Best Method Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 28

Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks,

“Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.”

Firsts Different Problem Running Views Groups Conflict Method Warfare Different Views

Book:PEOPLE AND PLACES

Source: PEOPLE AND PLACES

“You know my methods. Apply them.”

Knows Method Statistics Holmes

Author:Arthur Conan Doyle

“Once you've started cheating, does it really matter what your methods are?”

Doe Matter Method Cheating

Author:Sophie Kinsella

“Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice or more complicated variants; it is the acceptance of the lack of certainty in our knowledge and the development of methods for dealing with our ignorance.”

Acceptance Ignorance Development Method Mere Complicated Certainty Odds Probability Dice Computation

Book:Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile

Source: Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile

“As for methods of prayer, all of them are good as long as they are sincere.”

Long Prayer Method Sincere

Author:Victor Hugo

“In the end, I must proclaim that no good can be achieved of false means. For the substance of our existence is not in the achievement, but in the method.”

Mean Ends Existence Achievement Method Substance

Book:The Way of Kings

Source: The Way of Kings

“Beginning with a critique of my own limbs, which she said, justly enough, were nothing to write home about, this girl went on to dissect my manners, morals, intellect, general physique, and method of eating asparagus with such acerbity that by the time she had finished the best you could say of Bertram was that, so far as was known, he had never actually committed murder or set fire to an orphan asylum.”

Writing Said Enough Home Girl My Own Known Moral Fire Eating Murder Method Committed Intellect Finished Manners Limbs Critique Orphan Asylums This Girl Physique Asparagus

Book:Right Ho, Jeeves

Source: Right Ho, Jeeves

“Let me stop there, but my God, how beautiful Shakespeare is, who else is as mysterious as he is; his language and method are like a brush trembling with excitement and ecstasy. But one must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.”

Beautiful Language Let Me Method Mysterious Excitement Ecstasy Brushes Trembling

Book:Vincent van Gogh

Source: Vincent van Gogh

“Well,I have a theory that men don't actually cry less than women,they just do it differently. Since we never saw our fathers cry,we are forced to invent our own unique method.”

Men Wells Father Saws Cry Theory Unique Method Our Father Just Do It

Book:No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories

“It did no good to cry, she had learned that early on. She had also learned that every time she tried to make someone aware of something in her life, the situation just got worse. Consequently it was up to her to solve her problems by herself, using whatever methods she deemed necessary.”

Problem Situation Cry Method Solve

Author:Steig Larsson

“There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration.”

Mind Ideas Whole Growing Madness Method Unconscious

Book:Dracula

Source: Dracula

“Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.”

Way Humans Jobs Friendship Human Beings Loss Method Severe True Friend Facilitate True Friend Is

Author:Caleb Carr

“One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for mediocrity, and it is fortunate that mediocrity can act only according to routine. Ability takes its flight unhindered.”

Form Ability Genius Method Ignorant Flight Fortunate Routine Mediocrity

Book:Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

“We must use whatever methods we can to understand the movement of the universe around us and time our actions so that we are not fighting the currents, but moving with them.”

Use Action Moving Fighting Universe Movement Method Currents Our Actions Memories Of A Geisha

Book:Memoirs Of A Geisha

Source: Memoirs Of A Geisha

“It is a simple logic truth that, short of mass emigration into space, with rockets taking off at the rate of several million per second, uncontrolled birth-rates are bound to lead to horribly increased death –rates. It is hard to believe that this simple truth is not understood by those leaders who forbid their followers to use effective contraceptive methods. They express a preference for ‘natural’ methods of population limitation, and a natural method is exactly what they are going to get. It is called starvation.”

“Are you really going to work in that?" Maura asked. Blue looked at her clothing. It involved a few thin layering shirts, including one she had altered using a method called shredding. "What's wrong with it?" Maura shrugged. "Nothing. I always wanted an eccentric daughter. I just never realised how well my evil plans were working.”

Wells Wanted Evil Plans Involved Daughter Blue Method Including Shirts Clothings Going To Work Realised Altered Eccentric Shredding Evil Plans

Book:The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, Book 1)

Source: The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, Book 1)

“There's an easy method for finding someone when you hear them scream. First get a clean sheet of paper and a sharp pencil. Then sketch out nine rows of fourteen squares each. Then throw the piece of paper away and find whoever is screaming so you can help them. It is no time to fiddle with paper.”

Firsts Helping Easy Pieces Paper Findings Method Clean Nine Squares Scream Sheets Pencils Fourteen Fiddle Finding Someone Sharp Pencils

Author:Daniel Handler

“He had a tremendous propensity for getting lost when driving. This was largely because of his method of “Zen” navigation, which was simply to find any car that looked as if it knew where it was going and follow it. The results were more often surprising than successful, but he felt it was worth it for the sake of the few occasions when it was both.”

Ifs Lost Felt Results Successful Car Method Sake Driving Occasions Surprising Worth It Propensity Navigation Getting Lost

Book:Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets.”

Thinking Men Form Brain Teach Study Machines Method Western Introspective Gadgets

Book:Naked lunch

Source: Naked lunch

“There are ultimately only two possible adjustments to life; one is to suit our lives to principles; the other is to suit principles to our lives. If we do not live as we think, we soon begin to think as we live. The method of adjusting moral principles to the way men live is just a perversion of the order of things.”

Ifs Thinking Men Way Two Order Moral Principles Our Lives Life Philosophy Method Suits Preacher Adjustment Perversion Adjusting Moral Principles

Author:Fulton J. Sheen

“Science is a method, not a religion, yet it can be just as close-minded. Open minds here Claire. Always open minds. Question everything, accept nothing as fact until you prove it for yourself.”

Mind Facts Accepting Prove Method Open Mind Prove It Claire Close Minded

Book:Midnight Alley: The Morganville Vampires

Source: Midnight Alley: The Morganville Vampires

“I cannot make myself believe that God wanted me to hate. I'm tired of violence, I've seen too much of it. I've seen such hate on the faces of too many sheriffs in the South. And I'm not going to let my oppressor dictate to me what method I must use. Our oppressors have used violence. Our oppressors have used hatred. Our oppressors have used rifles and guns. I'm not going to stoop down to their level. I want to rise to a higher level. We have a power that can't be found in Molotov cocktails.”

“I swam across the rocks and compared myself favorably with the sars. To swim fishlike, horizontally, was the logical method in a medium eight hundred times denser than air. To halt and hang attached to nothing, no lines or air pipe to the surface, was a dream. At night I had often had visions of flying by extending my arms as wings. Now I flew without wings. (Since that first aqualung flight, I have never had a dream of flying.)”

Firsts Dream Night Lines Vision Air Rocks Arms Hundred Method Wings Eight Surface Flying Mediums Flight Logical Swim Pipe Flew Halt Extending Sars

Author:Jacques Yves Cousteau

“A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppressor who defines the nature of the struggle,and the oppressed is often left no recourse but to use methods that mirror those of the oppressor.At a point, one can only fight fire with fire”

Way Hard Use Fighting Left Struggle Fire Mirrors Method Fighter Rebellion Oppressed Oppressors Hard Way Recourse Freedom Fighter Long Walk To Freedom Learning The Hard Way

Author:Nelson Mandela

“Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of nonresistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in selfsuffering.”

Has Beens Self Suffering Evil Violence Hatred Method Tyranny Resistance Reform Devoted

Book:Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

“There are methods to creating a mayhem that sounds different from your usual mayhem. Because mayhem and a heavy drum backbeat end up sounding like Green Day or something. But if you put a different beat within it to create some air and lightness, the chaos comes through better.”

Ifs Different Ends Sound Air Creating Beats Method Green Chaos Heavy Usual Lightness Mayhem

Author:Nick Cave

“Not specifically. "Demons have been on Earth as long as we have. They're all over the world, in their different forms – Greek daemons, Persian daevas, Hindu asuras, Japanese oni. Most belief systems have some method of incorporating both their existence and the fight against them. Shadowhunters cleave to no single religion, and in turn all religions assist us in our battle. I could as easily have gone for help to a Jewish synagogue or a Shinto temple, or – Ah. Here it is.”

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

“If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.”

Ifs Motivation Growth Principles Learning Journey Positive Method Tied Journey Of Self Discovery

Author:Ray Bradbury

“First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.”