Relation Quotes

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I have this feeling of wending my way or plundering through a mysterious jungle of possibilities when I am writing. This jungle has not been… — William Stafford
What has to be given up is not the I, but that drive for self-affirmation which impels man to flee from the unreliable, unsolid, unlasting,… — Martin Buber
Composition, the aim of which is expression, alters itself according to the surface to be covered. If I take a sheet of paper of given… — Henri Matisse
I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing. I owe them to my relations with other… — Robert Graves
Obedience, as it regards the social relations, the rules of society, and the laws of nature and nature's God, should commence at the cradle and… — Hosea Ballou
Vanity, fear, desire, competition - all such distortions within our own egos - condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those… — Tennessee Williams
While a great many other ideas and measures are of prime importance for the good life of the community, that which concerns its architectural expression… — Lewis Mumford
The development of the doctrine of international arbitration, considered from the standpoint of its ultimate benefits to the human race, is the most vital movement… — William Howard Taft
Rules of conduct which govern men in their relations to one another are being applied in an ever-increasing degree to nations. The battlefield as a… — William Howard Taft
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is… — Baron de Montesquieu
True individuality is the repose arising from the relation of a self to all it has to do with. Bad individuality has in it a… — Eli Siegel
The 'pure' red of which certain abstractionists speak does not exist. Any red is rooted in blood, glass, wine, hunters' caps and a thousand other… — Robert Motherwell
The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed. — Anthony Burgess
There are other relations besides reality, which the mind is capable of grasping and which also are primary, like chance, illusion, the fantastic, the dream. — Louis Aragon
We have lost contact with man's natural desire for the exalted, for a concern with our relation to absolute emotions. — Barnett Newman
Today's concrete-pouring ceremony of Chashma-2 marks yet another landmark in Pak-China relations and a milestone in the history of nuclear technology in Pakistan. — Shaukat Aziz
If one is interested in the relations between fields which, according to customary academic divisions, belong to different departments, then he will not be welcomed… — Rudolf Carnap
Usually I draw in relation to my painting, what I am working on at the time. On a lucky day a surprising balance of forms… — Philip Guston
I do not always find the streets interesting, so I wait until I see picturesque groups and those that compose well in relation to the… — Childe Hassam
Using the Japan-U.S. alliance as a basis, it is important that we maintain and develop cooperative relations with our neighboring countries such as China, South… — Junichiro Koizumi

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