Series Quotes - Page 9

• When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw up your taxes.

  Don Drysdale

  Sports, Screw Ups, World

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• World series attitude, champagne bottle life, nothing ever changes so tonight is like tomorrow night.

  Drake

  Life, Change, Attitude

  Song: Miss Me, Album: Thank Me Later

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• Life is a series of surprises.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Anticipation, Surprise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.483, Library of America

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• There were two things going on: 1) I had already established in my own mind where I wanted to go with the next series, and having James around as a Grey Eminence would have complicated matters. He had had an amazing life and it was time to bid him good-bye.

  Raymond E. Feist

  Goodbye, Two, Amazing Life

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• Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hero, Defeat, Hours

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and punish you for another. The universe has no fixed agenda. Once you make any decision, it works around that decision. There is no right or wrong, only a series of possibilities that shift with each thought, feeling, and action that you experience.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspirational, Worry, Decision

  "The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life". Book by Deepak Chopra, 2004.

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• Looking back, I realize that my life has been a series of incidents where one person has said to another, "Get this asshole outta here!"

  George Carlin

  Humorous, Realizing, Incidents

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• If we played Boston four-on-four, without Russell, we probably would have won every series. That guy killed us. He's the one who prevented us from achieving true greatness.

  Rod Hundley

  Basketball, Greatness, Boston

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• Anyone who has owned many cats in long succession can define his or her life as a series of furry episodes.

  Roger Caras

  Cat, Long, Episodes

  Roger A. Caras (1987). “A celebration of cats”, Fireside

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• Fate is a misplaced retreat. Many people rationalize an unexplained event as fate and shrug their shoulders when it occurs. But that is not what fate is. The world operates as a series of circles that are invisible, for they extend to the upper air. Fate is where these circles cut to earth. Since we cannot see them, do not know their content, and have no sense of their width, it is impossible to predict when these cuts will slice into our reality. When this happens, we call it fate. Fate is not a chance event but one that is inevitable, we are simply blind to its nature and time.

  James Levine

  Cutting, Fate, Reality

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• We receive experience from nature in a series of messages. From these messages we extract a content of information: that is, we decode the messages in some way. And from this code of information we then make a basic vocabulary of concepts and a basic grammar of laws, which jointly describe the inner organization that nature translates into the happenings and the appearances we meet.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Nature, Science, Vocabulary

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• Have you ever asked yourself why one person is honorable and another dishonorable; why one is honest, another dishonest; why one is moral, another immoral? Most individuals do not intend to be dishonest, dishonorable, or immoral. They seem to allow their characters to erode by a series of rationalizations, lies, and compromises. Then when grave temptation presents itself, they haven't the strength of character to do what they know to be right.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Honesty, Lying, Character

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• Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers (adminstrators) too plainly proves a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing us to slavery.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Liberty, Slavery

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• Biologists have long attempted by chemical means to induce in higher organisms predictable and specific changes which thereafter could be transmitted in series as hereditary characters. Among microorganisms the most striking example of inheritable and specific alterations in cell structure and function that can be experimentally induced and are reproducible under well defined and adequately controlled conditions is the transformation of specific types of Pneumococcus.

  Oswald Avery

  Character, Mean, Cells

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• Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of kinds of items in a given arrangement.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Science, Hands, Probability Theory

  Rudolf Arnheim (1974). “Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order”, p.19, Univ of California Press

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• The animal kingdom exhibits a series of mental developments which may be regarded as antecedents to the mental development of man, for the mental life of animals shows itself to be throughout, in its elements and in the general laws governing the combination of the elements, the same as the mental life of man.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Science, Animal, Men

  Wilhelm Max Wundt (1907). “Outlines of Psychology”

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• Indeed, nothing more beautifully simplifying has ever happened in the history of science than the whole series of discoveries culminating about 1914 which finally brought practically universal acceptance to the theory that the material world contains but two fundamental entities, namely, positive and negative electrons, exactly alike in charge, but differing widely in mass, the positive electron-now usually called a proton-being 1850 times heavier than the negative, now usually called simply the electron.

  Robert Andrews Millikan

  Acceptance, Science, Discovery

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• Embryonic stem cell research is at the leading edge of a series of moral hazards.

  George W. Bush

  Science, Cells, Hazards

  Remarks on Stem Cell Research, delivered 9 August 2001

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• Were we, also, hiking along some cosmic journal page? Were the events about us all part of a message we could understand, if only we found the right perspective from which to read them? Somehow, with our long series of miracles, I thought so.

  Richard Bach

  Hiking, Long, Perspective

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• I am my best work - a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines.

  Audre Lorde

  Inspirational, Prayer, Maps

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• Without memories, without hope, they lived for the moment only. indeed, the here and now had come to mean everything to them. For there is no denying that the plague had gradually killed off in all of us the faculty not of love only but even of friendship. Naturally enough, since love asks something of the future, and nothing was left us but a series of present moments.

  Albert Camus

  Memories, Mean, Moments

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• But the first lie in the series is the one you make with the greatest trepidation and the heaviest heart.

  Michael Chabon

  Lying, Heart, Firsts

  Michael Chabon (2011). “The Mysteries of Pittsburgh”, p.213, Open Road Media

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• Eating in Sweden is really just a series of heartbreaks.

  Bill Bryson

  Sweden, Eating

  Bill Bryson (1991). “Neither here nor there: travels in Europe”, Harvill Secker

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• Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil. My children have had other birthplaces, and, so far as their fortunes may be within my control, shall strike their roots into unaccustomed earth.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Nature, Children, Roots

  1850 The Scarlet Letter,'The Custom-House'.

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• In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us -- not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss.

  John Irving

  Loss, Childhood, Events

  John Irving (2012). “In One Person: A Novel”, p.260, Simon and Schuster

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