Deploys Quotes

#1. Banality depends on memory, as do irony and abstraction and boredom, three other defenses the educated mind deploys against experience so that it can get through the day without being continually, exhaustingly astonished.

Michael Pollan

#2. We pray because our own solutions don't work and because prayer deploys, activates, and fortifies us against the attacks of the enemy. We

Priscilla Shirer

#3. To see how much a company is truly earning on the capital it deploys in its businesses, look beyond EPS to Return on Invested Capital (ROIC).

Benjamin Graham

#4. What really matters is that 'Black Swan' deploys and exaggerates all the cliches of earlier ballet movies, especially 'The Red Shoes,' another tale of a ballerina driven mad and suicidal.

Robert Gottlieb

#5. We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in international relations.

Mahmoud Abbas

#6. Organizations want small changes in functionality on a more regular basis. An organization like Flickr deploys a new version of its software every half hour. This is a cycle that feeds on itself.

Kent Beck

#7. the fallen of the baboon into the river is the risen of the joy of the crocodile. Though the crocodile becomes happy, it conceals its joy until it deploys all its necessary deft and strength to take captive of the Baboon

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#8. When man deploys the arbitrary nature of his madness, he confronts the dark necessity of the world; the animal that haunts his nightmares and his nights of privation is his own nature, which will lay bare hell's pitiless truth.

Michel Foucault

#9. The value any business creates, listed or not, is determined by the rate at which it deploys incremental capital. And

Lawrence A. Cunningham

#10. The externalization of memory [via the use of external symbolic storage systems] has altered the actual memory architecture within which humans think, which is changing the role of biological memory, the way in which the human brain deploys its resources, and the form of modern culture.

Merlin Donald

#11. In our day, deception becomes all the easier to arrange because so many Christians are no longer greatly shaped by Scripture. It is difficult to unmask subtle error when it aligns with the culture, deploys spiritual God-talk, piously cites a passage or two, and "works.

D. A. Carson

#12. Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work.

Lawrence Durrell

#13. It is said culture requires slaves. I say that no cultured society can be built with slaves. This terrible Twentieth Century has made all cultural theories from Plato down seem ridiculous. Little man, there has never been a human culture.

Wilhelm Reich

#14. If you come from insignificance and when you die you return to insignificance, then nothing is significant now.

Timothy Keller

#15. Godliness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people. PROVERBS 14:34

Ben Carson

#16. No, I don't have to practice that grunt. You just do it. Once you're in character, you're in character. You don't sit there purposely thinking, Well, I'll grunt here, or I'll groan there.

Clint Eastwood

#17. It is part of politics to make things look better than they really are. What is a spin doctor but a serial euphemiser?

Nigel Rees

#18. I would hate to be immortal forever.

Alex Meraz

#19. North Korea has taught a great lesson to all the countries in the world, especially the rogue countries of dictatorships or whatever: if you don't want to be invaded by America, get some nuclear weapons.

Michael Moore

#20. One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.

William Golding

#21. When your own fans whistle and jeer, then you have a big problem.

Zinedine Zidane

#22. You know, Jacob, if it weren't for the fact that we're natural enemies and that you're also trying to steal away the reason for my existence, I might actually like you.

Stephenie Meyer

#23. Shit happens to the best of us, Cara," Damian says suddenly. "It's how you deal with it that counts. You've gotta fight for what you want, otherwise this life will chew you the fuck up and spit you right out. You're either a fighter or a nobody,

Michelle Horst

#24. Actors, we like our little cups of cappuccino and our personal umbrella-holders. Poker players, they've gotta be a little bit tougher.

Tom Everett Scott

#25. Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of science fiction. But the machines we're creating are not some invasion from Mars. We create these tools to expand our own reach.

Ray Kurzweil

#26. What a danger it is to love, how it warps a person from the inside, changes all the locks and loses all the keys.

Catherine Lacey