Quotes with relations

  • The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.
  • Is there nothing the prodigiously talented Ann Patchett can't do? She's channeled the world of opera, Boston politics, magic, unwed motherhood, and race relations, creating scenarios so indelible, you swear they are right outside your door.
  • All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.
  • In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.
  • But to cut off relations with an aggressor may often invite retaliation by armed action, and this would, in its turn, make necessary some form of collective self-defence by the loyal members of the League.
  • Money, you've got lots of friends 
 Crowding round the door 
 When you're gone, spending ends 
 They don't come no more 
 Rich relations give 
 Crust of bread and such 
 You can help yourself 
 But don't take too much.
  • Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.
  • At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.
  • The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
  • We have followed a path of moderation, development is our priority, national unity, good community relations, Muslims and non Muslims, this is what has given us the advantage.
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  • Anton Chekhov All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Albert Einstein At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Bertrand Russell A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Karl Marx All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Edmund Burke He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty helps us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Angela Carter The whore is despised by the hypocritical world because she has made a realistic assessment of her assets and does not have to rely on fraud to make a living. In an area of human relations where fraud is regular practice between the sexes, her honesty is regarded with a mocking wonder.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Booker T. Washington To those of my race who... underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say, 'Cast down your bucket where you are'—cast it down in making friends in every manly way of the people of all races by whom we are surrounded.
    Address at Atlanta International Exposition, Atlanta, Ga., 18 September 1895
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Denis Diderot All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Alfred de Vigny Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Arthur Henderson But to cut off relations with an aggressor may often invite retaliation by armed action, and this would, in its turn, make necessary some form of collective self-defence by the loyal members of the League.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Brad Holland Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It proves that we should be careful what intellectuals wish for, because we might get it.
    Brad Holland
    American basketball player (1956 - )
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  • Elizabeth Janeway Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?
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  • Blake Farenthold Hillary Clinton and John Kerry have left the U.S. with better relations with Iran and Cuba and worse relations with allies like Israel.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Amelia E. Barr Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.
    Amelia E. Barr
    British novelist and teacher (1831 - 1919)
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  • Oscar Wilde I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bill Clinton I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.
    pressconference, 26 januari 1998
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Mark Twain I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Anthony Holden I mean Buckingham Palace has never hired a professional public relations outfit let alone a Madison Avenue type and they would throw up their hands in horror at the very idea.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Henry David Thoreau I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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