#relative

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#am #basically #cease #contribute #convinced

One of my problems, so to speak, is that, in America, we tend to think in relatively short-term. In the Middle East and Asia and other parts of the world, they think in terms of centuries or 500 years or 1,000 years. ↗

— Jay Rockefeller

#asia #centuries #east #middle #middle east

As I detail in my new book: 'Hard Measures, How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives,' there are many myths surrounding the detention of a relatively small number of top terrorists at CIA-run 'black sites' from 2002 until they were sent to Guantanamo Bay in 2006. ↗

— Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.

#after #aggressive #american #american lives #bay

I had a great time on News Radio, I got to make tons of money in relative obscurity and learn a lot about the TV biz and work on my standup act constantly. It was a dream gig. ↗

— Joe Rogan

#act #constantly #dream #gig #got

Our profile was pretty low, deliberately so. Our constituents were a relatively small audience. ↗

— Hilary Rosen

#constituents #deliberately #low #our #pretty

In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art. ↗

— Josef Albers

#art #color #fact #makes #medium

I had a couple come in with a negative amortization mortgage on a house that costs way too much relative to their income. They're consuming real estate, not investing in it. ↗

— Chris Cooper

#consuming #costs #couple #estate #had

Friends are relatives you make for yourself. ↗

— Eustache Deschamps

#make #relatives #you #yourself

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#complicated thing #memory #relative #thing #truth

Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else. ↗

— Mencius

#another time #becomes #else #evil #exists