Relative Quotes

Where there's a will - there's a relative!

Failure is relative. Life is adventure. Everything has beauty.

I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.

The worst hatred is that of relatives.

To fail to exhibit that we take truth seriously at those points where there is a cost in our doing so, is to push the next generation in the relative, dialectical millstream that surrounds us.

There is no such thing as evil. Only relative degrees of good.

Noise pollution is a relative thing. In a city, it's a jet plane taking off. In a monastery, it's a pen that scratches.

Everything is relative except relatives, and they are absolute.

The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.

Human thought by its nature is capable of giving, and does give, absolute truth, which is compounded of a sum-total of relative truths.

Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.

Two aspects to the relative world: relaxation and time management.

But everything is relative, Bertie... You, for instance, are my relative, and I am your relative.

As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.

Where absolute superiority is not attainable, you must produce a relative one at the decisive point by making skillful use ofwhat you have.

Life grows relative to one’s investment in it.

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

The trouble with institutional investors is that their performance is usually measured relative to their peer group and not by an absolute yardstick. This makes them trend followers by definition.

Impossible is relative.

I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already.

The seeker of God is the real lover of vidya, unchangeable truth; all else is avidya, relative knowledge.

In times of turbulence and rapid change, you must constantly be re-evaluating yourself relative to the new realities.

Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.

Success is a relative term. It brings so many relatives.

Simply put: time is fluid. The faster your world spins out of control, the slower timer crawls. The more time you need, the less you're sure to get. It's all relative

Put another way, the chimpanzees' closest relative is not the gorilla but humans.

The cost of performing well in bad times can be relative underperformance in good times.

There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.

No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.

If you don't have the gift of a loving supportive family, be that gift for someone else. It doesn't have to be a relative, just someone you know who is alone or hurting over the holiday.

We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under.

I don't know too many people that are good at timing the market relative to macro-economic events.

From the point of view of emptiness, there is neither being nor non-being, but we're not on the point of view of emptiness, we're on the point of view of our relative being.

While real perfection is only one, relative perfections must be many.

Many people come here and they think my apartment is a poor relative to my name. But you cannot be radical and have money, it’s impossible.

Time is relative; its only worth depends upon what we do as it is passing.

My father is incapable of showing much affection, or even of carrying on a conversation. I didn't want to have a relationship with him just because he's my blood relative. It would bore me.

Such happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.

Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language.

Fascism conceives of the State as an absolute, in comparison with which all individuals or groups are relative, only to be conceived in their relation to the State.

Mike's (Tyson) punch is like an atomic bomb in that it is relative to nature. Both have no value unless you have a means of conveying it to the target. He is boxing-smart.

An increase in the relative price of products from the low wage manufacturers in Asia and Latin America will also make those products less attractive to American consumers.

Beyond happiness and unhappiness is truth. Truth is not affected by anything in the relative world. Truth is the unifying aspect of existence.

A parallel between color and music can only be relative – just as a violin can give warm shades of tone, so yellow has shades, which can be expressed by various instruments.

Ultimately we want to use dream to liberate ourselves from all relative conditions, not simply to improve them.

No matter how great the script, the actual film will only be a distant relative of it - it will never be an identical twin.

As long as you are in the relative worlds, you should be realistic and know there is winning and losing here.

Whether you call someone a hero or a monster is all relative to where the focus of your consciousness may be.