Operation Quotes

527 quotes by 443 authors

The bitterness of the potion, and the abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances to the operation. It must be something to trouble and disturb… — Michel de Montaigne
Why suspend the habeas corpus in insurrections and rebellions? Examine the history of England. See how few of the cases of the suspension of the… — Thomas Jefferson
The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world. Providence has given… — Samuel Johnson
This would be a tricky operation, no doubt of that, and a mistake would probably be fatal. So many things he had done over the… — Steve Perry
The recurrence of periods of depression and mass unemployment has discredited capitalism in the opinion of injudicious people. Yet these events are not the outcome… — Ludwig von Mises
Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must… — Francis Bacon
We are ... led to a somewhat vague distinction between what we may call "hard" data and "soft" data. This distinction is a matter of… — Bertrand Russell
Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation. — Alexander Hamilton
The function of Art is to imitate Nature in her manner of operation. Our understanding of her manner of operation&Rdquo; changes according to advances in… — John Cage
A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective. — Sun Tzu
So the important thing in a military operation is victory, not persistence. — Sun Tzu
Love is co-operation rather than competition. — Wayne Dyer
I run my operation like a family business. I sign every check, every receipt, I'm not tough, but I'm strong. — Ivana Trump
I don't deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn't deserve that, either. So… — Quincy Jones
Since I came to the White House, I got two hearing aids, a colon operation, skin cancer, a prostate operation, and I was shot. The… — Ronald Reagan
Time, which measures everything in our idea, and is often deficient to our schemes, is to nature endless and as nothing; it cannot limit that… — James Hutton
One of my surgical giant friends had in his operating room a sign "If the operation is difficult, you aren't doing it right." What he… — Joseph Murray
I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for several months before… — Christiaan Barnard
Prayer and contemplation are both exercises in concentration. The normal deluge of conscious thought is restricted and the mind is brought to one conscious area… — Henepola Gunaratana
Perhaps the best argument...that the Big Bang supports theism is the obvious unease with which it is greeted by some atheist physicists. At times this… — Christopher Isham

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