Best 264 quotes in «relation quotes» category

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

Morality is the Science of harmonious relations between intelligent beings.

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.

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.

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.

One's faith is kept alive as one occasionally meets a realized ideal of better human relations.

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

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

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

Our relations to each other are oblique and casual.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Republicans have never been good at public relations.

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.

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.

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.

Right human relations is the only true peace.

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

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