#relative

Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#important #insignificant #matter #productivity #really

My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks. ↗

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

#attacks #bombing #father #german #i

Well, I think by any expectation South Africa has come a tremendously long way. We've seen a society that many people thought couldn't withstand a peaceful transition to democracy without a great deal of violence, in fact, make that transition and do it in relative peace and security. ↗

— Susan Rice

#any #come #deal #democracy #expectation

What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money. ↗

— Charlie Sheen

#care #childhood #dad #him #job

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true. ↗

— Socrates

#conception #emotional #illusion #mere #morality

Chances are the movements of the euro as against the dollar will be relatively moderate. ↗

— Robert C. Solomon

#chances #dollar #euro #moderate #movements

The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things. ↗

— Dean Inge

#man #relative #things #value #who

Different' and 'new' is relatively easy. Doing something that's genuinely better is very hard. ↗

— Jonathan Ive

#different #doing #easy #genuinely #hard

Everywhere I go people come up to me, they mob me - anyone who has MS or has a relative with MS - they come up and hug and cry. ↗

— Ann Romney

#come #cry #everywhere #go #hug

Hermes gazed up at the stars. 'My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it. It doesn't matter if they hate you, or embarrass you, or simply don't appreciate your genius for inventing the Internet-- ↗

— Rick Riordan

#relatives #family