Foils Quote by John Owen

There is not a day but sin foils or is foiled, prevails or is prevailed upon. It will always be so while we live…

— John Owen

Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.

— William Congreve

“Cruelty is foiled by compassion.”

— Hugh Howey

When an investigator has developed a formula which gives a complete representation of the phenomena within a certain range, he may be prone to…

— Arthur Eddington

The trouble is that the expression 'material thing' is functioning already, from the very beginning, simply as a foil for 'sense-datum'; it is not…

— J. L. Austin

I have a lot of experience with making fake helmets out of foil.

— Ray Toro

The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

[Barack Obama] was comfortable when he had the foil.

— Chuck Todd

Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else.

— George Plimpton

Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard, and many a time Th' harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my…

— William Shakespeare

A second variety concentrated on presumed major transformations of the capitalist system as of some recent point in time, in which the whole earlier…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

We can't gather the intelligence we need to foil future attacks, if we are blindly granting terrorists the right to remain silent. But for…

— Anonymous