R Quotes
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“Relationships withstand the test of time only if these are built on mutual respect.”
Source: The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!
“Relationships work best if we are honest about not wanting the truth.”
“Relationships, easy to get into, hard to maintain. Why are they so hard to maintain? Because it’s hard to keep up the lie! ‘Cause you can’t get nobody being you. You got to lie to get somebody. You can’t get nobody looking like you look, acting like you act, sounding like you sound. When you meet somebody for the first time, you’re not meeting them. You’re meeting their representative!”
“Relationships, if you want them to work, take work. The biggest thing that I learned growing up, and even now, is if it's right, it's worth it. It's just a matter of finding that person you want to be with.”
“Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely.”
“Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.”
“Relationships, like eyebrows, are better when there is space between them.”
“Relationships, not achievements or the acquisition of things, are what matters most in life.”
“Relationships, the ones that last anyway, are really an extended game of Let's Make A Deal .”
Source: Multiple Choice
“relationships. That's all there really is. There's your relationship with the dust that just blew in your face, or with the person who just kicked you end over end. ... You have to come to terms, to some kind of equilibrium, with those people around you, those people who care for you, your environment.”
Source: Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko
“Relative income uses two variables: the dollar and time, usually hours.”
“Relative to other Harry Potter people, I’m in it medium. As it is for, I assume, plenty of other adults with emotional problems, Harry Potter is a reliable security blanket for me—during challenging periods in my life, listening to the (Jim Dale) audiobooks has been the only thing that gets me to sleep. It’s low-stakes and goofy, but also high-stakes and I care about the characters, plus there’s magic. Those are all of my needs. However, the best thing about Harry Potter, the thing that keeps me hooked year after year, is that the internal logic barely hangs together. None of it makes any sense! The best thing about Harry Potter is that I hate it!!!”
Source: Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema
“Relative to the power that movie stars have, and producers and directors, I would say that even the most respected screenwriters have very little power in Hollywood. I don't think it's in the nature of the writer's profession to go after that power. Writers spend their time alone, hallucinating, writing, making these things up, while these other people are out schmoozing, making connections, meeting each other. They are trotting the corridors of power and making sure they've put their own imprints in it. And they're promoting themselves and their images, as they should.”
“Relative to the world's other advance democracies, Americans get off easy on tax day. Of the 35 richest countries, the U.S. ranks 32nd in total tax burden.”
“Relative’ worldly life is Short-lived [going to end one day]. To claim one’s self to be in that which is going to end is, “wrong belief”.”
Source: Whatever Has Happened is Justice
“Relatively few of us will find the time-or take it-to live an ever enlarging life.”
“Relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority.”
Source: Obedience to Authority
“Relatively homogeneous societies invest more in public goods, indicating a higher level of public altruism. For example, the degree of ethnic homogeneity correlates with the government's share of gross domestic product as well as the average wealth of citizens. Case studies of the United States find that multi-ethnic societies are less charitable and less able to cooperate to develop public infrastructure. A recent multi-city study of municipal spending on public goods in the United States found that ethnically or racially diverse cities spend a smaller portion of their budgets and less per capita on public services than do the more homogeneous cities.”
Source: On Genetic Interests: Family, Ethnicity and Humanity in an Age of Mass Migration
“Relatively speaking, the mind controls the body but who or what controls the mind?”
Source: Manifest Your Bliss: A Spiritual Guide to Inner Peace
“Relatively speaking, I know what my other deficiencies are. Cosmetically, I'm not 28 and stunning. The fact that NBC appreciates what I do means a great deal to me because I know that without my reporting skills and my experience and all of that, I might not have a fighting chance.”
“Relatively, there are many scientists who believe in God. And in Oxford, where I am the Professor, there are more professors like me, who believe in God, than you think. There are not dozens of them, but they are there, and in Cambridge too, and elsewhere. We are not in a tiny minority.”
“Relatives are most likely the people who are going to hurt ya.”
Source: Brain on Porn
“Relatives cannot help you in the studios. You stand or fall by your own efforts.”
“Relatives exist so that we can appreciate our friends more.”
“Relatives in India have a superpower: they can always tell when you’re having a shitty day and know exactly how to make it worse – by showing
up at your doorstep, unexpected and uninvited.”
Source: Red Flags and Rishtas: A Desi Rom Com
“Relatives share the same bloodline, but FAMILY shares your successes, pains, ambitions, celebrations, failures, values, love and so much more. I realize that many friends have become Family and some relatives just are not. (Analogy: Blood scatters everywhere, when Family runs together...When I thought I needed "Blood" to survive, I realized that what I really needed was "Family"!)”
“Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition.”
“Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees...”
“Relativism poses as freedom but it is just another form of tyranny: You must believe that all religions are equal because we say they are. You must agree with us that everything is relative, or we will punish you.”
“Relativism poses as humble by saying: “We are not smart enough to know what the truth is—or if there is any universal truth.” It sounds humble. But look carefully at what is happening. It’s like a servant saying: I am not smart enough to know which person here is my master—or if I even have a master. The result is that I don’t have a master and I can be my own master. That is in reality what happens to relativists: In claiming to be too lowly to know the truth, they exalt themselves as supreme arbiter of what they can think and do. This is not humility. This is the essence of pride.”
Source: Think: The Life of the Mind and the Love of God
“Relativism reduces every element of absoluteness to relativity while making a completely illogical exception in favor of this reduction itself. Fundamentally it consists in propounding the claim that there is no truth as if this were truth or in declaring it to be absolutely true that there is nothing but the relatively true; one might just as well say that there is no language or write that there is no writing. In short, every idea is reduced to a relativity of some sort, whether psychological, historical, or social; but the assertion nullifies itself by the fact that it too presents itself as a psychological, historical, or social relativity. The assertion nullifies itself if it is true and by nullifying itself logically proves thereby that it is false; its initial absurdity lies in the implicit claim to be unique in escaping, as if by enchantment, from a relativity that is declared to be the only possibility.”
Source: Logic and Transcendence
“Relativism should be confronted where it damages fundamental human rights, because we're not relativists if we believe that the human being should be at the centre of society and the rights of every human being should be respected.”
“Relativists have a point when they say that we don't just open our eyes and apprehend reality, as if perception were a window through which the soul gazes at the world. The idea that we just see things as they are is called naïve realism, and it was refuted by skeptical philosophers thousands of years ago with the help of a simple phenomenon: visual illusions.”
Source: The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
“Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.”
“Relativity challenges your basic intuitions that you've built up from everyday experience. It says your experience of time is not what you think it is, that time is malleable. Your experience of space is not what you think it is; it can stretch and shrink.”
“Relativity, in our case, means that success is relative to the time frame you choose to measure it with. An hour? A month? A year? A decade? A lifetime?”
Source: Success Astrology: Your Celestial Map of Success
“Relativity is a purely scientific matter and has nothing to do with religion.”
Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“Relativity is inherently convergent, though convergent toward a plurality of centers of abstract truths.”
Source: Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure
“Relativity must replace absolutism in the realm of morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology.”
“Relativity propped it up, at least gave it the illusion of being there…the way all reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted.”
Source: The Forever War
“Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality.”
“Relativity theory forced the abandonment, in principle, of absolute space and absolute time.”
“Relativity was a highly technical new theory that gave new meanings to familiar concepts and even to the nature of the theory itself. The general public looked upon relativity as indicative of the seemingly incomprehensible modern era, educated scientists despaired of ever understanding what Einstein had done, and political ideologues used the new theory to exploit public fears and anxieties-all of which opened a rift between science and the broader culture that continues to expand today.”
“Relativity. Gravity. Quantum. Electrodynamics. Evolution. Each of these theories is true, whether or not you believe in them.”
“Relax - This won't hurt.”
“Relax: A Haiku
Soft breeze whispers peace,
Time slows, tension fades away,
Relaxation's bliss.”
Source: On My Way To Infinity: A Seeker's Poetic Pilgrimage
“Relax and be Revitalize!”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Relax and calm your mind. Forget about yourself and follow your opponent's movement.”
“Relax and Recreat yourself.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Relax and Recreate yourself!”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!