Relations Quotes
1008 quotes by 747 authors
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And what is the very essence of poetry if it is not this 'metaphorical language'-this marking of the before unapprehended relations of things?
— Owen Barfield
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Vague promises of savings from cutting waste, enhancing prevention and wellness, installing electronic medical records and improving quality are merely lipstick cost control, more for…
— Ezekiel Emanuel
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Action from principle, the perception and the performance of right, changes things and relations; it is essentially revolutionary, and does not consist wholly with anything…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
— Baron de Montesquieu
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Where nature makes natural allies of us all, we can demonstrate that beneficial relations are possible even with those with whom we most deeply disagree-and…
— John F. Kennedy
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There are three relations [between thee and other things]: the one to the body which surrounds thee; the second to the divine cause from which…
— Marcus Aurelius
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My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, "Serve all, love one.
— Honore de Balzac
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That Amendment requires the state to be a neutral in its relations with groups of religious believers and nonbelievers; it does not require the state…
— Hugo Black
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No revolution can ever succeed as a factor of liberation unless the MEANS used to further it be identical in spirit and tendency with the…
— Emma Goldman
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The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the…
— Karl Marx
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The origin of the political relations between the United States and France is coeval with the first years of our independence. The memory of it…
— John Quincy Adams
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The Oresteia, King Lear, Dostoevsky's The Devils no less than the art of Giotto or the Passions of Bach, inquire into, dramatize, the relations of…
— George Steiner
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I sincerely hope I can contribute to the progress there has been in relations between Jews and Catholics since the Second Vatican Council in a…
— Pope Francis
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Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.
— J. William Fulbright
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You notice patterns. White guests often are mortified - that word again - when they learn their ancestors owned slaves. But I've never had a…
— Henry Louis Gates
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Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men,…
— Samuel Gompers
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The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In…
— Graham Greene
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I was diagnosed with a severe temporal spatial deficit, a learning disability that means I have zero spatial relations skills. It was official: I was…
— Sloane Crosley
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The idea of exploring character relations and their development over a decade has to be appealing for any actor who cherishes his craft.
— Vin Diesel
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It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
— Charles Dickens
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