Relative Terms Quotes

I still have drive, but everything is relative.

When we were in Beijing, they were all "it's an honor, you're playing at the oldest rock club in Beijing". And I was all "oh crazy how old is it?" And then were all: "5 years old."Asia is just very different.

Poverty is relative, and, therefor not ignoble.

One of hardest for any historian or a biographer to do is to capture convincingly on paper something as ethereal as charisma. It's a relative term, and different generations define it differently.

For some strange reason, no matter where I go, the place is always called "here".

There's nothing "wrong" with anything. "Wrong" is a relative term, indicating the opposite of that which you call "right." Yet, what is "right"? Can you be truly objective in these matters? Or are "right" and "wrong" simply descriptions overlaid on events and circumstances by you, out of your decision about them?

People have always said - those words, 'too conservative,' is fairly relative. I'm sure that they probably said that about Thomas Jefferson and George Washington and Benjamin Franklin.

Crazy is a relative term, you know. Everybody is unique in their own way and some people work harder for longer hours than others.

But everything is relative, Bertie... You, for instance, are my relative, and I am your relative.

I can't remember a 'best gig,' and my brain doesn't work in absolute terms like that.

But success and failure are not true opposites, and they're not even in the same class. I mean, they're not even a couch and a chair.

Most of the expressions we use in economics are relative terms. All of us are votaries of free trade.

Mr. Blatchford says that there was not a Fall but a gradual rise. But the very word "rise" implies that you know toward what you are rising. Unless there is a standard you cannot tell whether you are rising or falling. But the main point is that the Fall like every other large path of Christianity is embodied in the common language talked on the top of an omnibus. Anybody might say, "Very few men are really Manly." Nobody would say, "Very few whales are really whaley."