There's no such thing as an absolute openness. Openness is relative, I think, in all societies. — Peter Eisenman Copy Share Image
“Everything is relative in this life, and what is normal for you may be a treasure for someone else.” — Ricky Martin Copy Share Image
I think everyone knows someone who's battling with dementia or caring for a relative affected by it. I've been staggered by how… — Phyllis Logan Copy Share Image
Wealth is a relative thing since those who have little and want less are richer than those who have much but want… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“You will have relatively less problems to solve, if you don't confuse problems with inconveniences.” — Amit Kalantri 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
I learned that danger is relative, and the inexperience can be a magnifying glass. — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
No matter how great the script, the actual film will only be a distant relative of it - it will never be… — Peter Straughan Copy Share Image
The distribution of the market is fat-tailed relative to the normal distribution... For passive investors, none of this matters, beyond being aware… — Eugene Fama Copy Share Image
An indirect quotation we can usually expect to rate only as better or worse, more or less faithful, and we cannot even… — Willard Van Orman Quine 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
Western Europe GDP per capita - not taking into account the new accession counties - was lower in 2001 relative to that… — John Hutton Copy Share Image
In this play we're dealing with relative truths - who's lying, who's telling the truth. But underneath that, Ed and I have… — Fred Ward Copy Share Image
I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are 'among the most unspeakable crimes in history.' I took no position on just where they… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I've had countless jihadis shut me down straightaway and say, "I'm not allowed to speak to any woman who is not my… — Rukmini Maria Callimachi 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
If you go from the USA - which, relative to the rest of the world, is in pretty good shape in terms… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
In a dispassionate comparison of the relative values of human and robotic spaceflight, the only surviving motivation for continuing human spaceflight is… — James Van Allen Copy Share Image
The point is that (little-t) truth is a matter of definition relative to the grid one is using at the moment, and… — Malaclypse the Younger Copy Share Image
An organizer working in and for an open society is in an ideological dilemma to begin with, he does not have a… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
The risk of developing carcinoma of the lung increases steadily as the amount smoked increases. If the risk among non-smokers is taken… — Richard Doll Copy Share Image
To draw an analogy: a man's suffering is similar to the behavior of a gas. If a certain quantity of gas is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Yes, it is hard out there. But hard is relative. I come from a middle-class family, my parents are academics. I was… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
Mallory dropped her head to the steering wheel. "Look, I'm mad at you, okay? This isn't about me. I know my painful… — Jill Shalvis Copy Share Image
It seems that truth is progressive approximation in which the relative fraction of our spontaneously tolerated residual error constantly diminishes. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative… — Polly Toynbee Copy Share Image
There is no greater bugbear than a strong willed relative in the circle of his own connections. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
The 9/11 strikes left an indelible impact on our minds, but in relative terms, the scale of casualties actually wasn't all that high. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
My dad had an aunt at the turn of the century who died from diabetes, but she was the closest affected relative… — Bobby Clarke Copy Share Image
Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike. — Marilyn vos Savant 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
You might be a redneck if more than one living relative is named after a Southern Civil War general. — Jeff Foxworthy Copy Share Image
From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving. — Ueli Gegenschatz Copy Share Image
Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The criterion for free choice can never be an absolute one, but neither is it entirely relative. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Yes. We do think that the stimulus package is raising GDP and raising employment relative to what would have happened otherwise. — Doug Elmendorf Copy Share Image
Everywhere I go people come up to me, they mob me - anyone who has MS or has a relative with MS… — Ann Romney Copy Share Image
“The military is the government’s killing machine. The police are a close relative.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Virtue is relative at best, there's nothing worse than a sunset when your driving due West. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
