Relative Quotes

Sometimes a lack of perspective can bring its challenges relative to someone who has a little bit more.

People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.

All is measured by that relative term, quality. It is in this search for quality that the artist is, of necessity, the eternal student.

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

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

Excellent value relative to the week investment of time....To my mind, this is the definitive course on leadership.

I was fortunate enough to have baseball to teach me the values relative to success. The sport gifted me with leadership and team building skills that translate in a relatable way in the world.

Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.

I still have drive, but everything is relative.

The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing.

In this life of ours we remain directed toward the relative utopia of a better world, and sensibly this can be the only model for our action.

Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over climate change.

Perhaps the most striking feature of the [nonprofit] sector is its relative freedom from constraints and its resulting pluralism.

Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books.

Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values.

Moral relativism says morality is relative, not absolute, I want to show moral relativism, in its popular form, is logically incoherent.

Light and dark are relative to one another like forward and backward steps.

When you talk and think of the Absolute, you have to do it in the relative; so all these logical arguments apply.

Man can think of divine things only in his own human way, to us the Absolute can be expressed only in our relative language.

Relative income uses two variables: the dollar and time, usually hours.

Both light and dark are eternity. Human beings assign relative values to colors, but beyond the relative, there just is - what in Zen we call "suchness".

Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?

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

Normal is all relative.

I like the relative literacy of at least some of England. I mean, I didn't come for the food or the weather!

I think doing period piece is easier, because after a certain distance, everybody is equal, I think. The relative contemporary is harder. I think that's the way it is.

Virtue is relative at best, there's nothing worse than a sunset when your driving due West.

Photographers and artists contribute a lot to the world and have a right to exist in relative security and comfort.

The relative success of the bitcoin proves that money first and foremost depends on trust. Neither gold nor bonds are needed to back up a currency.

First and foremost I feel I am a child of God ....Today I think that everything matters, but like a nice game of relative importance and value, certainly not absolute like conversion.

You want a blood relative to lead your army? Get Marcie. She likes ordering people around. She'll be a natural.

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

I understand about the relative strengths of people, and I don't think people have to be anything. They can be nothin' if they want to be.

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

Wealth is a relative thing since those who have little and want less are richer than those who have much but want more.

The wealth is ultimately just a relative thing. As a person with little money and little more needs to rich guys money but really wishes

The idea that things intrinsically were just better is so stupid to me because they never were. It's all relative.

When you ask my three year old if my iPhone is too complicated, it's not. It's all relative.

I had one relative who passed away but fortunately none others. So my sort of experience of it is quite limited, thankfully.

When I am told that I am a huge star, I accept it, knowing that success is relative - the films I do have to work.

In relative youth, we assume we'll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.

I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot.

Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not on metaphysical speculations.

Poverty is relative, and, therefor not ignoble.

It is, I suppose, the business of grandparents to create memories and the relative of memories: traditions. We want to lodge moments, like snapshots, in the fleeting video of time.

Is it wrong to leave relative security in favor of unknown risk at the side of someone you love?

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.

Answers can suit the relative mind. In the dream we can be thirsty. But upon awaking from the dream, there's no thirst.

Our past affects us, our present affects us, and even our future can affect us. We live in the relative world of time and space.

We can say the stars are moving because we have a relative context.