Relation

The more severely he struggles to hold on to the primal face-to-face relation with God, the more tenuous this becomes, until in the end the relation t...

William Barrett

The final result of political action often, no regularly, stands in completely inadequate and often even paradoxical relation to its original meaning.

Max Weber

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

Mark Twain

The things she said seemed to have very little relation to the last thing she had said a minute before. She was the sort of person, Tommy thought, who...

Agatha Christie

Our relation to books is a shadowy space haunted by the ghosts of memory, and the real value of books lies in their ability to conjure these specters.

Pierre Bayard