#relative

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. ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

#countries #meaning #nominal #nominally #number

You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins. ↗

— David Coverdale

#brothers #cousins #know #relatives #sisters

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. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#announcers #ballrooms #bands #big #big bands

Well people often ask me how I felt growing up with a father who was a politician and who was often away. But when I'm asked that question I often reflect on my inability really to be able to answer it in any relative sense because I never grew up with a father doing anything else. So I just have no idea what it would be like otherwise. ↗

— Alexander Downer

#answer #any #anything #ask #asked

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

— Arthur Erickson

#bounds #civilization #great #had #mastery

The Bible's been attacked. What is truth? It's relative. ↗

— Todd Burpo

#been #bible #relative #truth

Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#knowledge #only #relative #superficial #your

An increase in the relative price of products from the low wage manufacturers in Asia and Latin America will also make those products less attractive to American consumers. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

#america #american #american consumers #asia #attractive

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future. ↗

— Albert Camus

#authentic #creation #culture #even #freedom

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. ↗

— Mariah Carey

#easy #ever #go #hardest #i