Range Quotes

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I know that in many things I am not like others, but I do not know what I really am like. Man cannot compare himself… — Carl Jung
As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim; So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same: This is Truth,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
That is the way to lay the city flat, To bring the roof to the foundation, And bury all, which yet distinctly ranges, In heaps… — William Shakespeare
The moon, the moon, so silver and cold, Her fickle temper has oft been told, Now shade--now bright and sunny-- But of all the lunar… — Thomas Hood
Present opportunities are neglected, and attainable good is slighted, by minds busied in extensive ranges and intent upon future advantages. — Samuel Johnson
The wonder of an artist's performance grows with the range of his penetration, with the instinctive sympathy that makes him, in his mortal isolation, considerate… — George Santayana
We bear our shades about us; self-deprived Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread, And range an Indian waste without a tree. — William Cowper
The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression. — Felix Frankfurter
W'en you see a man in woe, Walk right up and say hullo. Say hullo and how d'ye do, How's the world a-usin' you? .… — Sam Walter Foss
An artist must pass judgment only on what he understands; his range is limited as that of any other specialist... Anyone who says that the… — Anton Chekhov
When using colors to recreate a general harmony of tones in nature, one loses it by painfully exact imitation. One keeps it by recreating in… — Vincent Van Gogh
I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase. For me, drawing… — John Berger
It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralise the long-range effects of our national stupidity — Frank Zappa
Music comes from the heart and returns to the heart... music is spontaneous, impulsive expression... its range is without limit... forever growing... can be one… — Leopold Stokowski
There is in the universe something for the description and analysis of which the natural sciences cannot contribute anything. There are events beyond the range… — Ludwig von Mises
The anthropologist respects history, but he does not accord it a special value. He conceives it as a study complementary to his own: one of… — Claude Levi-Strauss
The eye sees the physical body, other individuals, even insects, worms and things. It sees everything that is within its range. The body too is… — Sathya Sai Baba
In abandoning the vagueness of the sketch the artist shows more of his personality by revealing the range but also the limitations of his talent. — Eugene Delacroix
The changing styles are the expression of a restless search for something which shall commend itself to our aesthetic sense; but as each innovation is… — Thorstein Veblen
Inherited aptitudes and traits of temperament count for quite as much as length of habituation in deciding what range of habits will come to dominate… — Thorstein Veblen

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