#relative

Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth. ↗

— Sydney Madwed

#everything #financial #himself #his #intrinsic

If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government. ↗

— John Major

#ahead #always #areas #arts #back

You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#class consciousness #consciousness #expected #high #high levels

It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#city #kansas #kansas city #necessary #order

I went to a public high school that had a very small graduating class of 156 students. I lived a relatively normal childhood until I turned probably around 16. Things started to take off career-wise. ↗

— Jesse McCartney

#childhood #class #graduating #had #high

I speak relatively little, except when I'm at home and I'm asking for things. ↗

— Roger Moore

#except #home #i #little #relatively

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

#books #character #fantasy #few #fiction

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