Assay Quotes

#1. No scientific or medical study is valid unless and until a heavy metal assay has been completed on the subject(s).

Richard Diaz

#2. O wretched state! O bosom black as death! O limed soul that, struggling to be free, art more engaged! Help, angels! Make assay! Bow, stubborn knees! and, heart with strings of steel, be soft as sinews of the new-born babe!

William Shakespeare

#3. people who are incompetent suffer a dual burden: not only are they incompetent, but they may also be too incompetent to assay their own incompetence, because the skills which underlie an ability to make a correct judgement are the same as the skills required to recognise a correct judgement.

Ben Goldacre

#4. It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.

John Hersey

#5. When you come to examine into the actuating motives for any line of human endeavor you will find that vanity figures about ninety per cent directly or indirectly, in the assay.

Samuel G. Blythe

#6. Plainly, when perfusate from an organ or blood from an animal is used for superfusion, substances can reach the assay tissues within a few seconds of generation or release.

John Vane

#7. I think, though, that perspective-awareness may follow from a kind of speaking that also came into my work more recently - the "assay" poems (some labeled that, some not) that engage an abstraction or object from multiple angles.

Jane Hirshfield

#8. He had undertaken a little assay at the good fight and found that neither the good nor the fight was left to him ... he had gone after life again and they had shown him life and made him eat it.

Robert Stone

#9. O Nanak, if a blind man goes to assay jewels, he shall not know their worth and shall return after making an exhibition of himself.

Guru Angad

#10. As for dying we can only assay that once; we are all apprentices when it comes to that

Michel De Montaigne

#11. It is the goldsmith who can assay the gold.

Idries Shah

#12. The great assay of art, but at his touch - Such sanctity hath heaven given his hand -

William Shakespeare

#13. The writing of an assay-type poem or a poem investigating perspective isn't an exercise of rational or strategic mind. Poems for me are acts of small or large desperation. They grapple with surfaces too steep to walk in any other way, yet which have to be traveled.

Jane Hirshfield

#14. When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night's sleep for the chance of extra profits.

Warren Buffett

#15. Let me go," I whispered. He cocked his head, as if considering the idea, then slowly shook it.
"I can't," he said. Then his lips covered mine and a fuse blew in my brain.

Joanna Wylde

#16. Read books. As often as you can. Mostly classics.

Maura Kelly

#17. You see yourself as very average, ordinary. And there is nothing ordinary about you, Rachel.
(Something Borrowed)

Emily Giffin

#18. Under a democratical government the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, and afterwards lost, if they are committed to an unwieldy multitude.

Edward Gibbon

#19. I don't think there's a thing I own that I will ever get the benefit of except through doing things with it.

Walt Disney

#20. Streets paved with opal sadness,
Lead me counterclockwise, to pockets of joy,
And jazz.

Bob Kaufman

#21. Don't leave a man behind - especially not me. It's

Hugh Howey

#22. A diet rich in fruits and vegetables plays a role in reducing the risk of all the major causes of illness and death

Walter Willett

#23. What in the world would ever lead to me believe that life is a series of opportunities that are readily available to everyone else but me? What really leads me to believe such an atrocious lie is that I don't believe in myself sufficiently to engage those opportunities in the first place.

Craig D. Lounsbrough