Top 1200 Faculty Members Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

The members of the Mystery school, during the time of Atlantis, had psychically seen the subsequent ages of darkness.

It is not the bigness of anything in this kind that can hinder its motion, if the motive faculty be answerable thereunto. We see a great ship swims as well as a small cork, and an eagle flies in the air as well as a little gnat. 'Tis likely enough that there may be means invented of journeying to the Moon; and how happy they shall be that are first successful in this attempt.

You've got to develop mental strength. And you develop mental strength with the will. The will is the mental faculty that gives you the ability to hold one idea under the screen of your mind to the exclusion of all outside distractions.

That's what representative democracy is about, is members going to Washington but coming home and answering the tough questions.

If Obama came by his liberalism in the faculty lounge, then sure, he can see it hasn't worked, and he can modify it. But if Obama got his formative ideas when he was very young, and if they are the result of his traumatic relationship with his father, then they are built into his psyche.

The staff members of all banks have worked very hard, and we all owe them our gratitude.

In the House, I was named one of the most bipartisan members of Congress, and that's a title I plan on continuing to hold in the Senate.

It is clear that the building of models is not a purely mechanical process but requires skill of a high order - not merely mathematical skill but a sensitivity to the relative importance of different factors and a critical, almost an artistic, faculty in the selection of behaviour equations which are reasonable, tentative hypotheses in explaining the behaviour of actual economies.

Beauty is nothing else but a just accord and mutual harmony of the members, animated by a healthful constitution.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.

Traditionally, universities have seen size as potentially dilutive to quality. If you doubled the size of campus and faculty, most would argue that you would make it a less compelling school. However, online schools will be as good as their classroom peers only if they are large enough to afford a substantial and ongoing investment.

Typically, members of Congress don't just hear a story about a program and indicate whether they support it or not.

It's very alienating to become a target, and it can be really difficult to try and explain to people, to family members.

If other members of the Hindi film fraternity are doing aggressive promotional campaigns, then I can do the same.

Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination.

Labour Party members must all be free to criticise and oppose injustice and abuse wherever we find it.

Sting and I have six kids between us. A lot of members of our family have ADHD and dyslexia.

We have a responsibility not just as atheletes, but as members of society to treat people well. To do things the right way.

That one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a compentent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.

Growing up, my mates and I would have rather been Sid Vicious or members of the Royal Family.

The primary reason that I'd be here or that Don Payne Jr. would be here is for you to know that members of Congress actually exist and are human.

Taste, when once obtained, may be said to be no acquiring faculty, and must remain stationary; but knowledge is of perpetual growth and has infinite demands. Taste, like an artificial canal, winds through a beautiful country, but its borders are confined and its term is limited. Knowledge navigates the ocean, and is perpetually on voyages of discovery.

There are some members of the House leadership whose only mission in life is to demonize the president.

O truly enjoy... [a university], the individual-student or faculty-must harbor a well-calibrated sense of annoyance at the institution, entering into a muted adversarial relationship...both in order to move the institution just that little bit away from what is was to what it could become, and also to assure at least the sense if not the reality of independence.

Apostasy is a grave crime in Islam and punishable by death in the eyes of members of al Qaeda.

Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.

Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty, how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.

I love you because I love you, because it would be impossible not to love you. I love you without question, without calculation, without reason good or bad, faithfully, with all my heart and soul, and every faculty.

TVXQ has always chased after different music styles, and their members all have very strong talents.

As it happens, although I was at MIT on the faculty full-time for 18 years and then at Harvard for another 16, so I've always been in full-time academia, I always found it was both beneficial for my research and beneficial for the other work to be involved in the practicing community.

Imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless that, like a high ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment. The great easiness of blank verse renders the poet too luxuriant. He is tempted to say many things which might better be omitted, or, at least shut up in fewer words.

Nearly 75,000 Demand Progress members have urged Congress to fix the Patriot Act.

If I end up showering first, I shower really quickly for the sake of the other tired members.

College football is a game which would be much more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students, and even more interesting if the trustees played. There would be a great increase in broken arms, legs, and necks, and simultaneously an appreciable diminution in the loss to humanity.

To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse.

Any members of the IIluminati, feel free to come on my podcast. I'm not scared of it, I'd like to know more.

The death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent, and the appeals process is expensive and cruel to the surviving family members.

Especially for NRA members, it was obvious from the get-go that Obama believes he is above any constitutional restraints.

With the eyes of a warrior, Zelo! I learned so many moves from my older members. I do my upmost to give my best.

I didn't just want to be the one who was always looking around at the weird family members. I wanted to make my mistakes.

I am the only man who can say he's been in Take That and at least two members of the Spice Girls.

Most super PACs are a money-laundering operation that exists solely to enrich the members or its founders.

We have to change the perception that ANC members are corrupt just because of a few greedy individuals.

The price of apparent happiness and enjoyment is the neglect of the spontaneous active energies of the acting members.

The left has so corrupted everything it's touched. Even its highest ranking intellectual members are loony.

Whether full-time missionaries or members, we should all be good examples of the believers in Jesus Christ.

The BJP members and their leadership have realized that the Bahujan Samaj Party's policies are not anti-upper caste.

Most church members live so far below the standard, you would have to backslide to be in fellowship with them.

All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise: therefore, if you choose to use the bad, or those which tend to evil till they become your masters, and neglect the good till they dwindle away, you have only yourself to blame.

I always thought a very strong anti-drug policy was a good thing for my union members.

The wrestling community is a constant; its members are diverse, we are physically located on all corners of the planet, yet we are constantly connected.

Since a relationship involves two members investing in it, its value increases twice as fast as one's investment.

If then, Moses so distinctly announces that there is in us not only a faculty, but also a facility for keeping all commandments, why are we sweating so much? ... What need is there now of Christ or of Spirit? We have found a passage that asserts freedom of choice, but also distinctly teaches that the keeping of the commandments is easy.

A democracy cannot function effectively when its constituent members believe laws are being bought and sold.

I have just committed the mortal sin of laughing in the Members' Library. No-one around here has done that for a while.

In some ways painters have been more important in my life than writers. Painters teach you how to see—a faculty that usually isn’t highly developed in poets. Whether you take a walk in the woods with a painter, or go to a museum with one, through them you notice shapes, colors, harmonies, relationships that enhance your own seeing.

The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise that.

Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:--for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty, man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.

Ideally, both members of a couple in love free each other to new and different worlds.