James Joule Quotes

#1. Never miss day without a walk.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#2. The height of the pulleys from the ground was twelve yards, and consequently, when the weights had descended through that distance, they had to be wound up again in order to renew the motion of the paddle.

James Prescott Joule

#3. In the firmament of science Mayer and Joule constitute a double star, the light of each being in a certain sense complementary to that of the other.

John Tyndall

#4. After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.

James Prescott Joule

#5. My object has been, first to discover correct principles and then to suggest their practical development.

James Prescott Joule

#6. With such and the like fopperies were petty brains troubled.

Martin Luther

#7. I write for ghosts; the ghosts I can't see but I know stick around. Some I know are good. Others I know are bad. The first bring me nostalgic comfort while the latter instill unease.

Donna Lynn Hope

#8. The animal frame, though destined to fulfill so many other ends, is as a machine more perfect than the best contrived steam-engine-that is, is capable of more work with the same expenditure of fuel.

James Prescott Joule

#9. There are times when directors just don't know what they're doing.

Christopher Atkins

#10. No matter how fierce the enemy seems
when fear cripples us, anger enrages us, or selfishness possesses us; when adversity crushes us, opposition hounds us, or temptation plagues us
God is greater.

Katy Kauffman

#11. Well, you see, she was saintly but she wasn't a saint. No one could really hate a saint, could they? They can't really hate God either. When they want to hate him and his saints they have to find something like themselves and pretend it's God and hate that. I suppose you think that's all bosh.

Evelyn Waugh

#12. Story is the mother of us all, for we become who we say we are.

Christina Baldwin

#13. Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. Believing that the power to destroy belongs to the Creator alone I affirm ... that any theory which, when carried out, demands the annihilation of force, is necessarily erroneous.

James Prescott Joule

#15. It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed.

James Prescott Joule

#16. Order is manifestly maintained in the universe ... governed by the sovereign will of God.

James Prescott Joule