Quotes for All
Beware of books. They are more than innocent assemblages of paper and ink and string and glue. If they are any good, they have the spirit of the author within. Authors are rogues and ruffians and easy lays. They are gluttons for sweets and savories. They devour life and always want more. They have sap, … Read more
It is odd enough to see how the entrance of a person of the opposite sex into an assemblage of either men or women calms down the little discordances and the disturbance of mood. Elizabeth Gaskell
The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark. Elihu Root
During the last dozen years the tales of suppression of free assemblage, free press, and free speech, by local authorities or the State operating under martial law have been so numerous as to have become an old story. They are attacked at the instigation of an economically and socially powerful class, itself enjoying to the … Read more
If I could find them (assemblages) in nature I would photograph them. I make them because through photography I have a knowledge of things that can’t be found. Frederick Sommer
We are all incarnate Buddhas. We just have not realized it deeply. We have not moved the mind – what our friend Don Juan calls the assemblage point. Frederick Lenz
Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, \”I am not the kind of person I want to be.\” It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied. Frank Herbert
What we take for virtue is often but an assemblage of various ambitions and activities that chance, or our own astuteness, have arranged in a certain manner; and it is not always out of courage or purity that men are brave, and women chaste. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows how to arrange. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That’s how the patent office defines it. That’s an invention Dean Kamen