Relative Quotes - Page 7

• Success is a relative term. It brings so many relatives.

  Stephen Hawking

  Logical, Term

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• The argument of danger only applies to those who live in relative safety.

  Graham Greene

  Safety, Argument, Danger

  Graham Greene (1971). “The Collected Edition: The power and the glory”

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• Of course, success is a relative term. It can be something completely different from winning the German championship eight times or making millions.

  Oliver Kahn

  Winning, Eight, Different

  "'Goalkeepers Need an Element of Insanity'". Interview with Lothar Gorris and Dirk Kurbjuweit, www.spiegel.de. May 15, 2008.

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• Over the past decade or so, you have seen the flip side of that as you've seen stock prices have come down a lot relative to gold. Now you are getting a change where people are more comfortable holding gold because in the rear-view mirror it doesn't look so bad for gold. Bonds have not come down as much relative to gold, but I think the bond bubble is going to burst and will be falling for years too. And gold will look that much better.

  Peter Schiff

  Fall, Past, Thinking

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• Personal change, growth, development, identity formation--these tasks that once were thought to belong to childhood and adolescence alone now are recognized as part of adult life as well. Gone is the belief that adulthood is, or ought to be, a time of internal peace and comfort, that growing pains belong only to the young; gone the belief that these are marker events--a job, a mate, a child--through which we will pass into a life of relative ease.

  Lillian B. Rubin

  Jobs, Children, Pain

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• In a dispassionate comparison of the relative values of human and robotic spaceflight, the only surviving motivation for continuing human spaceflight is the ideology of adventure. But only a tiny number of Earth's six billion inhabitants are direct participants. For the rest of us, the adventure is vicarious and akin to that of watching a science fiction movie. At the end of the day, I ask myself whether the huge national commitment of technical talent to human spaceflight and the ever-present potential for the loss of precious human life are really justifiable.

  James Van Allen

  Motivation, Adventure, Commitment

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• I cannot often enough say, that a man is only a relative and representative nature. Each is a hint of the truth, but far enough from being that truth, which yet he quite newly and inevitably suggests to us. If I seek it in him, I shall not find it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Men, Hints

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.168, Graphic Arts Books

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• Size is definitely relative. If you're bigger, they can see you easier.

  Chan Gailey

  Size, Easier, Bigger

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• For us in England, the relative value of the pound against the dollar, that has a huge impact on how easy it is to get our films made in the U.K.

  Eric Fellner

  Impact, Relative Value, Dollars

  Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 27, 2012.

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• You start to get nervous when the value of a comic book or graphic novel is relative to the achievements of some other medium.

  Adrian Tomine

  Book, Achievement, Nervous

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God,. to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits , and humbly to implore his protection and favor... beseech Him to pardon our national and other transgressions; to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually to render our National Government a blessing to all the people by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed

  George Washington

  Thanksgiving, Wise, Grateful

  Thanksgiving Day Proclamation, Issued by President George Washington, at the request of Congress, on October 3, 1789

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• In times of turbulence and rapid change, you must constantly be re-evaluating yourself relative to the new realities.

  Brian Tracy

  Reality, Turbulence, Rapid Change

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Jan 17, 2011

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• Things may move slow in the academic world, but I continue to move at a pace relative to the urgency of the moment, looking forward to the time when the academic world can catch up.

  Joseph Curiale

  Moving, Pace, World

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• Even the most inspired verse, which boasts not without a relative justification to be immortal, becomes in the course of ages a scarcely legible hieroglyphic; the language it was written in dies, a learned education and an imaginative effort are requisite to catch even a vestige of its original force. Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.

  George Santayana

  Effort, Mind, Age

  George Santayana (1932). “The Life of Reason”, p.74, Library of Alexandria

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• By keeping labor supply down, immigration policy tends to keep wages high. Let us underline this basic principle: Limitation of the supply of any grade of labor relative to all other productive factors can be expected to raise its wage rate; and increase in supply will, other things being equal, tend to depress wage rates.

  Paul Samuelson

  Depressing, Principles, Immigration

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• War is like a game of chess ... but with this little difference, that in chess you may think over each move as long as you please and are not limited for time, and with this difference too, that a knight is always stronger than a pawn, and two pawns are always stronger than one, while in war a battalion is sometimes stronger than a division and sometimes weaker than a company. The relative strength of bodies of troops can never be known to anyone.... Success never depends, and never will depend, on position, or equipment, or even on numbers, and least of all on position.

  Leo Tolstoy

  War, Moving, Thinking

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• Speed is relative. Does it feel fast going 70 miles per hour down an eight lane highway? No, probably not, but I bet it does if you are going down some single lane dirt road. It's the same in a race car. It depends on the track.

  Kyle Petty

  Eight, Race, Track

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• Reading Don Quixote can be compared to an indefinite visit from your most impossible senior relative, with all his pranks, dirty habits, unstoppable reminiscences, and terrible cronies. When the experience is over, and the old boy checks out at last (on page 846 - the prose wedged tight, with no breaks for dialogue), you will shed tears all right; not tears of relief or regret but tears of pride. You made it, despite all that 'Don Quixote' could do.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Senior, Regret, Dirty

  "The Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha". Book by Miguel de Cervantes, 1605 - 1615.

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• I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.

  Laura Marling

  Country, Book, Night

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• More and more, I have come to realize how thoughts and concepts are all that block us from always being . . . in the absolute. . . . When the view is there, thoughts are seen for what they truly are: fleeting and transparent, and only relative. . . . You do not cling to thoughts and emotions or reject them, but welcome them all within the vast embrace of Rigpa.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Block, Views, Fleeting

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• It is not given to man to know the whole Truth. His duty lies in living up to the truth as he sees it, and in doing so, to resort to the purest means, i.e., to non-violence. God alone knows absolute truth. Therefore, I have often said, Truth is God. It follows that man, a finite being, cannot know absolute truth. Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. This is God's attribute alone. Relative truth is all we know. Therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. Such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Lying, Mean

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• [On creating] And you get that little endorphin buzz, it's great. Why do you think Einstein looked like that? I don't think he was going "You know this is some dynamite weed! It's all relative you know."

  Robin Williams

  Weed, Thinking, Littles

  "Inside the Actors Studio (Season 7, Episode 14: Robin Williams)". Talk-Show, June 10, 2001.

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• It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.

  Peter Kreeft

  Reason, Absolutes, Jesus Shock

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• Participation in the dance was entirely voluntary, a mental vow to worship the Mystery in this manner being expressed by a man ardently desiring the recovery of a sick relative; or surrounded by an enemy with escape apparently impossible; or, it might be, dying of hunger … since some inscrutable power had swept all game from forest and prairie. Others joined in the ceremony in the hope and firm belief that the Mystery …would grant them successes against the enemy and consequent eminence at home.

  Edward S. Curtis

  Home, Recovery, Men

  Edward S. Curtis (2015). “The Teton Sioux, The Yanktonai, The Assiniboin”, p.88, Native American Book Publishers, LLC

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• Natural selection involves no plan, no goal, and no direction — just genes increasing and decreasing in frequency depending on whether individuals with those genes have, relative to other individuals, greater or lesser reproductive success.

  Randolph M. Nesse

  Goal, Individual, Natural

  Randolph M. Nesse, George C. Williams (2012). “Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine”, p.14, Vintage

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