Fields Quotes
2957 quotes by 2075 authors
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As a professor in two fields, neurology and psychiatry, I am fully aware of the extent to which man is subject to biological, psychological and…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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There was but one question he left unasked, and it vibrated between his lines: if gross miscalculations of a person's value could occur on a…
— Michael Lewis
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The reality distortion field was a confounding mélange of a charismatic rhetorical style, indomitable will, and eagerness to bend any fact to fit the purpose…
— Walter Isaacson
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As W.C. Fields once said: a thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.
— Steven Levitt
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inside us, a flower taken whole, a field built inside.
— Nick Flynn
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My body, plowed by your body, will turn into a field where one is sown and a hundred reaped.
— Octavio Paz
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In the city fields Contemplating cherry-trees... Strangers are like friends
— Kobayashi Issa
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Steve has a reality distortion field.†When Hertzfeld looked puzzled, Tribble elaborated. “In his presence, reality is malleable. He can convince anyone of practically anything.…
— Walter Isaacson
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The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still worse plight than…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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I have my own theory about why decline happens at companies like IBM or Microsoft. The company does a great job, innovates and becomes a…
— Walter Isaacson
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Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of…
— John Green
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The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all the food? Dear…
— Joel Salatin
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Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field.
— John Stuart Mill
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There was just one moon. That familiar, yellow, solitary moon. The same moon that silently floated over fields of pampas grass, the moon that rose--a…
— Haruki Murakami
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When you play the field selfishly everything works against you: one can’t insist on love or demand affection. you’re finally left with whatever you have…
— Charles Bukowski
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I had a moral opposition to eating before dawn on the grounds that I was not a nineteenth-century Russian peasant fortifying myself for a day…
— John Green
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I found Esau’s field guide at the bottom of my pack. Taking a candle into the bedroom, I read his book until my eyes grew…
— Maria V. Snyder
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... People are still disturbingly vague about the treatment of animals. People still seem to believe that meat is a particular substance not at all…
— Steven Morrissey
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Over the field rang his clear voice calling: ‘Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world’s ending!
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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