Relative Quotes

551 Relative quotes by 470 unique authors

God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends. — Addison Mizner
It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts. — Roger Moore
The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle… — Jim Morrison
I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of… — Bill Murray
The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is… — Benito Mussolini
Elections, for their part, are typically popularity contests rather than measures of candidates' relative competency or effectiveness. Imagine if scientific truth were determined according to… — Nathan Myhrvold
We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under. — Holly Near
A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do… — P.J. O'Rourke
As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when… — P.J. O'Rourke
Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books. — Joyce Carol Oates
Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books. It may be the case that we… — Joyce Carol Oates
I think the word rich is all relative. — Joel Osteen
The 9/11 strikes left an indelible impact on our minds, but in relative terms, the scale of casualties actually wasn't all that high. — Steven Pinker
If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business. — Alexander Pope
If anything, we older people yearn for a peaceful world even more than young people do. We are the ones who lost friends or relatives… — Dennis Prager
I had one relative who passed away but fortunately none others. So my sort of experience of it is quite limited, thankfully. — Daniel Radcliffe
When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them. — Ramakrishna
I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends… — David Rockefeller
I had a great time on News Radio, I got to make tons of money in relative obscurity and learn a lot about the TV… — Joe Rogan
Everywhere I go people come up to me, they mob me - anyone who has MS or has a relative with MS - they come… — Ann Romney
We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that's always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people… — Bertrand Russell
Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism… — Jonathan Sacks
Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator. — George Santayana
Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike. — Marilyn vos Savant

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