Major Quotes - page 19

The recognition of certain basic impossibilities has laid the foundations of some major principles of physics and chemistry; similarly, recognition of the impossibility of understanding living things in terms of physics and chemistry, far from setting limits to our understanding of life, will guide it in the right direction. And even if the demonstration of this impossibility should prove of no great advantage in the pursuit of discovery, such a demonstration would help to draw a truer image of life and man than that given us by the present basic concepts of biology. (Michael Polanyi)
My research leads me inescapably to the opinion that the major cause of the American Negro's intellectual and social deficits is hereditary and racial genetic in origin and thus not remediable to a major degree by practical improvements in environment. View quote
William Shockley
Art must take reality by surprise. It takes those moments which are for us merely a moment, plus a moment, plus another moment, and arbitrarily transforms them into a special series of moments held together by a major emotion. Art should not, it seems to me, pose the "real” as a preoccupation. Nothing is more unreal than certain so-called "realist” novels - they're nightmares. It is possible to achieve in a novel a certain sensory truth - the true feeling of a character - that is all. View quote
Françoise Sagan
Once a major military confrontation occurs, North Korea will definitely be annihilated. View quote
Kim Young-sam
[the process of painting.. ].. is conceived of as an adventure, without preconceived ideas on the part of persons of intelligence, sensibility, and passion. Fidelity to what occurs between oneself and the canvas, no matter how unexpected, becomes central.... the major decisions in the process of painting are on the grounds of truth, not taste... View quote
Robert Motherwell
Every major technological innovation propels humanity forward to the point of no return. View quote
Newton Lee
One thing I learned a long time ago was my fretboard, in terms of all the scales in all the positions...You have to learn it - there are no two ways about it. I shift between positions so easily now that I really don't have to think about them much...I would suggest starting your scale education with the major and minor scales, and after that, diminished, augmented and whole-tone. Then depending on what kind of music you want to play, the modes should be learned. My theory about this kind of thing is that you should learn it all. Once you've learned it you can play whatever you want to play, and I think that your playing will be more advanced, and you'll have a better understanding of the instrument. View quote
Al Di Meola
The major abstraction is the idea of man And major man is its exponent, abler In the abstract than in his singular, More fecund as principle than particle. View quote
Wallace Stevens
Apotheosis is not The origin of the major man. He comes, p>Compact in invincible foils, from reason, Lighted at midnight by the studious eye, Swaddled in revery, the object ofThe hum of thoughts evaded in the mind... View quote
Wallace Stevens
A review of our party's seventy-plus-year history elicits an important conclusion. Our party earned the people's support during the historical periods of revolution, construction and reform because it always represented the requirements for developing China's advanced productive forces, the orientation of China's advanced culture and the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the Chinese people. The party also earned popular support because it fought tirelessly to realize the fundamental interests of the country and the people by formulating a correct line, principles and policies. Today, humanity once again stands at the beginning of a new century and a new millennium. How our party can better effectuate the Three Represents under the new historical conditions is a major issue all Party comrades, especially high-ranking party cadres, must consider deeply. View quote
Jiang Zemin
The media insist that crime is the major concern of the American public today. In this connection they generally push the point that a disarmed society would be a crime-free society. They will not accept the truth that if you take all the guns off the street you still will have a crime problem, whereas if you take the criminals off the street you cannot have a gun problem. (Jeff Cooper)
The major difference between the left and the right when it comes to any movement dedicated to overthrowing the free-market order-corporatist, authoritarian, etc.-is which groups will be the winners and which groups will be the losers. A left-wing system might empower labor leaders, government bureaucrats, progressive intellectuals, universities, certain minority groups, and one set of industries. A right-wing system might reward a different set of industries as well as traditional religious groups and their leaders, an ethnic majority, aristocrats, or perhaps rural interests. But both systems would be reactionary in the sense that they rejected the legacy of the Lockean revolution... View quote
Jonah Goldberg
Chance of source language influencing the target language and that of the translator intervening onto the style of original writer are major challenges in literary translation. View quote
Suman Pokhrel
Moreover, it thus follows that not a great deal of time was needed for the large animals of the three major parts of the world to become known to the people who spent time on the coasts of those regions. View quote
Georges Cuvier
All major changes are like death. You can't see to the other side until you are there. View quote
Michael Crichton
Our concern is solely with the basic structure of society and its major institutions and therefore with the standard cases of social justice. View quote
John Rawls
Certainly Shepard's flight was a major moment in American history and it clearly showed we were going to respond to the Soviet challenge. View quote
Alan Shepard
Real and major changes in religious or political power systems do not occur until substantial numbers of people realize the old systems are destructive, genocidal and beyond repair. View quote
David Lane (white nationalist)
Think back through all the eras of history-the major ones, the tiny obscure ones known only to scholars. Can you think of a man, ever, who was capable of fashioning the future development of mankind to suit his own idea of it-no matter how noble that ideal may have been? Wouldn't that be just another form of opinion control-no matter how splendid the conception?” Kennedy did not turn around. "It takes a great deal of faith in mankind to keep from directing it the way we think it should go,” he said at last. View quote
Mark Clifton
My daily meta-map lists: events coming up; major projects for me; emerging interests; my accountabilities. View quote
David Allen (author)
All these Wall Street lawyers are running the system according to Buckminster Fuller. After World War II they took most of the money out of the United States, they drained the blood out of the United States and put it abroad, overseas capital.... Fuller calls it Lawyer Capitalism, the lawyers run the show. Tax laws are the key. In the postwar years, tax law allowed US capital to go abroad.... It all fled the country and stayed abroad and America changed tremendously.... We became a world power, yet a rapacious one, with capitalists really doing a major theft of our money.... Nixon took us off the Gold standard in 1972 because America went bankrupt.... All these recessions in the 70's, 80's.... My father got wiped out on Wall Street. (Oliver Stone)
Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major. View quote
Oliver Stone
[Mead saw at least two major problems in dating. First, it encourages men and women to define heterosexual relationships as situational, rather than ongoing] You "have a date," you "go out with a date," you "groan because there isn't a decent date in town." A situation defined as containing a girl - or boy - of the right social background, the right degree of popularity, a little higher than your own. View quote
Margaret Mead
I don't think all buildings have to be iconic, but the history of the world has shown us that cultures build iconic buildings for their major public buildings. View quote
Frank Gehry
Operation Flood has three major achievements to its credit: making dairying India's largest self-sustainable rural employment program; bringing India self-sufficiency in milk production; trebling the nation's milk production within a span of two and half decades to make India the world's largest milk producer. View quote
Verghese Kurien