Quotes of: Diplomatic-relations Keyword

What Althusser does… is to rethink the concept of ideology in terms of Lacan’s ‘imaginary’. For the relation of an individual subject to society as a whole in Althusser’s theory is rather like the relation of the small child to his or her m...

Literary Theory: An Introduction

It was lunar symbolism that enabled man to relate and connect such heterogeneous things as: birth, becoming, death, and ressurection; the waters, plants, woman, fecundity, and immortality; the cosmic darkness, prenatal existence, and life after death...

The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion

There is a fine line between humility and humiliation, and when Augustine’s critics, both loyal and disloyal, fault him for morbid self-criticism, they generally mean to imply that he has crossed the line. You can have a relationship with another p...

James Wetzel

Women, it is said, possess corresponding power. Through consciousness-raising, women found that women's so-called power was the other side of female powerlessness. A women's supposed power to deny sex is the underside of her actual lack of power to s...

Catharine A. MacKinnon

But just below the grim tranquility he had learned to display, he cursed with boiling intensity the ambitious men who used him and his troops to further their careers. He cursed the air wing for not trying to get any choppers in through the clouds. H...

Matterhorn

No Zionist element, right or left, understood the Fascist phenomenon. From the first, they were indifferent to the struggle of the Italian people, including progressive Jews, against the blackshirts and Fascism's larger implications for European demo...

Lenni Brenner

[first lines] Narrator: [title card] In 1941 China and Japan had been in a state of undeclared war for four years. A Japanese army of occupation was in control of much of the countryside and many towns and cities. In Shanghai thousands of Westerners,...

Empire of the Sun

So, technically," Simon said, "even though Jace isn't actually related to you, you have kissed your brother.

City of Glass

tu es noeud de relations et rien d'autre. Et tu existes par tes liens. Tes liens existent par toi. Le temple existe par chacune des pierres. (chapitre CLXXV)

Citadelle

Maturity is the ability to relate appropriately to other realities than one’s own.

Education for Life: Preparing Children to Meet Today's Challenges

Are you sure that we're related?" Lydia asked. "I see no resemblance at all.

First Impressions: An Amish Tale of Pride and Prejudice

No fiction is good fiction unless it is true to life, and yet no life is worth relating unless it be a life out of the ordinary; and then it seems improbable like fiction.

Futility

Other animals, in a constant and mostly unmediated relation with their sensory surroundings, think with the whole of their bodies.

Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology

How we relate with other people is dependent on how we rate ourselves and what we think about ourselves.

Boost Your Self Esteem

People relate giving to reciprocity. They expect things to be expressed in a way they can understand, which is usually their own.

Better to be able to love than to be loveable

I absolutely don't relate to being beaten down my whole life - I had amazing opportunities at a young age - but there is still in many, many people's minds the notion that I'll never be able to escape Harry Potter.

Daniel Radcliffe

When I was nine, I was singing western swing: Roy Rogers and Patsy Cline. It got me noticed because no one my age was doing it, but it made me feel inferior because none of my friends could relate to it.

Kacey Musgraves

I started writing because there's an absence of things I was familiar with or that I dreamed about. One of my senses of anger is related to this vacancy - a yearning I had as a teenager... and when I get ready to write, I think I'm trying to fill tha...

Ntozake Shange

I don't think I could play a character that I couldn't relate to somehow. I'm not unfamiliar with frustration, anger, shame, helplessness and a load of other emotions that make up our psycho-soup. I try to focus on that frustration, that sense of unf...

Terry O'Quinn

Art and money are closely related. Try sitting down with a group of artists and ask them what's on their mind. Very quickly the topic shifts to money. And it can be very hard to get them off that subject.

Dave Winer

The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of one's own, in one's relation to the tool, the material and the colors.

Emil Nolde