Relative Quotes

• Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Inspirational, Memories, Criminal Mind

  "Fictional character: Emily Prentiss". "Criminal Minds: Foundation" (TV Series), www.imdb.com. 2012.

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• The worst hatred is that of relatives.

  Tacitus

  Hatred, Worst

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• The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.

  William Ralph Inge

  Wise, Men, Relative Value

  William Ralph Inge (1927). “The church in the world: collected essays”, Ayer Co Pub

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• Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

  George Burns

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

  Desmond Tutu

  Inspirational, Family, God

  Address at his enthronement as Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, September 7, 1986.

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• Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.

  T. S. Eliot

  Success, Failure, Entrepreneur

  Family Reunion (1939) pt. 2, sc. 3

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

  Ramana Maharshi

  Satisfaction, Pleasure

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• Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.

  Auguste Comte

  Absolutes

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• In the past we used to think of poverty in absolute terms - meaning straightforward material deprivation... We need to think of poverty in relative terms - the fact that some people lack those things which others in society take for granted.

  David Cameron

  Past, Thinking, People

  "Tories claim 'big change' on poor". news.bbc.co.uk. November 24, 2006.

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

  Plautus

  Men, Despised

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• Family is not an important thing. It's everything.

  Michael J. Fox

  Inspirational, Family, Vocabulary Words

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.

  Gail Buckley

  Family, Past, Mirrors

  "Books of the Times" by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, www.nytimes.com. 1986.

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  One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

  Euripides

  Friendship, Positive, Family

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

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• When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Family, Home, Thinking

  George Bernard Shaw (2004). “Heartbreak House”, p.63, 1st World Publishing

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• Friends are relatives you make for yourself.

  Eustache Deschamps

  Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend

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• Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

  Paul Gauguin

  Business, Weakness, Competitors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Everything in life is relative.

  Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

  Life Is

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Nature has no cure for this sort of madness, though I have known a legacy from a rich relative work wonders.

  Sam Smith

  Legacy, Madness, Wonder

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• Vanity is a relative of Pride; Vanity is talkative, pride is silent. When Vanity and Pride get together, they could make monstrosities.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Pride, Vanity, Together

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• Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Love, Family, Happiness

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• 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.

  Honore de Balzac

  People, Generosity, Twenties

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• Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

  Aristotle

  Lying, Mean, Men

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1748, Princeton University Press

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• Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Littles, Beloved, Persons

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.21, SCM Press

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• History within itself cannot be transcended. ... In history itself there are only relative victories.

  Ernst Troeltsch

  History, Victory

  Ernst Troeltsch (2006). “Christian thought, its history and application”, Walter de Gruyter

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• To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

  Barbara Bush

  Inspirational, Family, Mean

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