Assign Quotes

85 quotes by 82 authors

• Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? — Charles Baudelaire
• We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none. — Christian Nestell Bovee
• We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations — Winston Churchill
• There is a single general space, a single vast immensity which we may freely call void: in it are unnumerable globes like this on which… — Giordano Bruno
• Now, the causes being four, it is the business of the student of nature to know about them all, and if he refers his problems… — Aristotle
• Things do not have meaning. We assign meaning to everything. — Tony Robbins
• You'd better discover a more important motive than publication for your work or else you'll go crazy. My sense is that you'll be writers only… — Sydney Lea
• I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause as that which… — Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet
• I'm an atheist how unfortunate it is to assign responsibility to the higher up for justice amongst people, — Ani DiFranco
• Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the… — George Washington
• Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have developed… — Sigmund Freud
• Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral; he could handle any missile. — Marianne Moore
• As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live… — David Byrne
• It is not doubted, and you know it, that Ireland and all those islands which have received the faith, belong to the Church of Rome;… — Pope Adrian IV
• I never assign a product to a writer unless I know that he is personally interested in it. Every time I have written a bad… — David Ogilvy
• It is not human nature which can assign the variable limits necessary to our needs. They are thus unlimited so far as they depend on… — Emile Durkheim
• Comparison of statements made at different periods frequently enable us to give maximal and minimal dates to the appearance of a cultural element or to… — Edward Sapir
• Empress of the Universe would be way too much work. I'd have to wear fancy clothes, probably including lady shoes with pointed toes, and could… — Elizabeth Moon
• Anarchism is no patent solution for all human problems, no Utopia of a perfect social order, as it has often been called, since on principle… — Rudolf Rocker
• Do these fuels result always and necessarily in one way from the decomposition of a pre-existing organic substance? Is it thus with the hydrocarbons so… — Marcellin Berthelot

Who Wrote These Assign Quotes

82 authors contributed a total of 85 Assign Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 Assign Quotes by Haruki Murakami
• 2 Assign Quotes by Frederick Lenz
• 2 Assign Quotes by Sigmund Freud
• 1 Assign Quote by Elizabeth Moon
• 1 Assign Quote by Steve Martin
• 1 Assign Quote by Stanley Victor Paskavich
• 1 Assign Quote by Rudolf Rocker
• 1 Assign Quote by Ralph Ellison
• 1 Assign Quote by Marcellin Berthelot
• 1 Assign Quote by Charlotte Bronte
• 1 Assign Quote by Julius Wellhausen
• 1 Assign Quote by David Sedaris
• 1 Assign Quote by Frances Wright
• 1 Assign Quote by Henry Rollins
• 1 Assign Quote by James Gilmour
• 1 Assign Quote by Daisaku Ikeda
• 1 Assign Quote by Francois Arago
• 1 Assign Quote by Kate Klise
• 1 Assign Quote by Bernhard Schlink
• 1 Assign Quote by Derrick Jensen
• 1 Assign Quote by Robert Greene
• 1 Assign Quote by Joan Didion
• 1 Assign Quote by Richard Perle
• 1 Assign Quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson
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