Branches Quotes:

The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child.

- A. R. Rahman

topic: Children, Imagination, Branches, Wild Imagination

Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil.

- Aaron Hill

topic: Evil, Tree, Branches

I actually run a non-profit where one of the main objectives is to branch out and get a new audience for the theater. Just because the writing is so good and nothing is more effective than seeing something live and happening right in front of your face, so I definitely want to continue to pursue that.

- Adam Driver

topic: Running, Writing, Branches

Unless the chemist learns the language of mathematics, he will become a provincial and the higher branches of chemical work, that require reason as well as skill, will gradually pass out of his hands.

- Alexander Crum Brown

topic: Hands, Skills, Branches, Chemist

The same rule that teaches the propriety of a partition between the various branches of power, teaches us likewise that this partition ought to be so contrived as to render the one independent of the other.

- Alexander Hamilton

topic: Independent, Branches, Separation, Partition, Separation Of Powers

. . . [The Judicial Branch] may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments.

- Alexander Hamilton

topic: Branches, May, Arms, Judicial Branch, Judiciary

The superiority...enjoyed by nations that have...perfected a branch of industry, constitutes a...formidable obstacle.

- Alexander Hamilton

topic: Branches, Obstacles, Formidable

On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.

- Alfred North Whitehead

topic: Fake, Branches, Mathematics, Exactitude, Exactness

The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime.

- Alma Gluck

topic: Song, Art, Branches, Green Leaves

My present work concerns the problems connected with the theory of elementary particles, the theory of gravitation and cosmology and I shall be glad if I can manage to make some contribution to these important branches of science.

- Andrei Sakharov

topic: Important, Branches, Problem, Gravitation, Cosmology

To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence.

- Ann Plato

source: Ann Plato (1988). “Essays: Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Poetry”, p.35, Oxford University Press on Demand

topic: Ignorance, Important, Branches

Novelty does not require intelligence, but ignorance, which is why the young excel in this branch.

- Anthony Marais

topic: Ignorance, Doe, Branches

I never wanted to limit myself to just impressions. I wanted to branch out and develop other parts of my game.

- Aries Spears

topic: Games, Branches, Limits

Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.

- Arthur Machen

source: Arthur Machen (2015). “The Novel of the White Powder”, p.16, Booklassic

topic: Branches, Principles, Finals, Human Knowledge

We never leave our roots. We just grow new branches.

- Audrey Meadows

topic: Women, Roots, Branches

Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott.

- Bal Gangadhar Tilak

topic: Inspiring, Tree, Branches, Independence And Freedom, India Independence Day

The branches of mathematics are as various as the sciences to which they belong, and each subject of physical enquiry has its appropriate mathematics. In every form of material manifestation, there is a corresponding form of human thought, so that the human mind is as wide in its range of thought as the physical universe in which it thinks.

- Benjamin Peirce

source: "Linear Associative Algebra" by Benjamin Peirce, (§ 2), 1882.

topic: Thinking, Mind, Branches, Human Thought

Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics

- Benoit Mandelbrot

topic: Thinking, Color, Branches, Hotness, Heaviness

I was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and no one had ever taught anybody that young, back in those days.

- Bernie Worrell

topic: Long, Branches, Taught

Just like my straight friends, I am repeatedly asked when I plan to have kids, and have been told many times, by various branches of my bloodline, that 'even lesbians can have babies these days.'

- Beth Ditto

topic: Baby, Kids, Branches, Bloodline

Quantum physics is a bit of a passion of mine. It's extraordinary. There's a branch of mathematics that is based on lunacy, and that's wonderful.

- Bob Hoskins

source: "This much I know: Bob Hoskins". Interview with Bob Hoskins, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2010.

topic: Passion, Branches, Physics, Lunacy, Quantum Physics

Branch Rickey made me a better man.

- Branch Rickey

topic: Men, Branches, Made

The founder of any branch must be more ingenious than the common man. However, if his achievement is not carried on by disciples of the same ingenuity, then things will only become formalized and get stuck in a cul-de-sac; whereby breakthrough and progress will be almost impossible.

- Bruce Lee

topic: Men, Progress, Branches, Common Man

There is a difficulty about disagreeing with God. He is the source from which all your reasoning power comes: you could not be right and he wrong any more than a stream can rise higher than its own source. When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Cutting, Sitting, Branches

To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.

- Charles Babbage

topic: Medicine, Branches, Chemistry, Department

An evening wind uprose too, and the slighter branches cracked and rattled as they moved, in skeleton dances, to its moaning music.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Skeletons, Wind, Branches

I was a pebble. I was a leaf. I was the jagged branch of a tree. I was nothing to them and they were everything to me.

- Cheryl Strayed

topic: Tree, Branches, Pebbles

The arts often realize human truths well before other branches of human endeavor.

- Chris Hedges

topic: Art, Branches, Realizing

Cultivate the root; the leaves and branches will take care of themselves.

- Confucius

topic: Roots, Care, Branches

Chestnuts in stuffing tastes like someone chewed up a tree branch and then French-kissed it into your mouth.

- Daniel Handler

topic: Tree, Mouths, Branches, Chestnuts, Tree Branches

I actually got a part in 'The Love Guru', that Mike Myers film. I heard it's awful. I got a Razzie award for it, which I'm quite proud of, but I still haven't seen it. I have no plans to branch out.

- Daniel Tosh

topic: Funny, Awards, Branches

The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science

- David Hilbert

topic: Doe, Branches, Construction

The vinedresser is never nearer the branches then when he is pruning them.

- David Jeremiah

topic: Pruning, Branches

He (Branch Rickey) must think I went to the Massachesetts Constitution of Technology.

- Dizzy Dean

topic: Technology, Thinking, Branches

Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.

- Edsger Dijkstra

source: Edsger W. Dijkstra (2012). “Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective”, p.129, Springer Science & Business Media

topic: Branches, Mathematics, Programming, Applied Mathematics

Astrology is like any other branch of knowledge. It can be used for good or for ill, properly or improperly, by skilled and unskilled practitioners alike.

- Elizabeth Clare Prophet

source: Elizabeth Clare Prophet (1991). “The Astrology of the Four Horsemen: How You Can Heal Yourself and Planet Earth”, p.35, Summit University Press

topic: Astrology, Branches, Used

Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation.

- Ernst Haeckel

source: ernst haeckel “the riddle of the universe”

topic: Law, Connections, Branches, Heredity, Recapitulation

It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science.

- Ernst Mayr

topic: Science, Branches, Curious

Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents.

- Ezra Stiles

topic: Thinking, Law, Branches

Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.

- Ferdinand de Saussure

topic: Law, Branches, Language, Linguistics, Linguists

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

- Frank Zappa

topic: Branches, Politics, Entertainment, Entertainment Industry, Car Salesman

To put it crudely but graphically, the monkey who did not have a realistic perception of the tree branch he jumped for was soon a dead monkey-and therefore did not become one of our ancestors.

- George Gaylord Simpson

topic: Tree, Perception, Branches, Tree Branches

We came from many roots, and we have many branches.

- Gerald R. Ford

topic: Roots, Branches

Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating.

- Gilbert Highet

topic: Branches, Bud, Pieces

Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.

- Greg Egan

topic: Years, Branches, Diaspora, Civilisation

Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking.

- Gustav Mahler

topic: Branches, Existence, Behinds

Political economy has disapproved equally of monopoly and communism in the various branches of human activity, wherever it has found them. Is it not then strange and unreasonable that it accepts them in the security industry?

- Gustave de Molinari

source: Gustave Molinari (1977). “Production of Security, The”, p.28, Ludwig von Mises Institute

topic: Political, Branches, Strange, Political Economy

Life is a flimsy branch over an abyss.

- Henning Mankell

source: Henning Mankell (2013). “Italian Shoes: A Novel”, p.11, The New Press

topic: Branches, Life Is, Abyss

In the one branch he most needed

- Henry Adams

topic: Math, Branches, Needed

But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system

- Henry Mayhew

topic: Division, Branches, Firsts

The study of butterflies-creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity-instead of being despised, will some day be valued as one of the most important branches of Biological science.

- Henry Walter Bates

source: Henry Walter Bates (1864). “The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven Years of Travel”, p.413

topic: Butterfly, Important, Branches, Biological Science

To all of us who hold the Christian belief that God is truth, anything that is true is a fact about God, and mathematics is a branch of theology.

- Hilda Phoebe Hudson

topic: Christian, Education, Branches, Numbers And Math

The nice men in periwigs who came up with the Fourth Amendment were recklessly naive to imagine that branches of a government, each of whose power is enhanced when the power of the other branches grows, would serve to check one another.

- Ilana Mercer

topic: Nice, Men, Branches, Fourth Amendment, Nice Man

A son is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists.

- Ivan Turgenev

topic: Children, Son, Branches, Falcon

Kuwait is an origin, and her regulations are branches, so be devoted to the origin, the roots will be insured.

- Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah

topic: Kuwait, Roots, Branches

The faults and shortcomings we see in the members of our own ward or branch are of less consequence to us than one of the smallest in ourselves.

- Jacob de Jager

topic: Judging, Branches, Faults

In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which to build, and therefore to the facility of obtaining data.

- James Clerk Maxwell

source: James Clerk Maxwell (1990). “The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: 1846-1862”, p.209, CUP Archive

topic: Data, Progress, Branches

The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most prone to it.

- James Madison

topic: War, Government, Branches, Executive Branch

The Theory of Groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to something and then compares the result with the result obtained from doing the same thing to something else, or something else to the same thing.

- James R Newman

source: James R. Newman (1956). “The World of Mathematics”, p.1534, Рипол Классик

topic: Groups, Doe, Branches

To be sure, mathematics can be extended to any branch of knowledge, including economics, provided the concepts are so clearly defined as to permit accurate symbolic representation. That is only another way of saying that in some branches of discourse it is desirable to know what you are talking about.

- James R Newman

source: James R. Newman (2000). “The World of Mathematics”, p.1200, Рипол Классик

topic: Talking, Branches, Way, Symbolic

Everything is about accountability to the American people, accountability of the executive branch ... [and] accountability of the oversight of the Congress

- Jay Rockefeller

source: "Democrats close Senate to push war probe". www.cnn.com. November 1, 2005.

topic: People, Accountability, Branches, Executive Branch, Oversight

All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.

- Jeremy Bentham

topic: Government, Branches, Branches Of Government

Poetry is a tree with very deep roots and while there may be excitement about this or that new little branch, you're not going to make anything original by just doing whatever's being rewarded at the moment.

- Joan Larkin

source: "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

topic: Roots, Tree, Branches, Deep Roots

That which interests me above all else is the calligraphy of a tree or the tiles of a roof, and I mean leaf by leaf, branch by branch, blade by blade of grass.

- Joan Miro

topic: Mean, Tree, Branches, Calligraphy, Tiles

There are persons whom in my heart I despise, others I abhor. Yet I am not obliged to inform the one of my contempt, nor the other of my detestation. This kind of dissimulation...is a necessary branch of wisdom, and so far from being immoral...that it is a duty and a virtue.

- John Adams

topic: Heart, Branches, Kind

Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not landscape painting be considered as a branch of natural philosophy, of which pictures are but the experiments?

- John Constable

source: John E. Thornes, John Constable (1999). “John Constable's Skies: A Fusion of Art and Science”, p.51, A&C Black

topic: Philosophy, Law, Branches, Landscape Painting, Natural Philosophy

There was after all no mystery in the end of love, no mystery but the mystery of love itself, which was large certainly but as real as grass, as natural and unaccountable as bloom and branch and their growth.

- John Crowley

source: John Crowley (2015). “Little, Big”, p.487, Hachette UK

topic: Real, Growth, Branches, Mystery Of Love

We didn't pass any constitutional amendments that affected the executive branch while I was governor.

- John Engler

topic: Branches, Executive Branch, Amendments, Constitutional Amendments

Corruption is a tree, whose branches are Of an immeasurable length: they spread Ev'rywhere; and the dew that drops from thence Hath infected some chairs and stools of authority.

- John Fletcher

topic: Tree, Dew, Branches

I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics.

- John Pople

topic: Branches, Modern, Scientist

In all things that live there are certain irregularities, and deficiencies which are not only signs of life, but sources of beauty. No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry.

- John Ruskin

topic: Beauty, Perfect, Branches, Irregularity, Signs Of Life

I see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital vested in other branches of trade, manufacture, or commerce.

- Joseph Hume

topic: Agriculture, Giving, Branches

So that the executive and legislative branches of the national government depend upon, and emanate from the states. Every where the state sovereignties are represented; and the national sovereignty, as such, has no representation.

- Joseph Story

topic: Government, Federalism, Branches, Legislative Branch, National Sovereignty

The Jew is a devil in human form. It is fitting that he be exterminated root and branch.

- Julius Streicher

topic: Roots, Devil, Branches, Roots And Branches, Human Form

Archaeology is the only branch of Anthropology where we kill our informants in the process of studying them.

- Kent V. Flannery

topic: Branches, Study, Process, Informants, Archaeology

An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.

- Lawrence Durrell

source: "Monsieur". Book by Lawrence Durrell, 1974.

topic: Ideas, Bird, Branches

He had fallen out of the ugly tree, and hit every branch.

- Lee Child

topic: Tree, Ugly, Branches, Funny Redneck

Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse.

- Leo Durocher

source: Leo Durocher, Ed Linn (2009). “Nice Guys Finish Last”, p.22, University of Chicago Press

topic: Men, Branches, Infinite

In the executive branch, winning by a whisker is as good as winning in a landslide, but not so in the Senate.

- Lincoln Chafee

source: Lincoln Chafee (2010). “Against the Tide: How a Compliant Congress Empowered a Reckless President”, p.2, Macmillan

topic: Winning, Branches, Executive Branch, Landslides, Whiskers

History is not only a particular branch of knowledge, but a particular mode and method of knowledge in other branches.

- Lord Acton

topic: History, Branches, Method

I know that God our Father is in this work in great congregations . . . and in the smallest branch and the smallest congregation.

- Loren C. Dunn

topic: Father, Work, Branches, Our Father

In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.

- Loretta Young

topic: Education, Branches, Common, Academic Education

Sons branch out, but one woman leads to another.

- Margaret Atwood

topic: Witty, Son, Branches

I accepted an invitation to talk to the women's branch of the Ku Klux Klan.

- Margaret Sanger

source: Margaret Sanger (2004). “The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger”, p.366, Courier Corporation

topic: Ku Klux Klan, Branches, Accepted, Planned Parenthood

La rama que crece torcida nunca se endereza. A branch that grows crooked, or that is crooked from the beginning, will never straighten out. If you don't learn right from wrong early on, or if you don't learn manners when you are young, you will never learn them later.

- Maria Bethania

topic: Learning, Branches, Rama

The manufacture of wax candles was another important branch of business in the nunnery.

- Maria Monk

source: Maria MONK (1836). “Awful Disclosures ... of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal. Revised with an appendix, etc”, p.87

topic: Important, Branches, Candle

The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry.

- Marie-Antoine Careme

topic: Art, Numbers, Branches, Pastries

Suddenly I had a flash of insight: I am a monster, I realized, a monster that wants to stalk through the woods, free and alone, and cannot even bear so much as the touch of a branch on its skin.

- Marlen Haushofer

topic: Skins, Branches, Want

Here and there on the branch of an oak a congress of leaves still clung, rigid as flakes of bronze.

- Martha Ostenso

topic: Autumn, Branches, Bronze, Flakes

In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory.

- Martin Gardner

topic: Education, Branches, Experts, Probability Theory

Statistics is the branch of scientific method which deals with the data obtained by counting or measuring the properties of populations of natural phenomena.

- Maurice Kendall

source: Maurice George Kendall, Alan Stuart (1977). “The Advanced Theory of Statistics: Distribution theory”, Hafner Press

topic: Data, Population, Branches

At present, when the prevailing forms of society have become hindrances to the free expression of human powers, it is precisely the abstract branches of science, mathematics and theoretical physics, which ... offer a less distorted form of knowledge than other branches of science which are interwoven with the pattern of daily life, and the practicality of which seemingly testifies to their realistic character.

- Max Horkheimer

topic: Character, Expression, Branches, Free Expression, Theoretical Physics

The duty of the branch is to cling to the vine.

- Max Lucado

topic: Vines, Branches, Duty

Childhood is a branch of cartography.

- Michael Chabon

topic: Childhood, Branches, Cartography

While Financier George Soros was investing money in Kosovo's reconstruction, the George Soros Foundation for an Open Society had opened a branch office in Pristina establishing the Kosovo Foundation for an Open Society (KFOS) as part of the Soros' network of "non-profit foundations" in the Balkans.

- Michel Chossudovsky

source: "The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order". Book by Michel Chossudovsky, 2003.

topic: Office, Branches, Foundation, Balkans, Financiers

I love silent cinema but don't hold it sacred. Like any branch of film there are some very boring films alongside the masterpieces.

- Michel Hazanavicius

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Branches, Sacred, Cinema

Presidents Lincoln, Jefferson, Jackson, presidents have understood that the Supreme Court cannot make a law. They cannot make it. The legislature has to make it, the executive branch has to sign it and enforce it.

- Mike Huckabee

topic: Law, President, Branches, Executive Branch, Supreme Court

Live in your roots, not in your branches.

- Nancy Willard

source: Nancy Willard (2014). “A Nancy Willard Reader: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.303, Open Road Media

topic: Roots, Branches, Superficiality

Facts are the barren branches on which we hang the dear, obscuring foliage of our dreams.

- Natalie Babbitt

source: Natalie Babbitt (2010). “Kneeknock Rise”, p.8, Macmillan

topic: Dream, Branches, Facts, Foliage

There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.

- Nikolai Lobachevsky

source: "The Foundations of Geometry and the Non-Euclidean Plane". Book by George Edward Martin, 1975.

topic: Real, World, Branches, Mathematics And Science, Applied Mathematics

Landscape is my religion. ...God in a green legend, I lean over the pool In a testament of leaves. I dangle my twinkling mood Before me in a cool cave roofed with branches And floored with a skin of water.

- Norman MacCaig

topic: Water, Skins, Branches

The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers.

- Paul Dirac

topic: Numbers, Branches, Essentials, Theoretical, Theoretical Physics

My very identities as a reader and a writer began at the Walt Whitman branch library.

- Paula Spencer

topic: Library, Identity, Branches

Each nanosecond of history branches off into an infinite amount of parallel universes.

- Pete Carroll

topic: Branches, Infinite, Parallel Universe, Parallels

Pirate historians have now discovered social history, the branch of history which in the last two decades or so has been the most dynamic and inventive, in both senses of the word.

- Peter Earle

source: Peter Earle (2013). “The Pirate Wars”, p.4, Macmillan

topic: Two, Pirate, Branches, Social History

The advance planning and sense stimuli employed to capture a $10 million cigarette or soap market are nothing compared to the brainwashing and propaganda blitzes used to ensure control of the largest cash market in the world: the Executive Branch of the United States Government.

- Phyllis Schlafly

topic: Government, World, Branches, Executive Branch, Brainwashing

You need not hang up the ivy branch over the wine that will sell.

- Publilius Syrus

topic: Wine, Ivy, Branches

Remember, we without our roots and branches cannot be saved.

- Quentin L. Cook

topic: Roots, Branches, Remember, Roots And Branches

Probably no branch of mathematics has experienced a more surprising growth than has... topology... Considered as a most specialized and abstract subject in the early 1920's, it is today [1938] an indispensable equipment for the investigation of modern mathematical theories.

- Raymond Louis Wilder

topic: Growth, Experience, Branches, Topology

I went to work for Catholics United for the Faith, and I basically found myself in the midst of the traditionalist branch of the Catholic revival. There is an intellectual rigor that is very much valued there and that I was in awe of.

- Regina Doman

topic: Catholic, Intellectual, Branches

The study of taxonomy in its broadest sense is probably the oldest branch of biology or natural history as well as the basis for all the other branches, since the first step in obtaining any knowledge of things about us is to discriminate between them and to learn to recognize them.

- Richard E. Blackwelder

topic: Taxonomy, Branches, Firsts, Natural History

It makes sense that the placenta almost looks like a tree with many branches - a tree of life.

- Ricki Lake

topic: Tree, Branches, Looks, Placenta

The main stem was then in most cases twisted in a zigzag form, which process checked the flow of the sap, and at the same time encouraged the production of side branches at those parts of the stem where they were most desired.

- Robert Fortune

source: Robert Fortune (1853). “Two visits to the tea countries of China and the british tea plantations in the Himalaya”, p.74

topic: Branches, Flow, Sides

A gnarled old branch dulls the blade that severs a sapling.

- Robert Jordan

topic: Saplings, Branches, Blades, Wot

The most effective executive branch officials try to help legislators develop explanations for the votes they are being asked to take.

- Robert Zoellick

source: "Robert Zoellick: “Getting Stuff Done” at the World Bank and Beyond" by Mark V. Vlasic, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 5, 2012.

topic: Trying, Branches, Helping, Executive Branch

Myth is never a single story. It is always a tree with many branches.

- Roberto Calasso

topic: Tree, Stories, Branches

Stories never live alone; They are the branches of a family that we have to trace back, and forward.

- Roberto Calasso

source: Roberto Calasso (1993). “The marriage of Cadmus and Harmony”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

topic: Stories, Branches

I seem restless, but am deeply at ease. Branches tremble; the roots are still.

- Rumi

topic: Roots, Branches, Ease

No matter how accomplished one might be in any branch of learning or art, one would have to be condemned to hell, if on where not endowed with th five cardinal virtues of Confucius-benevolence, justice, courtesy, wisdom and fidelity

- Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

source: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1987). “Hell screen ; Cogwheels ; A fool's life”, Eridanos Library

topic: Art, Justice, Branches

I feel very lucky and privileged to be a writer. I feel lucky in the sense that I can branch out into prose and tell different kinds of stories and stuff. But being a writer is so great because youre literally not dependent on anybody.

- Sam Shepard

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Stories, Branches, Stuff

The bloom fell off my branches and joy did cast off its flower

- Samuel Rutherford

topic: Flower, Joy, Branches

Several ripe persimmons Left on the branches; Gray clouds come and go.

- Santoka Taneda

topic: Clouds, Branches, Fruit

There is nothing more negligent than attempting to address a problem one finds on a branch than by censoring the leaves.

- Saul Williams

topic: Addresses, Branches, Problem

One of the most important branches of the Egyptian economy is tourism. No bikinis, no tourism. So they have to decide what to do.

- Shimon Peres

topic: Important, Tourism, Branches

There is much of economic theory which is pursued for no better reason than its intellectual attraction; it is a good game. We have no reason to be ashamed of that, since the same would hold for many branches of mathematics.

- Sir John Richard Hicks

source: 1979 Causality in Economics.

topic: Games, Intellectual, Branches, Pursued

I have to admit that he was not bad at combinatorial analysis - a branch, however, that even then I considered to be dried up.

- Stanislaw Lem

topic: Branches, Analysis, Mathematics

Neuroscience is by far the most exciting branch of science because the brain is the most fascinating object in the universe. Every human brain is different - the brain makes each human unique and defines who he or she is.

- Stanley B. Prusiner

topic: Unique, Brain, Branches, Human Brain, Neuroscience

Science is really about describing the way the universe works in one aspect or another in all branches of science-how a life-form works, how this works, how that works. ... You have to have a natural curiosity for that.

- Steven Chu

topic: Curiosity, Branches, Way, Natural Curiosity

You know those things that you throw the twigs into and it spits them out? That's what I do. The branches are like life, and I throw them into my head and some of it comes out as humor.

- Steven Wright

topic: Branches, Twigs, Spit

I look down from the branch I'm perched on. The Careers look murderous. Now I smile.'How have things been with you?' I ask sweetly.

- Suzanne Collins

topic: Careers, Looks, Branches

I have a message for the world, which I will deliver without fear and care for the future. To the reformers I will point out that I am a greater reformer than any one of them. They want to reform only little bits. I want root-and-branch reform.

- Swami Vivekananda

topic: Roots, Care, Branches, Reformers, Roots And Branches

When I tried to branch out into comedy, I didn't do very well at it, so I went back to doing what I do naturally well, or what the audience expects from me - action pictures.

- Sylvester Stallone

topic: Branches, Comedy, Action

Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.

- Terence McKenna

topic: Philosophy, Branches, Shamanism

What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.

- Terry Pratchett

topic: Men, Average, Branches, Branches Of Government

If whole branches of Jews must be destroyed, it is worth it, as long as a Jewish state in Palestine is created.

- Theodor Herzl

topic: Long, Branches, States

I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful at this day, may be taught in it's highest degrees.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Educational, Europe, Branches

The science of political economy is essentially practical, and applicable to the common business of human life. There are few branches of human knowledge where false views may do more harm, or just views more good.

- Thomas Malthus

topic: Views, Political, Branches, Political Economy

It has been said, and perhaps with truth, that the conclusions of Political Economy partake more of the certainty of the stricter sciences than those of most of the other branches of human knowledge.

- Thomas Malthus

topic: Political, Branches, Economy, Political Economy

I conceive ethics as a branch of psychology.

- Thomas Nagel

topic: Psychology, Branches, Action

The Supreme Court and courts in general have been usurping the role of the legislative branch of government.

- Todd Akin

topic: Government, Branches, Roles, Legislative Branch, Branches Of Government

What we have got to do now is use this event, the resignation of the whole commission, to drive through root and branch reform.

- Tony Blair

topic: Roots, Use, Branches, Roots And Branches

Everyone speaks of himself with regard to his ownself, "I am above and the others are below," whilst all of them are around the globe like the blossom springing on the branches of the Kadamba tree.

- Varahamihira

topic: Justice, Tree, Branches

There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see a living being lose his hold upon it, and fall like a ripe fruit.

- Victor Hugo

topic: Fall, Tree, Branches, Ripe Fruit

The boundary between neurology and psychiatry is becoming increasingly blurred, and its only a matter of time before psychiatry becomes just another branch of neurology.

- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

topic: Branches, Matter, Becoming, Neurology

For some unknown reason, this [antiabortion] branch of Christianity cherishes the unborn and hates the living person.

- Vine Deloria Jr.

topic: Hate, Branches, Cherish

Banking is a branch of the information business.

- Walter Wriston

source: 1986 Risk and Other Four-Letters Words.

topic: Information, Banking, Branches

Optimism is not the ability to live on the highest branch. It is the faith to learn to fly.

- Wes Fesler

topic: Optimism, Branches, Ability, Learn To Fly

The sciences are of a sociable disposition, and flourish best in the neighborhood of each other; nor is there any branch of learning but may be helped and improved by assistance drawn from other arts.

- William Blackstone

topic: Art, Science, Branches, Sociable

If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree.

- William Butler Yeats

topic: Emotional, Tree, Branches, Tree Branches

Geometry is the noblest branch of physics.

- William Fogg Osgood

topic: Branches, Physics, Geometry

In thermodynamics as well as in other branches of molecular physics , the laws of phenomena have to a certain extent been anticipated, and their investigation facilitated, by the aid of hypotheses as to occult molecular structures and motions with which such phenomena are assumed to be connected. The hypothesis which has answered that purpose in the case of thermodynamics, is called that of "molecular vortices," or otherwise, the "centrifugal theory of elasticity.

- William John Macquorn Rankine

source: William John Macquorn Rankine (1869). “A Manual of the Steam Engine and Other Prime Movers by William John Macquorn Rankine”, p.32

topic: Law, Purpose, Branches, Thermodynamics, Elasticity

Where is the subject that does not branch out into infinity? For every grain of sand is a mystery; so is every daisy in summer, and so is every snowflake in winter. Both upwards and downwards, and all around us, science and speculation pass into mystery at last.

- William Mountford

source: "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 421), 1895.

topic: Summer, Winter, Branches, Grains Of Sand

It seems perfectly clear that Economy, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science. There exists much prejudice against attempts to introduce the methods and language of mathematics into any branch of the moral sciences. Most persons appear to hold that the physical sciences form the proper sphere of mathematical method, and that the moral sciences demand some other method-I know not what.

- William Stanley Jevons

source: William Stanley Jevons (1871). “The Theory of Political Economy”, p.3

topic: Prejudice, Demand, Branches

Over-production is not possible in all branches of industry at once, but it is possible in some as compared to others.

- William Stanley Jevons

topic: Branches

The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government.

- William Weld

topic: Government, Three, Branches

Of all the branches of men in the forces there is none which shows more devotion and faces grimmer perils than the submariners.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Men, Navy, Branches, Submarines, Naval

Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

- Yasser Arafat

topic: Fall, Hands, Branches

I have a satellite radio show called 'The Legends of Reggae.' It's a cool way to branch out and do other things. I'm paying respect to the legends of reggae.

- Ziggy Marley

topic: Branches, Radio, Legends

There's a pigeon's nest on the branch of the tree outside the window. A chick is growing up in it. I'm happy about that

- Aya Kito

topic: Growing Up, Tree, Branches

Quite often there's a great deal of disagreement within the executive branch about what we should do. Some cases are pretty straightforward, but a lot of them aren't.

- Donald Verrilli Jr.

source: "Farewell to the General". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.

topic: Branches, Executive Branch, Should

We're still who we are at the roots. I reckon, hopefully, you let it branch out a little bit and you learn. You live and learn, so that's what we've tried to do.

- Eddie Montgomery

topic: Roots, Branches, Littles, You Live And Learn

It seems that nearly every week there is a problem where information is leaked or computers hacked. I'm conscious of keeping my details as safe as possible. I might be old but I'm still bright and prefer to go into my local branch and see a face.

- Geoff Capes

source: Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

topic: Details, Branches, Safe, Hacked

Everything was God, holy; as God is total, so the driftwood branch was holy. This must be the stuff religion is made of.

- George Leonard

topic: Branches, Stuff, Holy, Driftwood

To be able to walk under the branches of a tree that you have planted is really to feel you have arrived with your garden. So far we are on the way: we can now stand beside ours.

- Mirabel Osler

topic: Garden, Tree, Branches, Old Trees, Plants And Trees

Catholicism is the most philosophical branch of Christianity.

- Tim Crane

topic: Philosophical, Branches, Christianity, Most Philosophical

There's a branch of math called the foundations of math. It's kind of like quantum mechanics. It's about how this very complex theory of math can be built up from very basic parts.

- Tristan Perich

topic: Math, Foundation, Branches

[The judiciary is] the least dangerous branch of our government.

- Alexander Bickel

topic: Government, Branches, Dangerous

When a branch of mathematics ceases to interest any but the specialists, it is very near its death, or at any rate dangerously close to a paralysis, from which it can be rescued only by being plunged back into the vivifying source of the science.

- Andre Weil

topic: Branches, Mathematics, Source, Paralysis

The executive branch maneuvered this result deftly.

- Andrew Cohen

topic: Branches, Literature, Executive Branch

Under our system of three branches of government, the courts ultimately are the checks on the legislative and executive branches when they exceed or even abuse the limits of their power.

- Nina Totenberg

source: "Trump's Criticism Of Judges Out Of Line With Past Presidents". Interview with Nina Totenberg, kucb.org. February 11, 2017.

topic: Government, Abuse, Branches, Executive Branch, Three Branches Of Government

[Photojournalism] really is the only branch of photography that's a credit to our profession. We see, we understand; we see more, we understand more.

- Philip Jones Griffiths

topic: Photography, Credit, Branches, Photojournalism

I'm a bit of a deconstructionist myself. It's kind of exciting - the last intellectual thrill left. Like sawing through the branch you're sitting on.

- David Lodge

source: David Lodge (2011). “The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work”, p.321, Penguin

topic: Intellectual, Branches, Lasts

When you work on a computer in the studio, it's almost like fossilizing on the spot, you know, the idea of getting solidified on the spot, like a snowflake might create branches by accumulation.

- Rob Brown

source: "Autechre". Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. February 18, 2008.

topic: Ideas, Branches, Might

I did listen to 1920s jazz or Al Johnson and a lot of early singers coming out of England. I would branch out a little bit to get a sense of the world that he might be coming into, in the '30s when jazz was changing.

- Ed Speleers

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: World, Branches, Littles

I'm not going to say that all the cabinet appointments of the men and women, you know, obviously we might have some reservations on some, but the women's movement has congratulated them for some of the appointments and is urging and encouraging more women in the Executive Branch and high areas.

- Eleanor Smeal

source: Interview with Joanne Bamberger, www.blogher.com. December 22, 2008.

topic: Men, Branches, Might, Executive Branch

We avoid the gravest difficulties when, giving up the attempt to frame hypotheses concerning the constitution of matter, we pursue statistical inquiries as a branch of rational mechanics.

- J. Willard Gibbs

source: "Elementary Principles in Statististical Mechanics". Book by J. Willard Gibbs (Preface, p. 9), 1902.

topic: Giving Up, Inquiry, Branches

If you want to do other things, you have to leave soap operas, otherwise you'll be there forever, which is not bad, you know. Some people have made a great living off of being on soap operas. But if you want to branch out you have to leave early, otherwise you'll never get the shot.

- Jackee Harry

source: "Jackée Harry on 227, Ladybugs, and why she wants to be the next Maggie Smith". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. February 26, 2016.

topic: People, Forever, Branches

What I want to do has no end, since I am on the endless frontier of a branch of knowledge.

- Joseph M. Juran

source: Joseph M. Juran (1995). “Managerial Breakthrough: The Classic Book on Improving Management Performance”

topic: Branches, Want, Ends

The present author confesses that, to him, geometry is nothing at all, if not a branch of art ... A Treatise on Algebraic Plane Curves

- Julian Coolidge

topic: Art, Curves, Branches

To be more specific, the evangelical, right-wing, oogedy-boogedy branch of the GOP is what ails the erstwhile conservative party and will continue to afflict and marginalize its constituents if reckoning doesn't soon cometh.

- Kathleen Parker

source: "Heresies and Other Truths". townhall.com. November 19, 2008.

topic: Party, Wings, Branches, Conservative Party, Right Wing

Like the people that in the 60s or 70s claimed the "end of painting" - all they did was open up a whole new branch for painting. Happily, it doesn't work. It's not a reason for art. Closing something out is not a reason for something to exist.

- Lawrence Weiner

source: Source: frontrow.dmagazine.com

topic: Art, People, Branches

Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

- Charles Caleb Colton

source: Lacon: or many things in a few words (p. 189)

topic: Science, Branches, Common

It appears, then, that ethics, as a branch of knowledge, is nothing more than a department of psychologyand sociology.

- A.J. Ayer

topic: Branches, Ethics, Sociology

That has been challenging but also such a pleasure to branch out and do different things.

- Sophia Amoruso

source: "#GirlBoss Sophia Amoruso on Her New Book, Nasty Galaxy". Interview with Maddy Budd, www.harpersbazaar.com. September 13, 2016.

topic: Challenges, Different, Branches

Death, vicious death, Leave a green branch for love.

- Federico Garcia Lorca

topic: Branches, Green, Vicious

Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.

- Federico Garcia Lorca

source: Federico García Lorca, “Romance Sonámbulo”

topic: Color, Wind, Branches

The federal judiciary is unlike the other branches of government. And once confirmed, a federal judge serves for life. And there's no court above the Supreme Court.

- Patrick Leahy

source: U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

topic: Government, Judging, Branches, Federal Judges, Branches Of Government

Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it.

- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

topic: Wise, Branches, Saws

This branch of mathematics [Probability] is the only one, I believe, in which good writers frequently get results which are entirely erroneous.

- Charles Sanders Peirce

source: Writings of Charles. Sanders Peirce Volume 3 (p. 279)

topic: Believe, Branches, Mathematics

In general, if any branch of trade, or any division of labour, be advantageous to the public, the freer and more general the competition, it will always be the more so.

- Adam Smith

source: Adam Smith (2016). “The Wealth of Nations: the Great Master”, p.360, VM eBooks

topic: Competition, Division, Branches

That a joint stock company should be able to carry on successfully any branch of foreign trade, when private adventurers can come into any sort of open and fair competition with them, seems contrary to all experience.

- Adam Smith

source: Adam Smith, William Playfair (1811). “An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations”, p.190

topic: Competition, Branches, Able, Joint Stock Company, Foreign Trade

It's just cool to do something different and branch out and dabble in different genres.

- Lights

topic: Different, Branches, Genre, Different Genres

The origin of Homo sapiens, as a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree, lies well below the boundary.

- Stephen Jay Gould

source: "Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History".

topic: Tree, Branches, Tiny, Homo Sapiens

If you want to read anything nasty about me, just go to the backpacker websites. There's this kind of elitist branch where they really believe that I had no business going backpacking.

- Cheryl Strayed

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: Believe, Branches, Want

Leaking classified information is a crime. And if we have evidence that somebody in the executive branch is committing a crime, we should prosecute that person.

- Paul Ryan

source: Source: time.com

topic: Branches, Information, Crime, Classified Information

I think there's always a role for Congress under every instance in every administration to conduct oversight of the executive branch.

- Paul Ryan

source: Source: time.com

topic: Thinking, Roles, Branches, Executive Branch, Oversight

The crew of the caravel "Nina" also saw signs of land, and a small branch covered with berries. Everyone breathed afresh and rejoiced at these signs.

- Christopher Columbus

source: Christopher Columbus, Clements R. Markham (2010). “Journal of Christopher Columbus (During His First Voyage, 1492-93): And Documents Relating the Voyages of John Cabot and Gaspar Corte Real”, p.35, Cambridge University Press

topic: Land, Berries, Branches, Nina

Supreme Court nominees should be individuals who not only understand, but truly respect the equal roles and responsibilities of different branches of government and our state governments.

- Chuck Grassley

source: U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

topic: Responsibility, Government, Branches, Roles And Responsibilities, Good Judges

It is the worst of all superstitions to assume that the epistemological characteristics of one branch of knowledge must necessarily be applicable to any other branch.

- Ludwig von Mises

source: Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

topic: Branches, Superstitions, Assuming

If the present tax rates had been in effect from the beginning of our century, many who are millionaires today would live under more modest circumstances. But all those new branches of industry which supply the masses with articles unheard of before, would operate, if at all, on a much smaller scale, and their products would be beyond the reach of the common man.

- Ludwig von Mises

source: Ludwig Von Mises, Murray Newton Rothbard (1980). “Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses”, Libertarian Press, Incorporated

topic: Men, Would Be, Branches, Unheard