#relative

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #relative




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


#best #ends #how #importance #individuals

At the end of 1964, wholesale prices had been relatively stable for some years.


Leonard Woodcock


#end #had #prices #relatively #some

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.


Jacques Delille


#chooses #fate #friends #our #relatives

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.


Angela Davis


#attend #been #campaign #death #death penalty

No country in the history of the world has ever contributed more to humankind and accomplished more for its people in so brief a period of time as Israel has done since its relatively recent rebirth in 1948.


Alan Dershowitz


#brief #contributed #country #done #ever

I think the Sixties in some ways is a barrier to young people today. They think of it, you know, what we're doing is not that. But it's partly the myth of the Sixties. It always felt embattled and small. It always, almost always, was a small group of people relative to the opposition around.


Bernadine Dohrn


#always #around #barrier #doing #felt

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.


Megan Fox


#attracted #bad-boy #band #clean-cut #club

And living in Australia I am relatively well off.


Peter Garrett


#australia #i #i am #living #off

I understand about the relative strengths of people, and I don't think people have to be anything. They can be nothin' if they want to be.


Cecil Taylor


#anything #i #nothin #people #relative

If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government.


John Major


#ahead #always #areas #arts #back