Top 100 Method Of Quotes
#1. Human beings owe a debt of love to one another because there is no other method of paying the debt of love and care which all of us owe to providence.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#2. The best method of overcoming obstacles is the team method
Colin Powell
#3. It is important for us to realize that it is not only the message of the Word but the method of preaching that God has promised to use for salvation and growth. It must, therefore, be central in worship.
Michael S. Horton
#4. I can discover no political evil in suffering bullies, sharpers, and rakes, to rid the world of each other by a method of their own; where the law hath not been able to find an expedient.
Jonathan Swift
#5. When I was with the serpent-handlers in Tennessee, it was the most bizarre method of worship I could think of. Yet when you sit with these people, you can kind of see how it makes sense.
A. J. Jacobs
#6. I'm wide open to getting married, but actors are not easy people to date. You end up sharing that person with this other mistress that is their career. I very much like the traditional courtship method of making a date. That's what they do in normal places, but Hollywood's not normal.
Seth MacFarlane
#7. Lao-tze's Taoism is the exhibition of a way or method of living which men should cultivate as the highest and purest development of their nature.
James Legge
#8. It is human nature that when you see something work well, you do more of it. If, in its ceaseless quest for revenue, government sees a seemingly harmless method of raising funds without causing much inflation, it will grab on to it.
Murray Rothbard
#9. I cannot approve of your method of operation, you proceed like a bewildered idiot, taking not the least notice of my orders.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#10. The Swedish Academy of Sciences has seen fit, by awarding the Nobel Prize, to honour the method of producing ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen.
Fritz Haber
#11. Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance.
Dan Greenburg
#12. A method of achieving wild enthusiasm is to act wildly enthusiastic. Often, a growing and beautiful love-affair develops quite automatically.
Robert Genn
#13. I'm interested in this humbler approach, one that is more accepting of human foibles, and indeed sees dignity and peace as emerging more from that acceptance than from any method of transcending the human condition.
Thomas Moore
#14. Policies change, and programs change, according to time.But objective never changes. You might change your method of achieving the objective, but the objective never changes. Our objective is complete freedom, complete justice, complete equality, by any means necessary
Malcolm X
#15. The best and safest method of philosophizing seems to be first to inquire diligently into the properties of things, and establishing those properties by experiments, and then to proceed more slowly to hypotheses for the explanation of them.
Isaac Newton
#16. William McKinley Oswald was my high school football coach. He was a great coach and had a profound influence on my life. But I think he could have learned his method of motivating players from an army drill sergeant.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#17. Teachers teach and students educate. Students are the only true educators. Historically, every other method of education has failed. Education occurs when students get excited about learning and apply themselves; students do this when they experience great teachers.
Oliver DeMille
#18. Dear sir, you simply begin. There is no magic method of beginning. If a man standing on the edge of a swimming-bath and wanting to jump into the cold water should ask you, "How do I begin to jump?" you would merely reply, "Just jump. Take hold of your nerves, and jump.
Arnold Bennett
#19. In the great debates of early-nineteenth century geology, catastrophists followed the stereotypical method of objective science-empirical literalism. They believed what they saw, interpolated nothing, and read the record of the rocks directly.
Stephen Jay Gould
#20. The desire to be loved, to feel loved, is behind every diet, pill, surgery, and lie. It is behind each act of violence and every affair as well as each organized religion and every method of self-help.
Vironika Tugaleva
#21. There is but one method of rendering a republican form of government durable, and that is by disseminating the seeds of virtue and knowledge through every part of the state by means of proper places and modes of education and this can be done effectively only by the aid of the legislature.
Benjamin Rush
#22. We can call the attempt to refute theism by displaying the continuity of belief in God with primitive delusions the method of Anthropological intimidation.
Edwyn Bevan
#23. The biblical method of change begins in the heart of man with the Gospel. It transforms the mind of man and gradually works its way out. And it builds a nation from the bottom up.
Kirk Cameron
#24. Television. An advanced technical method of stopping people from making their own entertainment.
Leonard Rossiter
#25. Unlike fuel-economy standards, the most common method of reducing demand for oil over the past thirty years, a gas tax doesn't tell people what kind of car to drive. It simply raises the price of gasoline and lets people adjust their behavior accordingly.
James Surowiecki
#26. An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.
Konrad Adenauer
#27. This is an execution, not surgery. Where does that come from, that you must find the method of execution that causes the least pain?
Antonin Scalia
#28. Through algebra you easily arrive at equations, but always to pass therefrom to the elegant constructions and demonstrations which usually result by means of the method of porisms is not so easy, nor is one's ingenuity and power of invention so greatly exercised and refined in this analysis.
Isaac Newton
#29. I should fancy that crime was to them what art is to us, simply a method of procuring extraordinary sensations.
Oscar Wilde
#30. Violence is the tool of the barbarian; aggression is the method of the primitive; bloodshed is the way of the savage; cruelty is the manner of the brutish! To be called as a 'civilised,' man must be peaceable!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#31. I prefer the Chinese method of eating. You can do anything at the table except arm wrestle.
Jeff Smith
#32. The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective.
Moshe Dayan
#33. 'Studying the Way' is just a figure of speech, a method of arousing people's interest in the early stages of their development. In fact, the Way is not something which can be studied. Study leads to the retention of concepts, and so the Way is entirely misunderstood
Huangbo Xiyun
#34. I am a creationist and an evolutionist. Evolution is God's, or Nature's method of creation. Creation is not an event that happened in 4004 BC; it is a process that began some 10 billion years ago and is still under way.
Theodosius Dobzhansky
#35. Until we totally change the way we elect our leaders, until we remove private money from public campaigns, lying will be the de facto method of governance in this country.
Peter Schuyler
#36. Editing is not merely a method of the junction of separate scenes or pieces, but is a method that controls the 'psychological guidance' of the spectator.
Vsevolod Pudovkin
#37. It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any means of all dreams - moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis.
Arthur Machen
#38. His Good list outstripped the Evil list; Good may always preponderate in this method of reckoning.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#39. As geology is essentially a historical science, the working method of the geologist resembles that of the historian. This makes the personality of the geologist of essential importance in the way he analyzes the past.
Reinout Willem Van Bemmelen
#40. Good governance never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders.
Frank Herbert
#41. Poe's drunkenness was a mnemonic device, a deliberate method of work, drastic and fatal, no doubt, but suited to his passionate nature. Poe taught himself to drink, just as a careful man of letters makes a deliberate practice of filling his notebooks with notes.
Charles Baudelaire
#42. There is no surer method of economizing and saving money than in the reduction of the number of officials.
Winston Churchill
#43. Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
Jane Addams
#44. The method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best.
Edmund Burke
#45. Well you know, Woody doesn't rehearse, as opposed to my own method of directing where I really work with actors around a round table for weeks, examining the values of the material, so his technique is very different.
Mark Rydell
#46. The men who attempt to survive, not by means of reason, but by means of force, are attempting to survive by the method of animals.
Ayn Rand
#47. If hand-spinning is an effective method of making India self-supporting, it must be made part of the franchise.
Mahatma Gandhi
#48. The method of science, as stodgy and grumpy as it may seem, is far more important than the findings of science.
Carl Sagan
#49. There are two differing approaches and they have different virtues, the method of talent management and recruitment.
John Gibbons
#50. Parties do not maintain themselves. They are maintained by effort. The government is not self-existent. It is maintained by the effort of those who believe in it. The people of America believe in American institutions, the American form of government and the American method of transacting business.
Calvin Coolidge
#51. An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.
Voltaire
#52. Do I provoke as a method of investigation? Of course. That's the essence of architecture. Do I do it with gusto? I do.
Thom Mayne
#53. Acting without design, occupying oneself without making a business of it, finding the great in what is small and the many in the few, repaying injury with kindness, effecting difficult things while they are easy, and managing great things in their beginnings; this is the method of Tao.
Laozi
#54. But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.
Michael Shermer
#55. Reducing caloric intake is the only proven method of extending life. If caloric intake is reduced to 20 percent below maintenance, you can extend your lifespan considerably.
S. Jay Olshansky
#56. Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.
Ambrose Bierce
#57. Problems - God's method of revealing himself to anyone who is interested.
Zig Ziglar
#58. Each culture has its own form of staged combat, evolved from its particular method of street fighting and cleaned up for presentation as a spectacle, e.g. savate, Cornish wrestling, karate, kung-fu.
David Mamet
#59. While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first personality, which no one should copy.
Oscar Wilde
#60. A method of procuring sensations? Do you think then, that a man who has once committed a murder could possibly do the same crime again? Don't tell me that." says Dorian.
"Oh! anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often," says Lord Henry
Oscar Wilde
#61. He had a method of accepting things, without questioning the why and wherefore.
Jack London
#62. Pretty soon, the only doubt in my mind was the precise time and method of committing suicide. The only alternative I could see was an eternity of hell for the rest of my life in a mental hospital, and I was going to use my last ounce of free choice and choose a quick clean ending.
Sylvia Plath
#63. We are more and more into technology. Everything is texting, and everything is instant. Flowers are completely impractical as a method of communication when you could just send a text.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
#64. Once in while a teacher may make a recommendation, it is usually after going through the basic Socratic method of trying to get people to figure it out themselves. A good teacher challenges your mind, your intellect, and your spirit.
Frederick Lenz
#65. Men, to act with vigour and effect, must have time to mature measures, and judgment and experience, as to the best method of applying them. They must not be hurried on to their conclusions by the passions, or the fears of the multitude. They must deliberate, as well as resolve.
Joseph Story
#66. Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction.
Roy Romer
#67. To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.
Ambrose Bierce
#68. My method of getting a play across the footlights is like a revolver shooting: every line has a bullet in it and comes with an explosion.
George Bernard Shaw
#69. This method of deduction ... is often called "combinatory". Its usefulness is not exhausted at this stage, but it does even at the outset lead to some valuable conclusions.
John Chadwick
#70. There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.
Napoleon Hill
#71. More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#72. A good method of discovery is to imagine certain members of a system removed and then see how what is left would behave: for example, where would we be if iron were absent from the world: this is an old example.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#73. Many people who talk about the discovery method of teaching are really talking about arranging a lesson or an experiment so that students discover what they are supposed to discover. That is not an exploration. The whole tradition of exploration is being lost for entire generations.
Frank Oppenheimer
#74. It is really in the end a far more humane proceeding than our earthly method of leaving children to grow into human beings, and then making machines of them.
H.G.Wells
#75. Problems breed problems, and the lack of a disciplined method of openly attacking them breeds more problems.
Phil Crosby
#76. The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive
substitute for war.
Vera Brittain
#77. Every artist has to face his own demons and evolve his own method of working.
Steven Pressfield
#78. Every successful competitive practice has victims. The more successful a new method of making and distributing a product, the more victims, the deeper the victims' injury
Frank H. Easterbrook
#79. Your courtship method of arrogance self-loathing, and then telling me how beautiful other girls are is pretty unique," said Kami. "I like it. I don't know what that says about me.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#80. In the beginning of the year 1665, I found the method of approximating series and the rule for reducing any dignity of any binomial into such a series.
Isaac Newton
#81. I believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution of problems between nations.
Douglas MacArthur
#82. My method of writing is to take the most basic kind of line and improvise on it. After all, I am the child of the culture which created Jazz.
Leon Forrest
#83. We are resolved that the method of consultation shall be the method adopted to deal with any other questions that may concern our two countries, and we are determined to continue our efforts to remove possible sources of difference, and thus to contribute to assure the peace of Europe.
Neville Chamberlain
#84. Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.
Anais Nin
#85. There is a reason it is called fossil fuel-it is an outdated method of getting power.
Alexandra Paul
#86. It occurred to me that nothing is more interesting than opinion when opinion is interesting, so I devised a method of cleaning off the page opposite the editorial, which became the most important in America and thereon I decided to print opinions, ignoring facts.
Herbert Bayard Swope
#87. Bacon first taught the world the true method of the study of nature, and rescued science from that barbarism in which the followers of Aristotle, by a too servile imitation of their master.
Thomas Young
#88. Jewish cantors employ a peculiar art and method of singing in their delivery. They are unexcelled in the art of covering the voice, picking up a new key, in the treatment of the ritual chant, and overcoming vocal difficulties that lie in the words rather than in the music.
Enrico Caruso
#89. Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating the materiality of nature's forces, and their frequent predictability.
Camille Paglia
#90. He that sets his home on fire because his fingers are frostbitten can never be a fit instructor in the method of providing our habitations with a cheerful and salutary warmth.
Edmund Burke
#92. I reveled in class discussion and the Socratic method of drawing substance out of calcified minds untrained to think.
Pat Conroy
#93. You have to put aside your ideology. Howsoever beautiful it looks, howsoever systematic it looks, howsoever philosophical you have made and decorated it, you have to put it aside and see within. That's the whole method of meditation, awareness, watchfulness.
Rajneesh
#94. The vast majority of students probably emerge from college with an adequate grasp of no more than a single method of inquiry. Even this capacity may erode over time if it does not relate to experiences and problems that recur in the student's later life.
Derek Bok
#95. The line between actual killing and verbal, symbolic, or imaginary violence is thin and permeable. The threat of violence is a method of forceful coercion, even if no blood is actually shed.
John J. Collins
#96. In Newspeak there is no word for 'Science'. The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc.
George Orwell
#97. Training the body to obey the mind as I have done differs from the more conventional method of getting the mind to obey the body.
Chris Evert
#99. The Pilates Method of Body Conditioning is gaining the mastery of your mind over the complete control of your body.
Joseph Pilates
#100. The meaning of life changes as you change dimensional planes. The way human beings perceive the world is only one simple method of seeing. There are many ways to see life. Life has many meanings, and self realization is the understanding of all this.
Frederick Lenz
