Quotes About Exponents

#1. The antagonistic exponents of freedom and absolutism must thus meet at last and then will be fought the mighty battle on which the world will look with breathless interest; for on its issue the freedom or the slavery of the world will depend.

Christopher Hitchens

#2. MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines, who believed in artificially limiting population, but found that it could not be done by talking. Herod of Judea, all the famous soldiers have been practical exponents of the Malthusian idea.

Ambrose Bierce

#3. I have enormous respect for Derek Parfit, although he seems to me bound within an unfortunate philosophical tradition - rather like the extraordinarily brilliant exponents of Ptolemaic astronomy in the Middle Ages.

Philip Kitcher

#4. In addressing you I feel that I am not so much speaking to the representatives of diverse States of Europe and America as to the exponents of principles and hopes that are common to us all, and without which our life on earth would be a life without horizon or prospect.

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

#5. In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy.

Barry Humphries

#6. Self-destruction is an art; cursed are the exponents.

Anurag Shourie

#7. The existing system will be quickest and most radically overthrown by the annihilation of its exponents. Therefore, massacres of the enemies of the people must be set in motion.

Johann Most

#8. The continued lynchings and other crimes against negroes, whether in New England or the South, and unspeakable political exponents of white supremacy, according to all recorded history, augur ill for America's future.

Helen Keller

#9. It's not a company of exponents of my style.

Graeme Murphy

#10. We exponents of horror do much better than those Method actors. We make the unbelievable believable. More often than not, they make the believable unbelievable.

Vincent Price

#11. Radicals and exponents (also known as roots and powers) are two common - and oftentimes frustrating - elements of basic algebra.

Yang Kuang

#12. Mab had the kind of power you had to describe using exponents.

Jim Butcher

#13. Religions are the exponents of the highest comprehension of life ... within a given age in a given society ... a basis for evaluating human sentiments. If feelings bring people nearer to the religion's ideal ... they are good; if these estrange them from it, and oppose it, they are bad.

Leo Tolstoy

#14. The Holy Book of the living God suffers more from its exponents today than from its opponents.

Leonard Ravenhill

#15. I have never said that the terrorists' interpretation of Islam is the accurate or correct one. But I have pointed out that the terrorists portray themselves quite successfully among Muslims as the exponents of true and pure Islam, and moderates have mounted no successful response as yet.

Robert Spencer

#16. Nothing prevents us from being and remaining the exponents of a united humanity, when we have a country of our own. To fulfill this mission we do not have to remain literally planted among the nations who hate and despise us.

Theodor Herzl

#17. A lot of times, our guides are at the same level that we are at spiritually. We are their jobs, and they are growing through our life experiences. People have this illusion that their guides are all-knowing and all-wise, and why would we need God if we have our guides?

Echo Bodine

#18. Money is in the exponent. And exponent needs to be calculated precisely.

Lev Landau

#19. Working with the media remains an effective and essential way to raise issues, educate the public, and prod policy-makers and corporate leaders to change for the better.

Chuck Schumer

#20. Writers fly with imaginary wings.

Melody Robinette

#21. You should impact the greatest amount of people that you can in your life.

Gary W. Goldstein

#22. He had that indefinable air which comes to young men who have had to make their way up from a ten-dollar start.

P.G. Wodehouse

#23. Wind is blowing past me and I open my eyes to look at the bridge above me. But I see only Harlin. And as I fall, he mouths, I love you.

Suzanne Young

#24. Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am.

Marian Wright Edelman

#25. It is the strict adherence to daily routine that tends towards the maintenance of good morale and the preservation of sanity, he says out loud.

Margaret Atwood