The purpose of relation is not to have someone who may be with you completely but to have someone with whom you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and… — Henry James Copy Share Image
For Rembrandt, reality is role-playing… Everyone is portrayed in relation to a social hierarchy. — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
“Millions of sane people would each be sexually attracted to their own parent or child if they were not related to them.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The stability of the internal medium is a primary condition for the freedom and independence of certain living bodies in relation to… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Majority rule rests on numbers; democracy rests on the well-grounded assumption that society is neither a collection of units nor an organism… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the major international question was the relation between Islam and democracy. — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
Education is a slow-moving but powerful force. It may not be fast enough or strong enough to save us from catastrophe, but… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. Upon identifying the reason for the… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I think the number one public-relations blunder Osama has made is that he lives in a cave-fortress and if there's one thing… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
All appearances have a determinate magnitude (the relation of which to another assignable). The infinite does not appear as such, likewise not… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The end of man (as a factual anthropological limit) is announced to thought from the vantage of the end of man (as… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
Jesus' teaching in general [implies] that happy and fulfilling sexual relations in marriage depend on each partner aiming to give satisfaction to… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The fear of AIDS imposes on an act whose ideal is an experience of pure presentness (and a creation of the future)… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
How have relations with Iran and Belarus benefited Venezuela? We are interested in countries that have democracies, that respect human rights, that… — Henrique Capriles Radonski Copy Share Image
For the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophy, it is of no importance whether Plato or Aristotle ever lived. For the mystical practice of… — Emil Brunner Copy Share Image
I'm a historian by training and by conviction. And so the thing that has throughout informed my thinking about international relations is… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
Some international relations scholars would posit that interest in zombies is an indirect attempt to get a cognitive grip on what U.S.… — Daniel Drezner Copy Share Image
Patriotism, or the peculiar relation of an individual to his country, is like the family instinct. In the child it is a… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
I think harmonious relations with the U.S. would be very good for us from the economical point of view, more than in… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
A key text for me is James Baldwin's essays. And, in particular, his essay Stranger in the Village. It's a text that… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
There are very few things in the mind which eat up as much energy as worry. It is one of the most… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
The Reverend Douglas Wilson may not be a professional historian, as his detractors say, but he has a strong grasp of the… — Eugene Genovese Copy Share Image
Sino-Japanese relations will certainly brighten more in the future and the flowers of friendly Sino-Japanese relations will increase their beauty. — Wen Jiabao Copy Share Image
Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
At that time [1954], as a result of political events, I was deeply preoccupied by my relations with the Communist Party. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action. — Ellen Swallow Richards Copy Share Image
In the relations of humans with the animals, with the flowers, with all the objects of creation, there is a whole great… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The relation of this God with this man; the relation of this man with this God--this is the only theme of the… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
A World is not an ideology nor a scientific institution, nor is it even a system of ideologies; rather, it is a… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
My vision is to work for the relationship between India and Pakistan which would be like the relation between Canada and the… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
Human thinking depends on metaphor. We understand new and complex things in relation to the things we already know... once you pick… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
We would continue to handle our relations with the rest of the Continent with that kind of sensitivity. — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
That love, in the sense of wishing their happiness, will cause your actions to be effective in relation to that person. — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
My philanthropy is no relation to anybody else's. None. My philanthropy and what we do at the foundation speaks for itself and… — Jon Bon Jovi Copy Share Image
I think the contribution people make is not proportionate to their fame or success. In fact, I think the relation is often… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, 'Did you hear about?' I don't want to know nothing about anything… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
The relation of color and the relation of proportion are both based on the relation of position. — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
Not only then has each man his individual relation to God, but each man has his peculiar relation to God. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image