Relative Quotes

551 Relative quotes by 470 unique authors

The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative… — Bob Schieffer
What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so… — Charlie Sheen
It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and… — Hu Shih
Unfortunately, inner feelings and potential are often stunted by our parents, relatives or peers. — Willie Stargell
My favorite anything is always relative to the context of present time, place and mood. When I finish a book and want to immediately find… — Amy Tan
It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes. — Henry David Thoreau
Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people's culture and working people's culture and so forth. — Cornel West
Although most Americans apparently loathe inflation, Yale economists have argued that a little inflation may be necessary to grease the wheels of the labor market… — Janet Yellen
And it is clear that in the colonial countries the peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The… — Frantz Fanon
And then she thought that you went on living one day after another, and in time you were somebody else, your previous self only like… — Charles Frazier
Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity. — Frantz Fanon
Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living – very good things for anyone to be… — Robert Henri
I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar,… — Jack Kerouac
To fail to exhibit that we take truth seriously at those points where there is a cost in our doing so, is to push the… — Francis Schaeffer
Bad is not an absolute, but a relative term. Ask the robber who used the cash he stole to feed his infant; the rapist who… — Jodi Picoult
We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are… — Anais Nin
Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures. — Leon Trotsky
If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business. — William Makepeace Thackeray
Those who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merely relative; they are always raising it to the level of the absolute. — Flannery O'Connor
When we are mired in the relative world, never lifting our gaze to the mystery, our life is stunted, incomplete; we are filled with yearning… — Peter Matthiessen
The most notable thing about Time is that it is so purely relative. A large amount of reminiscence is, by common consent, conceded to the… — O. Henry
Something in the heart of most human beings simply cannot abide pain inflicted on the innocent, especially children. Even broken men serving in the worst… — William P. Young
All motion is relative. Maybe it's you who've moved away by standing still. — Jerome Lawrence
Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Sometimes in life, from out of a myriad of prosaic decisions like what to eat and where to sleep and how to dress, a true… — J R Ward

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