#relative

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 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

Next door to Ethiopia spreading out along the strategic Red Sea coastline is Eritrea, a relatively new country, and a place that few Americans seem to fully understand. ↗

— Dana Rohrabacher

#coastline #country #door #ethiopia #few

Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp. ↗

— Beatrice Wood

#i #person #refined #relatively #tramp

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

Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it. ↗

— John Burns

#big #big problem #cope #effort #impossible

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

The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make. ↗

— George Crumb

#gesture #glance #make #relatively #retrospective

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

— Barbara Kingsolver

#complicated thing #memory #relative #thing #truth