Province Quotes

126 quotes by 115 authors

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within… — Marcus Aurelius
Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It's… — Anthony Bourdain
I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly. — Leonard Cohen
Every sane man recognises that unlimited liberty is anarchy, or rather is nonentity. The civic idea of liberty is to give the citizen a province… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The reason is that nature has so created men that they are able to desire everything but are not able to attain everything: so that… — Niccolo Machiavelli
War is a matter of vital importance to the state; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory… — Sun Tzu
War is the province of chance. in no other sphere of human activity must such a margin be left for this intruder. it increases the… — Carl von Clausewitz
That all persons living in this province, who confess and acknowledge the one Almighty and eternal God, to be the Creator, Upholder and Ruler of… — William Penn
There is only one law of Nature-the second law of thermodynamics-which recognises a distinction between past and future more profound than the difference of plus… — Arthur Eddington
I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province. — Francis Bacon
Nature is a vast tablet, inscribed with signs, each of which has its own significancy, and becomes poetry in the mind when read; and geology… — Hugh Miller
I now never make the preparations for penetrating into some small province of nature hitherto undiscovered without breathing a prayer to the Being who hides… — Louis Agassiz
If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers. — Frederick The Great
Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees. — Hudson Taylor
When the province of physical theory was extended to encompass microscopic phenomena through the creation of quantum mechanics, the concept of consciousness came to the… — Eugene Wigner
The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow… — Ada Lovelace
I remember how people would often come to see my master Jamyang Khyentse simply to ask for his guidance for the moment of death. He… — Sogyal Rinpoche
The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields… — Albert Einstein
Chess never has been and never can be aught but a recreation. It should not be indulged in to the detriment of other and more… — Paul Morphy
When every province of the world so teems with inhabitants that they can neither subsist where they are nor remove themselves elsewhere... the world will… — Niccolo Machiavelli

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