Under Quotes - page 4

Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye. (Jacopo Sannazaro)
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. View quote
Havelock Ellis
Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. View quote
Hannah Arendt
There was no choice. If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him? View quote
Oskar Schindler
You cannot like the word, but what is happening is an occupation -- to hold 3.5 million Palestinians under occupation. I believe that is a terrible thing for Israel and for the Palestinians. View quote
Ariel Sharon
He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel. View quote
Matthew Henry
YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side,' said the dewdrop to the lake. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence Cannot imagine being under suspicion. View quote
Pierre Corneille
The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool. (Pearl S. Buck)
If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers. View quote
Horatio Nelson
The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases. View quote
Larry Wall
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it. View quote
John Locke
Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk. View quote
Ronald Reagan
Heat is a universal solvent, melting out of things their power of resistance, and sucking away and removing their natural strength with its fiery exhalations so that they grow soft, and hence weak, under its glow. View quote
Vitruvius
Philosophy treats of physics where a more careful knowledge is required because the problems which come under this head are numerous... So the reader of Ctesibius or Archimedes and the other writers of treatises of the same class will not be able to appreciate them unless he has been trained in these subjects by the philosophers. View quote
Vitruvius
Fir: it contains a great deal of air and fire with very little moisture and the earthy, so that, as its natural properties are of the lighter class, it is not heavy. Hence, its consistence being naturally stiff, it does not easily bend under the load, and keeps its straightness when used in the framework. But it contains so much heat that it generates and encourages decay, which spoils it; and it also kindles fire quickly because of the air in its body, which is so open that it takes in fire and so gives out a great flame. View quote
Vitruvius
All these soft kinds [of stone] have the advantage that they can be easily worked as soon as they have been taken from the quarries. Under cover, they play their part well; but in open and exposed situations the frost and rime make them crumble, and they go to pieces. On the seacoast, too, the salt eats away and dissolves them, nor can they stand great heat either. (Vitruvius)
We were young. We were bored. And the old electroshock therapy machine was just under the stairs in a box next to the Hoover. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
My attitude on skis is different now. I have learned to put less pressure on myself and on the edges of my skis when I'm racing, to be keep myself more under control. View quote
Hermann Maier
Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on the steps that got us there. View quote
K. Eric Drexler
Today we stand on a bridge leading from the territorial state to the world community. Politically, we are still governed by the concept of the territorial state; economically and technically, we live under the auspices of worldwide communications and worldwide markets. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
đŸ“– Under Proverbs