Quotes of: Relatives Keyword

It's interesting, though, that in daily life, I think of myself as being relatively unobservant.

Ann Beattie

I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.

Christopher Hitchens

Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social.

Clay Shirky

The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized. Thus, in times of relative affluence, thin models become dominant.

Charles Jencks

There are so many reasons why, for me, writing is superior to acting. One of them is anonymity. Writers can live relatively normal lives.

Evangeline Lilly

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

Joyce Carol Oates

The exit polls suggest that after a relatively disappointing first term, Obama managed to reassemble almost all of his 2008 electorate.

John Podhoretz

Well, I make a practice of not commenting on the role of the relative exchange value of our currency.

John W. Snow

When you eat healthfully, your body gravitates relatively rapidly toward a better weight.

Joel Fuhrman

An astrolabe is relatively unknown in today's world. But, at the time, in the 13th century, it was the gadget of the day. It was the world's first popular computer. And it was a device that, in fact, is a model of the sky.

Tom Wujec

Most people do surprisingly poorly when dealing with a relative who is hurting, depressed, or anxious - we get defensive and try to solve the problem rather than finding the truth in what the person is saying.

David D. Burns

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

George Santayana

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.

Ralph Ellison

I also assume that they are not simply the physical properties of things as now conceived by physical science. Instead, they are ecological, in the sense that they are properties of the environment relative to an animal.

James J. Gibson

Einstein was searching for String Theory. It not only reconciles General Relativity to Quantum Mechanics, but it reconciles Science and the Bible as well.

Roy H. Williams

I didn't start playing music really until I was 18/19, so it was a relatively new thing. I didn't play much music in school.

James Vincent McMorrow

I always found it satisfying that gravity was described by Einstein's geometric theory of general relativity.

Antony Garrett Lisi

No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?

Bashar al-Assad

Unfortunately, inner feelings and potential are often stunted by our parents, relatives or peers.

Willie Stargell

At a relatively early age, I began to believe that building a business was perhaps the greatest opportunity for making an impact, because it's a tool for making a change in the world.

Elizabeth Holmes

From Nelson county we went to Logan county to see some relatives we had there, and after staying until the middle of October, I returned alone to my home in Missouri.

Jesse James