Branches Quotes - Page 16

• He who is wise puts aside all claims which may dissipate his attention, and confining himself to one branch excels in that.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wise, Attention, May

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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• Love for Kuwait is always prior to self-love, money, and children.. In the heart of every Kuwaiti, Kuwait's love grew it's seeds, spread its roots and branches all around our good land

  Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah

  Children, Heart, Self

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• Kuwait is our haven which God has given us, the home he granted us.. Kuwait is our origins and branches, security and resolution, protection and glory.. The past, present and future.

  Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah

  Home, Past, Kuwait

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• Cause I might be naked and lonely Shaking branches for bones But I'm still time zones away From who I was the day before we met You were the first mile Where my heart broke a sweat And I wish you were here I wish you'd never left But mostly I wish you well I wish you my very very best.

  Andrea Gibson

  Inspirational, Lonely, Heart

  Andrea Gibson (Poet) (2013). “Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns”, p.44, SCB Distributors

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• . . . . spending more time with my fly firmly attached to the branches of trees and almost none of it attached to the lips of a trout.

  Tom Sutcliffe

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

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• In democratic countries as well as elsewhere most of the branches of productive industry are carried on at a small cost by men little removed by their wealth or education above the level of those whom they employ.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Country, Men, Cost

  Alexis De Tocqueville (2004). “Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II”, p.488, Bantam Classics

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• You don't just give the executive branch unlimited resources, unlimited power. Our founders were very concerned about too much power being invested in any one, in any branch. The balance of power is fundamental to our system.

  Mike Huckabee

  Giving, Balance, Too Much Power

  "Mike Huckabee lays out path to 2016 Republican nomination; Amb. John Bolton talks NSA surveillance, growth of ISIS". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. May 24, 2015.

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• Presidents Lincoln, Jefferson, Jackson, presidents have understood that the Supreme Court cannot make a law. They cannot make it. The legislature has to make it, the executive branch has to sign it and enforce it.

  Mike Huckabee

  Law, President, Executive Branch

  "Mike Huckabee lays out path to 2016 Republican nomination; Amb. John Bolton talks NSA surveillance, growth of ISIS". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. May 24, 2015.

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• I have fashion designers that I definitely respect. After working for a few years in the industry, you want to branch out and do your own thing and I think that's something that has always been important to me is strengthening the brand and just sticking to "this is who we are, this is our identity, this is who we're going to be". I definitely respect other designers but I don't necessarily have one that I look up to.

  Lauren Conrad

  Fashion, Thinking, Years

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• The Government covers their own ass from things they fail to do to protect its own people from corporations that control the government, which is the reason we don't have checks and balances in this country. They checked how much balance they needed to influence congress and all the other branches of government in some way, shape, or form, and cash is king.

  Immortal Technique

  Country, Kings, Government

  "The Transcendence Of Hip Hop - An Interview With Immortal Technique". Interview with Chris Grosso, theindiespiritualist.com. February 20, 2014.

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• Things change when you learn to loosen your grip. I think one way and the future is desperate. I think another way everything is in sight. Trees bend so branches don't have to break. We mend the wounds of our last mistake... I live one way holding onto the fence post. I live another way sliding off into space. Each life is loosely assembled... Birds swim, fish do fly. Proud man begins to cry. Birds swim, fish do fly. Things change, so why can't I?

  Tim Finn

  Mistake, Men, Thinking

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• The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Differences, Special, Genius

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• It has been said in praise of some men, that they could take whole hours together upon anything; but it must be owned to the honor of the other sex that there are many among them who can talk whole hours together upon nothing. I have known a woman branch out into a long extempore dissertation on the edging of a petticoat, and chide her servant for breaking a china cup, in all the figures of rhetoric.

  Joseph Addison

  Sex, Men, Talking

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• [On James Gould Cozzens' By Love Possessed:] It is a vast enterprise encompassing all sorts of love, except, naturally, those branches which extend to Jews, Negroes, and people who have lost track of their great-grandparents.

  Dorothy Parker

  People, Track, Grandparent

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• There are vices which have no hold upon us, but in connection with others; and which, when you cut down the trunk, fall like the branches.

  Blaise Pascal

  Fall, Cutting, Vices

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.266

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• In all things that live there are certain irregularities, and deficiencies which are not only signs of life, but sources of beauty. No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry.

  John Ruskin

  Beauty, Perfect, Lines

  John Ruskin (1854). “On the nature of Gothic architecture: and herein of the true functions of the workman in art. Being the greater part of the 6th chapter of the 2nd vol. of 'Stones of Venice'. [48 p.].”, p.14

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• The speed with which bureaucracy has invaded almost every branch of human activity is something astounding once one thinks about it.

  Simone Weil

  Thinking, Speed, Bureaucracy

  Simone Weil (2013). “Oppression and Liberty”, p.13, Routledge

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• Photography - the supreme form of travel, of tourism - is the principal modern means for enlarging the world. As a branch of art, photography's enterprise of world enlargement tends to specialize in the subjects felt to be challenging, transgressive. A photograph may be telling us: this too exists. And that. And that. (And it is all 'human.') But what are we to do with this knowledge - if indeed it is knowledge, about, say, the self, about abnormality, about ostracized or clandestine worlds?

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Art, Mean

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• Pornography is one of the branches of literature - science fiction is another - aiming at disorientation, at psychic dislocation.

  Susan Sontag

  Psychics, Fiction, Literature

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• Life had a different shape; it had new branches and some of the old branches were dead.

  Beryl Markham

  Change, Different, Shapes

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.217, Open Road Media

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• Poetry is a tree with very deep roots and while there may be excitement about this or that new little branch, you're not going to make anything original by just doing whatever's being rewarded at the moment.

  Joan Larkin

  Roots, Tree, May

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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• I hope to be acting until I'm playing the role of Grandma, and I'd like to branch out in film - producing, directing, all of it. I'll sleep when no one wants to hire me!

  America Ferrera

  Grandma, Sleep, Acting

  "Surprise! She's a Bombshell (and You Can be One Too)". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. September 2, 2007.

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• Each nanosecond of history branches off into an infinite amount of parallel universes.

  Pete Carroll

  Infinite, Parallel Universe, Parallels

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• O'er hill and field October's glories fade;
  O'er hill and field the blackbirds southward fly;
  The brown leaves rustle down the forest glade,
  Where naked branches make a fitful shade,
  And the lost blooms of Autumn withered lie.

  George Arnold

  Lying, Autumn, Shade

  George Arnold, “October”

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• Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil.

  Aaron Hill

  Evil, Tree, Malice

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