Compound Quotes

164 quotes by 138 authors

Oh, the world's a curious compound, with its honey and its gall, With its cares and bitter crosses, but a good world after all. And… — James Whitcomb Riley
A detective with his murder mystery, a chemist seeking the structure of a new compound, use little of the formal and logical modes of reasoning.… — Gilbert N. Lewis
When two elements combine and form more than one compound, the masses of one element that react with a fixed mass of the other are… — Humphry Davy
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs. — Robert Peel
All human populations are in some sense immigrants. All hostility between different cultures in one place has an aspect of the classic immigrant grudge against… — Neal Ascherson
Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment. — Philip Guedalla
And there must be simple substances, because there are compounds; for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples. — Gottfried Leibniz
All human power is a compound of time and patience. — Honore de Balzac
Invest time that will compound forever. — Henry B. Eyring
That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which are… — Arthur Schopenhauer
The whole universe is composed of name and form. Whatever we see is either a compound of name and form, or simply name with form… — Swami Vivekananda
In any case, do you really think kids even want something that is relevant to their daily lives? You think something practical like compound interest… — Paul Lockhart
What was the more likely cause of the Oklahoma City bombing: talk radio or Bill Clinton and Janet Renos hands-on management of Waco, the Branch… — Keith Olbermann
When helicopters were snatching people from the grounds of the American embassy compound during the panic of the final Vietcong push into Saigon, I was… — Calvin Trillin
Compound interest on debt was the banker's greatest invention, to capture, and enslave, a productive society. — Albert Einstein
Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest. — Warren Buffett
Weapons compound man's power to achieve; they amplify the capabilities of both the good man and the bad, and to exactly the same degree, having… — Jeff Cooper
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say. — Tom Stoppard
The most important lesson I've learned is that the most productive exercises are simple and compound. — Markus Ruhl
A drug is neither moral nor immoral - it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being… — Frank Zappa

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