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Quotes About Sphere

The measure of capacity is the measure of sphere to either man or woman.
~ Elizabeth Oakes Smith
Still, the belief in God was essentially a question of faith. Even for those, like Jeremy, who believed in the big bang theory, it said nothing about the creation of the sphere in the first place. Atheists would say the sphere was always there, those with faith might say that God created it, and there was no way ever to prove which group was right. That's why, Jeremy figured, it was called faith. Still
~ Nicholas Sparks
A secret treaty known as the Sykes-Picot Agreement, for the two men who signed it, Sir Mark Sykes for Britain and Jacques Georges-Picot for France, finally awarded to the French, without the Arabs' knowledge or consent, a "sphere of influence" in much of the area in which Britain had promised to support an independent Arab state.
~ Larry Collins
The OT deity was the "demiurge" (d?miourgos, "worker" or "craftsman"), whose act of creating the world of sense and matter was intended simply to provide himself with a sphere in which he could rule and a domain
~ Larry W. Hurtado
Expansion would break up society "into a greater variety of interests and pursuits of passions, which check each other." The amalgamation of power would be prevented, making it unnecessary to take government action, either to regulate concentrated wealth or to repress movements organized in opposition to concentrated wealth. "Extend the sphere
~ Greg Grandin
In some ways, the real damage of Gamergate is pushing the public's idea of sexism so far to the extreme, that changes in the professional sphere seem unimportant.
~ Brianna Wu
The Ukraine has a long history of either being part of the Soviet Union or within that sphere.
~ Rand Paul
Governments don't want to be the last ones in the digital sphere if their people and businesses are already there. We have to make clear that the free movement of services in the E.U. also applies in the digital sphere. The shortcut is to create a digital union.
~ Kersti Kaljulaid
Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.
~ Annie Jump Cannon
The home was a closed sphere touched only at its edge by the world's evolution.
~ Ellen Key
In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.
~ Thomas Huxley
Existence is sweet, and if we consent to its limitation in one sphere it is with the distinct understanding that it will have proportionally larger action in another sphere, for the abundant life is the flying goal toward which we move.
~ Thomas Parker Boyd
he cleanest expression is that which finds no sphere worthy of itself and makes one
~ Walt Whitman
The cleanest expression is that which finds no sphere worthy of itself, and makes one.
~ Walt Whitman
Ambition, policy, bravery, all far beyond their sphere, here learned the fate of mortals.
~ Walter Scott
Pelosi abuses her power in ways that once were unthinkable. Her speakership has been the antithesis of Lincoln's entreaty to 'the better angels of our nature.' Everyone in Congress - and, by extension, the nation - has been sullied by the spite and vitriol she has injected into the political sphere.
~ Miranda Devine
That's progress," McIlveen said. "What we think of as progress," she countered. "To the Yautja, we're barely crawling. Sometimes I think we're like deer and they're the lions, coming into the Sphere from time to time to just play." She blew onto her coffee, watching the small ripples and the drifting steam. "The things they've seen.
~ Tim Lebbon
When everyone else follows the same logic, the public sphere is covered with signs of loyalty, and resistance becomes unthinkable.
~ Timothy Snyder
By giving priority to the state, Hegel claims that we are public individuals before we are private ones. Our investment in the public sphere is not an option - like the decision to vote or not - but the basis for our private existence. The priority of the state indicates that one must go through the detour of the public in order to be a private individual.
~ Todd McGowan
I remember saying once to André Gide, as we sat together in some Paris café, that while meta-physics had but little real interest for me, and morality absolutely none, there was nothing that either Plato or Christ had said that could not be transferred immediately into the sphere of Art and there find its complete fulfilment.
~ Oscar Wilde
Outside the family circle, papa, I'm glad to say, is entirely unknown. I think that is quite as it should be. The home seems to me to be the proper sphere for the man.
~ Oscar Wilde
Imagine how they would have mocked you if you proclaimed, 'Not only is the world a sphere, but there is an invisible, mystical force that holds everything to its surface'!
~ Dan Brown
Admiral," said Gladstone, "is it absolutely necessary to destroy the singularity sphere as soon as the Ousters have penetrated our cordon sanitaire? Couldn't we wait another few minutes to judge their intentions?" "No, CEO," answered the Admiral promptly. "The farcaster link must be destroyed as soon as they are within quick assault range.
~ Dan Simmons
WE APPROXIMATE THE BIRD'S BODY BY A SPHERE OF RADIUS 5CM, said Sib, I had no idea aerodynamics was so entertaining
~ Helen DeWitt