Compound Quotes

164 Compound quotes by 137 unique authors

Mitt Romney comes from a Mormon background. I don't know how many wives he has. I'm not saying that I believe in that, I'm just… — Bill Maher
Which is why I'd like to tip off law enforcement to an even larger child-abusing religious cult. Its leader also has a compound. And this… — Bill Maher
Prison is quite literally a ghetto in the most classic sense of the word, a place where the U.S. government now puts not only the… — Piper Kerman
If you deceive me once shame on you because I have trusted you once and you have deceived me, if you deceive me twice shame… — Olusegun Obasanjo
As to the Christian system of faith, it appears to me as a species of Atheism — a sort of religious denial of God. It… — Thomas Paine
You keep thinking that with practice you will eventually get the knack of enjoying superficial encounters, that you will stop looking for the universal solvent,… — Jay McInerney
Teams make you better than you are, multiply your value, enable you to do what you do best, allow you to help others do their… — John C. Maxwell
It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a… — Chinua Achebe
The only way past the pain is through it. Pain, grief, anger, misery...they don't go away-they just increase and compound and get worse. You have… — Jasinda Wilder
Searching for the self when I was entirely alone was hazardous. What if I found not so much a great emptiness as a space full… — Doris Grumbach
Our society will always remain an unstable and explosive compound as long as political power is vested in the masses and economic power in the classes. In… — Irving Fisher
True progress lies in the direction of decentralization, both territorial and functional, in the development of the spirit of local and personal initiative, and of… — Peter Kropotkin
Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush's compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic. — Noam Chomsky
The anthropologist must relinquish his comfortable position in the long chair on the veranda of the missionary compound, Government station, or planter's bungalow, where, armed… — Bronislaw Malinowski
The biggest thing is getting our guys to understand, you can't let one mistake compound into another mistake — Thad Matta
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

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