Relation Quotes
Where did this commandment come from in relation to polygamy? It also came from God... When I see any of our people, men or women, opposing a principle of this kind... I consider them apostates.
I don't think it's you that changes with success - it's the people around you who change. Because of your new status, they change in relation to you.
Human thinking depends on metaphor. We understand new and complex things in relation to the things we already know... once you pick a metaphor it will guide your thinking.
Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that he is glad to know, and what omissions he most laments.
I'm not comfortable with categorizing my own work, but I don't mind if others talk about it in relation to genre as long as they don't try to hold it up to some genre standard.
There is a physical relation between physical things. But it is different with commodities.
The wonderful thing about sound is that it is invitational, so ultimately each person is going to find their own relation to the material.
I only work in relation to what the work is about. Yes, of course, if the world's coming to an end I would basically try to get out of the way when the sky falls.
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.
Sometimes stories are inherently important whether or not they have a direct relation to your life.
Sometimes when we're not paying attention, relation-ships happen. There is no rule that requires two people in love to be exactly alike.
Whatever affection we have for our friends or relations, the happiness of others never suffices for our own.
Obsolete misleading theologies bear the same relation to the essence of true religion that scarlet fever, mumps, and measles do to education.
People must flatter their own eyes with their pathetic lives. The things I was saying followed logically the things that I had said before, yet bore no relation to what I was thinking and feeling.
Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
Be mindful at all times of the following: the nature of the whole universe, the nature of the part that is me, the relation of the one to the other, the one so vast, the other so small.
When we consider we are bound to be serviceable to mankind, and bear with their faults, we shall perceive there is a common tie of nature and relation between us.
What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is in relation to everything else.
Faith then, in its relation to salvation, is that confidence by which we accept it as a free gift from the Saviour, and is the only possible way in which the gift of God could be appropriated.
If gun control bore any relation to homicide rates, Washington, DC would be the safest place in the country.
Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression.
... a worker was seldom so much annoyed by what he got as by what he got in relation to his fellow workers.
Minds are cluttered from the age of six with the values of others-values which bear little relation to their own private capacities, needs and desires.
I'm all over my poems, even if their relation to my everyday life is that of dream to reality.
I guess my poems feel to me a bit like they are doing something in relation to experience, i.e. time.
A writer's life stands in relation to his work as a house does to a garden, related but distinct.
The arrangement bore the same relation to actual finance as fantasy football bears to the NFL.
Privatization radically alters power relations in our society by weakening groups like public employees and public school teachers.
Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a chateau does to its owner.
Up to a certain extent the UN soldiers are useful. But they are consuming a lot of resources in relation to the little work they are doing.
I mean, even New York isn't in any great shape anymore in relation to the rest of the world.
Anyway, my father became super-responsible. You know, he was the kind of person that absorbs all responsibility in the family, and then everybody else can act like a child in relation to him.
Men can learn a lot about the importance of nurturing and being in relation to the life force versus having power over.
If a manager spends more than 10 percent of his time on "human relations" the group is probably too large.
Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic Church.
For Rembrandt, reality is role-playing.... Everyone is portrayed in relation to a social hierarchy.
Secretary Hillary Clinton for four years was part of a policy of resetting Russian relations with Russia in our interests.
I studied political science and international relations, so I never considered myself an artist.
The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to the white race, there is one solution: extermination.
If you go and watch the way the primitive tribes live, you will know what work is in relation to celebration. They work the whole day so they can sing and dance with abandon at night.
Life is unnecessarily long. Moments of insight, of fine personal relation, a smile, a glance,--what ample borrowers of eternity they are!