Net Quotes

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. (Robert Frost)
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it. View quote
William Gibson
NET Anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections. View quote
Samuel Johnson
All wholsom food is caught without a net or a trap. View quote
William Blake
He ploughs the waves, sows the sand, and hopes to gather the wind in a net, who places his hopes on the heart of woman. View quote
Jacopo Sannazaro
It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community. View quote
Thorstein Veblen
The Sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. View quote
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. View quote
John Gilmore
Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance. View quote
Andrew Weil
Nevertheless, I still wonder. Each of us, with money, gets further and further away from those moments where the hand pulls the beet root from the soil, shakes the fish from the net into the basket-not to mention the way it separates us from one another, so that when enough money comes between people, they lie apart like parts of a chicken hacked up for stewing. (Samuel R. Delany)
Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways. View quote
Samuel McChord Crothers
More broadly, we are going to have to examine the safety net programs to make sure they are poised to catch the families before they fall even more, especially in the areas of unemployment benefits, child care assistance, and foster care. View quote
Richard Neal
The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless. View quote
Umberto Eco
I know that when I look at today's Mexicans and Central Americans, they seem to me fundamentally the same as my grandparents seeking a better life in America. On the other side, however, open immigration can't coexist with a strong social safety net; if you're going to assure health care and a decent income to everyone, you can't make that offer global. So Democrats have mixed feelings about immigration; in fact, it's an agonizing issue. View quote
Paul Krugman
He wished she knew his impressions, but he would as soon as thought of carrying an odour in a net as of attempting to convey the intangibles of his feeling in the coarse meshes of language. So he remained silent. View quote
Thomas Hardy
The wants of mankind are supplied and satisfied out of the gross values produced and created, and not out of the net values only. View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say
What the Net does is shift the emphasis of our intelligence, away from what might be called a meditative or contemplative intelligence and more toward what might be called a utilitarian intelligence. The price of zipping among lots of bits of information is a loss of depth in our thinking. View quote
Nicholas G. Carr
Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business; and it gives in the long run a net result of zero. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
War is a culture, bellicosity is addictive, defeat for a community that imagines itself to be history's eternal victim can be as intoxicating as victory. How long will it take for the Serbs to realize that the Milosevic years have been an unmitigated disaster for Serbia, the net result of Milosevic's policies being the economic and cultural ruin of the entire region, including Serbia, for several generations? Alas, one thing we can be sure of, that will not happen soon. View quote
Susan Sontag
I have endeavoured to show that the ability to pay taxes depends, not on the gross money value of the mass of commodities, nor on the net money value of the revenue of capitalists and landlords, but on the money value of each man's revenue compared to the money value of the commodities which he usually consumes. (David Ricardo)
Striking a balance in favor of individual rights has always been the right decision for us and that it remains so even when technology gives us new ways to exercise those rights. Individual liberty has never weakened us; freedom of speech, enhanced by the Net, will only make us stronger. View quote
Mike Godwin
In short, individual freedom of speech leads to a stronger society. But knowing that principle is not enough. You have to know how to put it to use on the Net. View quote
Mike Godwin
Why worry about minor little details like clean air, clean water, safe ports and the safety net when Jesus is going to give the world an Extreme Makeover Planet Edition right after he finishes putting Satan in his place once and for all. View quote
Arianna Huffington
It is worth pointing out that assuredly not more than one person out of a hundred who stayed in the market after after 1925 emerged from it with a net profit and that the speculative losses taken were appalling. View quote
Benjamin Graham