Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Experience is not the poor relation of expertise. Valuable insights in business often come from the people on the ground.
A madman's ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.
The question of whether a thing is right or wrong, good or bad, must always be considered in relation to a persons needs.
Secretary Hillary Clinton for four years was part of a policy of resetting Russian relations with Russia in our interests.
In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.
We are going to extend our frank hand to seek a relation of friendship - I repeat - of cooperation with the United States.
My liking for a team isn't based on just how good it was, but how good was it in relation to how good it should have been.
We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
The diplomatic relations start when the two sides get a bit closer to each other, but U.S and Iran, they are drifting apart.
Of all the issues we are concerned with at present, the most basic issue, in my estimation, is that of human-earth relations.
Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
The idea of capitalism and the relation that black people especially have to capitalism is something that's interesting to us.
In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the major international question was the relation between Islam and democracy.
It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.
In practice, the U.K.'s most consistent strategic objective in relation to Iraq was to reduce the level of its deployed forces.
I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing. I owe them to my relations with other people.
I really don't like talking about me - me as me, that is. Me in relation to what I do is another matter. But me as me is boring.
When we look up at the night sky and wonder, 'Is there anyone else out there?' we're also asking who we are in relation to them.
It is wonderful how much depends upon the relations of black and white A black and white, if properly balanced, suggests colour.
I feel it is an obligation to help people understand the relation of food to agriculture and the relationship of food to culture.
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
We part with tender relations stretching far behind us, that never can be exactly renewed, and with others dawning - yet before us.
Privatization radically alters power relations in our society by weakening groups like public employees and public school teachers.
You don't have good community relations in Chicago. It's terrible. I have property there. It's terrible what's going on in Chicago.
There is a close analogy between organic chemistry in its relation to biochemistry and pure mathematics in its relation to physics.
I have known the Indians intimately - known them in their private relations - I think I understand the Indian character pretty well.
Finding the first seed black holes could help reveal how the relation between black holes and their host galaxies evolved over time.
The great problems of the Twentieth century will have immediate relation to the discoveries of America, of Africa, and of Australia.
We all want at renewal of our dialogue and restoration of our relations with Turkey in the interests of Russian and Turkish peoples.
There's a lot I'd like to be able to talk about with relation to Stephen Harper, particularly why is he afraid to debate in English?
Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic Church.
Since appearance can't be peeled decisively from the reality of a thing, attunement is a living, dynamic relation with another being.
I entirely approve the measures proposed by you in relation to the Marines who are lately captives in Tripoli. Therefore execute them.
I think the best way I've grown as an artist period, not just in relation to creating music, is having a lot more confidence in myself.
If you're looking for a metric that we have to measure, that we have to control, it's government in relation to the size of our economy.
Of course, life experience changes and adds to writing. And observations change too, where you put yourself in relation to other people.
Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description - an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations.
I defy anybody to say what are the rights of a citizen, if they do not include the control of his own diet in relation to his own health.
The wonderful thing about sound is that it is invitational, so ultimately each person is going to find their own relation to the material.
We want to bear witness today that we know the relation between corporate greed and what goes on too often in the Supreme Court decisions.
My experience in relation to taking on the preachers of hate was saying to them it's compatible being British, being Western, being Muslim.
The productivity of a work group seems to depend on how the group members see their own goals in relation to the goals of the organization.
The relations between Russia and Turkey entered into a really positive stage. I am sure that steps we both take will widen our cooperation.
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.
History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past
The mind-brain is lived only from a first-person perspective, and it is a dynamic, plastic organ that changes in relation to the environment.
And what is the very essence of poetry if it is not this 'metaphorical language'-this marking of the before unapprehended relations of things?
The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.
Rather than ask, What is the attitude of a work to the relations of production of its time? I should like to ask, What is its position in them.
So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations.