Relative Power

Famous quotes containing the words relative and/or power:

    The ungentlemanly expressions and gasconading conduct of yours relative to me yesterday was in true character of yourself and unmask you to the world and plainly show that they were ebullitions of a base mind ... and flow from a source devoid of every refined sentiment or delicate sensations.
    Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)

    It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art ... consists.
    John Ruskin (1819–1900)