Relation Quotes
1693 quotes by 1189 authors
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Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your only man. Notwithstanding…
— Flann O'Brien
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A man becomes calm in the measure that he understands himself as a thought-evolved being. For such knowledge necessitates the understanding of others as the…
— James Allen
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Through this atmosphere of torrid splendor moved wan beings as richly upholstered as the furniture, beings without definite pursuits or permanent relations, who drifted on…
— Edith Wharton
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People must flatter their own eyes with their pathetic lives. The things I was saying followed logically the things that I had said before, yet…
— Lyn Hejinian
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God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Quantum theory thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe. It shows that we cannot decompose the world into independently existing smallest units. As we…
— Fritjof Capra
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We are, all of us, exploring a world none of us understands...searching for a more immediate, ecstatic, and penetrating mode of living...for the integrity, the…
— Hillary Clinton
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In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.
— Leo Tolstoy
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Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.
— George Orwell
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If we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that…
— Virginia Woolf
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Our homes do not have to offer us permanent occupancy or store our clothes to merit the name. To speak of home in relation to…
— Alain de Botton
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The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness,…
— Bertrand Russell
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Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.
— Elbert Hubbard
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I'm an ugly girl, My face makes you hurl, Sad I have it, I should bag it. Acne everywhere, Unwanted facial hair. I'm a relation…
— Al Yankovic
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We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This need not have…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Thomas Jefferson asked himself “In what country on earth would you rather live †He first answered “Certainly in my own where are all my…
— Thomas Jefferson
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No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base. I…
— William S. Burroughs
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Conversations are efforts toward good relations. They are an elementary form of reciprocity. They are the exercise of our love for each other. They are…
— Barry Lopez
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Eden is a conversation. It is the conversation of the human with the Divine. And it is the reverberations of that conversation that create a…
— Barry Lopez
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