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Quotes About Mass

God blessed us with all this money, so why not take the money and put it into my brother's case? Talk about social and racial injustice in our country, and mass incarceration in our country?
~ Ty Dolla Sign
To continue down the path of comprehensiveness, Wikipedia will need to sustain the astonishing mass fervor of its birth years. Will that be possible? No one knows.
~ James Gleick
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
Political elites vote in a more partisan fashion than the mass public; this tendency, too, follows a curve. The more you know, the more likely you are to vote in an ideologically consistent way, not just following your party but following a set of constraints dictated by a political ideology.
~ Jill Lepore
Carpet bombing tends to portray something that's totally indiscriminate, you know, en masse without regard to the target.
~ Norman Schwarzkopf
The pop culture tends to go to the lowest denominator, so cinema is in a weird place, due to its mass nature. It's diluted down to very little: simple stories and simple politics.
~ Richard Linklater
My tenure as mayor of Braddock started with a community that was embroiled in mass distrust between residents and the police force.
~ John Fetterman
Spring and summer 1942 was probably the worst period of internal terror in Slovakia. It was also the time of mass deportation of Slovak Jews to the extermination camps in Poland.
~ Alexander Dubcek
Everybody has his own revelations, but the mass of the totality has never been revealed to anybody.
~ Robert Motherwell
As Ben Scott puts it, we are in a "triple paradigm shift," wherein personal communication, mass media, and market information have been subsumed within the new order so that the distinctions are becoming passé.
~ Robert W. McChesney
Now he saw another elephant emerge from the place where it had stood hidden in the trees. Very slowly it walked to the mutilated body and looked down. With its sinuous trunk it struck the huge corpse; then it reached up, broke some leafy branches with a snap, and draped them over the mass of torn thick flesh. Finally it tilted its massive head, raised its trunk, and roared into the empty landscape.
~ Lois Lowry
the indeterminacy of individual behavior can be regularized by considering people statistically at the level of the mass.
~ Louis Menand
Soon the key word to describe it is the adjective 'mass'. Thus there is mass culture and mass hysteria, mass tastes (or rather lack of taste) and mass paranoia, mass enslavement, and finally mass murder. The only hero on the world stage is the crowd, and the main feature of this crowd, this mass, is anonymity, impersonality, lack of identity, lack of a face.
~ Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski
W rzeczywistoÅ›ci piÄ™kno jest trudne i do tworzenia, i pó?niej do przyjmowania. Sztuka jest bardzo arystokratyczna. Kultura mo?e by? masowa, sztuka mo?e by? tylko arystokratyczna, bo wymaga du?ego wysiÅ'ku ze strony odbiorcy.
~ Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski
My love for Dan Brown knows no bounds. It literally has no mass.
~ Salman Rushdie
His eyes are a hazy swirl ofgray, like a thick mass of clouds gathering before an impending storm
~ Elle Kennedy, The Deal
Strength without agility is a mere mass.
~ Fernando Pessoa
I derived my strength from daily mass and communion.
~ Vince Lombardi
ce qui frappe l'esprit capricieux du poète n'est pas toujours ce qui impressionne la masse des lecteurs.
~ Alexandre Dumas
How is it brought to critical mass. Presteign? How is the energy released?' 'As the original energy was generated, in the beginning of time,' Presteign droned. 'Through Will and Idea.
~ Alfred Bester
They're all in church," he said and saw the flush of guilt, or of wind, on her broad cheeks. The wind lifted his own thinning hair—those long strands he combed back over his crown—made it stand, briefly, on end. Something done right—at least so far—this suggestion of his, whispered to the ceiling this morning, his hand on her thigh. That they skip Mass just this once and head to the beach. Some weeks ago, a tropical wave had slipped off
~ Alice McDermott
Gravitación, s. Tendencia de todos los cuerpos a acercarse unos a otros con fuerza proporcional a la cantidad de materia que contienen; la cantidad de materia que contienen se determina por la tendencia a acercarse unos a otros. Bello y edificante ejemplo de cómo la ciencia, después de hacer de A la prueba de B, hace de B la prueba de A.
~ Ambrose Bierce
made myself guilty of mass murder so I could be proclaimed innocent of incompetence.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Cosca squinted through his eyeglass towards the mass of soldiery on the far side of the river. The enemy, though he held no personal rancour towards them. The battlefield was no place for rancour.
~ Joe Abercrombie