Best 264 quotes in «relation quotes» category

Our actual Friends are but distant relations of those to whom we are pledged.

Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being.

our present picture of physical reality, particularly in relation to the nature of time, is due for a grand shake up

Our relations with the Indians have been governed chiefly by treaties and trade, or war and subjugation.

Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that's why people struggle with them so.

Our relations to each other are oblique and casual.

Overall relations between the North and the South have developed in favor of national reconciliation, unity and reunification.

People have no right to make fools of themselves, unless they have no relations to blush for them.

President-elect Trump has said he would like to improve relations with Russia. His choice for defense secretary views Russia as America's number one threat.

Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings.

Politics is too often regarded as a poor relation, inherently dependent and subsidiary; it is rarely praised as something with a life and character of its own.

Persons appear by entering into relation to other persons.

Power, from the standpoint of experience, is merely the relation that exists between the expression of someone's will and the execution of that will by others.

Prospects of normalizing our relations with Russia look good.

Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.

Sino-Japanese relations will certainly brighten more in the future and the flowers of friendly Sino-Japanese relations will increase their beauty.

Republicans have never been good at public relations.

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Science is the description of phenomena and the formulation of their relations.

Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description - an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations.

Relations between pure and applied mathematicians are based on trust and understanding. Namely, pure mathematicians do not trust applied mathematicians, and applied mathematicians do not understand pure mathematicians.

Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed-in flowers had an immediate relation to death for him.

So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed.

Sound science must be a basis to governing our trade relations around the globe.

So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations.

Such highly qualitative leadership is demanded especially in the realm of the fostering of right international relations. Here the demand is simply irresistible.

Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relations come into being?

the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.

The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive peoples.

The greatest need of the contemporary international system is an agreed concept of order.

The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe.

The depth of learning is in direct relation to the intensity of the experience.

The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.

The ground of all religion, that which makes it possible, is the relation in which the human soul stands to God.

The house itself is of minor importance. Its relation to the community is the thing that really counts.

The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy.

The history and our experience shows that Democrats and Republicans think the same way in some cases, and their ideas aren't very different when it comes to international relations.

The matter of international relations is very subtle and exquisite.

The land-relation is still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations

The notion of obligations comes before that of rights, which is subordinate and relative to the former. A right is not effectual by itself, but only in relation to the obligation to which it corresponds.

The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations.

The only complete reading is that which transforms the book into a simultaneous network of reciprocal relations.

There are a lot of movies with vampires and monsters and super-great effects, but if there's no humor or human relations, I don't think it's ever worth seeing.

There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.

There is no reason why the US and the UK cannot have close relations.

There is a physical relation between physical things. But it is different with commodities.

The relation of this God with this man; the relation of this man with this God--this is the only theme of the Bible and of philosophy.