#relative

I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a Jewish kid to be a Christian - I'm just not interested in that argument. ↗

— T-Bone Burnett

#anyone #argument #christian #christianity #get

My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#i #laugh #relatives #talked #used

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#less #little #more #much #relative

I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people. ↗

— Viola Davis

#accents #accessible #adjust #african #african americans

But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's important that part of the kids' education is knowing about the Bible. ↗

— Jack Dee

#been #bible #brought #church #education

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

— Katharine Whitehorn

#become #cleanest #clothes #ever #had

My personal view is that such total planning by the state is an absolute good and not simply a relative good... I do not myself think of the attitude I take as deriving from Marx - though this undoubtedly will be suggested - but from Fichte and Hegel. ↗

— John Grierson

#attitude #deriving #good #hegel #i

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

Presumptuous for me to say, but at least - at a minimum - I've been able to influence the direction of the Democratic Party on foreign policy. And I've been relatively - presumptuous to say - relatively successful legislatively in the Senate, being able to win a lot of Republican friends, and being able to cross the aisle. ↗

— Joe Biden

#aisle #been #being #cross #democratic

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends. ↗

— Jacques Delille

#chooses #fate #friends #our #relatives