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Quotes About Statement

Debussy's quote that "Music is the space between the notes," because an analogous statement about trading—Trading is the space between trades—is so strikingly apropos.
~ Jack D. Schwager
There was no such thing as the Vietnam War. This rather surprising statement is in fact 100% true - on a technicality. As the US Congress never actually declared war officially against the country, the correct title is the Vietnam Conflict.
~ Jack Goldstein
The article ends, however, with a cautionary emendation of the opening statement about affection: nowadays many people make love, it says, who do not love each other, or even have any affection for each other, and whether or not this is a good thing we do not yet know.
~ Lydia Davis
If God is good and God is good to me, then I must fill in the gaps of all the unknowns of my life with a resounding statement of trust: God is good at being God.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Write something about me then,' he said when I came back. He grinned. 'Go on! Now! I bet you can!' 'I don't do portraits, Choe.' The lies liberated from this statement skittered off into infinity like images between two mirrors.
~ M. John Harrison
To me, coming from applied mathematics, a theorem was a statement about an everlasting mathematical truth—not the dressing up of a trivial observation in a lot of formalism.
~ Unknown
Bram v. United States, said that a statement must be free and voluntary, not extracted by any sorts of threats or violence or promises, however slight. A confession obtained from an accused who has been threatened cannot be admissible.
~ John Grisham
Hopt v. Utah, the Supreme Court ruled that a confession is not admissible if it is obtained by operating on the hopes or fears of the accused, and in doing so deprives him of the freedom of will or self-control necessary to make a voluntary statement.
~ John Grisham
Facts are in logical space and independent of one another and can only be stated or asserted.
~ John Heaton
We allow the sonic qualities themselves to develop their own momentum. It's a kind of humbling experience to put the sound first instead of the statement.
~ Unknown
A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers.
~ Patrick Kavanagh
I don't think there are any churches that have "Thou shalt not believe in climate change" written in their actual statement of faith.
~ Katharine Hayhoe
Ritual is not compatible with the rapid rhythm that industrialism has injected into life. So whenever ritual happens in a place commanded by or dominated by a machine, ritual becomes a statement against the very rhythm that feeds the needs of that machine. It makes no difference whether it is a political machine or otherwise. I
~ Malidoma Patrice Some
The record stated, I am the record
~ Unknown
Especially with higher levels of force, it's critical you are videoed making your statement and having your attorney present. We won't go into the whys, but this pre-existing knowledge must be embedded in your statement.
~ Marc MacYoung
Know that the police are not required to make a statement on an officer-involved shooting for seventy-two hours.
~ Marc MacYoung
That accusation is as irrelevant as it is true
~ John Scalzi
These days, all we hear about is that the industry is in trouble. Everybody is so scared, but our mission statement is having no fear.
~ Frank Iero
Im just as human as you. But its no use asking me for a final statement. As I say, I deal in tactics. Also statistics: for every year of peace there have been four hundred years of war.
~ Unknown
It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.
~ Quentin Crisp
In the metropolitan haunts of the highly sophisticated, the cocktail is no longer an instrument of friendship but a competitive fashion statement, or one-upmanship.
~ Barbara Holland
When in doubt wear red.
~ Bill Blass
It may be appropriate to quote a statement of Poincare, who said (partly in jest no doubt) that there must be something mysterious about the normal law since mathematicians think it is a law of nature whereas physicists are convinced that it is a mathematical theorem.
~ Mark Kac
Like a def, a class statement is an object builder, and an implicit assignment — when run, it generates a class object and stores a reference to it in the name used in the header.
~ Unknown