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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
If I had to choose between a relative and a good story, I would take the story.
Crazy is a relative term, you know. Everybody is unique in their own way and some people work harder for longer hours than others.
The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid imperfection of peoples lives.
The cost of performing well in bad times can be relative underperformance in good times.
Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.
As some people say, we're already in a Singularity relative to ancient Grecians, inasmuch as they couldn't understand our world at all... and I think it's true in the opposite direction, too.
Answers can suit the relative mind. In the dream we can be thirsty. But upon awaking from the dream, there's no thirst.
It seems strange to make a priori arguments about the relative performance of governments and the markets in health care when there is so much empirical evidence.
When I am told that I am a huge star, I accept it, knowing that success is relative - the films I do have to work.
States care about relative wealth, because economic might is the foundation of military might.
Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.
America's role in the global economy inevitably was going to diminish; we're smaller relative to - as China, India, other emerging markets grow.
All is measured by that relative term, quality. It is in this search for quality that the artist is, of necessity, the eternal student.
For many children, it's seeing a beloved relative ill and in pain that leads them to want to become doctors. But, for me, it was watching my grandma get better.
Value is a relative concept: the value of each action is determined by comparing it with other possible actions.
Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
Home is a relative concept. Home is very much wherever it is that your people are and where you fit in.
I'm not against gay people. I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.
Basic philosophy, spirit and drive of an organization have far more to do with its relative achievements than do technological or economic resources, organizational structure, innovation and timing.
I always believed that I had to pretend to be happy. But what I've learned is that it doesn't matter what race or class or demographic you come from. I truly believe that sadness is relative.
Any ideas of “other” are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of “normal.”
No doubt, God alone has become all these objects, animate and inanimate, but in the relative world all beings act and suffer according to their past Karma and innate tendencies.
Traveling the world was a constant thing, rich with experiences. But all of it was relative to being able to play live onstage and really stretch out.
Doom hits the same frequencies that polytonic Buddhist chanting does, which is very hypnotic and makes time relative when listening.
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.
The U.S. is still in a pretty good spot, especially relative to other advanced countries. The aging of our population is not as pronounced as almost anyone else's.
Truth is relative, and there is always something missing in truth that prevents it from being perfect.
Value gives the artist the means of showing subtle changes in a form's surface-state, and it helps clarify the relative distance between forms.
Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
I'm not the greediest person. Of course, I work in a business where that's all relative and there's a lot of money to be made. I think I'm satisfied making as much as I have and I don't feel particularly driven to have more.
Every individual is a person necessarily imbedded in a range of multiple relations, and therefore, no one is really independent in anything but a relative sense; no one is truly autonomous.
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.
These youngsters hold that all morality is relative but that middle class morality is just plain bad.
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.
The plain Canadian fact is that relative to other Western democracies, the U.S. in particular, there isn't much difference between our two main political parties.
Yoga has moved from relative anonymity in the West to a well-recognized practice offered in thousands of studios, community centers, hospitals, gyms, and health clubs.
Any ideas of 'other' are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of 'normal.'
Relative poverty acknowledges that the definition of poverty should move with the times.
The discourse of sovereignty is a relative one when a crisis has become a global crisis.
There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
When I speak of 'cycles,' I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate.
It's very clear that Vladimir Putin has decided that he will eliminate his opponents and anyone who stands up for democracy and freedom. And he does so with relative impunity.
When I speak of "cycles," I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate.
Human thought by its nature is capable of giving, and does give, absolute truth, which is compounded of a sum-total of relative truths.
I also believe that most of the emerging economies have a fairly large amount of foreign exchange reserves, relative to 10 years ago.
Technology should do the hard work, so you can get on and live your life. We're only at one percent of what's possible, and we're moving slow relative to the opportunity we have.
Everything is relative. If you want to understand a problem you look at its cause. You don’t look at its manifestation.
I understand about the relative strengths of people, and I don't think people have to be anything. They can be nothin' if they want to be.
There's no such thing as an absolute openness. Openness is relative, I think, in all societies.
For us in England, the relative value of the pound against the dollar, that has a huge impact on how easy it is to get our films made in the U.K.
Speed is relative. You have to live it. You can't just jump into it. You have to live it all the time.
It is absolute poverty that you could end, but I think relative poverty is a whole other issue.
I do not want to be a relative and passive being, anywhere. I want to live and love and write.
The one instrument that has relative political autonomy is monetary policy. Central banks do not need to go to Congress to get approval for an interest rate hike.
The truth that could be extracted from words was such a fluctuating, relative truth.
The current distribution model for movies, in the U.S. particularly, but also around the world, is pretty antiquated relative to the on-demand generation that we're trying to serve.
Things That Don't Matter When You've Lived the Same Day Six Times and Died on at Least Two of Them: Lunch meats and their relative coolness.
Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity - a way of proclaiming one's superiority in the face of one's diminished influence.
We know that, relative to GPS, radar is not as accurate - we'd be seeing our planes' precise positions in 3-D, not just approximate locations every eight seconds.
The Infinite has to be a relative concept. Go any distance: an infinite space means that there is more to be explored.
