Circumstances Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, "Man, if that's not…

— Alan Arkin

“he had to stand by while there proliferated in his own house such concepts as “the art of living thought” “the graph of spiritual…

— Robert Musil

“In every time of season change: it is #wise to slow down and examine what our ego, thought-habits, and spiritual-energy are communicating to others...our…

— Tracey Bond

Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act. All living thought is a world in preparation; all real act is a thought…

— Sri Aurobindo

When you begin to sense that your imagination is the place where you are most divine, you feel called to clean out of your…

— John O'Donohue

“The dead are older than the living, he thought. Irrespective of how old they were when they passed over to the other side, they…

— Håkan Nesser

A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or to vary the figure, a strategic point in the campaign of…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Fate then is that necessity by which a certain result will surely be brought to pass according to the natural course of events however…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

R is a velocity of measure, defined as a reasonable speed of travel that is consistent with health, mental well-being, and not being more…

— Douglas Adams

When it comes right down to it, people are quite similar. We may come from different backgrounds, cultures, and economic circumstances, and our attitudes…

— M. Russell Ballard

The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.

— Benjamin Cardozo

This was just one night, one chance to vary and see where it took me. The fireflies were probably already out: maybe it wasn’t…

— Sarah Dessen

Language gradually varies, and with it fade away the writings of authors who have flourished their allotted time; otherwise, the creative powers of genius…

— Washington Irving

Unlike return, however, risk is no more quantifiable at the end of an investment that it was at its beginning. Risk simply cannot be…

— Seth Klarman

The risk of developing carcinoma of the lung increases steadily as the amount smoked increases. If the risk among non-smokers is taken as unity…

— Richard Doll