Relation Quotes · Page 25

A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations.…

— Agnes Repplier

If I were to summarize in one sentence the single most important principle I have learned in the field of interpersonal relations,…

— Stephen Covey

I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes.

— William H. Gass

...once the cards are dealt we turn them up in turn, and make two piles each, one red, one black; the winner…

— G. E. M. Anscombe

I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste. With the…

— Edgar Allan Poe

We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.

— Jean Baudrillard

If my relation to each and every peasant in Cambodia is indeed exactly what the principles of morality would demand it to…

— Wallace Shawn

The Internet really does create this dimension around the music that's always in relation to what else is happening at the moment.…

— Alan Palomo

Life in a great society, or for that matter in a small, is a web of tangled relations of all sorts, whose…

— Learned Hand

You don’t have journalists over there anymore, what they have is public relations people. That’s what they have over in America now.…

— Robert Crumb

This Court repeatedly has recognized that the whole subject of the domestic relations of husband and wife belongs to the laws of…

— Harry A. Blackmun

In warfare, there are no constant conditions. He who can modify his tactics in relation to his opponent will succeed and win.

— Sun Tzu

Having a comic in the White House will assure stability in foreign relations. The world will continue to respond to foreign initiatives…

— Pat Paulsen

I am very happy that he [Pope Fransis] did clarify this [marriage defenition], because the other situations can be partnership, can be…

— Christoph Schonborn

To emancipate woman is to refuse to confine her to the relations she bears to man, not to deny them to her;…

— Simone de Beauvoir

I'd seen a great many partial eclipses, but a partial eclipse has the same relation to a total eclipse as flirting with…

— Annie Dillard

We were also going to develop relations with the current administration [of Barack Obama], but somehow they did not work out well…

— Vladimir Putin

I'm always taking into consideration how the shoe will look on the foot, its relation to the ankle and the leg -…

— Christian Louboutin

Sometimes when we're not paying attention, relation-ships happen. There is no rule that requires two people in love to be exactly alike.

— Lisa Kleypas

You know I really don't like to think about the fact that I'm a girl in relation to the music industry. I…

— Lacey Mosley

We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences.

— Ian Mcewan

The contempt which men feel for the prostitute, and the fact that they have always regarded themselves as far superior to her,…

— Alison Roberta Noble Neilans

The Analytical Engine] might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those…

— Ada Lovelace

Public opinion in Egypt is very antagonistic to the way the dictatorship, Mubarak dictatorship, interpreted relations with Israel. Very antagonistic.

— Noam Chomsky

The relation between life and literature - a final antimony - is one of mutual plagiarism.

— Mary McCarthy