Relation Quotes

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As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must break all precept. All that we do is… — Edith Stein
Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to… — Nikola Tesla
I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it… — Twyla Tharp
What I do remember is visualization of the sound of music, seeing bodies in movement in relation to how music sounded, because my mother practiced… — Twyla Tharp
The thing that influenced me most in relation to 'Nanny McPhee' were the Westerns I watched with my father. All the Spaghetti Westerns; all the… — Emma Thompson
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know.… — Henry David Thoreau
All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what… — Harry S. Truman
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. — Mark Twain
Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness. — Leonardo da Vinci
Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not more so. I… — David Walliams
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son. — Evelyn Waugh
No persons professing to be Christians should enter the marriage relation until the matter has been carefully and prayerfully considered from an elevated standpoint, to… — Ellen G. White
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. — Oscar Wilde
If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write… — Virginia Woolf
Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters - the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station… — Abdul Kalam
All freed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can… — Karl Marx
No human relation gives one possession in anotherâ€”every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands… — Khalil Gibran
It is not inertia alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating themselves from case to case, indescribably monotonous and unrenewed: it is shyness before… — Rainer Maria Rilke
To have humility is to experience reality, not in relation to ourselves, but in its sacred independence. It is to see, judge, and act from… — Dag Hammarskjold
This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later… — John Knowles

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