Best 264 quotes in «relation quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It's a difficult question of relations between people.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Life's nonsense pierces us with strange relation.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Morality is the Science of harmonious relations between intelligent beings.

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

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 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.

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.

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

No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.

No better relation than a prudent and faithful friend.

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

No truth can be said to be seen as it is until it is seen in its relation to all other truths. In this relation only is it true.

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

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

Of course, we talked about Westerns we like with [James Ransone in Valley of Violence] , but it was always thematically in relation to the movie and what the themes of the movie were.