Volume Quotes - Page 12

• The savants will write excellent volumes. There will be laureates. But wars will continue just the same until the forces of the circumstances render them impossible.

  Alfred Nobel

  War, Writing, Impossible

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• Beginning empty handed and alone frightens the best of men.  It also speaks volumes of just how sure they are that God is with them.

  Gene Edwards

  Men, Speak, Empty

  Gene Edwards (2011). “A Tale of Three Kings: A Study in Brokenness”, p.69, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• The problem with the alphabet is that it bears no relation to anything at all, and when words are arranged alphabetically they are uselessly separated. In the OED, for example, aardvarks are 19 volumes away from the zoo, yachts are 18 volumes from the beach, and wine is 17 volumes from the nearest corkscrew.

  Mark Forsyth

  Beach, Zoos, Wine

  Mark Forsyth (2013). “The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language”, p.9, Penguin

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• Resilience, timing, adaptation - these are the three pillars upon which the emergent properties of interacting systems rest. When the systems are the economy and the environment, understanding of the relationships among these concepts is crucial. This volume does a better job of explaining how to manage both money and nature to ensure humanity's long-term future than any other work I know of. Read and reflect.

  John L. Casti

  Jobs, Long, Understanding

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• The Senate has passed a new bill that requires TV stations to lower the volume level on commercials. This is great, a hundred of the most powerful people in the nation have managed to do the same thing my remote does.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Powerful, People, Doe

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• If you get earaches, I'd turn my volume down a notch or two for you. Cause I will do anything for you.

  Alice Cooper

  Rock And Roll, Two, Causes

  Song: Adaptable, Album: Zipper Catches Skin, 1982

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• Words when spoken out loud for the sake of performance are music. They have rhythm and pitch and timbre and volume. These are the properties of music and music has the ability to find us and move us and lift us up in ways that literal meaning can't.

  Josiah Bartlett

  Moving, Sake, Way

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• Pleasing things: finding a large number of tales that one has not read before. Or acquiring the second volume of a tale whose first volume one has enjoyed. But often it is a disappointment.

  Sei Shonagon

  Disappointment, Numbers, Firsts

  Sei Shōnagon (1967). “The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon”

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• It’s always about, somehow, finding a part of myself that is relevant, and then turning the volume up on that particular part. So, I am all of the characters I've ever played, and I am none of them at the same time.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Character, Relevant, Particular

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• Consider the concepts referred to in the words 'where', 'when', 'why', 'being', to the elucidation of which innumerable volumes of philosophy have been devoted. We fare no better in our speculations than a fish which should strive to become clear as to what is water.

  Albert Einstein

  Philosophy, Math, Water

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• Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven, curtain round the vault of heaven.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Clouds, Heaven, Vaults

  Thomas Love Peacock (1818). “Rhododaphne: Or, The Thessalian Spell: A Poem”, p.119

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• Life demands sacrifice and difficult decisions from us at every moment. Living does not mean passing through a void of nothingness but rather through a web of relationships among beings, each with their own weight and volume and texture.

  Shin Kyung-sook

  Mean, Sacrifice, Decision

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• A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

  Jose Bergamin

  Civilization, Different, Weight

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• In early days, I tried not to give librarians any trouble, which was where I made my primary mistake. Librarians like to be given trouble; they exist for it, they are geared to it. For the location of a mislaid volume, an uncatalogued item, your good librarian has a ferret’s nose. Give her a scent and she jumps the leash, her eye bright with battle.

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

  Mistake, Eye, Giving

  Catherine Drinker Bowen (1959). “Adventures of a Biographer”, Boston : Little, Brown

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• Tim Thornton's portrait of a pop culture obsession is so convincing that one can't help wishing that his fictional alt rock band actually existed, or suspecting that they did. The Alternative Hero is a weirdly compelling portrait of fanatic fandom which reads like High Fidelity at high volume.

  Jay McInerney

  Hero, Rocks, Wish

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• Nature is a volume of which God is the author.

  William Harvey

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• For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, often apparently leading to conclusions directly opposite to those at which I have arrived. A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question.

  Charles Darwin

  Opposites, Decision, Facts

  Charles Darwin, James T. Costa (2009). “The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species”, p.2, Harvard University Press

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• If you're trying to be more creative, one of the most important things you can do is increase the volume and diversity of the information to which you are exposed.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Diversity, Creative, Important

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• To exact of every man who writes that he should say something new, would be to reduce authors to a small number; to oblige the most fertile genius to say only what is new, would be to contract his volumes to a few pages. Yet, surely, there ought to be some bounds to repetition; libraries ought no more to be heaped for ever with the same thoughts differently expressed, than with the same books differently decorated.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Writing, Men

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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• Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice nasty stories. I don't know.

  Imogen Cunningham

  Nice, Portraits, Doe

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• By the time I had finished my coffee and returned to the streets, the rain had temporarily abated, but the streets were full of vast puddles where the drains where unable to cope with the volume of water. Correct me if I'm wrong, but you would think that if one nation ought by now to have mastered the science of drainage, Britain would be it.

  Bill Bryson

  Rain, Coffee, Thinking

  Bill Bryson (2010). “Notes From A Small Island: Journey Through Britain”, p.279, Random House

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• When I slept it was literally in the midst of an arsenal. If I heard dogs bark more fiercely than usual, or the feet of horses in a greater volume of sound than usual, I stood to arms.

  Frank James

  Dog, Horse, Feet

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• It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.

  Al Sharpton

  Action, Program

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• Hairpieces are brilliant for adding volume.

  Alexandra Roach

  Brilliant

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• There is a strong possibility I will release another volume of ARTPOP and I'm really hoping that it's soon.

  Lady Gaga

  Strong, Possibility, Release

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