Top 253 Volumes Quotes & Sayings

It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.

I have in the past acquired a reputation for concocting non-existent writers and unwritten volumes.

Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?

We are not selling the black cab in large enough volumes. We want to expand globally.

Its a very 18th-century thing to have a book broken into several volumes.

To make a library It takes two volumes And a fire. Two volumes and a fire, And interest. The interest alone will do If logs are few.

...how odd to think of one's life not as chapters in a book but as complete volumes, separate and distinct.

Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

In my honest opinion, in 'Volumes I' and 'II,' we were still trying to figure out our sound.

When we don't have the words chocolate can speak volumes.

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

It's easy to assume that just because you make something in small volumes, not using many tools, that there is integrity and care - that is a false assumption.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.

The price we paid for the volumes of ourselves that we suffocated in the dark.

With everything that I design, from a church to a plate to skyscraper to a spoon. I am always thinking about voluptuous volumes and spaces.

The annual 'Forbes' Billionaires List speaks volumes about the movement and concentration of wealth across industries and geographies.

Still, looking through the old volumes was soothing, because thinking of the past made the present seem a little less real.

History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.

And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.

Are we not like two volumes of one book?

I'm a scorer. I score in volumes.

It is not a life at all. It is a reticence, in three volumes.

If I had a story idea that I felt would work best in three volumes I might write a trilogy eventually. I'd very likely write it all at once, though, so I could work on it as a whole and not broken into individual volumes.

I acknowledge that four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what our soul is.

The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.

Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.

They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell that survives a deluge.

How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean.

It's a very 18th-century thing to have a book broken into several volumes.

The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.

A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character

The sheer act of listening speaks volumes that even a great speech can't communicate.

There is enough information capacity in a single human cell to store the Encyclopedia Britannica, all 30 volumes of it, three or four times over.

I think all my life's story is condensed in my face. It is neither innocent nor coy. It speaks volumes.

Whatever doubt there may be as to the quality or purpose of our free speech we certainly have ample volumes in production.

Not having a car gives me volumes not to think or worry about, and makes walks around the neighborhood a daily adventure.

Cablegate is 3,000 volumes of material. It is the greatest intellectual treasure to have entered into the public record in modern times.

U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.

I think that any good storytelling lends itself to closing a chapter but also knowing that there's a few more volumes beyond that to dream off of.

Beginning empty handed and alone frightens the best of men. It also speaks volumes of just how sure they are that God is with them.

Golden volumes! richest treasures, Objects of delicious pleasures! You my eyes rejoicing please, You my hand in rapture seize! Brilliant wits and musing sages, Lights who beam'd through many ages! Left to your conscious leaves their story, And dared to trust you with their glory; And now their hope of fame achiev'd, Dear volumes! you have not deceived!

If I had a story idea that I felt would work best in three volumes I might write a trilogy eventually. I'd very likely write it all at once, though, so I could work on it as a whole and not broken into individual volumes. I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated.

But the silence spoke volumes.

Winston has written four volumes about himself and called it 'World Crisis'.

Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers.

Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.

Kindness n: A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.

My soule her wings doth spread And heaven-ward flies, Th' Almighty's Mysteries to read In the large volumes of the skies.

When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.

The sheer volumes of songs have come from the hours of cold and darkness that one spends inside with the lights on.

When man invents or produces anything of any value, volumes are written on the subject.

You have not really learned a commandment until you have obeyed it. The Church suffers today from Christians who know volumes more than they practice.

The problem with the alphabet is that it bears no relation to anything at all, and when words are arranged alphabetically they are uselessly separated. In the OED, for example, aardvarks are 19 volumes away from the zoo, yachts are 18 volumes from the beach, and wine is 17 volumes from the nearest corkscrew.

My presence speaks volumes before I say a word.

The human genome contains so much data that, it has been calculated, it would fill 43 volumes of Webster's International Dictionary.

The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.

One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world.