For both reasons, owing to the thermal motion and to the working together of various wavelengths, factors arise which, in a similar… — Max von Laue Copy Share Image
Every one wants to command, and no one wants to obey; and this is owing to the absence of that wonderful brahmacharya… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
And, indeed, what little of beauty and peace is to be found in the societies of men is owing to the daily… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
'Green' issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
Those who have never despaired have neither lived nor loved. Hope is inseparable from despair. Those of us who truly hope make… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Owing to the difficulty of obtaining horses, Mr. Henry returns from this place. In descending the Mississippi I will request him to… — Zebulon Pike Copy Share Image
Evolution as a process that has always gone on in the history of the earth can only be doubted by those who… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I saw in 'the wandering Jew' the personification of the Jewish people, exiled in the Middle Ages. Nevertheless, they are once again… — George Sand Copy Share Image
The experiment left no doubt that, as far as accuracy of measurement went, the resistance disappeared. At the same time, however, something… — Heike Kamerlingh Onnes Copy Share Image
I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the Greeks the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whoever imposes severe punishment becomes repulsive to the people; while he who awards mild punishment becomes contemptible. But whoever imposes punishment as… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
“We all owe everyone for everything that happens in our lives. But it’s not owing like a debt to one person—it’s really… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
What will it cost [a person] to be a true Christian? It will cost him his self-righteousn ess. He must cast away… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Discernment is a power of the understanding in which few excel. Is not that owing to its connection with impartiality and truth?… — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
Scientists may be in the business of laughing at their predecessors, but owing to an array of human mental dispositions, few realize… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
It is a mystery to me how a theologian can be praised for having brought himself to disbelieve dogmas. I've always thought… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
All Politeness is owing to Liberty. We polish one another, and rub off our Corners and rough Sides by a sort of… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
“No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest part owing often to the stimulus of the occasion which produces it- - to the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If this Punic war was carried on without any effusion of blood, it was owing much less to the moderation than to… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Mass badly celebrated is an enormous evil. Ah! it is not a matter of indifference how it is said! . . .… — Anne Catherine Emmerich Copy Share Image
The Popular Unity government represented the first attempt anywhere to build a genuinely democratic transition to socialism - a socialism that, owing… — Salvador Allende Copy Share Image
Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A newspaper is a private enterprise owing nothing whatsoever to the public, which grants it no franchise. It is therefore affected with… — William Peter Hamilton Copy Share Image
I learned from a very young age that no one owes you anything and nobody's gonna give you a damn thing. But… — Branch Warren Copy Share Image
There are highly gifted spirits who are always infertile simply because, owing to a weakness in temperament, they are too impatient to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Life is war. That's not all it is. But it is always that. Our weakness in prayer is owing largely to our… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The ubiquity of the Divine presence is the only true support, and I am sometimes astonished how persons, who evidently do not… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
I am already sensible of decay in the power of walking, and find my memory not so faithful as it used to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The word 'definition' has come to have a dangerously reassuring sound, owing no doubt to its frequent occurrence in logical and mathematical… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
The finest and healthiest thing about science is, as in the mountains, the brisk air blowing around in it.--The spiritually delicate (such… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
A beam of luminous hydrogen canal rays has, owing to its velocity, exactly the same direction as that of the electric field… — Johannes Stark Copy Share Image