Relative Quotes

551 Relative quotes by 470 unique authors

I understand about the relative strengths of people, and I don't think people have to be anything. They can be nothin' if they want to… — Cecil Taylor
Risk is relative. And relative to the imminent planetary 'game over' neon sign that's starting to flicker above our children's heads, just as they are… — Dave Hampton
Well, I think by any expectation South Africa has come a tremendously long way. We've seen a society that many people thought couldn't withstand a… — Susan Rice
Time, we know, is relative. You can travel light years through the stars and back, and if you do it at the speed of light… — Douglas Adams
The criterion for free choice can never be an absolute one, but neither is it entirely relative. — Herbert Marcuse
A parallel between color and music can only be relative – just as a violin can give warm shades of tone, so yellow has shades,… — Wassily Kandinsky
I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way. — Manny Pacquiao
The trouble with institutional investors is that their performance is usually measured relative to their peer group and not by an absolute yardstick. This makes… — George Soros
Politics and power is a realm of relative influence, — Fareed Zakaria
If you had to explain America's economic success with one word, that word would be "education".... Until now, the results of educational neglect have been… — Paul Krugman
In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world,… — Walter Pater
Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge? — Alice James
Ultimately we want to use dream to liberate ourselves from all relative conditions, not simply to improve them.. — Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do. — Plato
A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it… — Socrates
We are on track for a 3.5 deg C rise by 2040 (i.e. 4.2 deg C relative to pre-industrial)... When I look at this data,… — Fatih Birol
The path to relative economic, social and ecological sustainability is guaranteed to be littered with failures of every nature and scale. If we recognize them… — John Elkington
The bookis a distant relative of the truth, and the film is a distant relative of the book, — Unknown Author
If anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations in the world the set of beliefs which he… — Herodotus
Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over climate change. — Jeff Goodell
I think we're going to have to do better. Mr. Nixon talks about our being the strongest country in the world. I think we are… — John F. Kennedy
The reality is that the workforce relative to the number of people retired has shrunk and today in America there are only 3.3 working Americans… — John Shadegg
From the fact of general well-being came the new position of the poor. They were now in most communities a minority. The voice of the… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Two aspects to the relative world: relaxation and time management. — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
The fate of the physiology of the brain is independent of the truth and falsity of my assertions relative to the laws of the organization… — Franz Joseph Gall

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