What we take for virtue is often but an assemblage of various ambitions and activities that chance, or our own astuteness, have… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Such an assemblage of the spraddle-legged men of the middle class, whose hands were bent and shoulders stooped from delving and constructing,… — Stephen Crane Copy Share Image
My benefactor told me that my father and mother had lived and died just to have me, and that their own parents… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
By my physical constitution I am but an ordinary man ... Yet some great events, some cutting expressions, some mean hypocracies, have… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“To create something does not mean to see through to its depths; we do not drain our children to the dregs by… — Graham Harman Copy Share Image
Beware of books. They are more than innocent assemblages of paper and ink and string and glue. If they are any good,… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Whatever makes a child want to glue macaroni on a paper plate and paint the assemblage and see it on the refrigerator… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
Meetings are held because men seek companionship or, at a minimum, wish to escape the tedium of solitary duties. They yearn for… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
[Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, 'I am not the kind of person I want to be.'… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
A complete assemblage of the smallest facts of human history will tell in the end. — J. B. Bury Copy Share Image
A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way… — Dean Kamen Copy Share Image
Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air's… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Now, in the development of our knowledge of the workings of Nature out of the tremendously complex assemblage of phenomena presented to… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
Physicists only talk to physicists, economists to economists-worse still, nuclear physicists only talk to nuclear physicists and econometricians to econometricians. One wonders… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
It is odd enough to see how the entrance of a person of the opposite sex into an assemblage of either men… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Medicine is an incoherent assemblage of incoherent ideas, and is, perhaps, of all the physiological Sciences, that which best shows the caprice… — Marie Francois Xavier Bichat Copy Share Image
We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pondering the stars; organized assemblages of ten billion billion billion atoms considering the evolution… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I feel overawed by quantity where counting no longer makes sense. By unrepeatability within such a quantity. By creatures of nature gathered… — Magdalena Abakanowicz Copy Share Image
The surer of himself an admiral is, the finer the tactical development of his fleet, the better his captains, the more reluctant… — Alfred Thayer Mahan Copy Share Image
What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Tools may be animate as well as inanimate; for instance, a ship's captain uses a lifeless rudder, but a living man for… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I'm working on one of the projects at a time and I'm the zone of that project. I'm not saying there's anything… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
If I could find them (assemblages) in nature I would photograph them. I make them because through photography I have a knowledge… — Frederick Sommer Copy Share Image
I do not think science has to make any apologies. It looks at the world and tells it like it is. And… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
