Operations Quotes · Page 2

In using chance operations, the mind is enriched.

— Merce Cunningham

I just had an operation for piles - all my troubles are behind me.

— Ken Brett

“operations] that previously only Tier One Special Mission Units would be doing.”

— Jeremy Scahill

Unfortunately I had an ankle problem and underwent three operations.

— Jessica Brown Findlay

Truly, thoughts are things, and their scope of operation is the world itself.

— Napoleon Hill

...forgetting is vastly underrated as a mental operation.

— Michael Pollan

The war on terrorism was a bait and switch operation.

— Eric Alterman

Nothing matures a military force quicker than actual military operations.

— Duncan Hunter

I isolate this non-co-operation from Sinn Feinism, for it is so conceived as to be incapable of being offered side by side…

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is nonviolent non-co-operation which evokes the highest spirit of self-sacrifice that will wean one from the error of one's ways.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolent action without the co-operation of the heart and the head cannot produce the intended result.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I am perpetually bringing or losing babies, both very dreadful operations to me, and which tear mind and body both in pieces…

— Hester Lynch Piozzi

Except for light, all other media come in pairs, with one acting as the "content" of the other, obscuring the operation of…

— Marshall McLuhan

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

— Helen Rowland

Energie is the operation, efflux or activity of any being: as the light of the Sunne is the energie of the Sunne,…

— Henry More

But the key shift in focus will be from counter-insurgency operations to more and more cooperation with Iraqi security forces and to…

— John Abizaid

At least in cities where the Confederate Army established a base of operations, young women were overwhelmed by the number of prospective…

— Karen Abbott

Saudi Arabia has said that if the US-led coalition against Daesh is prepared to engage in ground operations, we will be prepared…

— Adel al-Jubeir

There've been times it's been just impossible to find a negative or whatever. But I'm basically just a one man operation, and…

— Garry Winogrand

By [the] operations [of public improvement] new channels of communication will be opened between the States; the lines of separation will disappear,…

— Thomas Jefferson

There are many pleasant fictions of the law in constant operation, but there is not one so pleasant or practically humorous as…

— Charles Dickens

WikiLeaks is a lot of things. This past year, WikiLeaks was a tool of Russian intelligence and the Russian government and their…

— Rachel Maddow

I don't believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute. The idea that the church can have…

— Rick Santorum

Conservatives have every reason to believe the death penalty system is no different from any politicized, costly, inefficient, bureaucratic, government-run operation, which…

— Richard Viguerie

Not only weight loss surgery is unnecessary but also it deprives human being a normal life. People after surgery would never be…

— Subodh Gupta

It is possible to express the laws of thermodynamics in the form of independent principles , deduced by induction from the facts…

— William John Macquorn Rankine

Given its more substantial aim, a judgment is apt only if its constitutive alethic affirmation is not only apt but aptly apt.…

— Ernest Sosa

Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and…

— Alan Watts

There's only one thing that all of the central banks control and that is the base, their own liability, and they can…

— Milton Friedman

The chief difficulty of modern theoretical physics resides not in the fact that it expresses itself almost exclusively in mathematical symbols, but…

— Celia Green

The Analytical Engine] might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those…

— Ada Lovelace

A convention is a social pattern we have chosen to prefer over whatever the raw world simply proffers. It is a sign…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

Remedies are slower in their operation than diseases.

— Tacitus

I never say of an operation that it is without danger.

— August Bier

Of all rewards none [is] more liberal than those given to secret agents.

— Sun Tzu

The visible world only becomes the real world by the operation of thought

— Jean Metzinger

The operation of consciousness has created the 'apparition' called 'me'.

— Mooji

The ordinary operations of algebra suffice to resolve problems in the theory of curves.

— Joseph-Louis Lagrange

Let thy mind's sweetness have its operation upon thy body, clothes, and habitation.

— George Herbert

Our policy is to reduce the price, extend the operations, and improve the article.

— Henry Ford