Smoothly Quotes
130 quotes by 124 authors
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
— Isaac Asimov
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The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into our bodies to…
— Maya Angelou
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I saw for the first time the earth's shape. I could easily see the shores of continents, islands, great rivers, folds of the terrain, large…
— Yuri Gagarin
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All that we need explicitly to note is that, the more the passive attention is relied on, by keeping the material interesting; and the less…
— William James
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Others may fashion more smoothly images of bronze (I for one believe it), evoke living faces from marble, plead causes better, trace with a wand…
— Virgil
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Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.
— Jean Rhys
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A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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The shot will go smoothly only when it takes the archer himself by surprise.
— Eugen Herrigel
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The Patriot Act followed 9-11 as smoothly as the suspension of the Weimar constitution after the Reichstag Fire Decree.
— Sr?a Trifkovic
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It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites-opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no…
— Eric Hoffer
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Wandering around back stage at a willie Nelson concert is a bit like being the parrot on the shoulder of the guy who's running the…
— Kinky Friedman
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A perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Life itself is a state of continuous struggle between ourselves and everything outside. Every moment we are…
— Swami Vivekananda
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People shouldn't really have to think about an object when they are using it. Not having to think about it makes the relationship between a…
— Naoto Fukasawa
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I could not help concluding this man had the most supreme pleasure while he was driven so fast and so smoothly by the sea.
— James Cook
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Advising Mrs. Harris was the least I could do," David said smoothly. "After all, she was the one who brought me and my late wife…
— Sabrina Jeffries
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Good design allows things to operate more efficiently, smoothly, and comfortably for the user. That's the real source of advantage. Businesses have started to understand…
— James P Hackett
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We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical…
— Edward Bernays
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For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they…
— Marya Mannes
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A basic cause of murmuring is that too many of us seem to expect that life will flow ever smoothly, featuring an unbroken chain of…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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The British have an umbilical cord which has never been cut and through which tea flows constantly. It is curious to watch them in times…
— Marlene Dietrich
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