Relation Quotes
1693 quotes by 1189 authors
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Sensibility... is a direct and particular reaction to the separate and individual nature of things. It begins and ends with the sensuous apprehension of colour,…
— Herbert Read
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The war is ending, for the first time in the history of relations between Moscow and Grozny, and the era of peace is starting.
— Aslan Maskhadov
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I am not in front of my body, I am in it or rather I am it... If we can still speak of interpretation in…
— Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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It is so hard and long before a student comes to a realization that these [first] few large simple spots in right relations are the…
— Charles Webster Hawthorne
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We are not talking about a new cognition in relation to abstract art, rather a new area of cognition...
— Asger Jorn
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The reverse process is extremely important to me - that artistic images can inspire to words and different myths, and that in certain cultures this…
— Asger Jorn
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Not only does a lens distort forms, but the ordinary plate makes an unholy mess of colour in its tone relations. Yellow becomes black, and…
— Walter J. Phillips
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When the entire process becomes a prescribed ritual that does not allow for spontaneous variations and reactions, the vitality of the medium and our relation…
— Jerry Uelsmann
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What is... disturbing to me is that many of these pro-Israeli lawmakers sit on the House International Relations Committee despite the obvious conflict of interest…
— Cynthia McKinney
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A Frenchwoman, when double-crossed, will kill her rival; the Italian woman would rather kill her deceitful lover; the Englishwoman simply breaks off relations-but they all…
— Charles Boyer
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Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s.
— Andrei Codrescu
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In war, three-quarters turns on personal character and relations; the balance of manpower and materials counts only for the remaining quarter.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Foreign relations is an open book-- generally a checkbook.
— Will Rogers
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What constitutes a good manager in this field? He must be knowledgeable in the art with which he is concerned, an impresario, labor negotiator, diplomat,…
— John D. Rockefeller
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We are not truly civilized if we concern ourselves only with the relation of man to man. What is important is the relation of man…
— Rachel Carson
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No dogma taught by the present civilization seems to form so insuperable an obstacle in a way of a right understanding of the relations which…
— John Muir
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Peace and commerce with foreign nations could be more effectually and cheaply cultivated by a common agent; therefore they gave the Federal Government the sole…
— Robert Toombs
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Man has wants deeper than can be supplied by wealth or nature or domestic affections. His great relations are to his God and to eternity.
— Mark Hopkins
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The point, which can hardly be repeated too often, is that differentiation is not separation. The head and the feet are different, but not separate,…
— Alan Watts
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Our state of mind plays a major role in our day-to-day experiences as well as our physical and mental well-being. If a person has a…
— Dalai Lama
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