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past political reform
Reform is a good replete with paradox; it is a cathartic which our political quacks, like our medical, recommend to others, but will not take themselves; it is admired by all who cannot effect it, and abused by all who can; it is thought pregnant with danger, for all time that is present, but would have been extremely profitable for that which is past, and will be highly salutary for that which is to come. Charles Caleb Colton
past men miracle
There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise. There is one signal instance on record where this kind of prejudice was overcome by a miracle; but the age of miracles is past, while that of prejudice remains.
past water people
"People can't die, along the coast," said Mr. Peggotty, "except when the tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be born, unless it's pretty nigh in - not properly born, till flood. He's a going out with the tide. It's ebb at half-arter three, slack water half an hour. If he lives till it turns, he'll hold his own till past the flood, and go out with the next tide." Charles Dickens
past self years
Only one life, a few brief years, Each with its burdens, hopes, and fears; Each with its clays I must fulfill. living for self or in His will; Only one life, 'twill soon be past, Only what s done for Christ will last. Charles Studd
past done lasts
Only one life, ’twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last.
past years tvs
My favourite movie is: "Dr Strangelove". (I haven't seen any films released in the past 2-5 years, I'm afraid: I don't do TV/cinema). Charles Stross
past years judging
It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is very dangerous, if not a fatal habit, to judge ourselves to be safe because of something that we felt or did twenty years ago. Charles Spurgeon
past giving video
Society, magazines, posters, music videos, investment bankers. A lot of times, in my past anyway, looking within wasn't overly encouraged. Pretty much everybody proclaimed that fame would give me power and fortune. Alanis Morissette
past puppets driven
We tend to regard ourselves as puppets of the Past, driven along by something that is always behind us. Alan Watts
statistics observation application
The bearings of this observation lays in the application of it.
statistics probability
History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities. Alan Greenspan
statistics firsts
Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences. Edmond de Goncourt
statistics ends scissors
The thing with high-tech is that you always end up using scissors. David Hockney
statistics computer program
In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently. Alan Kay
statistics life-is uncertain
Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company. Arthur Eddington
statistics theory results
It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.
statistics eyeballs rely
When all else failed, you had to rely on eyeball intrumentation. Arthur C. Clarke
statistics possibility refutation
It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.
structure sitcom
I like the sitcom, as a structure. Dave Foley
structure figures multiple
They say that structure is freedom, and in a sense it is. When you're dealing with multiple constraints, you have to figure out what you can get out of that. Demetri Martin
structured time
We still have old time play time at recess, but we have structured play as well. Jerry Green
structure
Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers. A. R. Ammons
structure skeptical agree
I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical Clifford Geertz
structured time
If we're going to have recovery, we're going to have to have structured government. Time is of the essence, Kathleen Blanco
structure accord happens
Our psyche is set up in accord with the structure of the universe, and what happens in the macrocosm likewise happens in the infinitesimal and most subjective reaches of the psyche Carl Jung
structure
We wanted to make the motel better, but renovating the old structure would just have been a humongous problem.
structures
A lot of these structures are going to come down.