Method Quotes

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We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will be the sole… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few… — E. M. Forster
A writer who writes, ''I am alone''... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude by addressing a… — Maurice Blanchot
God is going to reveal to us things He never revealed before if we put our hands in His. No books ever go into my… — George Washington Carver
Other men puffed, snorted, and splashed. George passed through the ocean with the silent dignity of a torpedo. Other men swallowed water, here a mouthful,… — P.G. Wodehouse
It occurs to me to wonder: do I believe in any god, or even positively not believe, as James does? I believe in systems and… — Emma Bull
How guilt refined the methods of self-torture, threading the beads of detail into an eternal loop, a rosary to be fingered for a lifetime. — Ian Mcewan
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity. — George Bernard Shaw
She was remorseless, but she lacked method. — Diana Wynne Jones
We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking. — Jonathan Swift
There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and… — John Dewey
A method of procuring sensations? Do you think then, that a man who has once committed a murder could possibly do the same crime again?… — Oscar Wilde
I feel an almost overwhelming interest in the methods of daylight abduction employed by the modern youth. — Georgette Heyer
Whenever humanity seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a different space. I donâ€™t mean escaping into dreams or the… — Italo Calvino
Probably the last man who knew how it worked had been tortured to death years before. Or as soon as it was installed. Killing the… — Terry Pratchett
The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous… — Henry A. Wallace
Christ furnished the spirit and motivation while Gandhi furnished the method. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
It's not possible to search for God using the methods of a detective... There is no way. You can only wait till God's axe severs… — Karel Capek
I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology... Its importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern… — Bertrand Russell
To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through… — Victor Hugo

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