Relations Quotes

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The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound… — John Locke
And nevertheless I have loved certain of my masters, and those strangely intimate though elusive relations existing between student and teacher, and the Sirens singing… — Marguerite Yourcenar
I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults… — Oscar Wilde
I can only do what's easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can't, and won't, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will… — E. M. Forster
She's no lady. Her songs are all unbelievably unhappy or lewd. It's called Blues. She sings about sore feet, sexual relations, baked goods, killing your… — Ann-Marie MacDonald
I've always been interested in foreign relations. It's my belief that study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present rather than an… — Elizabeth Kostova
When they were introduced, he made a witticism, hoping to be liked. She laughed extremely hard, hoping to be liked. Then each drove home alone,… — David Foster Wallace
Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we… — Henry David Thoreau
The bully and the victim never quite forget their first relations. — E. M. Forster
I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious… — Oscar Wilde
Result of self-consciousness: audience and actor are the same. I live my life as a spectacle for myself, for my own edification. I live my… — Susan Sontag
...we live in an era of terrible preoccupation with presentation and interpretation, one in which relations between who someone is and what he believes and… — David Foster Wallace
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.... Through words and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
We all to some extent meet again and again the same people and certainly in some cases form a kind of family of two or… — William Butler Yeats
Why have you been staring at me ever since we met? Because Iâ€™m not the Gail Wynand youâ€™d heard about. You see, I love you.… — Ayn Rand
We can never establish with certainty what part of our relations with others is the result of our emotions - love, antipathy, charity, or malice… — Milan Kundera
[The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.â€¦ The people can never understand why the President does not use… — Harry S. Truman
It [the scarlet letter] had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her in a sphere… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Jesus Christ knew he was God. So wake up and find out eventually who you really are. In our culture, of course, theyâ€™ll say youâ€™re… — Alan Watts
To operate within the matrix of power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination. — Judith Butler

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