Relations Quotes

• Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Blood
  • Relations
  • Flattery

• Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven’t got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Die

• If they do not share equally enjoyments and toils, those who labor much and get little will necessarily complain of those who labor little and receive or consume much. But indeed there is always a difficulty in men living together and having all human relations in common, but especially in their having common property.

  

  Aristotle
  • Human
  • Property
  • Difficulty

• Instead, they tried to steer me toward jobs more traditionally held by women, in public relations or advertising, which didn't interest me at all.

  

  Andrea Mitchell
  • Women
  • Jobs
  • Advertising

• It is hard to cement any relations with any country based on promises that may not be deliverable.

  

  James A. Leach
  • Country
  • Relations
  • Cement

• As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • United States
  • Israel
  • Relations

• He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in turn. Only England could have produced him, and he always said that the country was going to the dogs. His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Hero
  • Principles
  • Terror

• To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Week
  • Begin
  • Quite

• This border crossing is a symbol of the dynamic development of Greek-Bulgarian relations and shows that we are prepared to go through mountains to tread the paths of friendship.

  

  Georgi Parvanov
  • Friendship
  • Development
  • Relations

• Science is the description of phenomena and the formulation of their relations.

  

  Boris Sidis
  • Science
  • Phenomena
  • Formulation

• I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Faults
  • Having

• The contempt which men feel for the prostitute, and the fact that they have always regarded themselves as far superior to her, even when they made use of her, suggests an attempt to rationalize the situation; it might be explained as an unconscious transference to the woman of the shame they feel for themselves in these relations.

  

  Alison Roberta Noble Neilans
  • Shame
  • Relations
  • Transference

• I'm no great fan of the phallus, and have made my own views known on this subject before, so I do not propose a return to a notion of the phallus as the third term in any and all relations of desire.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Desire
  • Propose
  • Phallus

• What is abnormal in Life stands in normal relations to Art. It is the only thing in Life that stands in normal relations to Art.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Art
  • Normal

• Since the establishment of diplomatic relations between Belize and the Republic of China in 1989, Taiwan has been good to Belize. Over the years, the ties of friendship have been strengthened through a dynamic technical agricultural mission and economic cooperation in the housing and infrastructural development, trade, investment and tourism promotion.

  

  Said Musa
  • Diplomatic
  • Belize
  • Republic of China

• Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Truth
  • Words
  • Relations

• I have no wealthy or popular relations to recommend me.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Relations
  • Wealthy
  • Recommend

• Relations of power "are indissociable from a discourse of truth, and they can neither be established nor function unless a true discourse is produced, accumulated, put into circulation, and set to work. Power cannot be exercised unless a certain economy of discourses of truth functions in, on the basis of, and thanks to, that power."

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Work
  • Truth
  • Circulation

• We want to prove to Lebanon our support in establishing strong relations on political and economic levels between Lebanon and the European Union.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Support
  • Economic
  • Prove

• Break up the institution of the family, deny the inviolability of its relations, and in a little while there would not be any humanity.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Family
  • Humanity
  • Break

• No more talking of the problems between us. Transatlantic relations are in a good period. The patient is the rest of the world. Global problems would be in a better state if we co-operate.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Problems
  • Good Period
  • Global Problems

• The misunderstanding of passion and reason, as if the latter were an independent entity and not rather a system of relations between various passions and desires; and as if every passion did not possess its quantum of reason.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Passion
  • Desires
  • Relations

• The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed.

  

  Anita Loos
  • Life
  • American
  • America

• After a good quality dinner one will be able to forgive anybody, still one's own relations.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Good
  • Quality
  • Forgive

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