Quotes About Relative

Always remember that most truths are comparative and not absolute.

If truth is relative, then it's cousin is anarchy.

America's role in the global economy inevitably was going to diminish; we're smaller relative to - as China, India, other emerging markets grow.

Justice is relative to social meanings. A given society is just if its substantive life is lived in a certain way, in a way that is faithful to the shared understandings of the members.

When you have all eternity, the word hurry is relative. And the guards, being mortal, have less of it, and their version of slugglish doesn't approach your version of fast? Something very like that.

Eh, Nikanor Ivanovich!' the unknown man exclaimed soulfully. 'What are official and unofficial persons? It all depends on your point of view on the subject. It's all fluctuating and relative, Nikanor Ivanovich. Today I'm a unofficial person, and tomorrow, lo and behold, I'm an official one! And it happens the other way round -oh, how it does! - Chapter 9

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time. I suppose, relative to the length of your life, you feel as if you've known me a rather long time. Your perspective of time is really very warped, Maya. But I am old and soon, you'll forget you even knew me.

it only ever makes sense to speak of motion relative to something else.

When I speak of 'cycles ' I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate.

Well, normality, you know, is a fiction in psychiatry. It's all relative. No adult is without problems except a happy imbecile.

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

The power he commanded insisted upon subjects. Strength was ever relative, and he could not dominate without the company of the dominated.

There's no such thing as an absolute openness. Openness is relative, I think, in all societies.

As a relative outsider to IT, I am able to view technology and our solutions from a business perspective, first and foremost.

Disruption is a process, not an event, and innovations can only be disruptive relative to something else.

the idea of "working well" was a relative one for us and that in the context of our present lives my mother was right, it was absolutely fine, no problem.

their absences would last until the child was old enough to attempt the crossing, or until the relative was exhausted enough to return, or on occasion, quite often, forever, because life and its end are unpredictable, especially at a distance, where death seems to operate with such whimsical aim.

To the eye, the key signatures of relative keys are identical. Minor key signatures are laid out on the staff just like major key signatures. The sharps and flats are in the same octave and same order. Only by analyzing the melody to locate the tonic can a key signature be visually identified as major or minor.

Though,' observed Sloan profoundly, 'where there's a will there's usually a relative.

All qualities, relations, and categories are thus fluctuating and changeable and relative to observers. A day might come when 'slave' has only a historical meaning.

Safety is the preeminent concern of all creatures and it clearly justifies a seemingly abrupt and rejecting response from time to time. Anyway, rudeness is relative.

Happiness is a result of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings, rather than an absolute amount of one or the other.

Relative to Google or the kind of turnaround we're seeing, we do care about profitability. That is our goal in every one of the areas where we invest.