Relation Quotes

It's not debt per say that overwhelms an individual corporation or country. Rather it is a continuous increase in debt in relation to income that causes trouble.

Prudence supposes the value of the end to be assumed, and refers only to the adaptation of the means. It is the relation of right means for given ends.

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

Facts, and facts alone, are the foundation of science... When one devotes oneself to experimental research it is in order to augment the sum of known facts, or to discover their mutual relations.

I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street.

Every formed disposition of the soul realizes its full nature in relation to and dealing with that class of objects by which it is its nature to be corrupted or improved.

Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children.

Use all the skills you have in relation to others - and that way we can do anything.

I love pensioners. My closest relations are pensioners.

The ultimate aim of the CFR (Council on Foreign Relations) is to create a one-world socialist system, and to make the U.S. an official part of it.

He was a specialist in Feng Shui; that is to say, he was consulted as to the correct ubication and orientation of houses and temples, in relation to the spirits of wind and water.

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

I am ... willing to make it clear that American foreign policy must uphold the sanctity of international treaties. That is the cornerstone on which all relations between nations must rest.

The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other.

Keep good relations with the Grecians.

There are some current 'theories' that, when divested of begged questions, reduce to the non-controversial statement, 'Here are some facts and there may be some relation between them.'

True kindness is a pure divine affinity, Not founded upon human consanguinity. It is a spirit, not a blood relation, Superior to family and station.

There ought to be more scrupulous honesty in big business men than in any other human relation. For big business requires teamwork on a gigantic scale.

Not a deed would he do, Not a word would he utter, Till he's weighed its relation To plain bread and butter.

Each State can have for enemies only other States, and not men; for between things disparate in nature there can be no real relation.

A blog is neither a diary nor a journal. Many people think of blogging in relation to those two things, confessional or practical. It is neither but includes elements of both.

Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has no other--and that instrument is reason.

I like to think of characters in relation to other cinematic characters.

Where you're from only matters in relation to where you are.

The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.

Unreason is in the same relation to reason as dazzlement to the brightness of daylight itself.

Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world.

Sometimes people base their identity on their gifting. But our identity is in Christ and ultimately has no relation to whatever gift the Spirit may have granted to us.

- the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any man.

Are we not to pity and supply the poor, though they have no relation to us? No relation? That cannot be. The Gospel styles them all our brethren.

The only pertinent political question in relation to an identity [or its photograph] is not Is it really coherent? but What does it actually achieve?

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

Flattery does not encourage the perfect flow of love in the vein of your relationship. Be genuine and speak out what you feel for each other without hiding the painful truth.

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

I knew I wanted children in my life. The acting was always in relation to it. Life at home is chaos. They're wonderful. They're such interesting human beings. I just love it. I'm lucky.

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.

Tranvestism is far more common among men, I noted, because it originates in the primary relation of mother and son.

You're always defined in relation to the environment that you're in and to the people that you're around.

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

A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.

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

I gather that he nearly knocked you down, damaged your property, and generally made a nuisance of himself, and that you instantly concluded he must be some relation to me.

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

I have known the Indians intimately - known them in their private relations - I think I understand the Indian character pretty well.

This impure world that we presently experience exists only in relation to our impure mind.

I begin by writing paragraphs that don’t have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first.

Hell changes constantly but there are certain consistent landmarks which always stay in the same relation to one another.

. . . is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race?

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

We've also had comments in relation to Donald Trump's comments in respect of investment in Scotland- the UK government has never given Mr Trump awards or appointments.