Retarding Quotes

#1. The millions of dollars which we devote every year to high-school education are, for the most part, money spent for the retarding of intelligence, the discouragement of efficiency, the stunting of character.

Bernard Iddings Bell

#2. It is a retarding element creating hatred and anger, and causing people to fight each other, and making them unsympathetic.

Swami Vivekananda

#3. Retarding the aging process would be therapy and enhancement because it would mean defeating diseases and because it would extend our life span.

Gregory Stock

#4. Only nine States have been represented since my arrival 'till within three days. There are now Eleven States barely represented. This tardiness in the States or their Delegates, besides retarding the most important Business makes it exceeding fatiguing to those that do attend.

William Whipple

#5. The careful student of history will discover that Christianity has been of very little value in advancing civilization, but has done a great deal toward retarding it.

Matilda Joslyn Gage

#6. Critics are a kind of freebooters in the republic of letters
who, like deer, goats and divers other graminivorous animals, gain subsistence by gorging upon buds and leaves of the young shrubs of the forest, thereby robbing them of their verdure, and retarding their progress to maturity.

Washington Irving

#7. Is it not obvious that the more complex an economy, the more certainly will governmental control of productive effort exert a retarding influence?

Leonard Read

#8. By holding down natural wage growth in labor-intensive industries, immigration serves as a subsidy for low-wage, low-productivity ways of doing business, retarding technological progress and productivity growth.

Mark Krikorian

#9. One would have supposed that such an atmosphere must quicken the emotions as well as the blood; but it seemed to produce no change except that of retarding still more the sluggish pulse of Starkfield.

Anonymous

#10. The novice in the military art flew from point to point, retarding his own preparations by the excess of his violent and somewhat distempered zeal; while the more practiced veteran made his arrangements with a deliberation that scorned every appearance of haste

James Fenimore Cooper

#11. when the voters turned away to listen to the teachings of Democracy, the invariable result has been national disaster and humiliation and a retarding of progress.

George Washington Platt

#12. I accept sceptics, you've got to have challenges.

Dan Aykroyd

#13. True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkness, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds - a handful of stars tossed into the night sky.

Jim Bishop

#14. Sir, you are both ungallant and deficient!
How am I deficient?
You're just a boy.

J.M. Barrie

#15. My first soldier role was in 'Flags of Our Fathers.' Casting director Jay Binder saw that movie and was looking for soldiers for 'Journey's End,' which led to 'Generation Kill.'

Stark Sands

#16. She is a wonderful nerd, and he hopes this won't change.

Tom Rachman

#17. Gradually we come to admit that Shakespeare understands a greater extent and variety of human life than Dante; but that Dante understands deeper degrees of degradation and higher degrees of exaltation.

T. S. Eliot

#18. Nope, no sex scandals yet. But I am open to offers!

John Cusack

#19. Grant me courage to serve others;
For in service there is true life.

Cesar Chavez

#20. Didn't we just talk about this the other night?" Denise sighed with exasperation. "Yeah, we talked. Or rather, I talked. But you didn't say much at all." "Sure I did." "No, you didn't. But then, you never have. You just talk about surface things, never the things that are really bothering you.

Nicholas Sparks

#21. Jesus took what I deserved so I could get what He deserved.

Bill Johnson

#22. So it is that good warriors take their stance on ground where they cannot lose, and do not overlook conditions that make an opponent prone to defeat.

Sun Tzu

#23. Be like the flower that gives its fragrance to even the hand that crushes it.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib