“It takes a thorough knowledge of the English language to effectively abuse it.” — Charlene Vermeulen Copy Share Image
I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
How do we submit? By not being radical enough. Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined... — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One of the very first things I will do is to order a thorough review of our cyberdefenses and weaknesses. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
My friends have always called me 'Mr. Thorough,' in that when I get into something, I become obsessed with it. — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
In this apparatus is nothing new but its simplicity and thorough trustworthiness. On his revolutionary method of organic analysis. — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
Every guitarist has a special quality of sound. The best ones will use a good ear, much sensitivity and a thorough knowledge… — Andres Segovia Copy Share Image
I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very… — George Mason Copy Share Image
Psychologically, the teaching of abstractions first is wrong. Indeed, a thorough understanding of the concrete must precede the abstract. — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
I beg of you always to dwell upon the necessity of a thorough understanding of principles, in order to stop the vivacity… — Nicolas Malebranche Copy Share Image
A good stack of examples, as large as possible, is indispensable for a thorough understanding of any concept,and when I want to… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
Thorough selfishness destroys or paralyzes enjoyment. A heart made selfish by the contest for wealth is like a citadel stormed in war,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The politicians and the religious leaders and the weapons scientists have been at it for a long time and they've made a… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Cultures, when they meet, influence one another, whether people like it or not. But Americans don't have any way of describing this… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
The right procedure: You begin at the wrong end if you first dispute about your election. Prove your conversion, and then never… — Joseph Alleine Copy Share Image
Very thorough in the rehearsal process but more in terms of just understanding the characters, understanding where the actors are at with… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
As I got older though I wanted a life of my own. The classical training was very demanding and thorough. It was… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
Any film that exists that is thorough, you can't give it to an audience of one and have that be effective communication.… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
Prosecutors insist they are mounting a "thorough investigation," which sometimes means thorough and sometimes, historically, has meant long enough to let the… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
From the standpoint of education, genius means essentially 'giving birth to the joy in learning.' I'd like to suggest that this is… — Thomas Armstrong Copy Share Image
Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
The man who will go where his colors go, without asking, who will fight a phantom foe in the jungle and mountain… — T. R. Fehrenbach Copy Share Image
In order to be a success in business, there is one thing you must do. You cannot be successful without it. That… — Thomas Watson, Jr Copy Share Image
The question you raise, 'How can such a formulation lead to computations?' doesn't bother me in the least! Throughout my whole life… — Alexander Grothendieck Copy Share Image
The economy is still substantially that of the fur trade, still based on the same general kinds of commercial items: technology, weapons,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility, and the young should not only shun it, but by the… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout. — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Commercial conquest is far more thorough and final than military defeat. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania... — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting thorough my open mind possessing and caressing m — John Lennon Copy Share Image
A thorough knowledge of the elements takes us more than half the road to mastership — Aron Nimzowitsch Copy Share Image
Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The thorough bred against a clamor, or rather the Porsche vs. the pickup truck. — Larry Merchant Copy Share Image
Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
And let's all be honest here; more of us believe in the American hero Sheriff Joe Arpaio's thorough investigation into your phony… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
I think I have felt most profoundly that in our disruption of the most basic physical processes of creation, we are engaged… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
To achieve contact with reality is not to transport oneself elsewhere, it is not transcendence but thorough immersion in one's surroundings. A… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
The human mind can hardly remain entirely free from bias, and decisive opinions are often formed before a thorough examination of a… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
