Relation Quotes

They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation.

We are not talking about a new cognition in relation to abstract art, rather a new area of cognition.

No better relation than a prudent and faithful friend.

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

I do not always find the streets interesting, so I wait until I see picturesque groups and those that compose well in relation to the whole.

A sense of contentment is crucial to being happy. Physical health, material wealth and friends contribute to this, but contentment governs our relations with them all.

Gratitude is something you show in relation to others.

These days people are much more aware that mathematics is a communal endeavor: even the most brilliant idea gets meaning only from its relation to the whole.

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

My writing, I am prepared to think, may be a substitute for something I have been born without - a so-called normal relation to society. My books are my relation to society.

Thread of Selfishness in Web of Life.—Deuteronomy contains much instruction regarding what the law is to us, and the relation we shall sustain to God as we reverence and obey

The influence of modern physics goes beyond technology. It extends to the realm of thought and culture where it has led to a deep revision in man's conception of the universe and his relation to it

Our relation to the natural world takes place in a place.

To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.

Man's relations to man do not captivate my fancy. It is man's relation to the cosmos--to the unknown--which alone arouses in me the spark of creative imagination.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and of the rarest faith!

Amity itself can only be maintained by reciprocal respect, and true friends are punctilious equals.

The Fondness we have for Self, and the Relation which other Persons and Things have to ourselves, furnish us with another long Rank of Prejudices.

My thesis is that the moral law is articulated with relation to the real as such, to the real insofar as it can be the guarantee of the Thing.

The cheap drama brings cause and effect, will power and action, once more into relation and gives a man the thrilling conviction that he may yet be master of his fate.

What is certain in death is somewhat softened by what is uncertain; it is an indefiniteness in the time, which holds a certain relation to the infinite, and what is called eternity.

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

The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave.

It is natural to man to regard himself as the object of the creation, and to think of all things in relation to himself, and the degree in which they can serve and be useful to him.

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

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

I'm British, so obviously I repress any powerful emotions of any kind in relation to anything.

The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.

The relation between husband and wife should turn into a love of the heart untouched by desire.

Relation is the essence of everything that exists.

When the contrary magnetic poles were on the same side, there was an effect produced on the polarized ray, and thus magnetic force and light were proved to have relation to each other.

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

Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation.

Every relation to mankind, of hate or scorn or neglect, is full of vexation and torment.

the world is just as concrete, ornery, vile, and sublimely wonderful as before, only now I better understand my relation to it and it to me.

I entirely approve the measures proposed by you in relation to the Marines who are lately captives in Tripoli. Therefore execute them.

That love, in the sense of wishing their happiness, will cause your actions to be effective in relation to that person.

According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.

I still say the Lord's Prayer every day. It covers a lot of ground in our relation to the world.

There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.

We all exist in relation to the world, our partners, the human race.

We try to place the human body in relation to the image all the time, so it's never a kind of a backdrop, but it's more of ...a much more integrative experience.

But Loki's relations with Svadilfari were such that a while later he gave birth to a colt.

The science of style as an organ of thought, of style in relation to the ideas and feelings, might be called the organology of style.

In particular, people have trouble understanding where I stand in relation to my characters, and very often this gets reduced to me making vicious fun of them.

If one were required to increase the dramatic seriousness of his face in relation to the seriousness of the problems he had to confront, he would quickly petrify and become his own statue.

No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.

I imagined that the priestly ceremony was perfect sanctification, and that the sin of sins was for either husband or wife to be false to that relation.

The mutual sympathy of our peoples is and will remain the foundation of our relations [with Germany].