Relation Quotes - Page 30

• For as long as multinational communities have existed, their weak point has always been the relations between different nations.

  Slobodan Milosević

  Long, Community, Different

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• Secondly I would like to make continuous efforts of stabilising cross Strait relations, eventually reaching peace across the Taiwan strait and stability and security in the Asia Pacific region.

  Chen Shui-bian

  Peace, Effort, Taiwan

  BBC Interview, news.bbc.co.uk. March 30, 2004.

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• One needs only to study a certain positioning of the hand in relation to the keys to obtain with ease the most beautiful sounds, to know how to play long notes and short notes and to achieve certain unlimited dexterity. A well formed technique, it seems to me, can control and vary a beautiful sound quality.

  Frederic Chopin

  Beautiful, Keys, Hands

  "Chopin : Pianist and Teacher as Seen by His Pupils". Book by Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger, 1986.

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• There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.

  Sally Field

  People, Style, Television

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• The experiments made on the mutual electrical relations of bodies have taught us that they can be divided into two classes: electropositive and electronegative. The simple bodies which belong to the first class, as well as their oxides, always take up positive electricity when they meet simple bodies or oxides belonging to the second class; and the oxides of the first class always behave with the oxides of the other like salifiable bases with acids.

  Jons Jacob Berzelius

  Simple, Oxygen, Taught Us

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• There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

  Adrienne Rich

  Song, Art, Inspiration

  Adrienne Rich (1994). “Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985”, p.117, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Apart from the hostile influence of man, the organic and the inorganic world are ... bound together by such mutual relations and adaptations s secure, if not the absolute permanence and equilibrium of both ... at least a very slow and gradual succession of changes in those conditions. But man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.

  George Perkins Marsh

  Nature, Science, Men

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• I am encouraged as I look at some of those who have listened to their "different drum": Einstein was hopeless at school math and commented wryly on his inadequacy in human relations. Winston Churchill was an abysmal failure in his early school years. Byron, that revolutionary student, had to compensate for a club foot; Demosthenes for a stutter; and Homer was blind. Socrates couldn't manage his wife, and infuriated his countrymen. And what about Jesus, if we need an ultimate example of failure with one's peers? Or an ultimate example of love?

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Love, Jesus, School

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.36, Open Road Media

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• My philanthropy is no relation to anybody else's. None. My philanthropy and what we do at the foundation speaks for itself and has no relation to anyone's.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Foundation, Speak, Philanthropy

  "Jon Bon Jovi talks about music, philanthropy and his daughter's stuggle". The Associated Press Interview, www.oregonlive.com. December 3, 2012.

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• Hell changes constantly but there are certain consistent landmarks which always stay in the same relation to one another.

  Grant Morrison

  Change, Hell, Landmarks

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• The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is in extending our commercial relations to have as little political connection as possible... Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalships, interest, humor, or caprice?... It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.

  George Washington

  Ambition, Destiny, America

  Farewell Address, Philadelphia, Pa., 19 Sept. 1796

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• More important than innate disposition, objective experience, and environment is the subjective evaluation of these. Furthermore, this evaluation stands in a certain, often strange, relation to reality.

  Alfred Adler

  Reality, Objectivity, Important

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• A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.

  Claude Bernard

  Science, Discovery, Theory

  Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine (1865)

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• The title's so upfront. It gives fair warning about the play's content. I'm writing about a kind of disenchantment, an anger, but quite a cool 90's anger, at a time when we're not very good at openly being angry. . . . I don't think I ever thought the title was titillating. I thought it was incredibly catchy. If the play is about the reduction in human relations down to a consumerist rationale, then thematically, the title is entirely linked into the thesis of the play.

  Mark Ravenhill

  Writing, Thinking, Play

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• I say that almost everywhere there is beauty enough to fill a person's life if one would only be sensitive to it. but Henry says No: that broken beauty is only a torment, that one must have a whole beauty with man living in relation to it to have a rich civilization and art. . . . Is it because I am a woman that I accept what crumbs I may have, accept the hot-dog stands and amusement parks if I must, if the blue is bright beyond them and the sunset flushes the breasts of sea birds?

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

  Dog, Art, Sunset

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• National pride is the culmination of a lifetime public relations campaign of psychological mind-control techniques.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Pride, Mind, Technique

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• Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world

  Wallace Stevens

  Inspiration, Men, World

  Wallace Stevens (1997). “Collected Poetry and Prose”

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• From Alexander the Platonic, not frequently nor without necessity to say to any one, or to write in a letter, that I have no leisure; nor continually to excuse the neglect of duties required by our relation to those with whom we live, by alleging urgent occupations.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Writing, Science, Occupation

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.18, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• It doesn't matter what word we use, if it has the same content, it will be treated in the same way. There are other words - there's "womanist," there's "mujerista," there's "women's liberationist" - all mean the same thing and they get the same ridicule. I think we just need to choose what word we feel comfortable with that says women are full human beings, and whatever that word is, it will get a lot of opposition. But it will also attract a lot of support. But this is a revolution, not a public relations movement.

  Gloria Steinem

  Strong Women, Mean, Thinking

  "Celebrating Gloria Steinem’s 80th Birthday" by Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2014.

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• You don’t have journalists over there anymore, what they have is public relations people. That’s what they have over in America now. Two-hundred and fifty thousand people in public relations. And a dwindling number of actual reporters and journalists.

  Robert Crumb

  Two, Numbers, America

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• The perfection of His relation to us swallows up all our imperfections, all our defeats, all our evils; for our childhood is born of His fatherhood. That man is perfect in faith who can come to God in the utter dearth of his feelings and his desires, without a glow or an aspiration, with the weight of low thoughts, failures, neglects, and wandering forgetfulness, and say to Him, “Thou art my refuge, because Thou art my home”. 

  George MacDonald

  Art, Home, Men

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• After illuminating the work of Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Louise Bourgeois, Balthus, and other modern artists, Mieke Bal again demonstrates her extraordinary flair for cultural criticism in taking on the work of Doris Salcedo, exploring the philosophical and aesthetic stakes of this committed political art and the relation between beauty, violence, and memory. A tour de force.

  Jonathan Culler

  Art, Memories, Philosophical

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• I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Writing, Thinking, Style

  Interview With David Attwell, www.dn.se. August 12, 2008.

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• The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most basic, ongoing impulse of my life.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Groups, Ongoing, Impulse

  "Jhumpa Lahiri Was Abandoned by Her Editor" by Mark Follman, www.motherjones.com. March 21, 2012.

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• In relation to them (animals), all people are Nazis for the animals, it is an eternal Treblinka.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Animal, People, Nazi

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