Performs Quotes

104 quotes by 95 authors

The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis… — David Brinkley
No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure. — James K. Polk
Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything. — William Faulkner
It really comes down to parsimony, economy of explanation. It is possible that your car engine is driven by psychokinetic energy, but if it looks… — Richard Dawkins
The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs. — Charles Caleb Colton
Every man is proud of what he does well; and no man is proud of what he does not do well. With the former, his… — Abraham Lincoln
It is the mission of the pedagogue, not to make his pupils think, but to make them think right, and the more nearly his own… — H. L. Mencken
The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or more properly speaking,… — Adam Smith
A rentier is an investor whose relationship to a company or enterprise is strictly limited to the ownership of financial wealth (such as stocks or… — Doug Henwood
The challenge of every team is to build a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another because the question is usually not how well… — Vince Lombardi
Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divided or social state these functions are parcelled out to individuals, each… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds… — Vaclav Havel
I believe that any doctor that performs an abortion, I would advocate that any doctor that performs an abortion, should be criminally charged for doing… — Rick Santorum
There is a special aura about artists who take their visions to the highest pinnacles of success ... I get very excited about the magnitude… — Bill Aucoin
He that is warm for truth, and fearless in its defense, performs one of the duties of a good man; he strenghtens his own conviction,… — Samuel Johnson
As a person who performs on stage, it's good to be emotionally open. If you mess with someone when they are in that state, it's… — Fiona Apple
Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty - the duty… — Mark Twain
Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing. — George Bernard Shaw
Whoever devotedly undertakes and performs this most holy journey... shall have the enjoyment of eternal reward from the repayer of all men. — Pope Eugene III
And with listening, too, it seems to me, it is not the ear that hears, it is not the physical organ that performs the act… — Mary Caroline Richards

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