Alexander Agassiz Quotes

My familiarity with the successful use of very long steel ropes for mining purposes naturally suggested their adaptation to the new purpose of deep sea work.

Alexander Agassiz

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• I was born in London, England during the great fog of 1952, but survived the coal-fueled air pollution with no ill effects and after less than a year in England was carried to Canada by my parents.

  

  Jack W. Szostak
  • Great
  • Parents
  • Air

• Man is alone in the world, in tremendous eternal isolation. He has no object outside himself; lives for nothing else; he is far removed from being the slave of his wishes, of his abilities, of his necessities; he stands far above social ethics; he is alone. Thus he becomes one and all.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • World
  • Alone
  • Wishes

• The concept that you are not ingesting rotting flesh sort of sums it up for me.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Up
  • Concept
  • Sort

• When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?

  

  Idries Shah
  • Why
  • Door
  • Fortune

• Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer.

  

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
  • Gold
  • Books
  • Fields

• Oh! I know this truth, if I know no other, That passionate Love is Pain's own mother.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Mother

• With CA, we can reach more organizations than ever before with our innovative technology, expert people and best practices. And, by accelerating our development and integrating our technology with CA's solutions, we will be able to deliver a scope of management products unmatched by anyone else.

  

  Dick Williams
  • People
  • Technology
  • Management

• Sometimes God gives instructions that go against conventional wisdom, such as treating people kindly when they're hateful. Who really wants to do that? Instructions like that may not always make sense, so that's why I need to trust and obey the One who inspired them.

  

  George Foreman
  • People
  • Giving
  • Inspired

• Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

  

  Vittorio Alfieri
  • Courage
  • Dies
  • Tests

• If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Wish
  • Understand
  • Philosopher

• Bullies are always to be found where there are cowards.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Found
  • Cowards
  • Bullies

• I don't understand the Democrats' approach to Social Security in this country, and I'm not alone.

  

  William Weld
  • Country
  • Security

• I wished I could offer her tea. You don’t think about it, but all those little fusses we make over company have their purposes. They give us something to do with our hands and our anxiousness until everybody settles in and starts having fun.

  

  Elizabeth Bear
  • Hands
  • Purposes
  • Wished

• The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms!

  

  Robert Walpole
  • Patriotism
  • Purposes
  • Mushrooms

• It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Know
  • Rest
  • Thing

• You should have fallen in love with a happy man, if you wanted happiness. But no, you had to fall for the breathtaking beauty of pain.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Men
  • Fall
  • Pain

• My familiarity with the successful use of very long steel ropes for mining purposes naturally suggested their adaptation to the new purpose of deep sea work.

  

  Alexander Agassiz
  • Purposes
  • Mining
  • Ropes