Unit Quotes

That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundreds soon hit This high man, aiming at a million, Misses an unit. That, has the world hereshould he need the next, Let the world mind him This, throws himself on God, and unperplext Seeking shall find Him. (Robert Browning)
Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit. View quote
Guy Debord
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. View quote
Ogden Nash
Economic growth springs from better recipes, not just from more cooking. New recipes produce fewer unpleasant side effects and generate more economic value per unit of raw material. View quote
Paul Romer
Crime is one of the leads of the show. If there's ever anything that deals with a character's personal life, you don't have to worry about it getting too crazy. People don't have to worry about character arcs. Each episode is a self-contained unit. View quote
Christopher Meloni
If we perform as a unit and if every single player gives it his very best, everything can happen. View quote
Oliver Kahn
Last summer a second unit production crew went to France and shot scenes for several of this season's episodes. They shot costumed actors in and around real castles and landmarks, we couldn't possibly have duplicated here in Hollywood. View quote
Vic Morrow
Being a songwriter, singer, and a great part of a unit is more important than being Joe Guitar Hero. View quote
Vivian Campbell
A true community consists of individuals - not mere species members, not couples - respecting each others individuality and privacy while at the same time interacting with each other mentally and emotionally - free spirits in free relation to each other - and co-operating with each other to achieve common ends. Traditionalists say the basic unit of "society" is the family; "hippies" say the tribe; noone says the individual. View quote
Valerie Solanas
There can never be peace in Ireland until the foreign, oppressive British presence is removed, leaving all the Irish people as a unit to control their own affairs and determine their own destinies as a sovereign people, free in mind and body, separate and distinct physically, culturally and economically. View quote
Bobby Sands
The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states. (Lester B. Pearson)
Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of those unfortunate measurement concepts, like inches or the British thermal unit, that ought to have been retired long before. View quote
Kim Stanley Robinson
If, for instance, you put in a Malay officer who's very religious and who has family ties in Malaysia in charge of a machine gun unit, that's a very tricky business. We've got to know his background... I'm saying these things because they are real, and if I don't think that, and I think even if today the Prime Minister doesn't think carefully about this, we could have a tragedy. View quote
Lee Kuan Yew
Nation state as a fundamental unit of man's organized life has ceased to be the principal creative force: International banks and multinational corporations are acting and planning in terms that are far in advance of the political concepts of the nation-state. View quote
Zbigniew Brzezinski
I do not want to give any orders to the airmen, but get hold of a Komsomol air unit, and say I want volunteers for the job. View quote
Ivan Konev
An army to be useful must be a unit, and out of this has grown the saying, attributed to Napoleon, but doubtless spoken before the days of Alexander, that an army with an inefficient commander was better than one with two able heads. View quote
William Tecumseh Sherman
The [sexual harassment] situation has gotten so out of hand that, in 1993, in one of the first British cases, a plumber was fired for continuing to use the traditional term "ballcock" for the toilet flotation unit, instead of the new politically correct term, sanitized of sexual suggestiveness. This is insane. We are back to the Victorian era, when table legs had to be draped lest they put the thought of ladies' legs into someone's dirty mind. View quote
Camille Paglia
Money ... is the nerve center of the economic system. If, therefore, the state is able to gain unquestioned control over the unit of all accounts, the state will then be in a position to dominate the entire economic system, and the whole society. View quote
Murray Rothbard
What we mean by information - the elementary unit of information - is a difference which makes a difference, and it is able to make a difference because the neural pathways along which it travels and is continually transformed are themselves provided with energy. The pathways are ready to be triggered. We may even say that the question is already implicit in them. View quote
Gregory Bateson
The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic emancipates us from the straitwaistcoated benevolent institution, which idealism palms off as the totality of being. View quote
Bertrand Russell
A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem. (Arthur Conan Doyle)
There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself. View quote
John Muir
If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical. View quote
Herbert Read
The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality. View quote
Herbert Read
[The loss- of-strength gradient is] the degree to which military and political power diminishes as we move a unit distance away from its home base. View quote
Kenneth Boulding