Compounds Quotes

189 quotes by 153 authors

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 explosiveÂ compound as long asÂ political power is vested in the masses and economic power in the… — 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
One of the most pathetic aspects of human history is that every civilization expresses itself most pretentiously, compounds its partial and universal values most convincingly,… — Reinhold Niebuhr
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
One can, then, conceive the production, by purely mineral means, of all natural hydrocarbons. The intervention of heat, of water, and of alkaline metals -… — Marcellin Berthelot
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
Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organize themselves into… — Robert M. Pirsig
Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment. — Philip Guedalla
The monad, of which we shall speak here, is nothing but a simple substance which enters into compounds; simple, that is to say, without parts. — Gottfried Leibniz
And there must be simple substances, because there are compounds; for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples. — Gottfried Leibniz
We are odd compounds full of explosive material to which circumstances may at any time apply a spark, with results undreamed of even by those… — Joseph P. Farrell
All human power is a compound of time and patience. — Honore de Balzac
Invest time that will compound forever. — Henry B. Eyring

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