#relative

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

Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion. ↗

— Jean-Luc Godard

#composed #determine #difficult #either #element

We're on the same radius from the Earth, and then we start to swing around to where we're ahead of them on the velocity vector, so we come in relative to the station from this forward velocity position and dock on to the forward end of the Lab. ↗

— Linda M. Godwin

#around #come #dock #earth #end

It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#been #between #brain #brains #closest

Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes. ↗

— Keith Henson

#best #captured #dying #escape #fighting

I can walk around relatively anonymously. ↗

— Teresa Palmer

#around #i #i can #relatively #walk

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

— Ann Beattie

#daily #daily life #i #i think #interesting

I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant. ↗

— John Barton

#chose #conscious #constant #i #level

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends. ↗