It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
I would not like to draw analogies, with the past.Governments, leaders, intellectuals, mainly intellectuals who should know the ethical dimensions, are so… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“He acted like a libertine of Europe with a genteel Southern propriety—and had all the morals of an emotionless psychopath. The two… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
Joy Rains has a gift. A gift for explaining abstract concepts like meditation through clever analogies and metaphors. FOR THE FIRST TIME… — Elisabeth Leamy Copy Share Image
I think it's important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
Oversoul Seven grimaced at Cyprus and began the examination. 'Let's see,' he said, 'In Earth terms, using an analogy, I'm a man… — Jane Roberts Copy Share Image
He who studies it [Nature] has continually the exquisite pleasure of discerning or half discerning and divining laws; regularities glimmer through an… — John Robert Seeley Copy Share Image
As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
I like the little chess match of how people move through space. I'm not comparing myself to Michelangelo with this analogy, but… — Timothy Miller Copy Share Image
We use the Air Force analogy: there were expensive things they had to do to get a cockpit suitable for a lot… — L. Todd Rose Copy Share Image
For any true stickler, you see, the sight of the plural word “Book’s” with an apostrophe in it will trigger a ghastly… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
Whoever wishes to acquire a deep acquaintance with Nature must observe that there are analogies which connect whole branches of science in… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, most people believe that analogies are one of the best ways to persuade. That fact goes far in explaining why it… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
In my photographic work I'm generally attracted to places that contain memories, history, atmospheres and stories. I'm interested in the places where… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
Look who's calling the cauldron black." "Kettle. It’s a kettle. Get your metaphors right." "That wasn’t a metaphor. It was a, you… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Our Cosmic Habitat is certain to be widely quoted and widely read. It is beautifully written, using inspiring and stimulating analogies. While… — John N. Bahcall Copy Share Image
Our task is not to find the maximum amount of content in a work of art, mush less to squeeze more content… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
For years we've used the bases analogy - with intercourse being the "ultimate sex" even though that's probably not going to feel… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
Any time you make an analogy to horrific people in history, Mussolini or Hitler, people say, 'Oh, you're exaggerating, you're talking about,… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
If you behave like a good citizen, and you upgrade and improve your property, your reward will be the government will take… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
[Language is] really a pretty amazing invention if you think about it. Here I have a very complicated, messy, confused idea in… — Danny Hillis Copy Share Image
“And when someone suggests you believe in a proposition, you must first examine it to see whether it is acceptable, because our… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Let's see... we'll put it in baseball analogies for you since you seem to be so keen on them. Almost third base… — K.Bromberg Copy Share Image
That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he or… — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
Let me go back to a comfortable analogy for me - sports... basketball. I use it because you're naive if you don't… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
Any one who has stood upon a lofty summit and gazed over an inchoate tangle of deep canyons and cragged mountains, of… — Bob Marshall Copy Share Image
The whole of natural theologyresolves itself into one simple, though somewhat ambiguous proposition, That the cause or causesof order in the universe… — David Hume Copy Share Image
"History repeats itself" and "History never repeats itself" are about equally true ... We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
Sin 2 φ is odious to me, even though Laplace made use of it; should it be feared that sin 2 φ… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
I've probably overused this analogy of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight, but, in reality, it's so simple,… — Biz Stone Copy Share Image
“Some analogies are so useful that they don’t merely shed light on a concept, they actually become platforms for novel thinking. For… — Chip Heath Copy Share Image
There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr. Babbage ,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
One of the biggest mistakes that people make when they think about memes is they try to extend on the analogy with… — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
Thoughts come and go. It's impossible to stop your thoughts, but the idea is that the thoughts are kind of like waves… — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
How else could it have occurred to man to divide the cosmos, on the analogy of day and night, summer and winter,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The quibble I have with President [Barack] Obama is,and I think some other people will have it, too is that the rhetoric… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I like to use my Larry Bird analogy, because I'm from Boston. It must have been frustrating playing behind Larry Bird. Because… — Matt Hasselbeck Copy Share Image
[Presently, science undergraduates] do not learn to write clearly and briefly, marshalling their points in due and aesthetically satisfying order, and eliminating… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you're a burglar, it's no good waiting about outside somebody's house, looking good with your swag bag ready. Just get in… — Ian Holloway Copy Share Image
Students sometimes turn up at my course and they look a bit like they're going to Bali with only Wellingtons and a… — Louise Wilson Copy Share Image
![“I think it's important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. [With analogy] we are doing this because it's like something else that was done, or it is like what other people are doing. [With first principles] you boil…” quote by Elon Musk](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/307/elon-musk-1138_analogies_i-think-it-s-important-to-reason-from-fi_1368484.jpg)
![“He who studies it [Nature] has continually the exquisite pleasure of discerning or half discerning and divining laws; regularities glimmer through an appearance of confusion; analogies between phenomena of a different order suggest themselves and set the imagination in motion; the mind is haunted…” quote by John Robert Seeley](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ed3/john-robert-seeley-42973_analogies_he-who-studies-it-nature-has-continually_1611907.jpg)
![“[Language is] really a pretty amazing invention if you think about it. Here I have a very complicated, messy, confused idea in my head. I'm sitting here making grunting sounds and hopefully constructing a similar messy, confused idea in your head that bears some analogy to it.” quote by Danny Hillis](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/bee/danny-hillis-33289_analogies_language-is-really-a-pretty-amazing-inve_753389.jpg)
![“The quibble I have with President [Barack] Obama is,and I think some other people will have it, too is that the rhetoric is fine, and identifying the problem is fine. But it's to use a football analogy, he sort of pushes it into the red zone, and then tends to settle for a field goal.” quote by Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/5f3/barack-obama-17_analogies_the-quibble-i-have-with-president-barack_927966.jpg)
![“[Presently, science undergraduates] do not learn to write clearly and briefly, marshalling their points in due and aesthetically satisfying order, and eliminating inessentials. They are inept at those turns of phrase or happy analogy which throw a flying bridge across a chasm of misunderstanding…” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/76e/anonymous-1_analogies_presently-science-undergraduates-do-not_2829888.jpg)
