Relation Quotes - Page 35

• When you're dealing with an in-law violation, I think the first line of defense is for the blood relation to have a serious talk.

  Emily Yoffe

  Thinking, Blood, Law

  "Mother Loathe". Live chat, www.slate.com. May 27, 2015.

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• The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement is a continuation of other disastrous trade agreements, like NAFTA, CAFTA, and permanent normal trade relations with China.

  Bernie Sanders

  Agreement, Normal, Partnership

  "Sen. Bernie Sanders on taxes, trade agreements and Islamic State". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. May 18, 2015.

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• 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.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Reason, Knows

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1989). “I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy”

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• The science of style as an organ of thought, of style in relation to the ideas and feelings, might be called the organology of style.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Ideas, Feelings, Style

  Thomas De Quincey (1861). “Letters on Self-Education, with hints on style, and dialogues on political economy”, p.201

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• Self-confidence is not hope; it is the self-judgment of your own internal forces in their relation to the world without, which results from the failure of many hopes and the non-realization of many fears.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Confidence, Self, Realization

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• All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fear, Social, Equity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.201, Modern Library

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• Bargaining has neither friends nor relations.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Bargaining, Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control tradition and assume a critical attitude toward it, if human relations are ever to change for the better.

  Albert Einstein

  Attitude, Self, Would Be

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.475, Princeton University Press

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• INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Fool, Intimacy, Destruction

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.113, 谷月社

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• I have this feeling of wending my way or plundering through a mysterious jungle of possibilities when I am writing. This jungle has not been explored by previous writers. It never will be explored. It's endlessly varying as we progress through the experience of time. These words that occur to me come out of my relation to the language which is developing even as I am using it.

  William Stafford

  Writing, Feelings, Progress

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• What has to be given up is not the I, but that drive for self-affirmation which impels man to flee from the unreliable, unsolid, unlasting, unpredictable, dangerous world of relation into the having of things.

  Martin Buber

  Men, Self, Dangerous World

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• Composition, the aim of which is expression, alters itself according to the surface to be covered. If I take a sheet of paper of given dimensions, I will jot down a drawing which will have a necessary relation to its format.

  Henri Matisse

  Drawing, Expression, Dimensions

  "Artists on Art - from the 14th - 20th centuries". Book edited by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves; Pantheon Books, London, p. 410, 'Notes d'un Peintre' (Notes of a Painter), 1972.

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• I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing. I owe them to my relations with other people.

  Robert Graves

  People, Poetry, Feels

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• Obedience, as it regards the social relations, the rules of society, and the laws of nature and nature's God, should commence at the cradle and end only at the tomb.

  Hosea Ballou

  Law, Obedience, Social

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• Vanity, fear, desire, competition - all such distortions within our own egos - condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.

  Tennessee Williams

  Vanity, Glasses, Competition

  Tennessee Williams (2007). “The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams Volume II: 1945-1957”, p.95, New Directions Publishing

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• While a great many other ideas and measures are of prime importance for the good life of the community, that which concerns its architectural expression is the notion of the community as limited in numbers, and in area... To express these relations clearly, to embody them in buildings and roads and gardens in which each individual structure will be subordinated to the whole - this is the end of community planning.

  Lewis Mumford

  Good Life, Garden, Expression

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• The development of the doctrine of international arbitration, considered from the standpoint of its ultimate benefits to the human race, is the most vital movement of modern times. In its relation to the well-being of the men and women of this and ensuing generations, it exceeds in importance the proper solution of various economic problems which are constant themes of legislative discussion and enactment.

  William Howard Taft

  Men, Race, Arbitration

  "Dawn of World Peace", in U.S. Bureau of Education Bulletin, No. 8, 1912.

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• Rules of conduct which govern men in their relations to one another are being applied in an ever-increasing degree to nations. The battlefield as a place of settlement of disputes is gradually yielding to arbitral courts of justice.

  William Howard Taft

  Men, Justice, Degrees

  "Dawn of World Peace", in U.S. Bureau of Education Bulletin, No. 8, 1912.

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• In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Diversity, Movement, Body

  Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, baron de, Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu (2005). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.2, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• True individuality is the repose arising from the relation of a self to all it has to do with. Bad individuality has in it a separation between outward action and a flat repose inwardly.

  Eli Siegel

  Self, Individuality, Action

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• The 'pure' red of which certain abstractionists speak does not exist. Any red is rooted in blood, glass, wine, hunters' caps and a thousand other concrete phenomena. Otherwise we would have no feeling toward red and its relations.

  Robert Motherwell

  Wine, Glasses, Blood

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• The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed.

  Anthony Burgess

  Book, Adults, Absorbing

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• There are other relations besides reality, which the mind is capable of grasping and which also are primary, like chance, illusion, the fantastic, the dream.

  Louis Aragon

  Dream, Reality, Mind

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• We have lost contact with man's natural desire for the exalted, for a concern with our relation to absolute emotions.

  Barnett Newman

  Men, Desire, Emotion

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• Today's concrete-pouring ceremony of Chashma-2 marks yet another landmark in Pak-China relations and a milestone in the history of nuclear technology in Pakistan.

  Shaukat Aziz

  Technology, Nuclear, Pakistan

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