Best 264 quotes in «relation quotes» category

I'm very interested in the evolution of technology, and it's really the idea of artificial life which intrigues me, more than just intelligence - a new, evolving life form arising within our datasphere and coming into living relation with humanity.

In all great civilizations, garden discourses have belonged to larger discourses about beauty, the good life, the relation of humankind to nature, and so on.

In almost every place where we find totems we also find a law against persons of the same totem having sexual relations with one another and consequently against their marrying. This, then, is 'exogamy', an institution related to totemism.

India seeks friendly relations but without compromising on its interests.

In its broadest term, religion says that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in rightful relations to it.

In relations with other nations, there is neither right nor wrong; there is only strength and weakness.

In our depths, I think we all feel very small in relation to the greater universe and God.

International relations bears more than a slight resemblance to the mafia.

In the beginning of college I wanted to be an English major, but then I became interested in international relations.

In thought I am living wholly with Theo and Vincent, oh, the infinitely delicate, tender and lovely [quality] of that relation[ship].

INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction.

I studied political science and international relations, so I never considered myself an artist.

I reckon there's as much human nature in some folks as there is in others, if not more.

It is hard to cement any relations with any country based on promises that may not be deliverable.

I think that if you have a sense of the sacredness of nature and of human relations, I think you will be uplifted in some sort of spiritual elevation.

I think that, ultimately, the only thing that affects race relations is fair treatment.

It is wonderful how much depends upon the relations of black and white A black and white, if properly balanced, suggests colour.

It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.

It's a difficult question of relations between people.

It remains unbelievable to me that I have any readers beyond my own blood relations - it's a crazy, wild gift.

I've been to China and Russia, and I don't know anything about Chinese or Soviet relations.

It's proper and appropriate to remind the Chinese about what they get out of solid relations with the United States.

I've been living for 17 years, and I've noticed human relations is the most difficult thing to understand.

It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.

Life in a great society, or for that matter in a small, is a web of tangled relations of all sorts, whose adjustment so that it may be endurable is an extraordinarily troublesome matter.

Laws and systems of polity always begin by recognizing the relations they find already existing between individuals.

I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.

I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste. With the intellect or with the conscience, it has only collateral relations. Unless incidentally, it has no concern whatever either with duty or with truth.

I would recommend any American who wants to understand where the government is going in the next four years of George W. Bush presidency to get a copy of her confirmation hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. It's a road map, and it's pretty frightening testimony. Their definition of where democracy should go in the Middle East doesn't include Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan; it only includes Iraq, Iran, and Syria.

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

Macedonia's handling of ethnic relations and other issues is encouraging.

Life's nonsense pierces us with strange relation.

Love alone makes us happy, because we live in relation, and we live to love and to be loved.

Man is forming thousands of ridiculous relations between himself and God.

Many human beings enjoy sexual relations with their own sex; many don't; many respond to both. This plurality is part of our nature and not worth fretting about.

Morality is the Science of harmonious relations between intelligent beings.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Mathematicians do not deal in objects, but in relations between objects; thus, they are free to replace some objects by others so long as the relations remain unchanged. Content to them is irrelevant: they are interested in form only.

Mikhail Gorbachev's historic leadership, which transformed Russia and international relations, cannot be fully understood without the diary-memoir of Anatoly Chernyaev, one of his most important advisers and closest confidants. Splendidly translated, edited, and introduced by Robert English and Elizabeth Tucker, his Six Years with Gorbachev is now available to everyone who wants to comprehend those final momentous events of the twentieth century.

Morality—like velocity—is relative. The determination of it depends on what the objects around you are doing. All one can do is measure one's position in relation to them; never can one measure one's velocity or morality in terms of absolutes.

Mathematicians do not study objects, but the relations between objects.

motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.

My advice for Obama concerning Iran is just to do what you already promised you would do, open up communications with Iran. Which is what I did after the Shah was deposed, as you know when the revolutionary government came in, I still had diplomatic relations with Iran, otherwise the hostages wouldn't have been there. We had about, as you know, 60 some diplomats in Iran, they had about the same number in Washington.

Never to despise in myself what I have been taught to despise. Nor to despise the other. Not to despise the it. To make this relation with the it: to know that I am it.

My life has been enriched by excellent human relations, work and interests. I have never felt lonely.

My philanthropy is no relation to anybody else's. None. My philanthropy and what we do at the foundation speaks for itself and has no relation to anyone's.

No better relation than a prudent and faithful friend.

No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.

Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everythiong else.