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Quotes About Penetration

To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.
~ Charles Talleyrand
The 77-grain bullet has great penetration, too. I shot one guy through the windshield of a car and hit him in the head, right where I was aiming, killing him instantly. If I had been using the lighter bullet, I think it would have been deflected.
~ Hans Halberstadt
Inside her chest, a warm, billowing, something swept through her, to the tips of her fingers, the bottoms of her feet, shining like a brilliant beam of light. It wasn't hot, boiling feeling of her temper, nor was it the cold wash of tingles that Swearing on Silver brought. It was deeper. It didn't just pour through her body, but penetrated her soul.
~ Heather Dixon
There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal...
~ Jane Austen
Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried. Her father had most cruelly mortified her, by what he said of Mr. Darcy's indifference, and she could do nothing but wonder at such a want of penetration, or fear that perhaps, instead of his seeing too little, she might have fancied too much.
~ Jane Austen
My first attempts to transplant nuclei in Xenopus were completely unsuccessful, because the Xenopus egg, unlike those of other amphibians, is surrounded by an extremely elastic membrane and jelly layer that make penetration by a micropipette impossible.
~ John Gurdon
I like the idea of infiltrating an area that is not really exposed to me or my work.
~ Alexander McQueen
But no one wanted to embarrass the Bureau. The case festered for years. Not until after Freeh's departure was it clear that the Chinese, Russian, and Cuban intelligence services all had penetrated the FBI in the 1990s. So had a member of the world's most dangerous and least-known terrorist organization. His name was Ali Mohamed. Al-Qaeda had a double agent posing as an informer for the FBI.
~ Tim Weiner
You pervade everything, you, pervade everything.
~ Pablo Neruda
The first stage in a technology's advance is that it'll fall below a critical price. After it falls below a critical price, it will tend, if it's successful, to rise above a critical mass, a penetration.
~ Chris Anderson
Yet the 9mm is also one of the weaker cartridges in terms of terminal ballistics.
~ Chris McNab
I would so like to let myself go, forget myself, sleep. But I can't, I'm suffocating: existence penetrates me everywhere, through the eyes, the nose, the mouth... And suddenly, suddenly, the veil is torn away, I have understood, I have seen.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
I should like to penetrate your mind with my own," he said. "I should like to pierce the mysteries of your soul.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Lucinda's foolish words stuck in his mind like a flung dagger he could not pull out. They'd be in him always, maybe.
~ Pearl S. Buck
how fast will electric vehicles penetrate the global auto fleet? In 2019 they constituted less than 3 percent of total new car sales worldwide. But ambitions are high.
~ Daniel Yergin
A tko si ti, što tu pod plaštem no?i U tajne moje misli prodireš?
~ William Shakespeare
I want to be known as a good bowler … My ambition is to dominate … What I'm always after is penetration,' he'd once remarked. Within a few short months his textbook technique, iron will and unshakable self-confidence had convinced even the most sceptical that his targets were well within his scope.
~ Unknown
market penetration quickly and ignite a contagion effect as positive feedback about the product spreads. Penetration is also the recommended strategy if there are strong experience curve effect s or economies of scale .
~ Unknown
To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.
~ Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small fry, peanuts, compared to what the immigrant fears – dissolution, disappearance. Even
~ Zadie Smith
it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small fry, peanuts, compared to what the immigrant fears - dissolution, disappearance
~ Zadie Smith
I think a lot of people don't understand how deep AI already is in so many things.
~ Marc Benioff
Why this lack of penetration as to their personal affairs in men whose business it is to penetrate all things? Perhaps the mind cannot be complete at all points; perhaps artists of every kind live too much in the present moment to study the future; perhaps they are too observant of the ridiculous to notice snares, or they may believe that none would dare to lay a snare for such as they.
~ Honore de Balzac
Water does nothing yet it penetrates everything. Inaction finds the road.
~ Cordwainer Smith