#relative

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#always #beyond #escapes #every #experience

In this play we're dealing with relative truths - who's lying, who's telling the truth. But underneath that, Ed and I have hit this deeper level of intimacy between old friends that comes out in the play. ↗

— Fred Ward

#comes #dealing #deeper #deeper level #ed

Have you ever taken something out of the clothes hamper because it had become, relatively, the cleanest thing? ↗

— Katharine Whitehorn

#become #cleanest #clothes #ever #had

When you get into the whole field of exploring, probably 90 percent of the kinds of organisms, plants, animals and especially microorganisms and tiny invertebrate animals are unknown. Then you realize that we live on a relatively unexplored plan. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#exploring #field #get #into #kinds

Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion. ↗

— Jean-Luc Godard

#composed #determine #difficult #either #element

We're on the same radius from the Earth, and then we start to swing around to where we're ahead of them on the velocity vector, so we come in relative to the station from this forward velocity position and dock on to the forward end of the Lab. ↗

— Linda M. Godwin

#around #come #dock #earth #end

It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#been #between #brain #brains #closest

It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#best #ends #how #importance #individuals

For the Gulf States, perhaps no forage crop of which the available seed supply is relatively abundant exceeds the velvet bean in potential value. This legume possesses also the ability to make a crop when planted relatively late. ↗

— David F. Houston

#abundant #also #available #bean #crop

What played to what had been a relative weakness for us-this was exploding overseas as well, and we had to scramble to mount some reach and get into places and be competitive on the ground. ↗

— Brit Hume

#competitive #exploding #get #ground #had