Protean Quotes

9 quotes by 9 authors

• How protean are the devices available to human intelligence when it lends itself to the persistence of the conformist error. — Robert M. Lindner
• This too is a jihad. Yet we Americans find ourselves in the dangerous position of going to war not against a state but against a… — Chris Hedges
• He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] was a great thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the best of men… — William Manchester
• This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which has… — Asa Gray
• DeFrantz's study...is not the first book about the protean Ailey, who was born in hardscrabble Texas in 1931 and died in 1989 after creating close… — Alvin Ailey
• The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited. — Alan Kay
• Indeed it is the protean ability of Western civilization to be self-critical and self-correcting - not only in producing wealth but over the whole range… — Paul Johnson
• Sin is protean. It is a cancer that keeps mutating, and just when you think you have killed off one form, it turns out a… — John Ortberg
• The most protean aspect of comedy is its potentiality for transcending itself, for responding to the conditions of tragedy by laughing in the darkness. — Harry Levin

Who Wrote These Protean Quotes

9 authors contributed a total of 9 Protean Quotes as follows:

• 1 Protean Quote by Robert M. Lindner
• 1 Protean Quote by Chris Hedges
• 1 Protean Quote by William Manchester
• 1 Protean Quote by Asa Gray
• 1 Protean Quote by Alvin Ailey
• 1 Protean Quote by Alan Kay
• 1 Protean Quote by Paul Johnson
• 1 Protean Quote by John Ortberg
• 1 Protean Quote by Harry Levin