Top 30 D Alembert Quotes
#1. One magnitude is said to be the limit of another magnitude when the second may approach the first within any given magnitude, however small, though the second may never exceed the magnitude it approaches.
Jean Le Rond D'Alembert
#2. Mutual understanding can never be attained by "communications down," can never be created by talking. It can result only from "communications up." It requires both the superior's willingness to listen and a tool especially designed to make lower managers heard.
Peter F. Drucker
#3. To someone who could grasp the Universe from a unified standpoint the entire creation would appear as a unique truth and necessity.
Jean Le Rond D'Alembert
#4. Paulucci and Michaud both attacked Wolzogen simultaneously in French. Armfeldt addressed Pfuel in German. Toll explained to Volkonski in Russian. Prince Andrew listened and observed in silence.
Leo Tolstoy
#5. A philosopher is a fool who torments himself while he is alive, to be talked of after he is dead.
Jean Le Rond D'Alembert
#6. When people depend on my life
they depend of my soul and heart.
Petra Hermans
August 19, 2016
Amen
God
Petra Hermans
#7. There are only two kinds of certain knowledge: Awareness of our own existence and the truths of mathematics.
Jean Le Rond D'Alembert
#8. I don't want to be your first, Fallon. I want to be your last.
Colleen Hoover
#9. A lot of the Republicans wanted exactly what Barack Obama wanted, exactly what Nancy Pelosi wanted, exactly what Harry Reid wanted, which is to raise the debt ceiling, but they wanted to be able to tell what they view as their foolish, gullible constituents back home they didn't do it.
Ted Cruz
#10. High office, is like a pyramid; only two kinds of animals reach the summit - reptiles and eagles.
Jean Le Rond D'Alembert
#11. The true system of the World has been recognized, developed and perfected ... Everything has been discussed and analysed, or at least mentioned.
Jean Le Rond D'Alembert
#12. I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
James Whistler
#14. In England it was enough that Newton was the greatest mathematican of his century; in France he would have been expected to be agreeable too.
Jean Le Rond D'Alembert
#15. Being constantly subjected to tests of his persistence and courage. So he could not be hasty, nor impatient. If he pushed forward impulsively, he would fail to see the signs and omens.
Paulo Coelho
#16. Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future. -Nelson Mandela
Michael Gallegos Borresen
#17. Loving a person is wanting him/her (with variable degrees of desire down to friendship and even neighborhood); not needing him/her.
Ibrahim Ibrahim
#18. You read and you're pierced. That's one of the things I try to teach my students-how to write piercingly.
Aldous Huxley
#19. Every age, and especially our own, stands in need of a Diogenes; but the difficulty is in finding men who have the courage to be one, and men who have the patience to endure one.
Jean Le Rond D'Alembert
#21. You show me someone who'll eat lima beans without being at gunpoint, I'll show you a pervert!
Harlan Ellison
#23. Sculptures permit me to create real volume One can touch the forms, one can give them smoothness, the sensuality that one wants.
Fernando Botero
#24. Gaming is the destruction of all decorum; the prince forgets at it his dignity, and the lady her modesty.
Jean Le Rond D'Alembert
#28. Thou fool, what is sleep but the image of death? Fate will give an eternal rest.
[Lat., Stulte, quid est somnus, gelidae nisi mortis imago?
Longa quiescendi tempora fata dabunt.]
Ovid
#29. Let's focus on the funny ... That's what I'm focused on ... This is the gift God gave me. That's what I want to touch in people.
Tracy Morgan
