Happy," I muttered, trying to pin the word down. But it is one of those words, like Love, that I have never… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Life is graded on the curve. It's not how big you are, how strong you are, how smart you are. It's how… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
If you are accused of being associated with terrorism, which could mean you are an Arab- American and you've sent e-mails to… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Honesty is not the same as truth. That is the obstacle of the notion of relative truths. I would like to put… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
An absolute being would be irrelevant to the world, as it couldn't create it. Any action, or causal process that would involve… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
Grades are almost completely relative, in effect ranking students relative to others in their class. Thus extra achievement by one student not… — James S. Coleman Copy Share Image
Relative to the world's other advance democracies, Americans get off easy on tax day. Of the 35 richest countries, the U.S. ranks… — T.R. Reid Copy Share Image
The truth is an arbitrary, shifting, culturally relative, and historically molded phenomenon. — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Privacy, after all, was the most relative of privileges. It was granted us by society under ungenerous conditions, the most fundamental of… — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
If you find yourself caring for a relative with dementia, the chances are you'll need help. — Phyllis Logan Copy Share Image
Multiculturalism is a good reminder that when standards are relative, there are no standards at all. — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to… — J. Philippe Rushton Copy Share Image
He [Jesus] came to save all through himself; all, I say, who through him are reborn in God: infants, and children, and… — Irenaeus of Lyons Copy Share Image
Last I checked, Bill Gates was worth $50 billion. If the average employed adult, who is walking in a hurry, will pick… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Rich white people show up in a poor country to pursue their leisure-time fun, get served by black and brown people, and… — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
I do not want to be a relative and passive being, anywhere. I want to live and love and write. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when you grow up in one of these poverty-stricken neighborhoods where the educational system isn't the best, you don't realize that… — Keke Palmer Copy Share Image
It is not given to man to know the whole Truth. His duty lies in living up to the truth as he… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
From the point of view of emptiness, there is neither being nor non-being, but we're not on the point of view of… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative. — George Ade Copy Share Image
The idea of being in the desert is fundamental, but it's totally relative, and it's about that membrane: the way that one… — Tavares Strachan Copy Share Image
The aim of our studies is to prove that color is the most relative means of artistic expression, that we never really… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
We all live under the constant threat of our own annihilation. Only by the most outrageous violation of ourselves have we achieved… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a certain way, we're always toggling back and forth between the absolute and the relative, if that makes sense. — George Saunders Copy Share Image