Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
When you ask my three year old if my iPhone is too complicated, it's not. It's all relative. — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
I do want to try to put things in perspective today relative to the U.S.-Canada relationship. I would like to start by… — Paul Cellucci Copy Share Image
Why compose works that have to be re-created every time they are performed? Because definitive, once-and-for-all developments seem no longer appropriate to… — Pierre Boulez Copy Share Image
Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
At first, I felt bad judging an entire state by one county political official, but then I found out Morrison had also… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
In running, it doesn't matter how fast or slow you are relative to anyone else. You set your own pace and you… — Amby Burfoot Copy Share Image
Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place… — Imtiaz Ali Copy Share Image
Most people, including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance. We are even comfortable with that ignorance, because it is all… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Young children from Guatemala who are adopted into the United States gain considerable height relative to the standards. So the height difference… — Richard H. Steckel Copy Share Image
One has to weigh all of one's values always in relative terms. On the upside, you get people who are not acting… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
What is different between national inequality and global inequality is you have another element there that is sometimes forgotten: what matters for… — Branko Milanovic Copy Share Image
When you never leave the literary biosphere, you forget how few people actually read books, and that in turn makes you start… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
The reality is that the workforce relative to the number of people retired has shrunk and today in America there are only… — John Shadegg Copy Share Image
You might be a redneck if more than one living relative is named after a Southern Civil War general. — Jeff Foxworthy Copy Share Image
I find the surface of a photograph a thing of beauty in and of itself, and it is this surface that makes… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike. — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
Natural selection involves no plan, no goal, and no direction — just genes increasing and decreasing in frequency depending on whether individuals… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
No doubt, God alone has become all these objects, animate and inanimate, but in the relative world all beings act and suffer… — Sarada Devi Copy Share Image
A couple of years ago, a Republican committee staff director told me candidly (and proudly) what the method was to all this… — Mike Lofgren Copy Share Image
Put another way, the chimpanzees' closest relative is not the gorilla but humans. — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Muhammad Ali, the Jim Browns, the Bill Russells, Kareem [Abdul Jabbar ], these individuals supported us, but yet still, when you sit… — John Carlos Copy Share Image
