Comprehensively Quotes

#1. ...the facts of economic life cannot be comprehensively described in terms of statistics.

Oskar Morgenstern

#2. A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#3. The immigration system is broken and it needs to be fixed. And it needs to be fixed comprehensively, because this country depends on immigrant workers, but we don't have a system that reflects that. Our system is absolutely antiquated.

Pramila Jayapal

#4. What I found particularly fascinating and satisfying about the Hindu tradition was its spirit of inclusiveness. In Sanatan Dharma, or what is commonly called Hinduism, I discovered the basic truths of all religions in a way that the oneness of God and religion is comprehensively understood.

Radhanath Swami

#5. A system that is comprehensively tested and passes all of its tests all of the time is a testable system. That's an obvious statement, but an important one. Systems that aren't testable aren't verifiable. Arguably, a system that cannot be verified should never be deployed.

Robert C. Martin

#6. Scientists do not collect data randomly and utterly comprehensively. The data they collect are only those that they consider *relevant* to some hypothesis or theory.

J. David Lewis-Williams

#7. If you can help other people understand those truths - and in my mind, the only way I know to do that is with large scale, multi-year research projects, where you start with a question and then very rigorously and comprehensively answer that question.

James Collins

#8. He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed.

Martin Amis

#9. Getting comprehensively lost in a car with a full tank of petrol at someone else's expense, you can't beat it.

Iain Sinclair

#10. Plans made swiftly and intuitively are likely to have flaws. Plans made carefully and comprehensively are sure to.

Robert Grudin

#11. We [Americans] really need a system that comprehensively looks at the fact that we need these workers in the United States, we need to be able to provide a pathway to citizenship. We need to be able to allow them to be here legally and to do the work that they are doing and that we need.

Pramila Jayapal

#12. Our Prime Minister, Gordon Brown has given the Government's support to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. It is difficult to imagine a single piece of legislation which, more comprehensively, attacks the sanctity and dignity of human life than this particular Bill.

Keith O'Brien

#13. No language on earth speaks as comprehensively as photography, always providing that we follow the chemical and optic and physical path to demonstrable truth, and understand physiognomy.

August Sander

#14. The more we increase the active participation and partnership with young people, the better we serve them ... And the more comprehensively we work with them as service partners, the more we increase our public value to the entire community.

Maria Del Carmen Martinez-Bordiu Y Franco

#15. One of my da's tragedies was always the fact that he was bright enough to understand just how comprehensively he had shat all over his life.

Tana French

#16. Being an art buyer these days is comprehensively and indisputably vulgar. It is the sport of the Eurotrashy, Hedge-fundy, Hamptonites; of trendy oligarchs and oiligarchs; and of art dealers with masturbatory levels of self-regard.

Charles Saatchi

#17. My government has promised to comprehensively respect the independence of the judiciary.

Victor Ponta

#18. If Australia wants an effective United Nations, we have to be comprehensively, not marginally, engaged.

Kevin Rudd

#19. Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper ... depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?

R. Buckminster Fuller

#20. The history of imitation of the older literature, particularly abroad, has among other advantages this one, that the important concepts of unintentional parody and passive wit can be deduced from it most easily and comprehensively.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#21. People think that just because you're a center, you're not as smart as the guards or the smaller guys.

Patrick Ewing

#22. The two best things you can do for a person is have sex or make them laugh.

Chris Rock

#23. When I ask teachers why they teach, they almost always say that it is because they want to make a difference in the lives of children.

Arne Duncan

#24. Be here now. It keeps us in a place of love, not fear.

Alysia Reiner

#25. I hope you smile, laugh, and maybe even learn something that will help you along the way to happily-ever-after.

T.N. Carpenter

#26. Technology, society, media: these are mutable forms, shape-shifting, forever re-purposing themselves. They sit within the wild, weird and wonderful frame of change. But there is a frame.

Simon Pont