William Whewell Quotes

But with regard to the material world, we can at least go so far as this;-we can perceive that events are brought about, not by insulated interpositions of Divine power, exerted in each particular ease, but by the establishment of general laws.

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• Look at Inuit clothing. Their stuff still works better than Cabela's. I've made my own parkas, mukluks, footgear, and it is good to 60 degrees below zero. All I did was copy the patterns that came down from the Inuits.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Good
  • Better
  • Down

• I'm not the type of person that is forced.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Person
  • Type
  • Forced

• I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mother.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • America
  • Mother
  • Career

• When I got into college, I found what ultimately became my life's work. I couldn't sleep at night, I was so excited about it. So I'm attracted to people who play at that level. They actually want to play in their professional life.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Hollywood is something imagined... acting is something crafted.

  

  Laura Vandervoort
  • Acting
  • Something
  • Hollywood

• People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather then how famous you are.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • People
  • Famous
  • Act

• I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Work
  • Job
  • Father

• When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Think
  • Understand
  • Situation

• If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in person.

  

  Ralph Bunche
  • Up
  • Want
  • You

• I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for 22, years and it was an ill match. She encouraged me to be a writer. She opened her home to black friends, and this was the 1950s. She didn't care later when I write about her.

  

  Edmund White
  • Home
  • She
  • Friends

• In human life, economics precedes politics or culture.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • Life
  • Culture
  • Politics

• A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • People
  • Band
  • Face

• I use egg whites and an olive oil-based hair mask that deep-conditions the hair and adds incredible shine.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Hair
  • Deep
  • Shine

• Violence against women and girls touches every corner of the globe and is one of the world's most pervasive human rights violations.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • World
  • Women
  • Violence

• But the worst of all is, according to the old phrase, while the grass grows, the horse starves, but the man of money is the man for Nova Scotia. Those may do extremely well.

  

  Nathaniel Smith
  • Money
  • May
  • Man

• Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Struggle
  • Matter
  • Fate

• In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • History
  • Fact
  • Belong

• Ozon.ru is made up of four businesses. Ozon.ru is an online retailer, O'Courier focuses on shipping, Ozon.Travel, and our most recent acquisition, Sapato, the leading online shoe and accessory retailer.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Up
  • Travel
  • Made

• Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern business.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Business
  • Appreciate
  • Run

• Rock n' roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • People
  • World
  • Band

• 'Xyle XY' follows this boy who is like a newborn to the world - everything he sees and experiences is for the first time. He travels into the city and ends up getting put up by this foster family.

  

  Matt Dallas
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• When I was in the hospital getting my sex change, I was just wishing I could be a pretty girl working in a mall. If I could have a crystal ball and see what I look like now - you know, modeling, David LaChapelle, hanging out with Daphne Guinness, singing with Lil' Kim, and traveling all over the world, I'd be like, "Wow, I can't believe this."

  

  Amanda Lepore
  • World
  • Believe
  • Girl

• But with regard to the material world, we can at least go so far as this;-we can perceive that events are brought about, not by insulated interpositions of Divine power, exerted in each particular ease, but by the establishment of general laws.

  

  William Whewell
  • World
  • Science
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