Volume Quotes

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it. (J. M. Barrie)
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him. View quote
William Ellery Channing
I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone. View quote
Charles Darwin
Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.... And when you realize the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate. View quote
James A. Garfield
Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce. View quote
James A. Garfield
To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it. View quote
Herman Melville
Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737. View quote
Sydney Smith
Arc, amplitude, and curvature sustain a similar relation to each other as time, motion, and velocity, or as volume, mass, and density. View quote
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries. View quote
Walter Scott
The journey and excursions in Mexico which have originated the narrative and remarks contained in this volume were made in the months of March, April, May, and June of 1856, for the most part on horseback. (Edward Burnett Tylor)
Extreme volume in music very often disguises a lack of actually important content. View quote
Michael Tilson Thomas
I have always said, and always will say, that the studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The last sort I shall mention are verbal critics - mere word-catchers, fellows that pick out a word in a sentence and a sentence in a volume, and tell you it is wrong. The title of Ultra-Crepidarian critics has been given to a variety of this species. View quote
William Hazlitt
I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice. View quote
Zack de la Rocha
I couldn't portray a women in all her natural loveliness.. ..I haven't the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a new sort of beauty, the beauty that appears to me in terms of volume of line, of mass, of weight, and through that beauty interpret my subjective impression. Nature is mere a pretext for decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art. I want to express the absolute, not merely the factitious woman. View quote
Georges Braque
I am not so naïve as to believe that this slim volume will change the course of history or shake the conscience of the world. Books no longer have the power they once did. Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow. View quote
Elie Wiesel
After all, an overvalued dollar gives us the ability to buy foreign goods at lower prices. And the existing volume of exports brings more yen and euros than they would if the dollar were more competitive. View quote
Martin Feldstein
Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. View quote
Khaled Hosseini
A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything. View quote
Laurence Sterne
Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light taught Monet to paint, the earth may be teaching you music. (Pete Seeger)
The volume of credit depends upon three factors: the desire to borrow, the ability to lend and the desire to lend. View quote
Benjamin Graham
The shouting, the overrunning of the Capitol, the sneaking in of Tea Party participants into the basement of the Capitol, the name-calling, the spitting, all of that.... The Tea Party emerges as not only outrageous, but they have turned up the volume in ways that even Code Pink have not been able to do. View quote
Maxine Waters
My grandfather always says that's what books are for," Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. "To travel without moving an inch. View quote
Jhumpa Lahiri
There can be no doubt that Samuel Marchbanks is one of the choice and master spirits of this age. If there were such a volume as Who Really Ought To Be Who his entry would require several pages. View quote
Robertson Davies