Relation Quotes

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Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international… — Abdallah II
A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct. — Samuel Butler
Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings. — Donald Cargill
Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones. — Paul Cezanne
All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still. — Anton Chekhov
The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to… — Noam Chomsky
For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite… — Noam Chomsky
The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of… — Jean Cocteau
Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent,… — Louis Aragon
The great fault of all ethics hitherto has been that they believed themselves to have to deal only with the relations of man to man.… — Albert Schweitzer
Our relation to the natural world takes place in a place. — Gary Snyder
Communion is the law of growth, and homes only thrive when they sustain relations with each other. — J. G. Holland
In this model, the sun is a very tiny speck of dust indeed-a speck less than a three-thousandth of an inch in diameter ... Think… — James Jeans
All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to run from it, they still… — David Hume
Let us hope that the advent of a successful flying machine, now only dimly foreseen and nevertheless thought to be possible, will bring nothing but… — Octave Chanute
Richness, the ideas of having plenty of money, is not ... an absolute state. Richness is about the amount of money you have compared to… — John Lanchester
You cannot do without one specialty. You must have some base-line to measure the work and attainments of others. For a general view of the… — Louis Agassiz
We are not to make the Torah into God Himself, nor the Bible into a "paper pope." The Bible is only the result of the… — Jacques Ellul
Therefore, every country has to understand that fighting against international terrorism is not for the sake of the United States, but for the sake of… — Omar Bongo
Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing… — Elizabeth Bowen

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