Compounds Quotes

189 quotes by 153 authors

By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors. — James Buchan
We compound our suffering by victimizing each other. — Athol Fugard
Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is with-held, the better for you; for compound interest on compound… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If your washing machine stops working and you're addicted to appliances that work, you'll get upset and you will suffer. If you prefer that your… — Ken Keyes Jr.
Injuries accompanied with insults are never forgiven: all men, on these occasions, are good haters, and lay out their revenge at compound interest. — Charles Caleb Colton
Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound… — Charles Dickens
I think chemistry is being frittered away by the hairsplitting of the organic chemists; we have new compounds discovered, which scarcely differ from the known… — Michael Faraday
One of the memorable moments of my life was when Willard Libby came to Princeton with a little jar full of crystals of barium xenate.… — Freeman Dyson
When carbon (C), Oxygen (o) and hydrogen (H) atoms bond in a certain way to form sugar, the resulting compound has a sweet taste. The… — Fritjof Capra
"The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not repeat itself. ...… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
My picture of the world is drawn in perspective and not like a model to scale. The foreground is occupied by human beings and the… — Frank P. Ramsey
Remember that accumulated knowledge, like accumulated capital, increases at compound interest: but it differs from the accumulation of capital in this; that the increase of… — Charles Babbage
An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human… — Ambrose Bierce
Doing the right thing daily, compounds over time. — John C. Maxwell
The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that… — Khalil Gibran
At Waco, was there really an urgency to get those people out of the compound at that particular time? Was the press going to make… — Clint Eastwood
Chymia, or Alchemy and Spagyrism, is the art of resolving compound bodies into their principles and of combining these again. — Georg Ernst Stahl
Don't lie,Tell one lie,then you gotta tell another lie to compound on the first. — Meyer Lansky
The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery. — Leo Tolstoy
I never use the word "drug" without defining it. I define it exactly the way the DEA defines it, "a chemical compound capable of reproduction… — Carl E. Olson

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