Quotes about Relatively

Was Einstein's theory good? Relatively. Votes: 3

Relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority. Votes: 3

Relatively few of us will find the time-or take it-to live an ever enlarging life. Votes: 3

Relatively mild gusts of wind blow some trees down. Graceful palm trees, for example, are lovely to look at but will not stand up in a heavy wind because they are not well anchored. Votes: 3

My introduction to Woody Allen and to Ethan Coen was at the same time. On Broadway, I starred in a play called 'Relatively Speaking,' which was three one-act comedies, one of which was written by Ethan and one of which was by Woody. Votes: 3

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception. Votes: 1

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless. Votes: 1

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. Votes: 1

I grew up loving horses. I was relatively obsessed, starting with my rocking horse at age 2, all the way through my painting and drawing phase. Votes: 1

The waste from power plants is essentially what is left over when you burn coal. And as we all know, coal is a relatively dirty mineral. Votes: 1

Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably doesn't need the publicity anymore! Votes: 1

We're teaching our kids that attributes as vague and relatively meaningless as a toothy smile or a fine head of hair make a fine statement about a person. Votes: 1

It's not about weight, it's about fitness, and one component of being fit is to have relatively low body fat, because fat is not very efficient, whereas muscle is. Votes: 1

Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you've got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it's a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way. Votes: 1

Nervousness was never something I would ever associate with the Beatles ever. A Hard Day's Night was relatively unscathed by marijuana, but even then they were quite relaxed about it. Votes: 1

Rugby gave me a confidence. I was quite shy and relatively timid, but it gave me the confidence to be a little bit more out-going and back myself a bit more. Votes: 1

I've found that festivals are a relatively painless way to meet people and make a few points that need making, without having to hit them over the head with too many speeches. Votes: 1

At a relatively early age, I began to believe that building a business was perhaps the greatest opportunity for making an impact, because it's a tool for making a change in the world. Votes: 1

Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that. Votes: 1

If Nirvana had remained a small, underground punk rock band, Kurt Cobain would still be alive. And he'd probably be living in Seattle, getting kind of fat and balding, be relatively happy and producing records for other people. Votes: 1

Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects. Votes: 1

The only people who have doubts about the sincerity of my music are people who come to it relatively late, off the back of having seen me in a film. Acting is about being other people, and music is about being myself. Votes: 1

The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles. Votes: 1

I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's very difficult to write with the telephone and the doorbell ringing and conversation going on; I'm not that good a writer to write through all that! Votes: 1

In the 1880s, people all over the world looked to America for inspiration. Its very existence was proof that it was possible to have a relatively free and peaceful country. No income tax, no foreign wars, no welfare state, no intrusions on civil liberties. Votes: 1

The split between religion and science is relatively new. Isaac Newton, who first worked out the laws by which gravity held the planets and even the stars in their traces, was sufficiently impressed by the scale and regularity of the universe to ascribe it all to God. Votes: 1

I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish. He's usually the lead singer in a punk band and plays guitar. But my serious boyfriends are relatively clean-cut, nice guys. So it's strange. Votes: 1

I'm interested in humor, and greeting cards just happen to be a perfect medium for my message. They're accessible to everyone, and thanks to all the advances that have been made by environmentally conscientious printers, I can get my message across while keeping my carbon footprint relatively small. Votes: 1

No-one really feels self-confident deep down because it's an artificial idea. Really, people aren't that worried about what you're doing or what you're saying, so you can drift around the world relatively anonymously: you must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from that idea that people are watching you. Votes: 1

The open web is full of spam, shady operators, and blatant falsehoods. Outside of a relatively small percentage of high quality sites, most of the web is chock full of popup ads and other interruptive come-ons. It's nearly impossible to find signal in that noise, and the web is in danger of being overrun by all that crap. Votes: 1

My parents are both very funny but they're also relatively soft-spoken, normal human beings while I'm just a lunatic. I don't know where this loud, ballsy, hammy ridiculousness came from. I'm just glad I followed my goals and my parents did too. It's not like we even had a plan when I dragged my mom to Los Angeles. Votes: 1

I had a relatively tumultuous childhood. Votes: 0

I can walk around relatively anonymously. Votes: 0

I have a relatively good track record. Votes: 0

I consider myself a relatively moral guy Votes: 0

Evil is relatively rare. Ignorance is epidemic. Votes: 0

I think I know it all, relatively speaking. Votes: 0

Everyone makes sexy sounds; relatively few, sexy sights. Votes: 0

I've always been relatively reserved with my social encounters. Votes: 0

I was always a relatively quiet and introspective kid. Votes: 0

To be universally liked is to be relatively ignored. Votes: 0

And living in Australia I am relatively well off. Votes: 0

From a relatively early age I got interested in business. Votes: 0

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what sting is justice. Votes: 0

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice. Votes: 0

From a relatively early age I got interested in business Votes: 0

Even Holland and Spain have been positively, though not relatively, advancing. Votes: 0

I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young. Votes: 0

Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp. Votes: 0

It's still relatively rare to have an epidemiologist at a zoo. Votes: 0

Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people. Votes: 0

Conflicting economic interest is relatively unimportant as a cause of war. Votes: 0

Americans are pragmatic, relatively uncomplicated, hearty and given to broad humor. Votes: 0

Through pure accident of birth, I've managed to stay relatively youthful. Votes: 0

I value public service and I'm relatively good at organizing political causes. Votes: 0

I've always wanted to lead an ordered, relatively conventional and private life. Votes: 0

Fundamentals in the gaming sector remained relatively healthy during the first quarter. Votes: 0

The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make. Votes: 0

I'm a relatively ugly character who's done pretty damn well in film. Votes: 0

I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous. Votes: 0

You can have a healthy fossil-fuel balance sheet, or a relatively healthy planet Votes: 0

In dire economic times, movies are relatively inexpensive entertainment for the whole family. Votes: 0

I am so glad that I get to maintain a relatively down-to-earth lifestyle. Votes: 0

Usually as an artist I would write relatively within my own playing boundaries. Votes: 0

Philosophers are smart, analytical, and skeptical. For these reasons they are relatively unbiased. Votes: 0

Travel is no more than a relatively healthy form of narcotic, after all. Votes: 0

I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light. Votes: 0

We live in a world where black humanity is a relatively new idea. Votes: 0

When you eat healthfully, your body gravitates relatively rapidly toward a better weight. Votes: 0

I'd rather buy something that is relatively depressed than something that is relatively high. Votes: 0

Different' and 'new' is relatively easy. Doing something that's genuinely better is very hard. Votes: 0

Different and new is relatively easy. Doing something thats genuinely better is very hard. Votes: 0

I speak relatively little, except when I'm at home and I'm asking for things. Votes: 0

True loyalty between individuals is possible only in a loose and relatively free society. Votes: 0

In spite of all that happened at Hamburg, bombing proved a relatively humane method. Votes: 0

Mental effort, I would argue, is relatively rare. Most of the time we coast. Votes: 0

You will have relatively less problems to solve, if you don't confuse problems with inconveniences. Votes: 0

Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful. Votes: 0

It requires a genuine fight to produce one well designed object of relatively permanent value Votes: 0

It's interesting, though, that in daily life, I think of myself as being relatively unobservant. Votes: 0

Everyone knows what search engines are. But relatively few know how to use them effectively. Votes: 0

The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man. Votes: 0

Kolkata is the relatively unexplored part of India as far as Hindi films are concerned. Votes: 0

Chances are the movements of the euro as against the dollar will be relatively moderate. Votes: 0

I find as an artist if I'm not expressed relatively consistently, I get really depressed. Votes: 0

I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove. Votes: 0

I've been told to keep my remarks relatively brief. I understand Quayle-hunting season begins at noon. Votes: 0

To the modern spirit nothing is, or can be rightly known, except relatively and under conditions. Votes: 0

With relatively few exceptions, the novel sacrifices too much, for me, on the altar of plot. Votes: 0

Change is always in regard to something which does not change, or which changes relatively less. Votes: 0

I think all of our ministers are relatively inexperienced. I'm relatively inexperienced. We're a six-month-old government. Votes: 0

No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails. Votes: 0

The expectation on the iPod is that HP's version will probably outsell Apple's version relatively quickly. Votes: 0

Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself. Votes: 0

One of the characteristics of love relationships that flower is a relatively high degree of mutual self-disclosure Votes: 0

Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation. Votes: 0

I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets. Votes: 0

There's something in life that's cool, it's relatively cheap, and fun, and populist. Even when it's elitist. Votes: 0

No substantial famine has ever occurred in any independent and democratic country with a relatively free press. Votes: 0

The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language. Votes: 0

I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs. Votes: 0

One of the problems with being relatively conscious and human is that you want to help everybody. Votes: 0

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person. Votes: 0

There are relatively few things that kill people that are young other than car accidents and suicide. Votes: 0

I think of my body as a temple. Or at least a relatively well-managed Presbyterian youth center. Votes: 0

If the headline is a good one, it is a relatively simple matter to write the copy. Votes: 0

It's become relatively commonplace to find corners of Africa that have good cell coverage but no electrical power. Votes: 0

New York City has fantastic restaurants and, unlike London, a lot of the best restaurants are relatively cheap. Votes: 0

Have you ever taken something out of the clothes hamper because it had become, relatively, the cleanest thing? Votes: 0

Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing? Votes: 0

When you had a terrorist, you could only search a relatively narrow slice of numbers, primarily land lines. Votes: 0

It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions. Votes: 0

I became more and more convinced that even nature could be understood as a relatively simple mathematical structure. Votes: 0

I think that there is a relatively small number of people who are pushing for independence in Taiwan. Votes: 0

Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life. Votes: 0

The Americas has been a relatively stable continent. The last truly new border we have is Panama in 1903. Votes: 0

I'm a relatively shy person, but I love being challenged and putting myself in positions that are scary. Votes: 0

There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser. Votes: 0

Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it. Votes: 0

Tolerance is a relatively weak virtue; we're called to so much more than that in the body of Christ. Votes: 0

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men. Votes: 0

A flower is relatively small... Still in a way-nobody sees a flower-so I said to myself-I'll paint it big. Votes: 0

Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world. Votes: 0

Twitter is really a hyper-distilled version of how the internet should work - short bursts of relatively useful information. Votes: 0

I was so very interested in literature and so relatively uninterested in the movies when I was a teenager. Votes: 0

The very concept of universal formal education is a product (and a relatively late product) of the capitalist world-economy. Votes: 0

...only in relatively recent times have people decided that "because I want to" is sufficient reason for annoying others. Votes: 0

We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us. Votes: 0

See failure as an opportunity to try again with a relatively powerful approach, skill, knowledge and conviction. Redefine yourself. Votes: 0

I'm quite a smiley guy, I have my moments, but I think I'm generally of a relatively optimistic nature. Votes: 0

All I claimed was that when a drastic change occurs, it occurs in a relatively small and isolated population. Votes: 0

Focusing on one mildly disturbing, semi-controllable issue allows the mind to stuff much greater terrors in relatively tidy packages. Votes: 0

Contrary to what you might think, China's economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries. Votes: 0

The exit polls suggest that after a relatively disappointing first term, Obama managed to reassemble almost all of his 2008 electorate. Votes: 0

Our culture places a very high premium on self-expression, but is relatively disinterested in producing "selves" that are worth expressing. Votes: 0

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived. Votes: 0

My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government's false claims. Votes: 0

The truth seems . . . to be that in the ultimate and essential problem the economic factor is relatively superficial and unimportant. Votes: 0

I think I can be relatively attractive when I dress up, but I'm not Julia Roberts or Catherine Zeta Jones. Votes: 0

I think one should express opinions and these books are relatively opinionated. They would be a bit dry without it. Votes: 0

It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively. Votes: 0

I like fashion, whether or not it's overpriced, because it creates a sense of the sublime with relatively few means. Votes: 0

I think integration in Norway is, by all standards, going relatively well. People are working, taking education, learning the language. Votes: 0

I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply. Votes: 0

The key, I suppose, has less to do with insight than with willingness, the former being relatively useless without the latter. Votes: 0

You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected. Votes: 0

Even the relatively small amount of trans fats are likely to be causing around 7,000 premature deaths from heart disease per year. Votes: 0

Although social media is a relatively new form of communication, it has become the primary way retailers and customers are interfacing. Votes: 0

When you're good at something, you should continue to do it. Too many players have stopped at a relatively young age ... Votes: 0

no matter how big you think your problems are, someone else's problems could always be bigger, which makes yours relatively small! Votes: 0

Japan can't get anything on the market very cheaply because it has a large, relatively highly paid workforce which you can't fire. Votes: 0

Though the redwoods in Muir Woods are hauntingly beautiful trees, they are relatively small and not very tall, at least for redwoods. Votes: 0

We couldn't afford test screenings. This is a relatively low-budget movie [Don Jon]. But what we did have was the festival circuit. Votes: 0

For relatively modest amounts of sulfur dioxide injected into the atmosphere, you could easily cool Earth by 1% or more, if you want. Votes: 0

My breasts are beautiful, and I gotta tell you, they've gotten a lot of attention for what is relatively short screen time. Votes: 0

I'm rather old-fashioned about this video business. It's all relatively new. We really don't do videos, Fleetwood Mac. We've only done two. Votes: 0

In the worst of times the best among us never lose their moral compass, and that is how they emerge relatively unscathed. Votes: 0

How difficult it is to reach anything approaching a moderate and relatively calm point of view in the midst of one's emotions. Votes: 0

I think instead [of happiness] we should be working for contentment... an inner sense of fulfillment that's relatively independent of external circumstances. Votes: 0

Meat reared on land matures relatively quickly, and it takes only a few pounds of plants to produce a pound of meat. Votes: 0

I think the irony ... is that I actually would like to see a relatively light touch when it comes to the government. Votes: 0

My breasts are beautiful, and I gotta tell you, they've gotten a lot of attention for what is relatively short screen time Votes: 0

Requiring that an execution be relatively painless...actually undermines the very premise on which public approval of the retribution rationale is based. Votes: 0

I realized relatively early on that I had no desire to be a mother whatsoever. I actually love children, but specifically other people's. Votes: 0

Why, then, do I continue to claim that creationism isn't science? Simply because these relatively few statements have been tested and conclusively refuted. Votes: 0

My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators. . . . I think it will go relatively quickly, . . . [in] weeks rather than months. Votes: 0

I am relatively sure, from conversations that I had with former president Bill Clinton, that George Bush seldom called upon him for advice. Votes: 0

The most powerful State in the world, which up to now was relatively protected from terrorist violence, is no longer an inviolable sanctuary. Votes: 0

...Slavery appears such a relatively mild business that one begins to wonder why Frederick Douglass and so many others ever tried to escape. Votes: 0

In Africa, you can make three acres sustainable relatively easily, but 50,000 acres? It's not about picking up towels or sleeping in a tent. Votes: 0

It is this potential for plasticity of the relatively stereotyped units of the nervous system that endows each of us with our individuality. Votes: 0

Well, I'm a character actor, and actually throughout my life I've... I have relatively speaking played few heroic leads, but I've done it. Votes: 0

Until 1943 I received no stipend. I was able to support myself as my mother was the daughter of a relatively wealthy cotton manufacturer. Votes: 0

The more you focus on control, the more likely you're working on a project that's striving to deliver something of relatively minor value. Votes: 0

Now, if you two will excuse us, we'll get back to the relatively simple buisness of planning a war," he said. -Baron Arald Votes: 0

The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl. Votes: 0

Music is one of the few things I'm relatively good at, one of the things I understand a little better than everything else. Votes: 0

I didn't start playing music really until I was 18/19, so it was a relatively new thing. I didn't play much music in school. Votes: 0

No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it? Votes: 0

The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare offense. Votes: 0

Poor whites didn't have rights. They made all kind of restrictions on voting. So person meant relatively well - off, free white man. Votes: 0

Libya as a country is a relatively new concept. The period of Libya as a modern nation really starts after World War II. Votes: 0

I had been searching for joy in the relatively good times of life, now I had to find joy amidst darkness and agony. Votes: 0

At the beginning of a meditation session your thoughts will be relatively earthbound. You will think about yourself, your world, problems, difficulties and anxieties. Votes: 0

It is among the less privileged groups relatively new to leisure and consumption that the zest for possessions retains something of its pristine energy. Votes: 0

In Slack, you create channels to discuss different topics. For a small group of people, those channels are relatively easy to manage and navigate. Votes: 0

Discussions of Western civilization are too often confined to works of high art that reflect a relatively narrow element of public taste and experience. Votes: 0

One way ... in which a political philosophy can be ideological is by presenting a relatively marginal issue as if it were central and essential. Votes: 0

Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today. Votes: 0

In the Internet world, especially in Silicon Valley, everyone is at the ready all the time, and turnaround is relatively short, if not instant. Votes: 0

The multinational corporation and international production reflect a world in which capital and technology have become increasingly mobile, while labor has remained relatively immobile. Votes: 0

At the beginning of a meditation session your thoughts will be relatively earthbound. You will think about yourself, your world, problems, difficulties and anxieties. Votes: 0

I think the world of comedy is a relatively small community, and especially for women in comedy, there just aren't that many people involved. Votes: 0

Just the concept of personal freedom within a democracy, for instance, is a relatively young idea - only about 300 years old in this country. Votes: 0

The human desire for food and sex is relatively equal. If there are armed rapes, why should there not be armed hot dog thefts? Votes: 0

It was a bad idea, because I think that any government reorganization has to come in relatively small bites, or else you get indigestion. Votes: 0

There are so many reasons why, for me, writing is superior to acting. One of them is anonymity. Writers can live relatively normal lives. Votes: 0

It's relatively easy to act nice and normal in front of a crowd, or in public. The tricky part is doing it in private. Votes: 0

Until relatively recently, law enforcement's ability to determine an individual's location and track their movements was largely limited to natural human powers of observation. Votes: 0

The personal question has to be cleared up relatively quickly and it has to be accepted by the SPD that Angela Merkel will be chancellor. Votes: 0

It is relatively easy to design for the perfect cases, when everything goes right, or when all the information required is available in proper format. Votes: 0

If Jesus didn't rise from the dead, an even greater miracle happened: 12 relatively uneducated guys changed the world and were martyred to protect a lie. Votes: 0

So it won't be a surprise when the Greek default actually happens and we expect it one way or the other to be relatively soon. Votes: 0

It does make sense to put on some songs that are relatively short, because radio usually only plays songs that are less than 4 or 5 minutes. Votes: 0

You can't go wrong with relatively simple comfort food. It's also about ease. Some cook to impress. I cook for people to enjoy the food. Votes: 0

If the person or artist doesn't touch it, and if the camera stays relatively far away from it, it doesn't really have to be real. Votes: 0

Although contemporary advertising is relatively young, it already has a considerable tradition. Each new ad is encountered against a background of thousands of earlier ads. Votes: 0

As an actor, you most often play relatively average parts, so to get to play extreme versions of anything, those are the most exciting parts. Votes: 0

It is relatively easy to design for the perfect cases, when everything goes right, or when all the information required is available in proper format Votes: 0

In reality there is no such thing as an inflation of prices, relatively to gold. There is such a thing as a depreciated paper currency. Votes: 0

Modern genetic engineering makes producing GMO food products relatively easy. GMOs can improve crop yield and greatly enhance the nutritional value of those same crops. Votes: 0

Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sciences which deal with the corresponding physiological problems of ontogeny and phylogeny. Votes: 0

Fascism is relatively easy to explain. It is a reactionary phenomenon. Nazism was some bad guys having some bad ideas and unfortunately succeeding in realizing them. Votes: 0

Poverty is a relatively mild disease for even a very flimsy American soul, but uselessness will kill strong and weak souls alike, and kill every time. Votes: 0

Then you have people coming up like Malcolm Bradbury, a relatively young writer who deals with the academic scene and deals with it, I think, brilliantly. Votes: 0

A celebrity is well known for being well known. I'm relatively well known - but for what I've written and said, or so I fondly imagine. Votes: 0

I sort of get tired of myself sometimes. When you're busy, your life becomes relatively small. But I never get tired of talking to other people. Votes: 0

The desired Islamic state might be likened to an orchard planted with olive and palm trees that will take a relatively long time to produce fruit. Votes: 0

It's relatively easy to generate a lot of enthusiasm for Puget Sound in the short term. Sustaining the effort to clean it up is somewhat tougher. Votes: 0

It's relatively simple. If we're not getting more, better, faster than they are getting more, better, faster, then we're getting less, no better or more worse. Votes: 0

I wouldn't say I'm normal. But I'm relatively stable. When I think of normal, I think of mediocrity, and mediocrity scares the f--- out of me. Votes: 0

Most men find it difficult to remain true to a single woman, but relatively easy to be true to three or four at the same time. Votes: 0

My brother and I, we were both relatively good-looking guys growing up, but we had our awkward stages, where we were just hard to look at. Votes: 0

I surrendered my moral conscience to the fact that I was a soldier, and therefore a cog in a relatively low position of a great machine. Votes: 0

The lifespan of most professional athletes is relatively short, and most have no preparation for doing anything after their career ends, which it could in an instant. Votes: 0

Man, the most complicated of the animals, has a relatively short gestation period. Beyond that, he will be born, unlike most mammals, in a ridiculously helpless state. Votes: 0

Chaga mycelium is relatively easy to grow by using methods already practiced elsewhere in the mushroom industry. Its mycelium is initially an off-whitish color, deepening with age. Votes: 0

Dad's cancer experience included periods of relatively good health as well as bouts of hospitalisation as he coursed his way through a variety of different chemotherapy treatments. Votes: 0

My ideas often come from strong mental images. When I'm observing some relatively ordinary thing, I'll think, "What if...." and out of that brainstorming a story emerges. Votes: 0

Concussions is one of these pack journalism issues, frankly. There's no increase in concussions. The number is relatively small. The problem is, it is a journalist issue. Votes: 0

If you are white, racism is too easily ignored and forgiven, regarded as of burning concern only to the ethnic minorities, and therefore of relatively marginal significance. Votes: 0

I would say our social relationships are relatively shallow. We are actually afraid to be intimate, with people - many people even with their wives and husbands. Votes: 0

Trails are relatively inexpensive. A splendid national network of all kinds of trails can be established at less cost than a few hundred miles of super highway. Votes: 0

Without a doubt, there's huge satisfaction when a relatively smaller nation can take on a bigger nation and defeat them. There's a lot of pride in that. Votes: 0

I think it's relatively easy to play defense against a team that can only do one thing. Unfortunately, that's not what we're talking about here with Seattle. Votes: 0

Our work may be important, but we don't take it too seriously. Otherwise, we get attached to one relatively small thing and ignore the rest of life. Votes: 0

TV directing is fine because you can come in and do a TV show in a relatively short period of time, and that can pay the bills. Votes: 0

All people may not always know those who are not actually good, but they sooner or later get to know all those who are always relatively good. Votes: 0

Pregnancy was probably the best and the hardest thing I'll ever go through. I know for a lot of women, it can be wonderful and relatively easy. Votes: 0

When my books came out, they started selling but they started selling at a relatively consistent but low pace. And they started to pick up the pace. Votes: 0

Well, actually, I manage a couple of stock portfolios or funds or whatever you want to call 'em, and I think I've done relatively well with them. Votes: 0

When you are trapped in a nightmare, your motivation to awaken will be so much greater than that of someone caught up in a relatively pleasant dream. Votes: 0

I have always felt that Judit was a relatively slow starter, though she is extremely motivated, diligent, hard-working, and disciplined towards her goals in chess and in life. Votes: 0

I feel like the vast majority of the world's problems would disappear if suddenly everyone on the planet were relatively self-aware and capable of honest self-love and compassion. Votes: 0

People always think I'm taller than I am - not just because of the shoes I wear but because of the way I dress. It's all relatively streamlined. Votes: 0

In a way, fasting is like the "calming of the monkey mind" effected by the rosary prayer: both are means of stilling the effervescence of relatively superficial preoccupations. Votes: 0

The 90s were the decade in which studio filmmaking became a much more purely corporatized process, when their crassness ceased to operate on such a relatively individual scale. Votes: 0

We are permitted to suppose that the relatively small size of the female brain depends in part upon her physical inferiority and in part upon her intellectual inferiority. Votes: 0

Remote Viewing is Space Shifting without leaving your chair. It is a convenient shortcut to a miracle, therefore, relatively high numbers of humans were able to achieve it. Votes: 0

Lady Diana Spencer looked to relatively unknown designers - David and Elizabeth Emanuel, recently graduated from the Royal College of Art - when she wed Prince Charles in 1981. Votes: 0

Anonymous sources are a practice of American journalism in the 20th and 21st century, a relatively recent practice. The literary tradition of anonymity goes back to the Bible. Votes: 0

Now I'm starting, relatively, to think straight again. I live one day at a time, one hour at a time. What makes it all worthwhile is my children. Votes: 0

It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity. Votes: 0

We're teaching our kids that attributes as vague and relatively meaningless as a toothy smile or a fine head of hair make a fine statement about a person." Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When they are performing in front of the public, they ought to have a sensation that's relatively easy, if the technical and the interpretive work was done before. Votes: 0

It is astonishing how elements which seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens. How confusions which seem irremediable turn into relatively clear flowing streams when one is heard. Votes: 0

I like dramas because there's a big overlap between film and fiction, so I feel relatively qualified to talk about plot and characterisation and that sort of thing. Votes: 0

I just love jumping into someone else's life. It is a relatively cheap way to experience things you would be too scared to contemplate in your own life. Votes: 0

The advantage of the analytical approach is that it is widely applicable, and it can provide a considerable amount of quantitative information even with a relatively poor resolving power. Votes: 0

Cereal production in the rain-fed areas still remains relatively unaffected by the impact of the green revolution, but significant change and progress are now becoming evident in several countries Votes: 0

Every month, the US is spending more on the Iraqi war than it took to reach Saturn and Titan. Mass murder is expensive, and good science is relatively cheap. Votes: 0

I've always been a relatively big history buff. In college, I took a lot of history courses, and when I was in grad school, I liked to audit them. Votes: 0

Possibly the fact that I was physically quite feeble, a relatively short little fellow, attracted me to that idea of a very authoritative and aggressive version of Conservative politics. Votes: 0

We can get too easily bogged down in the academic part of homeschooling, a relatively minor part of the whole, which is to raise competent, caring, literate, happy people. Votes: 0

The likely economic effects [of the war in Iraq] would be relatively small... Under every plausible scenario, the negative effect will be quite small relative to the economic benefits. Votes: 0

Cereal production in the rain-fed areas still remains relatively unaffected by the impact of the green revolution, but significant change and progress are now becoming evident in several countries. Votes: 0

So without getting into the specifics, I can tell you that to the extent that investigation is a relatively important investigation and meaningful, the president would have been periodically briefed. Votes: 0

One is not quite certain that creativeness in the arts, literature, and science functions best in an environment of absolute freedom. Chances are that a relatively mild tyranny stimulates creativeness. Votes: 0

The campaign against the death penalty has been - while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people. Votes: 0

I would argue that the management of creativity requires a skill set that's relatively different from the traditional management skill set that is appropriate to a large, complex, industrial-era organization. Votes: 0

When I look at asset prices; real estate, bonds, equities, vintage cars"¦ I think that gold is actually one of the few assets that is relatively cheap, relatively inexpensive. Votes: 0

A relatively small and eternally quarrelsome country in Western Europe, fountainhead of rationalist political manias, militarily impotent, historically inglorious during the past century, democratically bankrupt, Communist-infiltrated from top to bottom. Votes: 0

I consider myself to be a relatively helpful person, and there's an interesting line when hope starts to become the way you actually mask or hide from what's really happening. Votes: 0

Most persons spend their lives stuck in relatively low states of mind. In these states of mind their views of themselves and the world around them are often severely limited. Votes: 0

I had some fears as a kid, but I was also relatively fearless. Maybe that's a result of living half the time in reality and the other half in fantasy. Votes: 0

The reason why Nokia has been built in Finland is simply because Finland was very far behind in terms of infrastructure, so it was relatively easy to implement new technology. Votes: 0

I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn't even matter if I existed at all. Votes: 0

Google or other search engines are examples of AI, and relatively simple AI, but they're still AI. That plus an awful lot of hardware to make it work fast enough. Votes: 0

In order to play some sports there's quite a big cost implication, whereas football is relatively cheap. All you need is a ball and a couple of jumpers to practise. Votes: 0

For the BBC and others, a free website is an obvious and relatively cheap addendum to their main purpose of streaming news and entertainment on screen to a mass audience. Votes: 0

One of the reasons we're here, that we exist at all, is that Earth, cosmically speaking, is in a relatively peaceful place: orbiting our Sun in a near perfect circle. Votes: 0

It's not an easy task building a motorcycle company. Your window for success is relatively small. You can't afford a lot of hiccups if you don't have another business supporting you. Votes: 0

It is possible to point to hundreds, thousands, perhaps even millions of imaginative, courageous programs to reduce, recycle, and reuse - yet the overall trajectory of industrial civilization remains relatively unchanged. Votes: 0

A program of sterilizing women after their second or third child, despite the relatively greater difficulty of the operation than vasectomy, might be easier to implement than trying to sterilize men. Votes: 0

We perceive the solidification as the world around us, which appears to be relatively solid. But that solidification is just really a reflection of the solidification of one's sense of self. Votes: 0

In any year, the stats in Iowa show we are in a relatively safe location, but that can change dramatically; a lot of it depends on what travels through our campus. Votes: 0

It may be relatively mild when expressed as criticism, anger, or feelings of severe frustration. Criticism has a negative influence on the feelings of love for and interest in one's spouse. Votes: 0

I'm rarely grabbed by anything the way I was when I was 10 years younger. About the only relatively new artists whose albums I own are Beck, and They Might Be Giants. Votes: 0

The kind of programming that C provides will probably remain similar absolutely or slowly decline in usage, but relatively, JavaScript or its variants, or XML, will continue to become more central. Votes: 0

The domestic life of most classes is relatively shabby, as compared with the éclat of that overt portion of their life that is carried on before the eyes of observers. Votes: 0

One advantage of a solar collector in space: It would be some kind of origami thing that would unfold and be relatively light because it doesn't have gravity to deal with. Votes: 0

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means. Votes: 0

I guess I would say first of all that we tend to go back to the 60s and we tend to see these struggles and these goals in a relatively static way. Votes: 0

The culture used to move relatively slowly, so you could take aim. Now it moves so fast, and is so fluffy and meaningless, you feel like an idiot even complaining about it. Votes: 0

Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively. Votes: 0

I don't think you always get to see a woman on TV who is relatively neurosis-free and, while looking for a relationship, isn't man hunting and isn't cloying and isn't a fashionista. Votes: 0

I am relatively familiar with getting a good old rumping from the critics. In some cases, the critics just didn't like the film - fair cop. Others, I think, didn't understand it. Votes: 0

Since I was relatively new to the Bible, I was surprised by the Old Testament God. He's wrathful, but at other times, He's incredibly compassionate. He's not a one-dimensional figure at all. Votes: 0

And that's another reason to make this movie: We can put plays on film now, at a relatively small cost, and they will reach an audience they would never have reached otherwise. Votes: 0

In the perfect state the good man is absolutely the same as the good citizen; whereas in other states the good citizen is only good relatively to his own form of government. Votes: 0

Even though the stuff Im doing right now is relatively easy, I think in the future I would love to play things that have nothing to do with me and thats good. Votes: 0

Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government's 'output?' Votes: 0

I realized that I don't like touring. I'll never complain about it because no one wants to hear about a relatively successful musician complain about the hardships of staying in a hotel. Votes: 0

People infer high self-efficacy from successes achieved through minimal effort on difficult tasks, but they infer low self-efficacy if they had to work hard under favorable conditions to master relatively easy tasks Votes: 0

It's funny because the most sane women I've ever met are my mom and my grandmothers. I think you have to be incredibly sane and self-aware to function in relatively insane environments. Votes: 0

I'm also alternative because of Canada - there's something romantic about being Canadian. We're a relatively unpopulated, somewhat civilized, and clean and resourceful country. I always push the fact that I'm Canadian. Votes: 0

Our classes were relatively small. Those small classes can feel like family. After a class in French or chemistry or whatever, we'd be talking in the halls about what we just learned. Votes: 0

Egypt does not possess rich natural resources. Its agricultural area is relatively small - less than 10 per cent of the total land. Its growth relies on tourism, Suez Canal tariffs, and foreign investment. Votes: 0

[Franklin Delano] Roosevelt was the central world figure in the two great disasters of this century - the Great Depression and World War II. By contrast, JFK came in relatively peaceful, agreeable times. Votes: 0

Kids with Down syndrome are, by and large, quite affectionate and relatively guileless, and frequently, the attachments to them grow and deepen. And the meaning that parents find in it grows and deepens. Votes: 0

At the heart of both democracy and capitalism is a simple assumption that, across the board, people make free and relatively rational decisions: that we are, to borrow a medical term, Gillick Competent. Votes: 0

Rising interest rates are considered bad for stocks because they raise the cost of doing business and depress corporate earnings and because higher yields make bonds relatively more attractive than stocks to investors. Votes: 0

The earliest phase of social formations found in historical as well as in contemporary social structures is this: a relatively small circle firmly closed against neighboring, strange, or in some way antagonistic circles. Votes: 0

I went to a public high school that had a very small graduating class of 156 students. I lived a relatively normal childhood until I turned probably around 16. Things started to take off career-wise. Votes: 0

A god whose creation is so imperfect that he must be continually adjusting it to make it work properly seems to me a god of relatively low order, hardly worthy of any worship. Votes: 0

There are relatively few atheists among neurologists and brain surgeons and astrophysicists, but many among psychologists, sociologists, and historians. The reason seems obvious: the first study divine design, the second study human undesign. Votes: 0

The relatively conscious whites and the relatively conscious blacks, who must, like lovers, insist on, or create, the consciousness of the others in order to end the racial nightmare and acheive our country. Votes: 0

The thing that inspires me about Daniel Radcliffe and the thing that I admire the most about him is that he's had a level of fame thrust upon him that's relatively unheard of. Votes: 0

One of our anxieties is de-focusing the relatively small number of engineers we have. Within our own core development, I am reluctant to fund projects that are way afield of where we are. Votes: 0

We have relatively little time and a whole lot of curiosity, so the most efficient way to get there is what we do, and that often happens to be some form of science. Votes: 0

If we allow public funds to be used to support our relatively benign, morally grounded schools, we will have to allow those public funds to be used for any type of private school. Votes: 0

The wonder to me is not that she made it through at all but that she made it through so relatively intact, so vibrant. So free of bitterness and so empty of resentment. Votes: 0

When we usually think of fears, in comics or in films, it's most often fears on a relatively superficial level: fear of murderous insects, of ghosts, of zombies, or even fear of dying. Votes: 0

Do not be misled by the fact that you are at liberty and relatively free; that for the moment you are not under lock and key: you have simply been granted a reprieve. Votes: 0

We like to think of our champions and idols as superheroes who were born different from us. We don’t like to think of them as relatively ordinary people who made themselves extraordinary. Votes: 0

There's a combination of things [to survive the road trip]. Humor would be key. If everyone has relatively the same sense of humor, then that helps. And things in common, like food, eating. Votes: 0

It may literally turn out that a Hottentot, an educated and literate Hottentot it is true, but one who is a member of a relatively primitive society, would be able to make bombs. Votes: 0

We are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind. Votes: 0

But now that foreign steel, and foreign cars, are moving into the United States in increased quantities at relatively low prices, the United States can no longer keep its business system fluid by inflation. Votes: 0

The U.S. and European markets have become mature, profit margins are lower, and equipment isnt so new. Because profits are relatively low, it limits the willingness of companies to invest in newer equipment. Votes: 0

The U.S. and European markets have become mature, profit margins are lower, and equipment isn't so new. Because profits are relatively low, it limits the willingness of companies to invest in newer equipment. Votes: 0

We should all live in central or southwest Queensland in Australia, which is geologically stable. Or Kansas or Nebraska, because it's relatively geologically stable. I am sure there is no emergency plan for Topeka. Votes: 0

When your four biggest tournaments all operate relatively independently, and the ATP and WTA tour operate independently, and you have Davis Cup and Fed Cup that operate independently, it makes it a tough message. Votes: 0

Of the major incentives to improve safety, by far the most compelling is that of economics. The moral incentive, which is most evident following an accident, is more intense but is relatively short lived. Votes: 0

Latinas' life expectancies are relatively long. When a current retiree hits 65 and begins receiving her benefit check, she can expect to live another 22 years. That life expectancy is higher than white women or men. Votes: 0

We're using gradients of light as an auric measurement, a quantified auric measurement of the ascension of consciousness from the relatively sensorial, material perceptions of existence to the more refined spiritual perceptions of existence. Votes: 0

I tend to write, either myself, or I sometimes write with a co-writer, my friend that lives up the road. It's usually a relatively solitary thing, but I do like coming up with ideas. Votes: 0

A relatively primitive village in which there are still real feasts, common artistic shared expressions, and no literacy at all is more advanced culturally and more healthy mentally than our educated, newspaper-reading radio-listening culture. Votes: 0

It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities. Votes: 0

I am a big guy and happen to play a position that requires you to be relatively quick. I can't let up now. I have to work every day to be better next year. Votes: 0

Once the notion of depression had begun to dominate the diagnostic armamentarium, it became but a matter of time before patients with relatively mild disorders of mood or anxiety would be entered into it. Votes: 0

The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the will of the People. That elitist approach to government must be repudiated. Votes: 0

We had been busy building up fibre infrastructure under the ground in Hong Kong and underneath the homes of people, so when we launched IPTV, it was relatively smoother sailing than in other territories. Votes: 0

Time changes everything, but with patience we can keep our desires relatively constant. If we can just hang on long enough, time will eventually create for us the conditions in which we can succeed. Votes: 0

In 2009, Hamas was relatively new to power. It had won elections just three years earlier and was flexing its newfound strength via a war with its old enemy, Israel, which it officially wants destroyed. Votes: 0

In the last few centuries we've managed to reduce how much we kill each other, we've learned some basic lessons about public health, and life is relatively good for more people than ever before. Votes: 0

Why do we as a people choose to live in beautiful and risky places? Beautiful places are relatively dangerous; the forces that made them beautiful are the same forces that will ultimately destroy them. Votes: 0

Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it's relatively easy to create suspense. Literary fiction is driven more by who than by what. Votes: 0

Introverts often work more slowly and deliberately. They like to focus on one task at a time and can have mighty powers of concentration . They're relatively immune to the lures of wealth and fame. Votes: 0

So unlike having to convert, you know, all the cars' or all the lorries' petrol stations, once you've actually got the clean fuels, it's relatively easy to, you know, get it to the airplanes. Votes: 0

Probably more than anything else, the place that we really see the effects of the power of even the relatively mild temperature increases so far is in the melting of everything frozen on the planet. Votes: 0

Our institute's agenda is relatively simple. We study the relationship between social-economic change and culture. By culture we mean beliefs, values and lifestyles. We cover a broad range of issues, and we work very internationally. Votes: 0

I didn't really understand that Vipassana is a relatively new form of Buddhism that was based on the storage of pain. So the idea is that every time you don't scream, that's your Buddhist side. Votes: 0

Countries that are agricultural can, at a low standard of living, sustain themselves. You can be self-sufficient; the money economy is a relatively insignificant part of the total economy. Singapore never was an agricultural country. Votes: 0

Some solutions are relatively simple and would provide economic benefits: implementing measures to conserve energy, putting a price on carbon through taxes and cap-and-trade and shifting from fossil fuels to clean and renewable energy sources. Votes: 0

The dynamic character of China's nonstatist economic transformation, including its social openness to the rest of the world, is not mutually compatible in the long run with a relatively closed and bureaucratically rigid Communist dictatorship. Votes: 0

Yeah, there's absolutely. I mean, remember when The Searchers came out, it was a relatively big hit for a Western, and I think it made 5 million bucks - I don't even think it made that. Votes: 0

We humans seem to be extremely good at generating ideas, theories, and explanations that have the ring of plausibility. We may be relatively deficient, however, in evaluating and testing our ideas once they are formed Votes: 0

You are a stranger in a strange land. As an evolved person living in a relatively unevolved world, you are constantly subjected to a bombardment of seemingly endless negative vibrations emanating from those around you. Votes: 0

On the other hand, one factor helps us that no other liberation struggle in this region could count on - our liberation front is characterized by relatively highly developed class forces, tested in political struggles. Votes: 0

My wife and I always comment that our lives are relatively mundane. She's a writer as well, I'm a writer, we spend most of our time writing, and kind of going to yoga in Brooklyn. Votes: 0

We escaped the last big bursting of a bubble - the dotcom bubble - with a relatively light U.S. recession. On that occasion, the world economy found its way back on track fairly quickly. Votes: 0

I decided that expressionism was a cheap way of getting a reaction - show anybody ripped apart, and you get sympathy. I was deliberately trying to show the human body as whole and relatively healthy. Votes: 0

Why limit yourself to the experience of your own relatively brief time on earth, according to your biological clock, when the whole realm of the human experience reaching back infinitely far is available to you? Votes: 0

One of the pleasant duties of America's most famous announcers during the relatively short swing era of the big bands was to host late-night remotes from some of the most famous ballrooms throughout the country. Votes: 0

I believe that meetings at the top level in a relatively informal atmosphere are always useful, and there is reason to hope that we will make progress in resolving the matters we will be considering. Votes: 0

Student loan debt is the reason I don't advise students who want to become entrepreneurs to apply to elite, expensive colleges. They can be as successful if they go to a relatively inexpensive public college. Votes: 0

I'm relatively physically adept and I like throwing myself around. Once, twice, but then you get to nine, ten, eleven and to try and make it look realistic all the time, that's not very pleasant. Votes: 0

I was the editor of the school newspaper and in drama club and choir, so I was not a popular girl in the traditional sense, but I think I was known for being relatively scathing. Votes: 0