Top 1004 Relative Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on April 15, 2025.
The only definition by which Americas best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.
There was never a perception that I was second-class relative to boys. That gave me confidence.
The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire.
It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts.
I think 'Lost' is like losing a friend or a relative or someone. You can't replace it with another one.
Today, it seems almost everyone knows a friend or relative who is gay.
Is it wrong to leave relative security in favor of unknown risk at the side of someone you love?
One notable feature is that English doesn't have much of a system for expressing relative social status.
It seems that nearly every American either has a share of federal spending or has a close relative who does.
Terrorism is not a public health threat, relative to cancer and heart disease and malaria and so forth.
If history can do anything it is to remind us that all our judgments are merely relative to time and circumstance.
Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.
Man's freedom is relative and it cannot be held solely responsible for the imperfection of his nature.
Perhaps the most striking feature of the [nonprofit] sector is its relative freedom from constraints and its resulting pluralism.
The seeker of God is the real lover of vidya, unchangeable truth; all else is avidya, relative knowledge.
Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike.
Well, I make a practice of not commenting on the role of the relative exchange value of our currency.
Whether you call someone a hero or a monster is all relative to where the focus of your consciousness may be.
God, the boring relative everyone ignores--no one calls, no one writes--until they need a serious favor.
Disruption is a process, not an event, and innovations can only be disruptive relative to something else.
Photographers and artists contribute a lot to the world and have a right to exist in relative security and comfort.
Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll.... It does not mean that everything in life is relative.
Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative.
When you ask my three year old if my iPhone is too complicated, it's not. It's all relative.
Religions have depended on the relative isolation and ignorance of their flocks, forever and this is all breaking down.
Put another way, the chimpanzees' closest relative is not the gorilla but humans.
It was very difficult to go from relative anonymity to such huge success in such a short space of time.
Relative to all the start-ups out there, getting a valuation of $1 billion is rarely accomplished.
It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.
In relative youth, we assume we'll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.
There is no greater bugbear than a strong willed relative in the circle of his own connections.
I was discovered, or mentored, by Norman Lear, who plucked me from the grinder of relative obscurity.
On a relative level where we live, we need to have a sense of identity, otherwise we'd fall apart, wouldn't we?
To realize the relative validity of one's convictions and yet stand for them unflinchingly is what distinguishes a civilized man from a barbarian.
Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books.
I like the relative literacy of at least some of England. I mean, I didn't come for the food or the weather!
I don't know too many people that are good at timing the market relative to macro-economic events.
The only definition by which America's best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.
Nature has no cure for this sort of madness, though I have known a legacy from a rich relative work wonders.
In times of turbulence and rapid change, you must constantly be re-evaluating yourself relative to the new realities.
Ultimately we want to use dream to liberate ourselves from all relative conditions, not simply to improve them.
Relative income uses two variables: the dollar and time, usually hours.
Readiness is a student’s entry point relative to a particular understanding or skill.
The truth is an arbitrary, shifting, culturally relative, and historically molded phenomenon.
Most of the expressions we use in economics are relative terms. All of us are votaries of free trade.
What I was trying to construct was relative symmetry, where it seems clear that the shapes have arrived through consideration.
To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.
Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not on metaphysical speculations.
In a certain way, we're always toggling back and forth between the absolute and the relative, if that makes sense.
Sometimes a lack of perspective can bring its challenges relative to someone who has a little bit more.
Excellent value relative to the week investment of time....To my mind, this is the definitive course on leadership.
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.
Dare to believe in the reality of your assumption
and watch the world play its part
relative to to its fulfillment.
Everything is relative and you have to learn that sometimes you win and other times you lose.
A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ‘merely relative,’ is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.
Chronic disease like a troublesome relative is something you can learn to manage but never quite escape.
Harshness and unkindness are relative. The appearance of them may be the fruits of the greatest kindness.
I’ll give you a theory: Man’s closest relative is not the chimpanzee, as the TV people believe, but is, in fact, the dog.
