Compound Quotes

164 Compound quotes by 137 unique authors

The magnitude of the atomic weight determines the character of the element, just as the magnitude of the molecule determines the character of a compound… — Dmitri Mendeleev
The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be… — Edward R. Murrow
Some argue that now isn't the time to push the green agenda - that all efforts should be on preventing a serious recession. That is… — Lucy Powell
Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Ah how shameless â€“ the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but they themselves with… — Homer
Hippogriff, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle.… — Ambrose Bierce
Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it. — Albert Einstein
The participation if women in some armies in the world is in reality only symbolic. The talk about the role of Zionist women in fighting… — Saddam Hussein
The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of… — H. L. Mencken
Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to… — Ambrose Bierce
The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching… — Alan Paton
The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound. — Marshall McLuhan
I suppose I shall have to compound a felony, as usual. - Sherlock Holmes — Arthur Conan Doyle
good morning sinners. vampiric red bull intake in pub smoking compound commenced. day of heavy brain-fingering ahead. — Warren Ellis
Good and evil both increase at compound interest. — C.S. Lewis
The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Nights were the worst. I'd try to get some sleep, only to be thrown out of bed and dragged out into the compound for another… — D. J. MacHale
The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound… — John Locke
The perfect life, the perfect lie, I realised after Christmas, is one which prevents you from doing that which you would ideally have done (painted,… — Geoff Dyer
A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license… — Frank Zappa

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