Quotes by 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 branchescommonscience An evening wind uprose too, and the slighter branches cracked and rattled as they moved, in skeleton dances, to its moaning music. Charles Dickens skeletonsbrancheswind 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 mathematicsbranchesbelieve 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 pebblesbranchestree 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 brancheswantbelieve The arts often realize human truths well before other branches of human endeavor. Chris Hedges realizingbranchesart 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 berriesbranchesland The pornography of tough-mindedness, covert action, and preparedness for "peace through strength" has had a predictably hypnotic effect on the legislative branch, turning it from legal watchdog to lapdog. Christopher Hitchens toughbranchesaction 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 branchesgovernmentresponsibility Cultivate the root; the leaves and branches will take care of themselves. Confucius branchescareroots And if there is no lining to the world? If a thrush on a branch is not a sign, But just a thrush on the branch? If night and day Make no sense following each other? Czeslaw Milosz branchesnightworld The evidence for evolution pours in, not only from geology, paleontology, biogeography, and anatomy, but of course from molecular biology and every other branch of the life sciences. Daniel Dennett paleontologymolecular-biologybranches Chestnuts in stuffing tastes like someone chewed up a tree branch and then French-kissed it into your mouth. Daniel Handler branchesmouthstree 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 awardsbranchesfunny Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch. Dante Alighieri virtuebranchesdoe Life is not so simple. There are many futures. The life of a single person is like a great tree: every branch, every twig, every leaf is a possible future. David Gemmell branchessimpletree The vinedresser is never nearer the branches then when he is pruning them. David Jeremiah pruningbranches 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 brancheslastsintellectual When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry. David Mamet branchesmediagovernment Nothing is more fortifying than learning that you have a real reader, a reader who truly responds both accurately and actively. It gives you courage, and you feel, I can crawl out on the branch a little further. It’s going to hold. Deborah Eisenberg branchesrealgiving«1234567891011»
