Survey Quotes

The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong. (Herbert Spencer)
Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to our common task in a mood of sober resolution and quiet confidence, without haste and without pause. View quote
Arthur Henderson
One survey that I saw that was published I think in Variety or Electronic Media within the last three weeks says that now the average hour of radio in the United States has 18 minutes of commercials. View quote
Robert McChesney
I think my great book is Born to Sing: An Interpretation and World Survey of Bird Song. View quote
Charles Hartshorne
In a recent survey of American men 42% were found to overeat, 34% were critically overweight, 10% technically obese, and 8% ate the survey. View quote
Banksy
In European thought in general, as contrasted with American, vigor, life and originality have a kind of easy, professional utterance. American - on the other hand, is expressed in an eager amateurish way. A European gives a sense of scope, of survey, of consideration. An American is strained, sensational. One is artistic gold; the other is bullion. View quote
Wallace Stevens
It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions. View quote
Harvey Milk
Let observation with extensive view Survey mankind, from China to Peru. View quote
Samuel Johnson
USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population. View quote
David Letterman
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. View quote
George Santayana
I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute; From the center all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute. (William Cowper)
There is a kind, I might almost say, of artistic satisfaction, when we are able to survey the enormous wealth of Nature as a regularly ordered whole a kosmos, an image of the logical thought of our own mind. View quote
Hermann von Helmholtz
Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort. View quote
Andrew Greeley
Jocelyn Bell joined the project as a graduate student in 1965, helping as a member of the construction team and then analysing the paper charts of the sky survey. View quote
Antony Hewish
As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs along for centuries, ever responsive to the strain of the increasing needs of a growing population and an enlarging domain. View quote
Cleveland Abbe
In my judgment, based on the work that has been done to this point of the Iraq Survey Group, and in fact, that I reported to you in October, Iraq was in clear violation of the terms of U.N.Resolution 1441. View quote
David Kay
With Twitter and other social networking tools, you can get a lot of advice from great people. I learn more from Twitter than any survey or discussion with a big company. View quote
Daniel Ek
There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true. View quote
Fiona Shaw
Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep. View quote
Janet Street-Porter
I've done an informal, anecdotal survey about marriage, and I've found no evidence that it brings happiness. View quote
Mary McCormack
A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology. (Stanley Smith Stevens)
My intention was to trace, as far as I could, my own mental development and not write a survey of recent Indian history. View quote
Jawaharlal Nehru
Exoplanet astronomy will systematically survey our galaxy, gathering information on the masses, orbits, geology, and atmospheres of millions of planets. As a byproduct, we will learn how rare life is and what conditions it requires. What we discover might support tests and refinements of anthropic reasoning. View quote
Frank Wilczek
Survey the histories of all nations. You will never see them exchange their form of government for a monarchy, given their gradation by superstition; you will always see kings supporting religion, and religion supporting kings. View quote
Marquis de Sade
Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam is amber and their gravel gold; His genuine and less guilty wealth t' explore, Search not his bottom, but survey his shore. View quote
John Denham