Relation Quotes

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I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little… — Graham Greene
The choice that you, as a Soul, have in relation to anything is always to be loving. Do you understand that this is the divine… — John Morton
Today, no less than in the past, the tetrahedral form of the earth and the relation of the tetrahedron to the poles and to the… — Ellsworth Huntington
The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy. — William Falconer
The Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the relation between commanding and obeying that characterizes the imperative. — Paul Ricoeur
I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street. — Anthony Holden
In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of… — Albert Bushnell Hart
The often cruel behavior of Christians toward unbelievers and even toward dissenters among themselves is shocking evidence of the function of that image in relation… — Carol P. Christ
However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century. — Wilhelm Dilthey
The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above all… — Roman Jakobson
What matters here are the works - finally without them his life would be uninteresting. What matters, that is, are the astonishing things that he… — Stephen Greenblatt
The decision came from the publisher. It certainly was cleared by Chicago. And then they come out with these fine sounding words about relation to… — Robert Scheer
The law reports in newspapers contain perhaps the only real history of England that has any relation to truth. — Robert Baldwin Ross
There is no relation to sound for deaf people. It is a totally different mental process. — Richard Masur
You must realize that I was suffering from love and I knew him as intimately as I knew my own image in a mirror. In… — Angela Carter
We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences. — Ian Mcewan
Well, I believe that life is very complicated. And in a way, the only way you can show life in a truthful way is to… — Henning Mankell
We must not confuse religion with God, or technology with science. Religion stands in relationship to God as technology does in relation to science. Both… — Robert Winston
The Christian - the biblical - concept of mercy toward wrongdoers only exists in relation to justice. Showing mercy, in relation to wrongdoing, means treating… — John Piper
Tenacity is a certain quality of the human hand in its relation to the coin of the realm. It attains its highest development in the… — Ambrose Bierce

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