Quotes About Sphere

War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible.

I shall now recall to mind that the motion of the heavenly bodies is circular, since the motion appropriate to a sphere is rotation in a circle.

For a physicist or a mathematician, the most symmetrical object you could think about would be a sphere, because it looks identical no matter what you do to it, however you rotate it in any given direction.

If some modern-day David Brock wanted to defect from the conservative movement and write a tell-all focused solely on the financial chicanery of the entire right-wing nonprofit/think tank/publishing sphere, I would read the absolute heck out of it.

The difference between Rappler and other newsgroups in the Philippines is that journalists control Rappler both editorially and commercially. We make decisions that are bad for business but protect the public sphere.

Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name.

We have seen enough criminality on the part of government. It is hypocritical to make this allegation against me. They have narrowed the public sphere of influence.

The great attraction to 'American Gangster' is these two great characters who are absolute paradoxes within their own sphere.

At some point, the government expands into the private sphere so far that you live in a place with a whole lot less freedom. I didn't like that that was the direction of travel for our country, and decided to come to Washington to try and be a small part of bringing it back.

There are those who would advocate that the voice of religion be silenced, or at least relegated to the purely private sphere.

Freedom of religion does not entitle your religion to have a privileged position within the public sphere.

There is no prospect of any of us being able to kick out any of the presidents of Europe; they operate in a sphere and a realm well away from and out of reach of and out of touch with the people.

I am almost neurotically private myself. Because I think it's an important distinction to make between privacy and public sphere.

'The Interceptor' has an excitement and grittiness to it, but it's also very entertaining. It lives in this sphere of a slightly heightened reality where, although you completely identify and recognise all the characters in it, they're fun and exciting to watch.

Every sphere of activity has a set of rules. Politics is no different.

The crucial question one comes back to is the examination; without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society is becoming more and more passive, less and less fired up with enthusiasm, in many spheres.

A woman's sphere of influence is a unique sphere, one that cannot be duplicated by men.

For the sky was hollow, and the world was round.

If there is a sphere where 'angels' dwell, is it a matter of semantics, whether we choose to call it Heaven?

He was inside that realm of mind, the private universe, the infinite sphere of himself where he went to work magic.

Fig. 148. Cartesian Equation of the Cone Mid-point of base as Origin. The distance (d) between two points (P1 and P2) in 3-dimensional space (Fig. 147) is given by: d2 = (x2 ? x1)2 + (y2 ? y1)2 + (z2 ? z1)2 It is sometimes easier to obtain the Cartesian equation of a figure by first defining it in cylindrical co-ordinates and substituting: y = r sin A; x = r cos A Figs. 148 and 149 disclose the genesis of Cartesian equations which describe the cone and the sphere:

The wisdom of the ignorant somewhat resembles the instinct of animals; it is diffused in but a very narrow sphere, but within the circle it acts with vigor, uniformity, and success.

In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

... it is a welcome symptom in an age which is commonly denounced as materialistic, that it makes heroes of men whose goals lie wholly in the intellectual and moral sphere.