Relative Quotes

551 Relative quotes by 470 unique authors

In the South, prior to the Civil Rights movement and the 1964 Civil Rights Act, democracy was the rule. The majority of people were white,… — Neal Boortz
We cannot rest and sit down lest we rust and decay. Health is maintained only through work. And as it is with all life so… — Max Planck
The Theory of Relativity confers an absolute meaning on a magnitude which in classical theory has only a relative significance: the velocity of light. The… — Max Planck
In war, moral factors acount for three quarters of the whole; relative material strength accounts for only one quarter. — Napoleon Bonaparte
There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself. — John Muir
Excellent value relative to the week investment of time....To my mind, this is the definitive course on leadership. — William Wrigley, Jr.
Success is relative and individual and personal. It is your answer to the problem of making your minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years add… — Wilferd Peterson
Beyond happiness and unhappiness is truth. Truth is not affected by anything in the relative world. Truth is the unifying aspect of existence. — Frederick Lenz
Answers can suit the relative mind. In the dream we can be thirsty. But upon awaking from the dream, there's no thirst. — Frederick Lenz
What the new fertilizer technology has accomplished for the farmer is clear: more crop can be produced on less acreage than before. Since the cost… — Barry Commoner
What is Thanksgiving without a nutty relative? — Judith Martin
A relative of mine ... spends his time producing improved breeds of sheep and pigs and chickens. So patronising and irritating to teh Almighty, I… — Hector Hugh Munro
Both light and dark are eternity. Human beings assign relative values to colors, but beyond the relative, there just is - what in Zen we… — Frederick Lenz
I'm not the greediest person. Of course, I work in a business where that's all relative and there's a lot of money to be made.… — Chloe Sevigny
Well, I make a practice of not commenting on the role of the relative exchange value of our currency. — John W. Snow
Human thought by its nature is capable of giving, and does give, absolute truth, which is compounded of a sum-total of relative truths. — Vladimir Lenin
The relative ease of most driving lures us into thinking we can get away with doing other things. Indeed, those other things, like listening to… — Tom Vanderbilt
Honesty is not the same as truth. That is the obstacle of the notion of relative truths. I would like to put my trust in… — Criss Jami
Our incomes should be like our shoes, if too small, they will gall and pinch us, but if too large, they will cause us to… — Charles Caleb Colton
I wonder, whether, if I had had any education I should have been more, or less, of a fool than I am. It would have… — Alice James
I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic. And yet I am not so opposed to… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
A commodity has a value because it is a crystallization of social labor. The greatness of its value, or its relative value, depends upon the… — Karl Marx
It appears then, that capitalist production comprises conditions independent of good or bad will, conditions which permit the working-class to enjoy that relative prosperity only… — Karl Marx
The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses. — Paul Gauguin

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