Relation Quotes
1693 quotes by 1189 authors
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In solitude, at last, we’re able to let God define us the way we are always supposed to be defined—by relationship: the I-thou relationship, in…
— Richard Rohr
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Oh," the girl said, shaking her head. "Don't be so simple. People adore monsters. They fill their songs and stories with them. They define themselves…
— Jim Butcher
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The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth…
— John Berger
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History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past
— John Berger
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What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for…
— Winston Churchill
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The girls said she was too cynical about love, but how could you not be? On the surface, relations between men and women were all…
— J. Courtney Sullivan
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Sometimes when we're not paying attention, relation-ships happen. There is no rule that requires two people in love to be exactly alike.
— Lisa Kleypas
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The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.
— G I Gurdjieff
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A moral character is attached to autumnal scenes; the leaves falling like our years, the flowers fading like our hours, the clouds fleeting like our…
— François-René de Chateaubriand
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I sincerely hope that they (relations between India and Pakistan) will be friendly and cordial. We have a great deal to do...and think that we…
— Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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There is eloquence in the tongueless wind, and a melody in the flowing brooks and the rustling of the reeds beside them, which by their…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Years later, my wife, Ilusion, woke me up to the realization that you can't just "dump" your whole species simply because you've had a few…
— Cesar Millan
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Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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My thesis is that the moral law is articulated with relation to the real as such, to the real insofar as it can be the…
— Jacques Lacan
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The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his…
— John Maynard Keynes
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Meaning is produced not only by the relationship between the signifier and the signified but also, crucially, by the position of the signifiers in relation…
— Jacques Lacan
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To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.
— Oscar Wilde
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If the meaning of life has become doubtful, if one's relations to others and to oneself do not offer security, then fame is one means…
— Erich Fromm
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Honestly, I cannot understand what people mean when they talk about the freedom of the human will. I have a feeling, for instance, that I…
— Albert Einstein
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{Mrs. March to Jo} You are too much alike and too fond of freedom, not to mention hot tempers and strong wills, to get on…
— Louisa May Alcott
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