#relative

The family ties between hundreds of thousands of German families and their American relatives led many to think that America would never join a second war against Germany. ↗

— Julius Streicher

#america #american #between #families #family

Because I had children relatively late - in my 40s rather than in my 20s - it wasn't anything I ever knew that I would do. It kind of happened to me: I met the right woman and we had children. It was a revelation because it suddenly makes me realize, 'Oh, I get it. Now I know what to do with the rest of my life.' ↗

— Mark Strong

#because #children #ever #get #had

I hate”relative term”, it is everywhere cause even men are relatively pregnant. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#relative-term #men

My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety. ↗

— Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

#anxious #being #come #death #duty

Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#between #come #even #human #human love

A god whose creation is so imperfect that he must be continually adjusting it to make it work properly seems to me a god of relatively low order, hardly worthy of any worship. ↗

— Martin Gardner

#any #continually #creation #god #hardly

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

The aim of our studies is to prove that color is the most relative means of artistic expression, that we never really perceive what color is physically. ↗

— Josef Albers

#artistic #artistic expression #color #expression #means

People have always said - those words, 'too conservative,' is fairly relative. I'm sure that they probably said that about Thomas Jefferson and George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. ↗

— Sharron Angle

#always #benjamin #benjamin franklin #conservative #fairly

I was very much in my room with my marionette stage, you know, creating these incredibly boring things that I felt were so fascinating, and forcing my relatives to come, and charging money for them to see my little productions. ↗

— Bob Balaban

#boring things #charging #come #creating #fascinating