Relation Quotes

• Especially when there are difficulties in our relations, parties and statesmen in China and Japan should look over the situation from a higher point of view and preserve the political foundation of bilateral ties.

  

  Wu Bangguo
  • Political
  • Should
  • Situation

• It's interesting to think about the history of Israel in relation to the history of the U.S.. There were Native Americans living here that U.S. settlers totally displaced, and that narrative is not connected with the Isreal-Palestinian struggle at all.

  

  Jill Soloway
  • Interesting
  • Struggle
  • Native

• Our present ecological crisis, the biggest single practical threat to our human existence in the middle to long term, has, religious people would say, a great deal to do with our failure to think of the world as existing in relation to the mystery of God, not just as a huge warehouse of stuff to be used for our convenience.

  

  Rowan Williams
  • People
  • World
  • Long

• In particular, people have trouble understanding where I stand in relation to my characters, and very often this gets reduced to me making vicious fun of them.

  

  Todd Solondz
  • Character
  • Fun
  • Understanding

• If I were to summarize in one sentence the single most important principle I have learned in the field of interpersonal relations, it would be this: Seek first to understand, then to be understood. This principle is the key to effective interpersonal communication.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Important
  • Communication
  • Healing

• Use all the skills you have in relation to others - and that way we can do anything.

  

  Bill Mollison
  • Relation
  • Skills

• Design is an art of situations. Designers respond to a need, a problem, a circumstance, that arises in the world. The best work is produced in relation to interesting situations - an open-minded client, a good cause, or great content.

  

  Ellen Lupton
  • Design
  • Respond
  • Circumstance

• I actually think that one of the most dangerous phenomena is the bowing to expertise, whether it's in international relations or how to use technologies.

  

  Wes Boyd
  • Thinking
  • Technology
  • International

• A human being is a spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is self? The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation's relating itself to itself in the relation.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Spirit
  • Relation
  • Human being

• Politics is too often regarded as a poor relation, inherently dependent and subsidiary; it is rarely praised as something with a life and character of its own.

  

  Bernard Crick
  • Character
  • Politics
  • Relation

• There is no doubt in my mind. If there had been no assassination, we probably would have moved into negotiations leading to a normalisation of relations with Cuba.

  

  William Attwood
  • Doubt
  • Negotiation
  • Assassination

• That Amendment requires the state to be a neutral in its relations with groups of religious believers and nonbelievers; it does not require the state to be their adversary. State power is no more to be used so as to handicap religions than it is to favor them.

  

  Hugo Black
  • Religious
  • Believer
  • Adversaries

• I think that the opportunity to improve race relations in the United States has been put off temporarily.

  

  Stephen Ambrose
  • Opportunity
  • Race
  • Relation

• In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are; and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don't cost much to be housed.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Mean
  • Humanity
  • Stress

• Above all you must illumine your own soul with its profundities and its shallows, and its vanities and its generosities, and say what your beauty means to you or your plainness, and what is your relation to the ever-changing and turning world.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • World
  • Soul
  • Generosity

• We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our own position in it. Let us, instead of gazing idly into the obscure distance, look calmly around us, for a little, on the perplexed scene where we stand. Perhaps, on a more serious inspection, something of its perplexity will disappear, some of its distinctive characters and deeper tendencies more clearly reveal themselves; whereby our own relations to it, our own true aims and endeavors in it, may also become clearer.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Knowledge
  • Wise
  • Distance

• Everybody knows that fanaticism is religion caricatured; bears, indeed, about the same relation to it that a monkey bears to a man; yet, with many, contempt of fanaticism is received as a sure sign of hostility to religion.

  

  Edwin Percy Whipple
  • Religion
  • Fanaticism
  • Monkey

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