#relative

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

Ever since the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, the Muslim world has been in slow decline relative to the west. With Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and the creeping British annexation of Muslim India, that decline took on a malign aspect. ↗

— James Buchan

#baghdad #been #british #creeping #decline

To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into it what you like. So it becomes totally relative. ↗

— Nicholas Mosley

#because #becomes #blot #ink #into

So without getting into the specifics, I can tell you that to the extent that investigation is a relatively important investigation and meaningful, the president would have been periodically briefed. ↗

— Robert Mueller

#briefed #extent #getting #i #i can

I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job. ↗

— Bill Murray

#always #ask #become #being #being rich

There aren't many downsides to being rich, other than paying taxes and having relatives asking for money. But being famous, that's a 24 hour job right there. ↗

— Bill Murray

#being #being famous #being rich #famous #having

We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under. ↗

— Holly Near

#interested #keep #ourselves #relative #sucked

What happened in Queensland is that people are facing high unemployment relative to other states - 5.7 per cent when I last checked. ↗

— Campbell Newman

#checked #facing #happened #high #high unemployment

If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#character #like #man #nobody #relative

I still have drive, but everything is relative. ↗