Relative Quotes

551 Relative quotes by 470 unique authors

Being naive simply means that we reject received wisdom that something is a problem. We are always naive relative to some definition of the situation,… — Karl E. Weick
Ever since the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, the Muslim world has been in slow decline relative to the west. With Napoleon's… — James Buchan
All of my characters are a little bit based on people I know in real life. You know when you do that you have to… — Meg Cabot
I didn't grow up with great privilege, nor did I grow up wanting for anything. I was a middle-class kid and, relative to the rest… — Matt Damon
Prayer provides an opportunity to remind oneself of how one should be living, our responsibilities to others, our own failings, and our relative good fortune,… — Julian Baggini
People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing… — Polly Toynbee
The 21st Amendment gives the states the right to decide what the drinking ages should be and other aspects relative to alcoholic beverages, and I… — Pete Coors
I think the Sixties in some ways is a barrier to young people today. They think of it, you know, what we're doing is not… — Bernardine Dohrn
Well people often ask me how I felt growing up with a father who was a politician and who was often away. But when I'm… — Alexander Downer
When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense… — Ed Gillespie
I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot. — Douglas J. Feith
We pay some price when necessary to bring down inflation but that price is temporary and is not large relative to the permanent gain from… — Martin Feldstein
But I am just as appalled that my experience, knowledge, dedication and service relative to defending the United States against biological warfare has been turned… — Steven Hatfill
Virtue is relative at best, there's nothing worse than a sunset when your driving due West. — Ani DiFranco
In relative youth, we assume we'll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise. — Dick Cavett
Life grows relative to one’s investment in it. — Marc Benioff
Now the work of art also represents a state of final equilibrium, of accomplished order and maximum relative entropy, and there are those who resent… — Rudolf Arnheim
The Bible's been attacked. What is truth? It's relative. — Todd Burpo
Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites. — J. Philippe Rushton
Suppose there arise a dispute relative to some important question among us, should we not have recourse to the most ancient Churches with which the… — Irenaeus of Lyons
The upheaval of our world and the upheaval in consciousness is one and the same. Everything becomes relative and therefore doubtful. And while man, hesitant… — Carl Jung
When you put relative and absolute truth together and they become one unit, it becomes possible to make things workable. You are not too much… — Chogyam Trungpa
1-Don't analyze. 2-Don't complain. 3-Don't compare yourself to others. 4-Don't expect things to be done for you. 5-Don't expect perfection in the relative. 6-Look to… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
It's like being a newborn, this sudden sensory overload of noise, color, smells and gravity after months of quietly floating, encased in relative calm and… — Chris Hadfield
In the past we used to think of poverty in absolute terms - meaning straightforward material deprivation... We need to think of poverty in relative… — David Cameron

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