Top 31 Lagrange Quotes
#1. Napoleon: You have written this huge book on the system of the world without once mentioning the author of the universe. Laplace: Sire, I had no need of that hypothesis. Later when told by Napoleon about the incident, Lagrange commented: Ah, but that is a fine hypothesis. It explains so many things.
Pierre-Simon Laplace
#2. Our loss was very heavy, especially in the officers. Capt. Sale, of Co. E, Duke's regt, was among the killed, making the third Capt. that has been killed in that company.
John Hunt Morgan
#3. Let us perform all our actions with the thought that God dwells in us. We shall thus be His temples, and He Himself will be our God, dwelling in us (cf. Eph. 15: 3).
Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange
#4. He was just like summer, and she loved summer. If she had any wish, it would be to live a lifetime of summers.
Anna Godbersen
#5. I regarded as quite useless the reading of large treatises of pure analysis: too large a number of methods pass at once before the eyes. It is in the works of application that one must study them; one judges their utility there and appraises the manner of making use of them.
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
#7. Let us remember that false prudence is tin, true acquired prudence is silver, infused prudence is gold, and the inspirations of the gift of counsel are diamonds, of the same order as the divine light. "He that followeth Me walketh not in darkness, but shall have the light of life."1339
Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange
#8. The pig was soon dissected and its blood filled the bucket in the bottom of which a patch of sky was reflected darkly. It had surrendered to the vortex of life and his breathing.
Michel Fardoulis-Lagrange
#9. As long as algebra and geometry have been separated, their progress have been slow and their uses limited; but when these two sciences have been united, they have lent each mutual forces, and have marched together towards perfection.
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
#10. Induratize (v.) To harden the heart. Among the inevitabilities of old age are that the heart is hardened twice; first figuratively, through experience and loss, and then literally, in the form of atherosclerosis.
Ammon Shea
#11. There are two classes of people who hide themselves: the criminal who flees punishment, and the saint who through humility wishes to remain unknown.
Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange
#12. How can we resent the life we've created for ourselves?
Richard Bach
#14. It has cost them but a moment to cut off that head; but a hundred years will not be sufficient to produce another like it.
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
#15. A woman's mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
Livy
#16. For all the concern about bodies and weight, 'Baywatch' has three huge catering trucks on the set at all times. One for entrees, one appetizers and one for junk food.
Nicole Eggert
#17. When I first met my girlfriend, Mercy Malick, she asked me if there was anything I should tell her that could put her off me if she found out later. So I told her that I was a total 'Star Wars' geek and had boxes of 'Star Wars' toys in storage.
Joseph Gatt
#18. When you do enough research, the story almost writes itself. Lines of development spring loose and you'll have choices galore.
Robert McKee
#19. If I had inherited a fortune I should probably not have cast my lot with mathematics.
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
#20. Things are more like they are now ... than they have EVER been before!
Uncle Arnie Mamath
#21. You can apply the same heart, the same sense of euphoria to any genre.
Stuart Price
#22. The ordinary operations of algebra suffice to resolve problems in the theory of curves.
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
#24. The reader will find no figures in this work. The methods which I set forth do not require either constructions or geometrical or mechanical reasonings: but only algebraic operations, subject to a regular and uniform rule of procedure.
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
#25. From the year of his birth in 1914 until the outbreak of war in 1941, my father lived in a mostly white, mostly working-class, mostly Irish Catholic neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York.
Tim O'Brien
#26. "Newton was the greatest genius that ever existed, and the most fortunate, for we cannot find more than once a system of the world to establish."
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
#28. In order to protect the honour of her motherland, she had betrayed the trust of her mother.
Debajani Mohanty
#29. It took the mob only a moment to remove his head; a century will not suffice to reproduce it.
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
#30. Militarism consumes the strongest and most productive elements of each nation. Militarism swallows the largest part of the national revenue.
Emma Goldman
#31. 'Course the world of sports takes itself way too serious. Sports writers are all high and mighty.
Artie Lange
