#relative

The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others. ↗

— Arthur C. Brooks

#big #clearly #created #data #directly

For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity. ↗

— Sidney Altman

#family #immediate #land #opportunity #our

Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively. ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

#countries #meaning #nominal #nominally #number

The Bible's been attacked. What is truth? It's relative. ↗

— Todd Burpo

#been #bible #relative #truth

Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#knowledge #only #relative #superficial #your

My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives. ↗

— Freddy Fender

#came #died #down #francisco #here

Should a priest reject relativity because it contains no authoritative exposition on the doctrine of the Trinity? Once you realize that the Bible does not purport to be a textbook of science, the old controversy between religion and science vanishes . . . The doctrine of the Trinity is much more abstruse than anything in relativity or quantum mechanics; but, being necessary for salvation, the doctrine is stated in the Bible. If the theory of relativity had also been necessary for salvation, it would have been revealed to Saint Paul or to Moses. ↗

— Georges Lemaitre

#reason #relatively #science #science-and-faith #faith

Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll.... It does not mean that everything in life is relative. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#relative #word #life

A young lady's most natural ally is her sister although sometimes our own relatives are as inscrutable to us as an antipodean. ↗

— Anna Godbersen

#sisters #nature

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#genuine #his #inherit #kill #pleasure