Relation Quotes

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At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations, there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring by fits and starts. — Marcel Proust
Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief. — Mark Twain
I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them. — Mark Twain
Some of the more fatuous flag-waving Americans are in danger of forgetting that you can't extract gratitude as you would extract a tooth; that unless… — Max Lerner
We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our… — Thomas Carlyle
Many human beings enjoy sexual relations with their own sex; many don't; many respond to both. This plurality is part of our nature and not… — Gore Vidal
The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests. — Agnes Repplier
Human relations, I mess them up, and they let me down. — Juliana Hatfield
War has a deeper and more ineffable relation to hidden grandeurs in man than has yet been deciphered. — Thomas de Quincey
According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary. — Roy Blount, Jr.
Our natural egoism leads us to judge people by their relations to ourselves. We want them to be certain things to us, and for us… — W. Somerset Maugham
Nearly all the Escapists in the long past have managed their own budget and their social relations so unsuccessfully that I wouldn't want them for… — Willa Cather
It's harder to confess the sin that no one believes in Than the crime that everyone can appreciate. For the crime is in relation to… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of innocence, an act… — Emile M. Cioran
Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference. — Madeleine Albright
I've always felt, as a writer, that radicals are fascinating because they're relations, they have a place in the American family. They're the relatives everyone… — E L Doctorow
Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in human relations. — Thomas Szasz
The worldly relations of men and women often form an equation that cancels out without warning when some insignificant factor has been added to either… — William McFee
What is the use of such terrible diligence as many tire themselves out with, if they always postpone their exchange of smiles with Beauty and… — Helen Keller
Amity itself can only be maintained by reciprocal respect, and true friends are punctilious equals. — Herman Melville

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