Piecemeal Quotes
27 quotes by 27 authors
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No piecemeal solution is going to prevent the collapse of whole societies and ecosystems ... a radical re-thinking of our values, priorities and political systems…
— Maude Barlow
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For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish by piecemeal.
— Thomas Jefferson
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In schools the main problem is not the absence of innovations but the presence of too many disconnected... piecemeal, superficially adorned projects... We are over…
— Michael Fullan
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Walter Benjamin knew that the break in tradition and loss of authority which occurred in his lifetime were irreparable, and he concluded that he had…
— Hannah Arendt
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Persisting social crisis, the emergence of a charismatic personality, and the exploitation of mass media to obtain public confidence would be the steppingstones in the…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Even today, after the second failure of another world war, perhaps one can speak of a third war, one fought piecemeal, with crimes, massacres, destruction,
— Pope Francis
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It is life that does the thinking all around us, forming with playful ease the connections our reason can only laboriously patch together piecemeal, and…
— Robert Musil
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All candidate moves should be identified at once and listed in one's head. This job cannot be done piecemeal, by first examining one move and…
— Alexander Kotov
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We are dying, we are dying, piecemeal our bodies are dying and our strength leaves us, and our soul cowers naked in the dark rain…
— D. H. Lawrence
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It opposes the dogmatic application to all cases of what is adequate only for piecemeal aggregates. The question is whether an approach in piecemeal terms,…
— Max Wertheimer
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Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep its nature and…
— Wendell Berry
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Death takes us piecemeal, not at a gulp.
— Seneca the Younger
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The clever way death cuts us down, but makes it look like just a thinning-out. Generations never fall with one blow - that would be…
— Alphonse Daudet
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Strategic air assault is wasted if it is dissipated piecemeal in sporadic attacks between which the enemy has an opportunity to readjust defenses or recuperate.
— Henry H. Arnold
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Ford Motor Company's sluggish and piecemeal approach to its automotive responsibilities betrays motorists' safety.
— Ralph Nader
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I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again.
— Annie Dillard
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
— Karl Popper
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This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more…
— Haile Selassie
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After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.
— Iain Duncan Smith
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Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.
— Roger Ebert
Who Wrote These Piecemeal Quotes
27 authors contributed a total of 27 Piecemeal Quotes, led by these top contributors: