux -
The ground of all religion, that which makes it possible, is the relation in which the human soul stands to God.
-- John Campbell Shairp -
Beauty has no relation to price, rarity, or age.
-- John Cotton -
A Miscellany is a collection without a natual ordering relation.
-- John Edensor Littlewood -
Such highly qualitative leadership is demanded especially in the realm of the fostering of right international relations. Here the demand is simply irresistible.
-- John Mott -
You do not understand your own tradition if you do not see it in relation to others.
-- John Searle -
So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations.
-- John Tyler -
If you live with the myths in your mind, you will find yourself always in mythological situations. They cover everything that can happen to you. And that enables you to interpret the myth in relation to life, as well as life in relation to myth.
-- Joseph Campbell -
Of all my wife's relations I like myself the best.
-- Joseph Cook -
The question of whether a thing is right or wrong, good or bad, must always be considered in relation to a persons needs.
-- Jostein Gaarder -
To operate within the matrix of power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination.
-- Judith Butler -
Human relations, I mess them up, and they let me down.
-- Juliana Hatfield -
It remains unbelievable to me that I have any readers beyond my own blood relations - it's a crazy, wild gift.
-- Karen Russell -
To build a theory of international relations on accidents of geography and history is dangerous.
-- Kenneth Waltz -
You can prance and you can dance, but when it comes to relations, keep it in your pants.
-- Kurt Angle -
Always maintain good relations with your public.
-- L. Ron Hubbard -
It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.
-- Leon Kass -
Be mindful at all times of the following: the nature of the whole universe, the nature of the part that is me, the relation of the one to the other, the one so vast, the other so small.
-- Marcus Aurelius -
So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?
-- Mark Poster -
I'm The Greatest, but only in relation to fighting.
-- Muhammad Ali -
Value denotes a relation reciprocally existing between two objects, and the precise relation which it denotes is the quantity of the one which can be obtained in exchange for a given quantity of the other.
-- Nassau William Senior -
Our relations with the Indians have been governed chiefly by treaties and trade, or war and subjugation.
-- Nelson A. Miles -
In the beginning of college I wanted to be an English major, but then I became interested in international relations.
-- Nick McDonell -
And what is the very essence of poetry if it is not this 'metaphorical language'-this marking of the before unapprehended relations of things?
-- Owen Barfield
