Relative famous quotes
04-19-2025
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Everything is relative except relatives, and they are absolute.
-- Alfred Stieglitz -
Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.
-- Auguste Comte -
The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized. Thus, in times of relative affluence, thin models become dominant.
-- Charles Jencks -
The bookis a distant relative of the truth, and the film is a distant relative of the book,
-- Danny Porush -
History within itself cannot be transcended. ... In history itself there are only relative victories.
-- Ernst Troeltsch -
Politics and power is a realm of relative influence,
-- Fareed Zakaria -
Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.
-- Gustave Courbet -
The truth that could be extracted from words was such a fluctuating, relative truth.
-- Henry Handel Richardson -
The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under.
-- Holly Near -
Truth is, of course, relative. But then, so is relative.
-- James Sallis -
Set measurable goals, measure relative to competition.
-- Joe Kraus -
There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
-- John Muir -
There is no conflict in the absolute universe, but there is conflict in the relative world.
-- Koichi Tohei -
Size is relative. If everyone is fat, no-one is fat
-- Lionel Shriver -
Life grows relative to one’s investment in it.
-- Marc Benioff -
Freedom, like everything else, is relative.
-- Margaret Atwood -
Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.
-- Nicholson Baker -
Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.
-- Oliver Hudson -
No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.
-- Plautus -
You only understand information relative to what you already understand.
-- Richard Saul Wurman -
Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.
-- Russell Banks -
While real perfection is only one, relative perfections must be many.
-- Swami Vivekananda -
All wealth is relative; and so is its absence.
-- Sybille Bedford -
Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
-- T. S. Eliot -
The Bible's been attacked. What is truth? It's relative.
-- Todd Burpo -
To be Canadian is to live in relative calm and with great dignity.
-- William Davis -
If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
-- William Makepeace Thackeray -
The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
-- William Ralph Inge -
Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
-- William S. Burroughs -
Those who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merely relative; they are always raising it to the level of the absolute.
-- Flannery O'Connor -
I seem to have emerged from the relative obscurity of TV.
-- Peter Webber -
Young children from Guatemala who are adopted into the United States gain considerable height relative to the standards. So the height difference cannot be genetic.
-- Richard H. Steckel -
My basic rule is if the relative risk isn't at least 3 or 4, forget it.
-- Robert K. G. Temple -
I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.
-- Ron Chernow
