Dennison Quotes

#1. The ingenious way in which Dennison and his colleagues broke out of their seemingly impregnable prison, using only a steel belt buckle, a tungsten filament, three hens' eggs, and twelve chemicals that can be readily obtained from the human body, is too well known to be repeated here.

Robert Sheckley

#2. He moved like some ancient god of lore, presiding over a battlefield of miniature mortals who couldn't see him, but certainly felt his almighty hand. Except, if Dennison was a god, his specialty certainly wasn't war.

Brandon Sanderson

#3. Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everybody gets busy on the proof.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#4. There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.

George Dennison Prentice

#5. When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it's pretty certain that she has his.

George Dennison Prentice

#6. Mistakes when we are young is how we become wise when we are old.

Brad Dennison

#7. Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.

Jean De La Fontaine

#8. Certainly every historian brings certain predilections to the study of history. But every historian also has the ethical obligation to suspend judgment until finding the evidence overwhelmingly persuasive, the method beyond reproach, the results replicable, and the analyses sound.

George M. Dennison

#9. Thus the midday halt of Charnock - more's the pity! Grew a City. As the fungus sprouts chaotic from its bed, So it spread - Chance-directed, chance-erected, laid and built

Dennison Berwick

#10. A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

George Dennison Prentice

#11. A pin has as much head as some authors and a good deal more point.

George Dennison Prentice

#12. For the longest time all I cared about was getting through the day. When your every breath was an effort, that quickly became the extent of your expectations.

A Meredith Walters

#13. A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.

George Dennison Prentice

#14. Even if I screw up in my personal life, as long as I'm not destroying myself, I just think, "Okay, I screwed up." I'm not Mother Theresa.

Steve Coogan

#15. A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

George Dennison Prentice

#16. The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people.

George Dennison Prentice

#17. Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.

George Dennison Prentice

#18. Since its inception, our Nation has stood on the foundations of compassion and justice.

Mike DeWine

#19. That's how you live. You participate. You take risks.

Damian Woetzel

#20. Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.

George Dennison Prentice

#21. If you've given a dollar, you are part of the Marathon of Hope .

Terry Fox

#22. Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.

George Dennison Prentice

#23. The King's daughter, the Princess Gemdelovely must be given to the Stoorworm.

Walter Traill Dennison

#24. It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.

George Dennison Prentice

#25. Then "wrong" is right, and "right" is wrong! Yet I'll tell you this, to help you out of your dilemma: believe nothing I say. Simply live it. Experience it. Then live whatever other paradigm you want to construct. Afterward, look to your experience to find your truth.

Neale Donald Walsch