Method Quotes · Page 23

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading…

— Jonathan Swift

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.

— Hilaire Belloc

The satyagrahi strives to reach reason through the heart. The method of reaching the heart is to awaken public opinion.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The goal of Christian mission is not success, but faithful witness; not power, but proclamation; not technique, but truth; not method, but…

— Michael Horton

In opposing Communism, we are defeating ourselves if we use methods that do not conform to the American sense of justice.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

All men are equally proud. The only difference is that not all take the same methods of showing it.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our method of speaking is interrupted, hard-edged... a lot of consonants and noises.

— Florian Schneider

Achieving conventional goals, such as profits and joy, with unconventional methods, such as investing energy instead of money.

— Jay Conrad Levinson

Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention…

— Virginia Woolf

The only way to settle questions of an ideological nature or controversial issues among the people is by the democratic method, the…

— Mao Zedong

Everything's not black and white. We choose to make bad decisions or not. I wanted to explore that and shine a light…

— Will Arnett

As geology is essentially a historical science, the working method of the geologist resembles that of the historian. This makes the personality…

— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

When I would create a dance, I wouldn't have the luxury that ballet people do when they take a piece of music…

— Gene Kelly

Racist, sexist, and homophobic thoughts cannot, alas, be abolished by fiat but only by the time-honored methods of persuasion, education and exposure…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called ''significant literature'' will only be sold…

— Raymond Chandler

The emphasis on mathematical methods seems to be shifted more towards combinatorics and set theory - and away from the algorithm of…

— John von Neumann

I was born with the wrong sign In the wrong house With the wrong ascendancy I took the wrong road That led…

— Martin Gore

To terrorize a man into believing in God is never the work of God, but the work of human expediency. If we…

— Oswald Chambers

Our accent will be upon youth: we need new ideas, new methods, new approaches. We will call upon young students of political…

— Malcolm X

In our age the common religious perception of men is the consciousness of the brotherhood of man - we know that the…

— Leo Tolstoy

I do not ... reject the use of statistics in medicine, but I condemn not trying to get beyond them and believing…

— Claude Bernard

My method is related to an attempt to do something that might be understood by today's world, or that could at least…

— Gerhard Richter

The "progressives" who today masquerade as "liberals" may rant against "fascism"; yet it is their policy that paves the way for Hitlerism.…

— Ludwig von Mises

At first it was a bit strange and daunting to have to wear a mask, but afterwards I came to enjoy it.…

— Gerard Butler

Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against this as a method, but it is not what English writers do.

— William Golding

I'm not a method actor, but I'm affected by the life I share my life with during shooting. It's always a very…

— Marion Cotillard

When I got home from The Ozzfest in September 2000 with Methods... I just locked myself in my house and I started writing.

— Tommy Lee

The most common way to grow a business is by overseeing each and every aspect of the company - the 'ground up'…

— Lynda Resnick

Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death

— Andre Gide

Yoga, like meditation, offers a method for coming together after you've come apart.

— Cyndi Lee

In this apparatus is nothing new but its simplicity and thorough trustworthiness. On his revolutionary method of organic analysis.

— Justus von Liebig

I think that's the key [of communication] - to not use one method of communication for all people.

— Mark Boyle

The Americans, they always depend on a method what I call ... stupid, silly. All I ask is check yourself. Do not…

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods.

— Ivan Pavlov

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

— Ulysses S. Grant

ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.

— Ambrose Bierce

I would not let myself be intimidated by Yahya Khan, his methods had led us to disaster.

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

I'm not a method actor because it refers to a certain kind or technique of acting that I have studied about, and…

— Ishaan Khatter

Yes, but I did manage to increase the amount of virginity in the world by that method.

— Larry Wall

Music is entertainment, and all the various methods of consumption are out there. Go for what you like, simple as that!

— Joey Sturgis