General Terms Quotes

13 quotes by 13 authors

• In the expressions we adopt to prescribe physical phenomena we necessarily hover between two extremes. We either have to choose a word which implies more… — Arthur Schuster
• I, sir, have always conceived - I believe those who proposed the constitution conceived,and it is still more fully known, and more material to observe,… — James Madison
• Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They… — Thomas B. Macaulay
• Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms,… — Walter Pater
• Entering in the narrow gate is allowing Him to define your life, and not in general terms. See, there's your problem. 'Oh, Jesus is everything… — Paul Washer
• All writers learn this, in time: don't show your work to other people until it's safely finished. Even discussing your unborn book in quite general… — Lynne Truss
• The characteristic feature of the loser is to bemoan, in general terms, mankind's flaws, biases, contradictions, and irrationality - without exploiting them for fun and… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Our politics and science have never mastered the fact that people need more than to understand their obligation to one another and to the earth;… — Wendell Berry
• In the most general terms, the Enlightenment goes back to Plato's belief that truth and beauty and goodness are connected; that truth and beauty, disseminated… — Susan Neiman
• The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe. — Iris Murdoch
• More to the point, I know why soldiers, home from war, seldom tell their families about their exploits in more than general terms. We who… — Dean Koontz
• There are two kinds of visual memory: one when you skillfully recreate an image in the laboratory of your mind, with your eyes open (and… — Vladimir Nabokov
• He’s bound to have done something,” Nobby repeated. In this he was echoing the Patrician’s view of crime and punishment. If there was a crime,… — Terry Pratchett

Who Wrote These General Terms Quotes

13 authors contributed a total of 13 General Terms Quotes as follows:

• 1 General Terms Quote by Arthur Schuster
• 1 General Terms Quote by James Madison
• 1 General Terms Quote by Thomas B. Macaulay
• 1 General Terms Quote by Walter Pater
• 1 General Terms Quote by Paul Washer
• 1 General Terms Quote by Lynne Truss
• 1 General Terms Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• 1 General Terms Quote by Wendell Berry
• 1 General Terms Quote by Susan Neiman
• 1 General Terms Quote by Iris Murdoch
• 1 General Terms Quote by Dean Koontz
• 1 General Terms Quote by Vladimir Nabokov
• 1 General Terms Quote by Terry Pratchett