World Relative Passing

Famous quotes containing the words world, relative and/or passing:

    “Suddenly I realized the power I held, the power to rule, to make the world grovel at my feet. We’ll soon put the world right now, Kemp. You and I.”
    —R.C. Sherriff (1896–1975)

    “In a country where misery and want were the foundation of the social structure, famine was periodic, death from starvation common, disease pervasive, thievery normal, and graft and corruption taken for granted, the elimination of these conditions in Communist China is so striking that negative aspects of the new rule fade in relative importance.”
    —Barbara Tuchman (1912–1989)

    “How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes of some great man passing incognito, as a king in gray clothes.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)