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Quotes About Imperative

I can be a bit impatient sometimes. If I'm really focusing on something, I can expect everybody to move at the same pace, and that's probably not massively endearing.
~ Sebastian Coe
Peyton Jones: I think probably the big changes in how I think about programming have been to do with monads and type systems. Compared to the early 80s, thinking about purely functional programming with relatively simple type systems, now I think about a mixture of purely functional, imperative, and concurrent programming mediated by monads.
~ Peter Seibel
There's the imperative to keep secrets, and the imperative to have them known. How do you know that you're a person, distinct from other people? By keeping certain things to yourself.
~ Jonathan Franzen
Death lends everything a metaphoric imperative. Mundane objects become fetishes when the departed no longer need them, and breakfast conversations grow runic and wise from behind the shadows.
~ A.A. Gill
screaming at characters to go ahead already
~ Adam Haslett
The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.
~ E. B. White
Quiero è un verbo sorprendente, che vuol dire tutto. È volere , desiderare , amare , chiedere ed è prediligere . Di volta in volta, secondo il tono che gli vien dato, esprime la più imperativa delle passioni o il più lieve dei capricci. È un ordine o una preghiera, una dichiarazione o un assenso. Talora, non è che ironia.
~ Pierre Louÿs
Power is the near neighbour of necessity.
~ Pythagoras
I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don't be old. Don't be stale.
~ Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
It is imperative that women have quality affordable day care available to them because without it, families suffer.
~ Sander Levin
Chi non crea non può fare a meno di distruggere.
~ Ray Bradbury
Following the lead of Moses, Israel seizes upon this revelation as the clue to its future. Israel celebrates that Yahweh is this peculiar God of covenantal relatedness, even as Israel insists that Yahweh must be the God who is self-announced in this way. Israel "prays back" to Yahweh in an imperative, Yahweh's own words of self-announcement.
~ Walter Brueggemann
There is only the single imperative, Survive this Moment. The past scarcely matters; the future will be dealt with, instant by instant, as it arrives. Each tick of the clock, a new burden, a new application of the imperative.
~ Walter Jon Williams
Sloveso ?íst nestrpí rozkazovací zp?sob. Tuto nechuÃ…Â¥ sdílí s nÄ›kolika dalÅ¡ími: se slovesem "milovat"... nebo napÃ…â"¢íklad "snít"...
~ Daniel Pennac
Il verbo leggere non sopporta l'imperativo.
~ Daniel Pennac
Le verbe lire ne supporte pas l'impératif. Aversion qu'il aime partager avec quelques autres : le verbe « aimer »Ã¢â'¬Â¦ le verbe « rêver »Ã¢â'¬Â¦
~ Daniel Pennac
But be this as it may, it is the imperative and indispensable duty of the Government of the United States to secure to every resident inhabitant the free and independent expression of his opinion by his vote.
~ James Buchanan
That sentiment had been the driving force behind humanity's progress across the ages, a simple imperative fueled by our innate curiosity: to discover what was around the next bend, over the next horizon. It was that same inquisitiveness that impelled us to explore who we are, where we came from, and where we are headed next. Gray
~ James Rollins
Just go look. That sentiment had been the driving force behind humanity's progress across the ages, a simple imperative fueled by our innate curiosity: to discover what was around the next bend, over the next horizon. It was that same inquisitiveness that impelled us to explore who we are, where we came from, and where we are headed next.
~ James Rollins
My lord, there is an individual—" "Oh, send him away. I can't stand any more individuals.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Will you stop counting!' snarled Zaphod. 'Yes,' said Ford Prefect, 'in three minutes and thirty-five seconds.
~ Douglas Adams
burst. How could I possibly wait? He turned to
~ Alan Gratz
For the first time, I understood the ancients' need to find explanations for why things happen. It's a quintessential human imperative. Random is not emotionally satisfying. Therefore, lightning was the bolt from an angry god. Crop failure was punishment for failing to honor the gods with a fatted calf. The plague happened because you took the Lord's name in vain or coveted your neighbor's wife. Going to church regularly and praying could forestall illness. And on and on.
~ Alanna Mitchell
All I can say for certain is that, beneath the scrambled chaos of my memories, I feel a driving imperative, a sense of some vital task that I must complete, and which has not yet reached cessation. But I could be completely mistaken. Perhaps I was simply a tourist, ambling his way from sight to sight with no greater goal than to accumulate memories and experience - much like yourselves, in fact.
~ Alastair Reynolds