Charles Babbage Quotes

The whole of arithmetic now appeared within the grasp of mechanism.

Charles Babbage

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• I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Feeling
  • Me
  • Films

• Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Decision
  • Military
  • Force

• There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.

  

  Harry Anderson
  • Guy
  • Perception
  • Hollywood

• Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Up
  • American
  • Control

• There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Think
  • Space
  • Volunteer

• I will come to know when my time's up, and when it is, I will exit gracefully. I will not hang around till I am kicked out.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • Time
  • Exit
  • Kicked

• I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can't be all that bad.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • People
  • Bad
  • Feeling

• I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Done
  • Think
  • Always

• The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • World
  • Work
  • Long

• The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Rock
  • Said
  • Piano

• I was, like, a really embarrassing, precocious child.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Like
  • Child
  • Embarrassing

• I've been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Good
  • Family
  • Friends

• I wouldn't be face-washing anyone in real life. I'd be skating to the bench real fast to get away.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Life
  • Real
  • Fast

• For those that are working part time, in small businesses, or who are unemployed and do not currently have health insurance, we want to make sure that you are covered.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Time
  • Small
  • Health

• I believe that we all have something to share with someone else that can better someone else's life.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Better

• La langue est un systéme dont toutes les parties peuvent et doivent être considérés dans leur solidarité synchronique.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure

• A large, coarse-skinned young woman but with something of my friend's features, particularly the mouth.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Friend

• North Korea is the country that the monkeys in The Wizard of Oz came from.

  

  Lewis Black
  • Country

• For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.

  

  Owen Arthur
  • Win
  • Place
  • First

• The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people.

  

  John Keegan
  • People
  • Great
  • Men

• Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours For one lone soul another lonely soul, Each choosing each through all the weary hours, And meeting strangely at one sudden goal, Then blend they, like green leaves with golden flowers, Into one beautiful and perfect whole; And life's long night is ended, and the way Lies open onward to eternal day.

  

  Edwin Arnold
  • Life
  • World
  • Long

• The first thing I learned as a producer is that you have very little control over the life of a project. Anything can stall a film from financing to scheduling to casting. Things fall apart all the time. Don't waste time on something that just won't get made. Try to have as many projects going at one time as you can handle.

  

  Jason Blum
  • Life
  • Time
  • Control

• If anyone removes (one of the) anxieties of this world from a believer, God will remove (one of the) anxieties from him on the Day of Resurrection; if one smoothes the way for one who is destitute, God will smooth the way for him in this world and the next; and if anyone conceals the faults of a Muslim, God will conceal his faults in this world and the next. God helps a man as long as he helps his brother. If anyone pursues a path in search of knowledge God will thereby make easy for him a path to paradise.

  

  Elijah Muhammad
  • God
  • Knowledge
  • Search

• The whole of arithmetic now appeared within the grasp of mechanism.

  

  Charles Babbage