Quotes About Implements

Golf is an ineffectual attempt to put an elusive ball into an obscure hole with implements ill-adopted to the purpose.

To the size of the state there is a limit, as there is to plants, animals and implements, for none of these retain their facility when they are too large.

By and large, our present problem is one of attitudes and implements. We are remodeling the Alhambra with a steam-shovel, and we are proud of our yardage. We shall hardly relinquish the shovel, which after all has many good points, but we are in need of gentler and more objective criteria for its successful use

Farming implements are as cheap in Sydney as in England.

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.

Italy was the only place I'd visited where people described kitchen implements as having souls of their own.

Damin, if you don't want people getting killed, you really should rethink this whole worshipping the God of War philosophy, you know. It's been my observation that people quite often come to harm when you throw them all on a field together, arm them with sharp implements, and tell them to hit each other until there's nobody left standing.

USE CASES The software in the use cases layer contains application-specific business rules. It encapsulates and implements all of the use cases of the system. These use cases orchestrate the flow of data to and from the entities, and direct those entities to use their Critical Business Rules to achieve the goals of the use case.

Nature supplies the game of chess with its implements; science with its system; art with its aesthetic arrangement of its problems; and God endows it with its blessed power of making people happy.

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.

Profits might also increase, because improvements might take place in agriculture, or in the implements of husbandry, which would augment the produce with the same cost of production.

Leela: "There are many implements here that would make excellent weapons. See, over there! With a few modifications, that could be an effective tank!" The Doctor: "It's a ride-on lawnmower." Leela: "It's churning blades would be a fearsome sight as we rode into battle!" The Doctor: "I'm not sure we'd be such a fearsome sight riding into battle at three miles an hour.

If it draws blood, it's hardware.

Since violence—as distinct from power, force, or strength—always needs implements (as Engels pointed out long ago),2 the revolution of technology, a revolution in toolmaking, was especially marked in warfare.

She was a woman and any exchange of words with a woman was fraught with her torturer's array of deadly implements, each one hovering at the very edge of a man's comprehension.

A man's nothing without his tools.

The possession of unnecessary implements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues and tends to foment uprisings.

Dominion over his environment was supposed to be a hallmark of man. Now, that dominion is almost wholly vicarious, derived from the past ingenuity of others. In urban and industrial communities it is never direct, physical or spontaneous. Our implements are at twelve removes and we may all live to live inside so many Thermos flasks. It may be well to remember how to use a pair of sticks and a stone.

We all use something - you can't drill holes with your fingers. Whether it's a knife, a needle, or a machine, we all need the help of a device.

They mounted, pistols in hand, saps of rawhide and riverrock looped about their wrists like the implements of some primitive equestrian game. Glanton looked back at them and then nudged forth his horse.

I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.

If you tell anyone about this, Dresden," she said, "I will murder you slowly. With dental implements.

My mind went back to the implements on the cave's wall, the herbs and tools of healing. Surgery was the word he had used.

In a calm, clear voice, she suggested that the wyrsa in question could do several highly improbable, athletically difficult and possibly biologically impractical things involving its own mother, a few household implements, and a dead fish.