Quotes About Asymptote

#1. You can't ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.

Paul Kalanithi

#2. If I were a function, you would be my asymptote. I always tend toward you.

Penny Reid

#3. Like translation itself, Asymptote is a fluid web reaching out to all sides, bringing texts and readers together, through the most improbable and marvelous of connections.

Jonathan Littell

#4. A becoming in which one never becomes, a becoming whose rule is neither evolution nor asymptote but a certain turning, a certain turning inward, turning into my own / turning on in / to my own self / at last / turning out of the / white cage, turning out of the / lady cage / turning at last.

Maggie Nelson

#5. And, mastery is an asymptote: It's impossible to fully realize, which makes it simultaneously frustrating and alluring

Sharan B. Merriam

#6. In the anarchic world of international politics, it is better to be Godzilla than Bambi.

John Mearsheimer

#7. The chief beauty of this book lies not so much in its literary style, or in the extent and usefulness of the information it conveys, as in its simple truthfulness.

Jerome K. Jerome

#8. After all, I believe it is the style of thought entirely, and the style of expression, which makes the difference in books.

Henry David Thoreau

#9. I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light ... Yet in only two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory.

Thomas A. Edison

#10. If the mind could cease measuring itself against the hero, the perfect, the glorious and all that, it would be what it is.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#11. Soldiers falling fast
Battle of white and scarlet
Blossoms on the ground

David Kudler

#12. God has one destined end for mankind - holiness! His one aim is the production of saints. God is not an eternal blessing-machine for men. He did not come to save men out of pity. He came to save men because He had created them to be holy.

Oswald Chambers

#13. In a government whose distinguishing characteristic should be a diffusion and equalization of its benefits and burdens the advantage of individuals will be augmented at the expense of the community at large.

Martin Van Buren

#14. Complaining will not change things in your life; only action will. Make a list of all you need to do to change what doesn't work in your life and, little by little, begin making those changes.

Susan Jeffers

#15. Cobalt is a divine color and there is nothing as fine for putting an atmosphere round things. Carmine is the red of wine and is warm and lively like wine. The same goes for emerald green too. It's false economy to dispense with them, with those colors. Cadmium as well.

Vincent Van Gogh

#16. Maybe I'd be a bank robber. Some god-damned thing. Something with flare, fire. You only had one shot. Why be a window washer?

Charles Bukowski

#17. If you don't have people that the reader cares about and stories that are gripping, you've got nothing.

Jennifer Egan

#18. She didn't know what to do with the severed leg. She had cut it off, but she didn't want to touch it or even look at it.

Larry McMurtry

#19. Still think the perfect shoe can't change your life? Just ask Cinderella!

Samantha Biskup