Relative Quotes

551 Relative quotes by 470 unique authors

At our theaters we only see feeble copies of the copies that have proceeded them, renounce that slavish routine which keeps your art in its… — Jean-Georges Noverre
Life can be confusing. Good God, and how. Sometimes it seems like the older I get, the more confused I become. That seems ass-backwards. I… — Jim Butcher
Every psychological event depends upon the state of the person and at the same time on the environment, although their relative importance is different in… — Kurt Lewin
We Jews are accused of being destroyers: whatever you put up, we tear down. It is true only in a relative sense. We are not… — Maurice Samuel
An organizer working in and for an open society is in an ideological dilemma to begin with, he does not have a fixed truth --… — Saul Alinsky
Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing, in order to locate what is unique and inexpressible… — Henri Bergson
I am unpersuaded that relative poverty and hard work are greater adversities than relative affluence and free time. — Dallin H. Oaks
The only definition by which Americas best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis. — Bill Gates
Technology should do the hard work, so you can get on and live your life. We're only at one percent of what's possible, and we're… — Larry Page
I'm not against gay people... I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way. What I'm… — Manny Pacquiao
Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. — Gustave Courbet
Thus if we know a child has had sufficient opportunity to observe and acquire a behavioral sequence, and we know he is physically capable of… — Urie Bronfenbrenner
Why compose works that have to be re-created every time they are performed? Because definitive, once-and-for-all developments seem no longer appropriate to musical thought as… — Pierre Boulez
Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm… — Reinhold Niebuhr
All interesting issues in natural history are questions of relative frequency, not single examples. Everything happens once amidst the richness of nature. But when an… — Stephen Jay Gould
They say much about the Einstein's theory now. According to Einstein the ether does not exist and many people agree with him. But it is… — Nikola Tesla
A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative sequence of events… — Edward Sapir
A considerable proportion of the developed world's prosperity rests on paying the lowest possible prices for the poor countries' primary products and on exporting high-cost… — Philip Agee
Fascism conceives of the State as an absolute, in comparison with which all individuals or groups are relative, only to be conceived in their relation… — Benito Mussolini
What I got was not so much gifts and whishes come trues but a feeling of peace. I got peace itself, actually. And when you… — Peggy Noonan
Stillness and action are relative, not absolute, principles. It is important to find a balance of yin and yang, not just in qigong, but in… — Ken Cohen
A belief is only a thought that you keep thinking. So as you keep thinking this thought, you keep vibrationally attracting relative to that thought.… — Esther Hicks
In Hollywood, story content of movies follows a hierarchy of power, not the relative quality of various ideas. Hollywood does not lack for quality writing.… — Terry Rossio
When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a… — Jack Handey
I preach that anybody can improve their lives. I think God wants us to be prosperous. I think he wants us to be happy. To… — Joel Osteen

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