Adolphe Quetelet Quotes

#1. The sadness meant: we are at the last station. The happiness meant: we are together. The sadness was form, the happiness content

Milan Kundera

#2. Trust is dangerous.

Pittacus Lore

#3. If plural marriage be divine, as the Latter-day Saints say it is, no power on earth can suppress it, unless you crush and destroy the entire people.

George Q. Cannon

#4. Painting a line across canvas with a brush is similar to the motion of a wave breaking.

Mary Heilmann

#5. The more progress physical sciences make, the more they tend to enter the domain of mathematics, which is a kind of centre to which they all converge. We may even judge the degree of perfection to which a science has arrived by the facility with which it may be submitted to calculation.

Adolphe Quetelet

#6. Whether statistics be an art or a science ... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political dynamics, and affords the only secure ground on which the truth or falsehood of the theories and hypotheses of that complicated science can be brought to the test.

Adolphe Quetelet

#7. I'm thrilled to be asked to host the Academy Awards for the second time because, as they say, the third time's a charm.

Jon Stewart

#8. Sometimes people forget the bridge that connected them to success.

Nikita Dudani

#9. The average man. The emergence of the concept.

Adolphe Quetelet

#10. First I wanted to be a veterinarian. And then I realized you had to give them shots to put them to sleep, so I decided I'd just buy a bunch of animals and have them in my house instead.

Paris Hilton

#11. I have accordingly considered it, and now appear not only in obedience to your order, but likewise in behalf of the inhabitants of this town, who have presented another petition, and out of regard to the liberties of the subject.

James Otis

#12. What happens to conservatives when they get near the White House? How come they only seem to be talking the good talk at, say, the Senate level, when they don't have to run the show?

Chris Matthews

#13. Whatever power may be necessary for the National Government a certain portion must necessarily be left in the States. It is impossible for one power to pervade the extreme parts of the U.S. so as to carry equal justice to them.

George Mason

#14. As a singer, I just want to try to honor what the writers create - and as someone who's trying to write songs, I just hope I can stand in their company and not embarrass myself.

David Nail

#15. Be an example; don't be a critic with sample.

Debasish Mridha

#16. I think it depends on the individual. It also depends on what's available. There may be a better alternative, then there may not. If there's not a better alternative, then you stay. But it could be there's a better alternative where you're taken care of better.

Donald Trump

#17. Simple ingredients prepared in a simple way - that's the best way to take your everyday cooking to a higher level.

Jose Andres