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Quotes About Relation

There is a thirst for Love which no human relation can quench. It is only the Divine's love that can satisfy that thirst. MCW, vol 14, Words Of The Mother II, p.121
~ The Mother
film is and has always been just a subset of animation—in contrast to how critics presented the relation—if animation is understood to be the inputting of life, or the inputting of the illusion of life, into that which is flat or inert or a model or an image.
~ Karen Beckman
We love you, our angel, and always will," Papa said and patted me on the back. I knew enough of my Bible to realize why I had overheard, more than once, some of our Bowes Lyon relations refer to David and me as "the Benjamins." After all, Benjamin was the dearly beloved and youngest of his father's and Rachel's children and had many older half brothers.
~ Karen Harper
The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.
~ Karl Kraus
Her spirit alternated constantly between spells of lyricism and spirit possession, making no philosophical distinction between the self alone and in relation to others, and unable to achieve the solace of a religious indifference.
~ Fumiko Enchi
Scripture is the Word of God because the Holy Spirit witnesses in it of Christ. This understanding of the relation between the Spirit and Scripture opens up a perspective that is not locked in the past.
~ G C Berkouwer
A good joke is the one ultimate and sacred thing which cannot be criticized. Our relations with a good joke are direct and even divine relations.
~ G. K. Chesterton
To mention a colorful example, the nineteenth-century German scientist Karl Vogt once wrote that "thoughts stand in the same relation to the brain as gall does to the liver or urine to the kidneys." When he expressed this idea in public, a philosopher interjected that the longer one listens to Professor Vogt, the more one tends to believe him. Clearly, more sophisticated ideas and models are in demand.
~ Gary Marcus
it only ever makes sense to speak of motion relative to something else.
~ Brian Cox
His wit is bright, his humour attractive, but both bear the same relation to his serious genius that the mere lambent sheet-lightning playing under the edge of the summer-cloud does to the electric death-spark hid in its womb.
~ bronte charlotte iii
All the prophecy of Israel turns on one simple but extremely effective idea: namely that all Israel, living and dead, from Sinai to the present hour, stands in its relation to God as a single immortal individual.
~ Herman Wouk
To form correct views of individuals we must regard them as forming parts of a great whole — we must measure them by their relation to the mass of beings by whom they are surrounded, and, in contemplating the incidents in their lives or condition which tradition has handed down to us, we must rather consider the general bearing of the whole narrative, than the respective probability of its details.
~ Homer
To form correct views of individuals we must regard them as forming parts of a great whole-we must measure them by their relation tot the mass of beings by whom they are surrounded; and, in contemplating the incidents in their lives or condition which tradition has handed down to us, we must rather consider the general bearing of the whole narrative, than the respective probability of its details.
~ Homer
I just have one brother, younger than me.
~ Joseph Morgan
Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Well, I believe that life is very complicated. And in a way, the only way you can show life in a truthful way is to show how complicated it is as an individual, but also your relation between a complicated life and the complications you have inside you.
~ Henning Mankell
Amber Rose is NOT Charlie's [Rose] cousin. I just want to make sure people know.
~ Andy Cohen
Finally, there is a more subtle relation among F, E, and V.
~ Steven Weinberg
The solo years have been more meaningful to the audiences than the Smiths years, but the press in England only write about me in relation to the Smiths era.
~ Morrissey
As arts, grammar and logic are concerned with language in relation to thought and thought in relation to language. That is why skill in both reading and writing is gained through these arts.
~ Mortimer J. Adler
You see, I am alive, I am alive I stand in good relation to the earth I stand in good relation to the gods I stand in good relation to all that is beautiful I stand in good relation to the daughter of Tsen-tainte You see, I am alive, I am alive
~ N. Scott Momaday
When something happens, something else always happens.
~ Carol Kendall
numbers that make you uncomfortable and don't relate to oranges
~ Caryl Churchill