Relation Quotes

Politics have no relation to morals.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

Many of our problems are home-grown. Gordon Brown regularly advised the rest of the world to follow his British model of growth. But the model was flawed. It led to the highest level of household debt in relation to income in the world.

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Well, from an acting point of view, I bear no relation, I don't look like Alfred Kinsey at all, but I thought somewhere in my artist's soul, my actor's soul, I could capture something of the spirit of the man.

Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.

To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.

The solo years have been more meaningful to the audiences than the Smiths years, but the press in England only write about me in relation to the Smiths era.

As the gospels present it to us, the mission of Jesus of Nazareth is about the way in which the community of God's people - historically, the Jewish people who had first received the law and the covenant - is being re-created in relation to Jesus himself.

You can't be a great mum and work the whole time necessarily; those two things aren't ideal. We have an awful lot to work on and to debate about in relation to our working lives, because it isn't working for a lot of people, particularly for a lot of women.

I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street.

The Christian Democrats always made you feel like the poor relation.

I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.

The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations.

The house itself is of minor importance. Its relation to the community is the thing that really counts.

I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

The thing that influenced me most in relation to 'Nanny McPhee' were the Westerns I watched with my father. All the Spaghetti Westerns; all the Virginians; all the High Chaparrals. Because if you think about the form, it's a stranger from out of town.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.