Inches Quotes - Page 11

• Man is developed from an ovule, about 125th of an inch in diameter, which differs in no respect from the ovules of other animals.

  Charles Darwin

  Science, Animal, Men

  Charles Darwin (1871). “The Descent of man”, p.14

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• Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Civilization, Medicine

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• One time or another we all face adversity's chilling wind. One man flees from it, and like an unresisting kite falls to the ground. Another yields no retreating inch, and the wind that would destroy him lifts him as readily to the heights. We are not measured by the trials we meet, only by those we overcome.

  David O. McKay

  Time, Fall, Adversity

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• In this model, the sun is a very tiny speck of dust indeed-a speck less than a three-thousandth of an inch in diameter ... Think of the sun as something less than a speck of dust in a vast city, of the earth as less than a millionth part of such a speck of dust, and we have perhaps as vivid a picture as the mind can really grasp of the relation of our home in space to the rest of the universe.

  James Jeans

  Home, Science, Thinking

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• I have gone through a long apprenticeship. I have gone through enough of being a nobody. I have decided that when I am a star, I will be every inch and every moment the star! Everybody from the studio gateman to the highest executive will know it.

  Gloria Swanson

  Stars, Long, Gone

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Ideally, I would create a book so interdependent and self-sustaining in its parts, so wondrously connected word by word and paragraph by paragraph, so charged with the joy of language, that it would actually float three or four inches above any table where you try to set it down.

  Peter Straub

  Book, Self, Joy

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• Of all the unchristian beverages that ever passed my lips, Turkish coffee is the worst. The cup is small, it is smeared with grounds; the coffee is black, thick, unsavory of smell, and execrable in taste. The bottom of the cup has a muddy sediment in it half an inch deep. This goes down your throat, and portions of it lodge by the way, and produce a tickling aggravation that keeps you barking and coughing for an hour.

  Mark Twain

  Coffee, Aggravation, Smell

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.380, Velvet Element Books

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• I looked up and saw my flag. But I didn't hear my anthem. The quotation above from 6 ft 4 inch, 286 pound Silver Medalist Ghaffari (who broke down in tears on the medal stand) summed up his disappointment after an overtime loss to Aleksandr Karelin of Russia. A win would have given Ghaffari not only the Olympic gold medal but also his first victory over Karelin, something of which he has literally dreamed about after 20 meets between the two. Karelin dominates international competition in the sport.

  Matt Ghaffari

  Sports, Disappointment, Loss

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• Having a great golf swing helps under pressure, but golf is a game about scoring. It's like an artist who can get a two-inch brush at Wal-Mart for 20 cents or a fine camel-hair brush from an art store for 20 dollars. The brush doesn't matter - how the finished painting looks is what matters.

  Jerry Pate

  Art, Golf, What Matters

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• Anyone who relinquishes a single inch of Jerusalem is neither an Arab nor a Muslim.

  Yasser Arafat

  Jerusalem

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• Israel cannot continue to exist in an atmosphere of peace and tranquillity without threats and aggression. If this regime stays on one inch of Palestine’s soil, it will continue its threats.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Israel, Atmosphere, Soil

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• Unborn children can experience pain even more so than adults as the baby has more pain receptors per square inch than at any other time in its life.

  Sam Brownback

  Baby, Children, Pain

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• All sports are games of inches.

  Dick Ritger

  Sports, Motivational Sports, Games

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• ...as all souls are equal before their Maker, a two inch putt counts the same as a 250 yard drive. There is a comedy in this and a certain unfairness even, which makes golf an even apter mirror of reality.

  John Updike

  Golf, Reality, Mirrors

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• Much of anyone's game is played (or should be played) in the short six-inch course between the ears.

  Louise Suggs

  Golf, Games, Ears

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• That was only a yard away from being an inch-perfect pass.

  Murdo MacLeod

  Football, Perfect, Yards

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• Better to live or die, once and for all, than die by inches.

  Homer

  Death, Iliad, Dies

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• Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans studying the stars to a new telescope with a 200-inch reflector and beyond; not religion, that persists, and changes from old credulities and world views to new thoughts of God and larger apprehensions of his meaning.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Change, God, Stars

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• We come no nearer the infinitude of the creative power of God, if we enclose the space of its revelation within a sphere described with the radius of the Milky Way, than if we were to limit it to a ball an inch in diameter. All that is finite, whatever has limits and a definite relation to unity, is equally far removed from the infinite... Eternity is not sufficient to embrace the manifestations of the Supreme Being, if it is not combined with the infinitude of space.

  Immanuel Kant

  God, Science, Space

  Immanuel Kant (1900). “Kant's cosmogony as in his essay on the retardation of the rotation of the earth and his Natural history and theory of the heavens: With introduction, appendices, and a portrait of Thomas Wright of Durham”

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• Tis Man's to explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper his reason.

  Robert Browning

  Science, Men, Research

  Robert Browning (1915). “The poetical works of Robert Browning”

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• Government is like a vast ocean and politics is the six-inch layer on top.

  Jennifer Pahlka

  Ocean, Government, Layers

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• At the age of three I began to look around my grandfather's library. My first knowledge of astronomy came from reading and looking at pictures at that time. By the time I was six I remember him buying books for me. ... I think I was eight, he bought me a three-inch telescope on a brass mounting. ... So, as far back as I can remember, I had an early interest in science in general, astronomy in particular.

  Jesse L. Greenstein

  Book, Reading, Knowledge

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• Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width.

  Bill Veeck

  Basketball, Baseball, Football

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• In summer, intolerable closeness; in winter, unendurable cold. All the floors were rotten. Filth on the floors an inch thick; one could slip and fall.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Summer, Fall, Winter

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2014). “Crime and Punishment”, p.560, Penguin UK

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• To stop short in any research that bids fair to widen the gates of knowledge, to recoil from fear of difficulty or adverse criticism, is to bring reproach on science. There is nothing for the investigator to do but go straight on, 'to explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper his reason;' to follow the light wherever it may lead, even should it at times resemble a will-o'-the-wisp.

  William Crookes

  Knowledge, Science, Light

  "Address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science". "Nature", No. 1506, Vol. 58, (p. 438), September 8, 1989.

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