Relative Quotes

551 Relative quotes by 470 unique authors

Participation in the dance was entirely voluntary, a mental vow to worship the Mystery in this manner being expressed by a man ardently desiring the… — Edward S. Curtis
It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively. — Peter Kreeft
Natural selection involves no plan, no goal, and no direction — just genes increasing and decreasing in frequency depending on whether individuals with those genes… — Randolph M. Nesse
A couple of years ago, a Republican committee staff director told me candidly (and proudly) what the method was to all this obstruction and disruption.… — Mike Lofgren
Many people come here and they think my apartment is a poor relative to my name. But you cannot be radical and have money, it’s… — Nawal El Saadawi
No matter how great the script, the actual film will only be a distant relative of it - it will never be an identical twin. — Peter Straughan
You will never win if you don't deal with your work ethically. All that you need to do is to stick to your principles; morals… — Ranveer Singh
The less you demand total fulfillment from relationships, the more you can appreciate them for the beautiful tapestries they are, in which absolute and relative,… — John Welwood
Readiness is a student’s entry point relative to a particular understanding or skill. — Carol Ann Tomlinson
It is hard to witness to truth to people who believe truth is relative. It is hard to proclaim the forgiveness of sins to people… — Gene Veith
From the almost total absence of fossil evidence relative to the origin of the phyla, it follows that any explanation of the mechanism in the… — Pierre-Paul Grasse
What you call life is but a dream, and reality is relative. — Wayne Gerard Trotman
Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values. — Louis D. Brandeis
Somewhere in our DNA must lie the key mutation (or, more probably, mutations) that set us apart—the mutations that make us the sort of creature… — Elizabeth Kolbert
You only understand information relative to what you already understand. — Richard Saul Wurman
Mike's (Tyson) punch is like an atomic bomb in that it is relative to nature. Both have no value unless you have a means of… — Cus D'Amato
There is no conflict in the absolute universe, but there is conflict in the relative world. — Koichi Tohei
A practical help in keeping your personal purity unblemished in your relations with other people is to begin to see them as God does. Say… — Oswald Chambers
Motion is always a relative thing. I move in relation to something else. Any particle in this universe can change in relation to any other… — Swami Vivekananda
All growth, progress, well - being, or degradation is but relative. — Swami Vivekananda
All progression is in the relative world. — Swami Vivekananda
What makes us most human is not whether we are or are not biologically driven and determined beings; but, rather, how we respond to this… — Stephen A. Diamond
We can say the stars are moving because we have a relative context. — Frederick Lenz
Unreasonable is very relative. — Lakshmi Pratury
Shakespeare possesses the power of subordinating nature for the purposes of expression, beyond all poets. His imperial muse tosses the creation like a bauble from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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