Relation Quotes

We part with tender relations stretching far behind us, that never can be exactly renewed, and with others dawning - yet before us.

Today it's something about hallucinogenic tea, but tomorrow it could be something that Roman Catholics or Southern Baptists or a number of groups need some accommodation in relation to a federal law.

I am very happy that he [Pope Fransis] did clarify this [marriage defenition], because the other situations can be partnership, can be relations, but certainly not marriage.

Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.

Words have a universe of qualities other than those of descriptive relation: Hardness, Density, Sound-Shape, Vector-Force, & Degrees of Transparency/Opacity.

The stability of the internal medium is a primary condition for the freedom and independence of certain living bodies in relation to the environment surrounding them.

humor bears the closest relation to emotion, either bubbling up as from a deep and happy wellspring, or in an opposite fashion rising like a re-birth of feeling from dead levels after turmoil.

The nearer a conception comes towards finality, the nearer does the dynamic relation, out of which this concept has arisen, draw to a close. To know is to lose.

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

In all great civilizations, garden discourses have belonged to larger discourses about beauty, the good life, the relation of humankind to nature, and so on.

You don't have good community relations in Chicago. It's terrible. I have property there. It's terrible what's going on in Chicago.

I think if we continue to create jobs at levels that I'm creating jobs, I think that's going to have a tremendous impact - positive impact - on race relations.

An acquaintance had become a lover, might become a husband, but would retain all that she had noted in the acquaintance; and love must confirm an old relation rather than reveal a new one.

We begin our public affection in our families. No cold relation is a zealous citizen.

Nations are always making mistakes because they do not understand each other's psychology.

I do not deal with the text [of the Bible] scientifically. I read it, I'm interested in its layers of meaning, but my relation to it is much more an emotional one.

The truly beneficent mind looks upon every child of sorrow as their relation, and entitled to their assistance.

The solving of almost every crime mystery depends on something which seems, at first glance, to bear no relation whatever to the original crime.

It was my study of the two Corinthian letters that first caused me to concentrate my attention more directly on the relation of the apostle Paul to the older apostles.

Israel defined its God and its relation to that God in existential, relational terms. They did not, until quite late, approach the question of one God in an abstract philosophical way.

It's a difficult question of relations between people.

What are you?" I am no What! I am only I ... In relation to you!

The probability of finding a particular book increases in relation to the clarity of the store's focus, the diligence and shrewdness of the bookseller, and the size of the business.

Doth the Reality of sensible things consist in being perceived? or, is it something distinct from their being perceived, and that bears no relation to the mind?

In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to our feeling, in the great relation of a common nature and a common destiny.

We've got a lot of relations with countries in our neighborhood.

I defy anybody to say what are the rights of a citizen, if they do not include the control of his own diet in relation to his own health.

I think there is a metaphysical problem of the relation between mind and body. Thinking that there is no metaphysical dimension to the problem is an error.

By and large my relations with the US were good.

We are connected with our own age if we recognize ourselves in relation to outside events; and we have grasped its spirit when we influence the future.

The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations.

History is only a value of relation.

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

You must ascend a mountain to learn your relation to matter, and so to your own body, for it is at home there, though you are not.

The man who takes the liberty to live is superior to all the laws, by virtue of his relation to the lawmaker.

I think that there is a certain schizophrenic aspect to my own relation to the Bible.

I think that there are these two very different sides to my relation to the Bible: one, my professional life; the other, a more private concern, interest and fascination with the Bible.

Many modern philosophers claim that probability is relation between an hypothesis and the evidence for it.

A thoughtful and well-informed consideration of US government in relation to American society.

The Telephone will democratize hierarchic relations.

Charity is from person to person; and it loses half, far more than half, its moral value when the giver is not brought into personal relation with those to whom he gives.

My work is largely concerned with relations between seeing and knowing, seeing and saying, seeing and believing.

Do not fear being ridiculous in relation to the ridiculous.

A madman's ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.

I'm going to ask what is correct, what I deserve, especially in relation to male actors.

The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most basic, ongoing impulse of my life.

Building confidence and constructive relations between Sudan and South Sudan is urgent

I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music.

Within even the most social group there are many relations that are not as yet social.

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