Chanakya | Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
Chanakya |
Charles Caleb Colton | Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
Charles Caleb Colton |
Charles Francis Richter | For example, some stars put out large amounts of energy in the infrared part of the spectrum, so that this can produce a different relative magnitude rating than using light energy from the middle of the spectrum.
Charles Francis Richter |
Chris Cooper | 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 |
conscious | I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant.
John Barton
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country | A Town Mouse once visited a relative who lived in the country. |
Dave Barry | It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm cells... to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin.
Dave Barry |
Dean Inge | The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
Dean Inge |
determined | Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
Aristotle
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer | Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
directions | It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm cells... to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin.
Dave Barry
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Douglas Feith | I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot.
Douglas Feith |
Ed Gillespie | When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.
Ed Gillespie |
Edward Sapir | A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative sequence of events in tribal history made by the natives themselves.
Edward Sapir |
Francis Crick | Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within various triplets, but my own view is that these are premature until there is more extensive and more reliable data on the composition of the triplets.
Francis Crick |
Franklin P. Jones | Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.
Franklin P. Jones |
Fred Ward | 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 |
Friedrich August von Hayek | 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 |
George Ade | A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
George Ade |
George Santayana | Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.
George Santayana |