Relation

Famous quotes containing the word relation:

“The instincts of the ant are very unimportant, considered as the ant’s; but the moment a ray of relation is seen to extend from it to man, and the little drudge is seen to be a monitor, a little body with a mighty heart, then all its habits, even that said to be recently observed, that it never sleeps, become sublime.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.”
—Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)

“Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)