Relative Quotes

551 Relative quotes by 470 unique authors

Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns… — Jean-Luc Godard
Grades are almost completely relative, in effect ranking students relative to others in their class. Thus extra achievement by one student not only raises his… — James S. Coleman
Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more. — Charles Caleb Colton
I don't have perfect pitch, but I have relative pitch. I'm glad I don't have perfect pitch because perfect pitch can drive you crazy. — Billy Eckstine
Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out… — Ralph Ellison
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. — Euripides
When I see professional clowns, mimes, or people who makes ballon animals, I think of their relatives and how disappointed they must be. — Jimmy Fallon
Our lives are structured by our memories of events. Event X happened just before the big Paris vacation. I was doing Y in the first… — Joshua Foer
It doesn't matter much where your company sits in its industry ecosystem, nor how vertically or horizontally integrated it is - what matters is its… — Gary Hamel
It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of… — Keith Henson
Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with. — Oliver Hudson
Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative. — Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin. — Barbara Kingsolver
Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still… — Paul Klee
When you're your parents' one shot at a genetic legacy, you may get to attend all the best schools, wear all the best clothes and… — Jeffrey Kluger
I lost relatives to AIDS, a couple of my closest cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high-school friends who never even made it to their… — Queen Latifah
I think doing period piece is easier, because after a certain distance, everybody is equal, I think. The relative contemporary is harder. I think that's… — Ang Lee
I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already. — Daniel Day-Lewis
When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The… — Walter Lippmann
Whoever is my relative, I will not be nice to them. — George Lopez
It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy. — Groucho Marx
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support,… — Margaret Mead
Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself. — H. L. Mencken

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