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giving may novelty
Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve; we may give somewhat of novelty to that which was old, condensation to that which was diffuse, perspicuity to that which was obscure, and currency to that which was recondite. Charles Caleb Colton
giving enemy prudent
If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold. Charles Caleb Colton
giving credit world
Instead of exhibiting talent in the hope that the world would forgive their eccentricities, they have exhibited only their eccentricities, in the hope that the world would give them credit for talent. Charles Caleb Colton
giving opponents talent
He that gives a portion of his time and talent to the investigation of mathematical truth, will come to all other questions with a decided advantage over his opponents. Charles Caleb Colton
giving-up deep-water sea
Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead Charles Dickens
giving missionary missions
True religion is like the smallpox. If you get it, you give it to others and it spreads. Charles Studd
giving may gift-giving
You may have the gift of giving. Charles Stanley
giving-up believe belief
I have noticed that whenever a person gives up his belief in the Word of God because it requires that he should believe a good deal, his unbelief requires him to believe a great deal more. If there be any difficulties in the faith of Christ, they are not one-tenth as great as the absurdities in any system of unbelief which seeks to take its place. Charles Spurgeon
giving heaven littles
There is nothing little in God; His mercy is like Himself-it is infinite. You cannot measure it. His mercy is so great that it forgives great sins to great sinners, after great lengths of time, and then gives great favours and great privileges, and raises us up to great enjoyments in the great heaven of the great God. Charles Spurgeon
statistics observation application
The bearings of this observation lays in the application of it. Charles Dickens
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. Arthur Eddington
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. Arthur C. Clarke
narrative information different
The comics medium has some unusual features that do make it very different, in that it's combining a verbal narrative with a visual one that allows for much richer possibilities of transmitting information. Alan Moore
narrative nonfiction labels
Nonfiction, qua label, is nothing more or less than a very flexible (easily breakable) frame that allows you to pull the thing away from narrative and toward contemplation, which is all I've ever wanted. David Shields
narrative plot resolution
Resolution and conclusion are inherent in a plot-driven narrative. David Shields
narrative allies honest
I'm not interested in collage as the refuge of the composition-ally disabled. I'm interested in collage as (to be honest) an evolution beyond narrative. David Shields
narrative
I have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find it. Djuna Barnes
narrative shows
My shows are not narratives. Brian Eno
narrative rock-n-roll tradition
I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition. Bruce Springsteen
narrative
Narrative is one of the best intoxicants or tranquilisers. A. S. Byatt
narrative adhesive film
Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films. Carter Burwell