Relation Quotes

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

The house itself is of minor importance. Its relation to the community is the thing that really counts.

There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.

The thing that influenced me most in relation to 'Nanny McPhee' were the Westerns I watched with my father. All the Spaghetti Westerns; all the Virginians; all the High Chaparrals. Because if you think about the form, it's a stranger from out of town.

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.