Relative Quotes - Page 2

But everything is relative, Bertie... You, for instance, are my relative, and I am your relative.

Impossible is relative.

Life grows relative to one’s investment in it.

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

To be on the safe and humane side, let every relative and friend ... remember the golden rule, which has never been suspended with respect to the insane. Go to see them, treat them sanely, write to them, keep them informed about the home circle; let not your devotion flag, nor accept any repulse.

While real perfection is only one, relative perfections must be many.

Scores do not reveal the most important facts about a wine. The written commentary (tasting notes) that accompanies the ratings is a better source of information than any score regarding the wine's style and personality, its quality level relative to its peers, and its relative value and aging potential.

Such happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.

We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under.

I had no blood relatives till I made some.

So many of my family and friends had lost their battles against cancer. What could I do that my relatives and friends had not? What could I do that would be different?

The truth that could be extracted from words was such a fluctuating, relative truth.

The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.

Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.

We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that’s always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory.

You all have a relative who is an expert even though they really don't know what they're talking about.

Even those of us who are very very aware are still so unaware. Everything's relative so that, the more you know, the more you know you don't know anything.

History within itself cannot be transcended. ... In history itself there are only relative victories.

Maybe love, like suffering, is relative.

Everything in life is relative.

My basic rule is if the relative risk isn't at least 3 or 4, forget it.

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

People are, by and large, quite poor at judging correct absolute values but are astute about determining relative values. Psychologists call this coherent arbitrariness, which suggests that individuals are coherent when they compare prices on a relative basis but arbitrary when those prices are considered versus fundamental value.

Speed is relative. You have to live it. You can't just jump into it. You have to live it all the time.

A commodity has a value because it is a crystallization of social labor. The greatness of its value, or its relative value, depends upon the greater or less amount of that social substance contained in it; that is to say, on the relative mass of labor necessary for its production.