Four Quotes - page 97

The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up. (Yoko Ono)
The huge human brain, approximately 1,350 cubic centimeters, is the most complex organic structure in the known world. Understanding the human mind/brain mechanisms in evolutionary perspective is the goal of the new scientific discipline called evolutionary psychology. Evolutionary psychology focuses on four key questions: (1) Why is the mind designed the way it is-that is, what causal processes created, fashioned, or shaped the human mind into its current form? (2) How is the human mind designed-what are its mechanisms or component parts, and how are they organized? (3) What are the functions of the component parts and their organized structure-that is, what is the mind designed to do? (4) How does input from the current environment interact with the design of the human mind to produce observable behavior? View quote
David Buss
My History of the Jesuits is in four volumes.... This society has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon's despotism or ideology. It has obstructed progress of reformation and the improvement of the human mind in society much longer and more fatally. View quote
John Adams
I do not believe that in the four administrations which have taken place, there has been a single instance of departure from good faith towards other nations. We may sometimes have mistaken our rights, or made an erroneous estimate of the actions of others, but no voluntary wrong can be imputed to us. In this respect England exhibits the most remarkable phaenomenon in the universe in the contrast between the profligacy of it's government and the probity of it's citizens. And accordingly it is now exhibiting an example of the truth of the maxim that virtue & interest are inseparable. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Agriculture, manufactures, commerce and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Time is said to have only one dimension, and space to have three dimensions. ... The mathematical quaternion partakes of both these elements; in technical language it may be said to be 'time plus space', or 'space plus time': and in this sense it has, or at least involves a reference to, four dimensions. And how the One of Time, of Space the Three, Might in the Chain of Symbols girdled be. View quote
William Rowan Hamilton
If you're the Olympic champion then they have to wait four more years to get you again. View quote
Usain Bolt
There are four great measures for my administration - a reduction of tariff, an independent treasury, settlement of the Oregon boundary and acquisition of California. View quote
James K. Polk
My only regret is to die four pages too soon. View quote
Dennis Potter
My great-grandmother grew up in a sod house in Nebraska. When she was a tiny girl - in other words, only four human generations ago - there were still enough wild bison on the Plains that she was afraid lightning storms would spook them and they would trample her home. View quote
Derrick Jensen
In this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can do together, it still can't replace the magic of four people in a room playing. (Dave Grohl)
For more than four years it has been my honor and my privilege to serve as the leader of the greatest police department in the world. This organization is made up of police officers, detectives and leaders who every day and every night go out and earn the title New York's Finest, and to have the opportunity to lead them and serve the people of New York City is something I have cherished and will always look back on with pride. View quote
Howard Safir
The renaissance of New York City has been built on a foundation of crime reduction, and for the last four years, Howard Safir has worked tirelessly to increase safety and the quality of life for all New Yorkers. The extent to which he's succeeded-on his watch, crime is down by 38%, and homicide by 44%-is not only remarkable, it's a testament to his skill and dedication. During Howard's tenure, the Department reduced crime by more than it has under any other Police Commissioner. Howard has enjoyed a long and distinguished career in law enforcement. I wish him the best as he begins this new chapter in his life. View quote
Howard Safir
The desire to play has always been in me. I remember my first experience at about four or five of really dying to sing and dying to play that came from no one telling me to do so. View quote
Alicia Keys
Think of it this way: performing is like sprinting while screaming for three, four minutes. And then you do it again. And then you do it again. And then you walk a little, shouting the whole time. And so on. Your adrenaline quickly overwhelms your conditioning. View quote
Bruce Springsteen
From the point of view of the practice or application of rules four successive stages can be distinguished. View quote
Jean Piaget
The genetic code describes the way in which a sequence of twenty or more things is determined by a sequence of four things of a different type. View quote
Francis Crick
Our four libertines, half-drunk but nonetheless resolved to abide their laws, contented themselves with kisses, fingerings, but their libertine intelligence knew how to season these mild activities with all the refinements of debauch and lubricity. View quote
Marquis de Sade
The multitude of formulas (for living the Christian life with success) proposed by Christian writers, preacher, conference speakers, and televangelists simply confuse me. They have different ideas about how it is done, offering promises of fulfillment and joy based on three easy steps, four points of action, or the five smooth stones that David threw. View quote
Don Miller (author)
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization. View quote
Edmond de Goncourt
Before I had my child, animals were my life. I slept with four dogs in my bed. (Salma Hayek)
My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages. View quote
Marjane Satrapi
To tell you the truth, I never wanted to become a moviemaker. It was like I was a cinepihile, and I go, like, three or four times per week to the cinema, and I like to watch films. View quote
Marjane Satrapi
Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on the rails, we got pulled into some big event book or crossover and it cost momentum and messed badly with the pacing and structure of the book. View quote
J. Michael Straczynski
All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point. View quote
George Will