Several Quotes - page 6

I have left the obvious, essential fact till this point, namely, that it is the Russian Armies who have done the main work in tearing the guts out of the German army. In the air and on the oceans we could maintain our place, but there was no force in the world which could have been called into being, except after several more years, that would have been able to maul and break the German army unless it had been subjected to the terrible slaughter and manhandling that has fallen to it through the strength of the Russian Soviet Armies. (Winston Churchill)
For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded. View quote
J. M. Barrie
Wise children always choose a mother who was a shocking flirt in her maiden days, and so had several offers before she accepted their fortunate papa. View quote
J. M. Barrie
Before the 1940s the terms "system" and "systems thinking" had been used by several scientists, but it was Bertalanffy's concepts of an open system and a general systems theory that established systems thinking as a major scientific movement. View quote
Fritjof Capra
Several people have told me that my inability to suffer fools gladly is one of my main weaknesses. View quote
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Now in this island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island and several others, and over parts of the continent and, furthermore, the men of Atlantis had subjected the parts of Libya within the columns of Heracles as far as Egypt, and of Europe as far as Tyrrhenia. This vast power, gathered into one, endeavored to subdue at a blow our country and yours and the whole of the region within the straits, and then, Solon, your country shone forth, in the excellence of her virtue and strength, among all mankind. View quote
Plato
I believe a constitution can permit the co-existence of several cultures and ethnic groups with a single state. View quote
Pierre Trudeau
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work. View quote
Thomas Edison
Residues arise ... naturally in several branches of analysis .... Their consideration provides simple and easy-to-use methods, which are applicable to a large number of diverse questions, and some new results .... View quote
Augustin Louis Cauchy
The heavenly bodies are nothing but a continuous song for several voices (perceived by the intellect, not by the ear); a music which... sets landmarks in the immeasurable flow of time. It is therefore, no longer surprising that man, in imitation of his creator, has at last discovered the art of figured song, which was unknown to the ancients. Man wanted to reproduce the continuity of cosmic time... to obtain a sample test of the delight of the Divine Creator in His works, and to partake of his joy by making music in the imitation of God. View quote
Johannes Kepler
Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one. (Larry Wall)
To our dismay, users who had been enduring several hour waits between jobs run under batch processing were suddenly restless when response times were more than a second. View quote
Fernando J. Corbató
GOVERNMENT has no rights; it is a delegation from several individuals for the purpose of securing their own. It is therefore just, only so far as it exists by their consent, useful only so far as it operates to their well-being. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Do not several sorts of Rays make Vibrations of several bignesses, which according to their bigness excite Sensations of several Colours, much after the manner that the Vibrations of the Air, according to their several bignesses excite Sensations of several Sounds? And particularly do not the most refrangible Rays excite the shortest Vibrations for making a Sensation of deep violet, the least refrangible the largest form making a Sensation of deep red, and several intermediate sorts of Rays, Vibrations of several intermediate bignesses to make Sensations of several intermediate Colours? View quote
Isaac Newton
The monarchy of the Greeks for want of an heir was broken into several kingdoms; four of which, seated to the four winds of heaven, were very eminent. For Ptolemy reigned over Egypt, Lybia and Ethiopia; Antigonus over Syria and the lesser Asia; Lysimachus over Thrace; and Cassander over Macedon, Greece and Epirus. View quote
Isaac Newton
The Prophecies of Daniel are all of them related to one another, as if they were but several parts of one general Prophecy, given at several times. The first is the easiest to be understood, and every following Prophecy adds something new to the former. View quote
Isaac Newton
I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. View quote
Martin Luther
I have flown twice over Mount St. Helens. I'm not a scientist and I don't know the figures, but I have a suspicion that one little mountain out there, in these last several months, has probably released more sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere than has been released in the last ten years of automobile driving or things of that kind. View quote
Ronald Reagan
Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that. View quote
Michael Morpurgo
Unfortunately, several companies are attempting to deceive consumers through the unauthorized use of my image or my name, and my attorneys are pursuing those making these false claims. View quote
Mehmet Oz
The Mathemagician nodded knowingly and stroked his chin several times. "You'll find,” he remarked gently, "that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort. (Norton Juster)
The larger the German body, the smaller the German bathing suit and the louder the German voice issuing German demands and German orders to everybody who doesn't speak German. For this, and several other reasons, Germany is known as 'the land where Israelis learned their manners. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
Knives are like credit cards; don't leave home without 'em and always carry several. View quote
Richard Marcinko
I got thrown out of school several weeks in my senior year being caught in the girls' dorm. This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think. View quote
Robert B. Parker
I was on the Oprah Winfrey Show once. It was a really slow news day for Oprah, and there were several of us on 'cause none of us was sufficiently interesting by his or herself. View quote
Robert B. Parker