Relative Quotes - Page 18

• O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? Where, indeed. Many a badly stung survivor, faced with the aftermath of some relative's funeral, has ruefully concluded that the victory has been won hands down by a funeral establishment - in disastrously unequal battle.

  Jessica Mitford

  Hands, Funeral, Victory

  Jessica Mitford (2011). “The American Way of Death Revisited”, p.14, Vintage

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• Kids are told there are no differences between boys and girls. They are told there is no such thing ultimately as right and wrong. Values are relative. Truth is relative. Morality is defined by individual choice. If that isn't a recipe for sexual harassment and other forms of sexual and physical abuse, I don't know what it is.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Girl, Kids, Boys

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• Our past affects us, our present affects us, and even our future can affect us. We live in the relative world of time and space.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Science, Past

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• Each one of us is an individual, just like talk show hosts are different from one another, and newspaper columnists are different from each other. So, former presidents are different from each other, too. Some have gone into relative seclusion. Some have decided to teach.

  Jimmy Carter

  President, Different, Gone

  "The “NIV Lessons from Life Bible” Interview with Kam Williams". Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. May 21, 2012.

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• I can predict with some sense of certainty how life will feel in a month. I can with the same logic remember with the same element of reality or truth what life was like a month ago. All perspectives on the past are entirely relative.

  Dan Mangan

  Past, Reality, Perspective

  Source: www.songfacts.com

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• The idea that things intrinsically were just better is so stupid to me because they never were. It's all relative.

  Dan Mangan

  Stupid, Ideas

  Source: www.songfacts.com

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• When you ask my three year old if my iPhone is too complicated, it's not. It's all relative.

  Dan Mangan

  Iphone, Years, Three

  Source: www.songfacts.com

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• The life of an Indian is like the wings of the air. That is why you notice the hawk knows how to get his prey. The Indian is like that. The hawk swoops down on its prey, so does the Indian. In his lament he is like an animal. For instance, the coyote is sly, so is the Indian. The eagle is the same. That is why the Indian is always feathered up, he is a relative to the wings of the air.

  Black Elk

  Native American, Animal, Air

  John Gneisenau Neihardt, Black Elk, Raymond J. DeMallie (1984). “The Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk's teachings given to John G. Neihardt”, Univ of Nebraska Pr

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• Speed is not an indicator of quality in terms of fiction. That's true of one's relative slowness or swiftness - taking 10 years to write a book or taking 10 days to write a book (or a comic or a film or an angry postcard) guarantees nothing in terms of how good or how bad that story is.

  Chuck Wendig

  Book, Writing, Years

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• I've had countless jihadis shut me down straightaway and say, "I'm not allowed to speak to any woman who is not my relative." But among the few I'm able to get through to, I think that being female makes me more approachable, soft, all the stereotypes of what female means.

  Rukmini Maria Callimachi

  Mean, Thinking, Female

  Source: www.politico.com

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• The history of man so far is nothing to brag about, from the standpoint of our ideas - and what I mean is, that in comparison with most other societies, our present-day American society has achieved things which are remarkable: material wealth, greater than for any other nation; a relative freedom from oppression; a relative mobility; a spreading of art, of music, of thought, which is also rather unique.

  Erich Fromm

  Art, Mean, Unique

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• I grew up with my grandfather [Elia Kazan] being famous in a way that's not like Beyoncé, but famous in a relative way. It made me feel weird about the way that we treat people that are famous, and it made me feel weird about fame in general.

  Zoe Kazan

  People, Grandfather, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm actually cautiously optimistic that Donald Trump will be so bad that he will force America to wake up and realise that forcing America to vote for right wing Republicans is always a terrible idea. It's never been a good idea, but what happened here is you have a president like Obama who gives you eight years of relative stability and prosperity, and people forget that Republicans are just terrible, not just for the country but for the planet. Maybe this is America's equivalent of bottoming out, like a crystal meth addict going on one last big run before they have to get sober.

  Moby

  Running, Country, Optimistic

  Source: thequietus.com

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• [Maigret Sets a Trap] was always going to be the first film, and it seemed to be quite a nice story. But of course it meant that here I was playing this new character for the first time, in a place where he had been a relative failure, as all these people had been murdered and the pressure was on. Rather than starting optimistically with his pipe in front of the fireplace, he was in quite a difficult place.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Nice, Character, People

  Source: news.tvguide.co.uk

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• Promised Lands was a better book in my opinion, and it's still my mother's favorite of the three I've done, but I doubt anyone who isn't a blood relative has ever heard of it. Which is to say expectations aren't worth much in the book world.

  Elizabeth Crook

  Mother, Book, Land

  Source: www.elizabethcrookbooks.com

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• The story of Taliban recovery and resurgence begins in the places where they took refuge after 2001. And as long as those leadership structures and training structures operate outside of Afghanistan with relative impunity, the conflict will continue.

  Chris Alexander

  Recovery, Long, Training

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• China should have a currency which is a much higher value relative to the dollar and other things. What they're doing is keeping it low, artificially low. And I mean seriously artificial. I don't just mean a little bit low. I mean major low.

  Donald Trump

  Mean, Should Have, Dollars

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• It's possible to be a woman married to a very wealthy, powerful man but to be relatively disempowered. Not just relative to him, relative to a middle class woman who works.

  Wednesday Martin

  Powerful, Men, Married

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• It seems that nearly every American either has a share of federal spending or has a close relative who does.

  Trent Lott

  Doe, Share, Spending

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• Suppose a student of mine writes in her exam that "morality is completely relative to culture, so nothing is absolutely right or wrong. Because of that, it is absolutely wrong to be culturally intolerant". This student, if she believes what she writes, believes a contradiction. She ought not to believe the contradiction - it's a basic epistemic norm. This is true even if she can't avoid believing it - no amount of studying will show her the light.

  Nomy Arpaly

  Believe, Writing, Culture

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• That the mechanisms of mass-production, which feed the demand for endlessly growing consumption in one generation can radically effect the possible futures for subsequent generations. Furthermore, to undo the effects of one generation's actions is not temporally relative. What is done, cannot be undone in the same timeframe. Like the factories themselves, the effects linger, they haunt us long after their final breath.

  Lawrence English

  Long, Done, Action

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I have a deeper compassion for those living with cancer, as well as their family members. And now when someone tells me that a loved one passed away, I feel it deeply, as though it were my own relative.

  Edwina Findley

  Cancer, Compassion, Passed Away

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• Of course, there are different truths on different levels. Things are true relative to other things; "long" and "short" relate to each other, "high" and "low," and so on. But is there any absolute truth? Something self-sufficient, independently true in itself? I don't think so.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Self, Long

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• There's a Russia angle to all this, because remember, we don't have Donald Trump's tax returns. He did a very - relative summary, 104 page campaign financial disclosure. One year of tax returns, reportedly - we've seen the pictures, 12,000 pages. And tax returns are replete with his foreign interests, including, perhaps, his Russian interests. That may be the reason he doesn't want to turn over his taxes.

  Norman L. Eisen

  Russia, Years, May

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I seem to have emerged from the relative obscurity of TV.

  Peter Webber

  Obscurity, Tvs, Seems

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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