Quotes About Field

What is the price of Experience? do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price Of all that a man hath, his house, his wife, his children. Wisdom is sold in the desolate market where none come to buy, And in the wither'd field where the farmer plows for bread in vain.

Marriage So different, this man And this woman: A stream flowing In a field.

Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

Literature has the same impact as a match lit in the middle of a field in the middle of the night. The match illuminates relatively little, but it enables us to see how much darkness surrounds it.

Jewel and I come up from the field, following the path in single file. Although I am fifteen feet ahead of him, anyone watching us from the cotton-house can see Jewel's frayed and broken straw hat a full head above my own.

Te lo doy, no para que recuerdes el tiempo, sino para que consigas olvidarlo de vez en cuando durante un momento y no malgastes todo tu aliento intentando conquistarlo. Porque ninguna batalla se gana jamás, como él decía. Ni tan siquiera se libra. Sólo el campo de batalla revela al hombre su propia locura y desesperación, y la victoria es ilusión de filósofos e idiotas.

History had already done the really messy work, when Wintermute found him, sifting him out of all of the war's ripe detritus, gliding into the man's flat gray field of consciousness like a water spider crossing the face of some stagnant pool

When we survey the whole field of religion, we find a great variety in the thoughts that have prevailed there; but the feelings on the one hand and the conduct on the other are almost always the same, for Stoic, Christian, and Buddhist saints are practically indistinguishable

90% of all lawyers are incompetent in their chosen field of expertise.

He laughs. 'And then I was in between dreaming and waking up this morning, and I said to Ayda, "What have I got in common with a scarecrow?" She went, "What?" And I said, "I'm outstanding in my field.

silence across the field. When they reached the edge of the forest, Claire's anxiety faded. It really would be easier

The gravitational field of Earth will determine the direction of the rock that you drop from your hand. Aristotle concluded, from the simple fact that the rock "knows" in which direction to move, that space cannot be empty where it transmits that knowledge. Both Newton and Einstein would agree-the former because the gravitational field of Earth acts at the location of the rock, the latter because Earth's gravitational field actually curves space in that location.

Particle-antiparticle pairs fluctuating in the vacuum also permit the fusion of two real photons into a single one, in the presence of an external field.

What really transcends our understanding is the mechanism that permits these oscillations of abstract field quantities to carry energy. We know this is true; our relevant equations say so, and the solar energy collectors prove it. A photoelectric cell registers at this instant an energy that left the Sun, in the form of light, some eight minutes ago. Travelling across space, this light did not lose its energy; rather, it is part of the energetic excitations within empty space.

There is field for every particle. If that field is concentrated in some spatial region, the particle of that field is likely to be located in that region once a detector looks for it. We introduced fields as abstract quantities associated with space; we describe a field as an excitation of space that oscillates like tall grasses in a heavy wind. Recall, however, that there is no material aspect to these field oscillations. Rather, a field is a field is a field.

My silent comrade, who is making great strides with lowered head, points out a field: "The cemetery," he says; "it was there before it was everywhere, before it laid hold on everything without end, like a plague.

What the sunshine is to the field and to the flowers the Holy Spirit is to the life of man.

The "field" encompassed in the "science of the Imagination" is so vast that it is difficult to enumerate all its sectors.

We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.

I am perhaps more proud of having helped to redeem the character of the cave-man than of any other single achievement of mine in the field of anthropology.

The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.

Strange stranger reaching out Grabbing hold in this mindless blindness I search and destroy for kindness That sits in my imagination's mind Across a burning field Across a drenching jungle Strange stranger strangely as you go I've always never seen you But you're the only one I know

Come gather the pieces all scattered and lost The lie in what's holy, the light in what's not The story's been written the letter's been sealed You gave me a lily but now it's a field

The story of a regeneration of convictions - can any story in the entire field of literature be more filled with thrilling and all-absorbing interest?