There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling. Victor Hugo French Author More Victor Hugo Quotes 2
He who hasn't hacked assembly language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain. John Moore More John Moore Quotes 1
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. Larry Wall Canadian Author More Larry Wall Quotes 1
In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principal. Jacques Barzun American Educator More Jacques Barzun Quotes 0
In less than eighteen months, it prepared a first draft which it submitted to the General Assembly and which, at the end of one hundred sessions of elevated, often impassioned discussion, was adopted in the form of thirty articles on December 10, 1948. Rene Cassin French Judge More Rene Cassin Quotes 0
The single outstanding exception was the broad yet precise mandate communicated by the General Assembly in 1946 to prepare as soon as possible the Charter of Human Rights which the San Francisco Conference had not had the time or the courage to draw up. Rene Cassin French Judge More Rene Cassin Quotes 0
I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power. Jeffrey Archer English Politician More Jeffrey Archer Quotes 0
My colleagues have expressed confidence in my ability to articulate our conservative message and to provide new focus to our efforts in the General Assembly. Philip E. Berger American Politician More Philip E. Berger Quotes 0
As we take our places in the General Assembly and at the Council meetings, let us begin all our work in the name of God, for the solution of all our problems is a spiritual one. Warren R. Austin American Politician More Warren R. Austin Quotes 0
If you're opposed to the budget I submitted to the General Assembly, you're for a tax increase. Matt Blunt American Politician More Matt Blunt Quotes 0
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. Louis D. Brandeis American Judge More Louis D. Brandeis Quotes 0
And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most statesmen a quarter of a century ago would have regarded as utopian. Hjalmar Branting Swedish Statesman More Hjalmar Branting Quotes 0
Last year, the Assembly of the League, as a result of the initiative taken by the Scandinavian nations, further limited and clarified all the provisions of the clause prescribing the duty of states to participate in sanctions. Hjalmar Branting Swedish Statesman More Hjalmar Branting Quotes 0
The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting. Martin Van Creveld Israeli Historian More Martin Van Creveld Quotes 0
The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line. Leo Burnett American Businessman More Leo Burnett Quotes 0
With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption. Arthur Erickson Canadian Architect More Arthur Erickson Quotes 0
I think anybody who has been in the theater, prefers it. Television is a... factory. You turn out things on a revolving assembly line. You don't have time to perfect anything in television. Gale Gordon American Actor More Gale Gordon Quotes 0
The Independent or Congregational theory includes two principles; first, that the governing and executive power in the Church is in the brotherhood; and secondly, that the Church organization is complete in each worshipping assembly, which is independent of every other. Charles Hodge American Theologian More Charles Hodge Quotes 0
Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost. Felix Adler German Educator More Felix Adler Quotes 0
Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us. Roald Dahl British Novelist More Roald Dahl Quotes 0
Jude has a very different character. It is not the cradle of Christianity, or of the assembly on earth: it is its decay and its death here below. It does not keep its first estate. John Nelson Darby English Clergyman More John Nelson Darby Quotes 0
There is so much that can be done, you see, the assembly is about improving our democracy. Ron Davies Welsh Politician More Ron Davies Quotes 0
In most communities it is illegal to cry "fire" in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims? Dwight D. Eisenhower American President More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes 0
Canada has made a strong commitment as a partner in the International Space Station and, like the other partners, wishes to see the assembly of this unique orbiting laboratory continue. Marc Garneau Canadian Astronaut More Marc Garneau Quotes 0
The big missing part of the jig-saw is to get the assembly back up and running here in Northern Ireland, to get shared government back in business, that is my objective, and we await the IRA statement to see if this will trigger a new dawn. Peter Hain British Politician More Peter Hain Quotes 0