Narrow Margin Quotes

#1. After the conquest of the South Pole by Amundsen who, by a narrow margin of days only, was in advance of the British Expedition under Scott, there remained but one great main object of Antarctic journeying - the crossing of the South Polar continent from sea to sea

Ernest Shackleton

#2. In a Balkan country, not so many years ago, a party which had been beaten by a narrow margin in a general election retrieved its fortunes by shooting a sufficient number of the representatives of the other side to give it a majority ... Cromwell and Robespierre ... acted likewise..

Bertrand Russell

#3. I guess 35 years ago, I thought we had more of a democracy than we actually do. Majority support doesn't help unless the majority is active and votes - but the opposition minority votes a much greater proportion, so we often lose by a narrow margin.

Gloria Steinem

#4. I think what's going to hurt the Republicans enormously is the extremist position of Mitt Romney on the immigration issue and states like New Mexico, states like Colorado, Nevada, Arizona - and I think it's going to be the margin of victory for President Obama, a very narrow victory.

Bill Richardson

#5. My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#6. But it is impossible to divide a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into fourth powers, or generally any power beyond the square into like powers; of this I have found a remarkable demonstration. This margin is too narrow to contain it.

Pierre De Fermat

#7. To divide a cube into two other cubes, a fourth power, or in general any power whatever into two powers of the same denomination above the second is impossible, and I have assuredly found an admirable proof of this, but the margin is too narrow to contain it.

Pierre De Fermat

#8. No successful business was ever made without someone taking a chance, no successful person got to where they are without taking risks, and no endeavor ever succeeded without people taking a gamble.

Stephen Richards

#9. With the advent of chivalry, the art of boxing waned. The evolution of feudal aristocracy, with other and widely different exercises, pastimes and weapons from those of the common people, made boxing unfashionable.

John Boyle O'Reilly

#10. Check out the magic crap." He shot me a look. "Oh, is that what we're supposed to be doing? Because I've just been drawing hearts and our initials in the dirt.

Rachel Hawkins

#11. One should always be suspicious of a woman who tells you that her past was burnt in the flames of a schoolhouse in Peshawar.

Gyles Brandreth

#12. Honesty is a gift we can give to others. It is also a source of power and an engine of simplicity.

Sam Harris

#13. The trouble with taxonomic boxes is ... that that they tend to be empty, however beautiful they are on the outside.

Kenneth E. Boulding

#14. Fermat wrote in the margin: "I've discovered a truly wonderful proof for this argument. Unfortunately, this margin is too narrow to contain it." Two

Peter Hoeg

#15. The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear.

John F. Kennedy

#16. The ability to suspend reality and go into a make-believe world can be really, really difficult if there's something really big going on.

Rupert Penry-Jones

#17. Discipline 'makes' individuals; it is the specific technique of a power that regards individuals both as objects and as instruments of its exercise. It is not a triumphant power...it is a modest, suspicious power, which functions as a calculated, but permanent economy.

Michel Foucault

#18. I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.

Stieg Larsson

#19. Nothing dreamed is ever lost, and nothing lost forever.

Joanne Harris

#20. The most famous case was the so-called Bradley effect: in 1982, California voters told exit pollsters they had elected a black governor, Tom Bradley, by a significant margin, but in the privacy of the ballot box they had actually given his white opponent a narrow victory.

Anonymous

#21. He suddenly felt tremendously happy. He could always go back to being a shepherd. He could always become a crystal salesman again.

Paulo Coelho

#22. I look forward to my first visit to Israel. Music is a universal language that is meant to unify audiences in peace and love, and that is the spirit of our show.

Alicia Keys

#23. Science [is] that wonderfully convenient personification of the opinions, at a certain date, of Professors X, Y, and Z ...

Aldous Huxley