Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.
Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.
The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other.
The house itself is of minor importance. Its relation to the community is the thing that really counts.
The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
Our relations with the Indians have been governed chiefly by treaties and trade, or war and subjugation.
Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations.
You're always defined in relation to the environment that you're in and to the people that you're around.
The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy.
If a manager spends more than 10 percent of his time on "human relations" the group is probably too large.
I've been living for 17 years, and I've noticed human relations is the most difficult thing to understand.
To operate within the matrix of power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination.
In all your relations to men be great, just, generous, courteous, and kindly. The great are never otherwise.
Whatever affection we have for our friends or relations, the happiness of others never suffices for our own.
The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.
Good human relations not only bring great personal rewards but are essential to the success of any enterprise.
The law reports in newspapers contain perhaps the only real history of England that has any relation to truth.
Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist.
I am of the opinion that we shouldn't turn away from Europe. We have to find ways to revitalize our relations.
The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members.
Malaysia-Singapore bilateral relations can blossom beautifully if cultivated and nurtured like an orchid plant.
Any particle in this universe can change in relation to any other particle; but take the whole universe as one.
We can be ethical only in relation to something we can see, feel, understand, love, or otherwise have faith in.
Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed-in flowers had an immediate relation to death for him.
My work is largely concerned with relations between seeing and knowing, seeing and saying, seeing and believing.
From a German point of view, German-American and European-American relations are a pillar of our foreign policy.
The ground of all religion, that which makes it possible, is the relation in which the human soul stands to God.
I am absolutely convinced that race relations on the whole are actually better now than they were 20 years [ago].
We seek friendly relations with all nations. Any nation can be our friend without being any other nation's enemy.
Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.
I think we all agree that the comments Donald Trump made in relation to Muslims were divisive, unhelpful and wrong.
So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?
I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes.
There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.
Laws and systems of polity always begin by recognizing the relations they find already existing between individuals.
It's proper and appropriate to remind the Chinese about what they get out of solid relations with the United States.
our present picture of physical reality, particularly in relation to the nature of time, is due for a grand shake up
To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.
It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.
The relation of feeling toward art and its bringing-forth can be one of production or one of reception and enjoyment.
In the beginning of college I wanted to be an English major, but then I became interested in international relations.
God's relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to his subjects.
Men can learn a lot about the importance of nurturing and being in relation to the life force versus having power over.
I don't think any relation can work if one dominates. It has to be an equal relation for it to be successful and happy.
The cows shorten the grass, and the chickens eat the fly larvae and sanitize the pastures. This is a symbiotic relation.
Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relations come into being?
The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.
... God is going to judge righteously... . what did each one do in relation to what he or she knew to be right of wrong?