Field Quotes

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop. (Ovid)
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field. View quote
Niels Bohr
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
I used to say of him that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men. View quote
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
I think it pisses God off when you walk by the colour purple in a field and don't notice it. View quote
Alice Walker
Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know. View quote
Samuel Richardson
The computing field is always in need of new cliches. View quote
Alan Perlis
The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise. View quote
Colin Powell
The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master. View quote
Henry James
I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers. View quote
William Tecumseh Sherman
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. (Theodore Sturgeon)
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. View quote
Booker T. Washington
Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners. View quote
John Steinbeck
I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious. View quote
Vince Lombardi
A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests. View quote
Aristide Briand
I work on the boundary between economics and statistics in this field called econometrics. Part of my interest is understanding how you use statistics in productive ways to analyze dynamic economic models. View quote
Lars Peter Hansen
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. View quote
Warren Beatty
It is a little bit humiliating when I have to say that Chou En-lai to me appears as the most superior brain I have so far met in the field of foreign politics. so much more dangerous than you imagine because he is so much better a man than you have ever admitted. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice. View quote
José Rizal
I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for -- whether it's a field, or a home, or a country. View quote
Thornton Wilder
Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray, to not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field that, of course, they are many in number or that, after all, they are other than the little, shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour. (Edmund Burke)
It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase unless the electric field has a curl. Both are laws of nature. View quote
John von Neumann
A cow is a very good animal in the field but we turn her out of a garden. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war. View quote
William Tecumseh Sherman
In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it. View quote
John Archibald Wheeler
📖 Field Proverbs