Relative Quotes - Page 24

• Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.

  Paul Klee

  Beauty, Beautiful, Dark

  Paul Klee (2012). “Paul Klee”, p.102, Parkstone International

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• When you're your parents' one shot at a genetic legacy, you may get to attend all the best schools, wear all the best clothes and eat all the best foods - at least relative to children in multiple-sibling households. But you also wind up with an overweening sense of your own importance.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Children, Sibling, School

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• I lost relatives to AIDS, a couple of my closest cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high-school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the '80s. When it's that close to you, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it.

  Queen Latifah

  Running, Cousin, Couple

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• I think doing period piece is easier, because after a certain distance, everybody is equal, I think. The relative contemporary is harder. I think that's the way it is.

  Ang Lee

  Distance, Thinking, Pieces

  "TalkAsia" with Andrew Stevens, www.cnn.com. October 26, 2007.

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• I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Stuff, Faces, Deals

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• When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

  Walter Lippmann

  Truth, Honesty, Simple

  Walter Lippmann (1955). “Essays in the Public Philosophy”, p.25, Transaction Publishers

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• Whoever is my relative, I will not be nice to them.

  George Lopez

  Funny, Nice, Comedy

  "George Lopez Launching New Sitcom" by The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. October 17, 2011.

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• Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.

  Margaret Mead

  Family, Impossible Situations, Support

  "Culture and Commitment: A Study of the Generation Gap". Book by Margaret Mead, 1970.

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• Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

  H. L. Mencken

  Family, Cousin, Men

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.15, Vintage

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• God gives us our relatives – thank God we can choose our friends.

  Addison Mizner

  Inspirational, Funny, Friendship

  "The Complete Cynic".

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• It doesn't matter much where your company sits in its industry ecosystem, nor how vertically or horizontally integrated it is - what matters is its relative 'share of customer value' in the final product or solution, and its cost of producing that value.

  Gary Hamel

  Educational, Ecosystems, What Matters

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• Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Beauty, Fashion, Passion

  "Daily Bread for Your Mind and Soul: A Handbook of Transcultural Proverb and Sayings". Book by Fayek S. Hourani, p. 169, 2012.

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• To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

  Honore de Balzac

  Funny, Money, Tired

  Honore de Balzac (2014). “Poor Relations: Cousin Betty and Cousin Pons”, p.772, The Floating Press

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• Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.

  Russell Banks

  Inspirational, Motivational, Book

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• It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm cells... to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin.

  Dave Barry

  Baby, Cells, Eggs

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• 'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of a historical event, but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival. These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the hero of a solar myth.

  Annie Besant

  Easter, Hero, Moon

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.796, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.

  William S. Burroughs

  Superficial

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.169, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.

  Octavia Butler

  Suicide, Jesus, Heaven

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• I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.

  Ron Chernow

  Strong, Angry, Partiality

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• Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.

  Grover Cleveland

  Women, Long Ago, Civilization

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• Grades are almost completely relative, in effect ranking students relative to others in their class. Thus extra achievement by one student not only raises his position, but in effect lowers the position of others.

  James S. Coleman

  Class, Achievement, Ranking

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• I don't have perfect pitch, but I have relative pitch. I'm glad I don't have perfect pitch because perfect pitch can drive you crazy.

  Billy Eckstine

  Crazy, Perfect, Glad

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• Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.

  T. S. Eliot

  Mean, Paradox, Absolutes

  "Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of F.H. Bradley". Doctoral dissertation in philosophy; submitted to Harvard, Chapter 7, 1964.

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• Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.

  Ralph Ellison

  Relationship, Cousin, People

  Time Magazine, March 27, 1964.

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• When I see professional clowns, mimes, or people who makes ballon animals, I think of their relatives and how disappointed they must be.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Animal, Thinking, People

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