relations quotes

• I believe in the theater; I believe in it as the first glamorizer of thought. It restores dramatic dynamics and their relations to life size. (Laurence Olivier) [relations/life]
• The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution. (Hannah Arendt) [more/relations/more/reputation]
• All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs. (Denis Diderot) [relations]
• At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on. (Albert Einstein) [time/relations/feelings/pride]
• It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution. (Havelock Ellis) [relations/evolution]
• When any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to get rid of, upon his leaving my house I ever took care to lend him a riding-coat, or a pair of boots, or sometimes a horse of small value, and I always had the satisfaction of finding he never came back to return them. (Oliver Goldsmith) [relations/character/care/horse]
• Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed with their heritage. To non-European civilizations, the idea that numbers are the key to both wisdom and power, seems never to have occurred. (Arthur Koestler) [relations/universe/europe/wisdom]
• We can never establish with certainty what part of our relations with others is the result of our emotions -- love, antipathy, charity, or malice -- and what part is predetermined by the constant power play among individuals. (Milan Kundera) [relations/result/love/charity]
• A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation. (Bertrand Russell) [relations/people/wish]
• I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth. (Henry David Thoreau) [desire/relations/give/speak]
• I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them. (Mark Twain) [people/relations]
• If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure -- the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully? (Virginia Woolf) [women/pleasure/relations/men]
• Hong Kong will be the main centerpiece of our relations with China for a long time to come (Robin Cook) [willpower/relations/time]
• The opening of diplomatic relations is not in any way an approval of the conduct of the regime, … But it may well be helpful in resolving … the strong tension between it and South Korea. (Robin Cook) [relations]
• These assurances should make possible a much more constructive relationship between the United Kingdom, and I believe the European Union, with Iran, and the opening of a new chapter in our relations (Robin Cook) [more/relations]
• Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries. (Ambrose Bierce) [divorce/relations]
• It doesn't look great if you cancel the reigning Best Comedy Program, you know, you're gonna take a hit from a... from sort of a public relations standpoint. (Will Arnett) [look/take/relations]

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