Fields Quotations | Page 13

Ambition is the subtlest beast of the intellectual and moral field. It is wonderfully adroit in concealing itself from its owner.

The field of research in the doctrine of civil resistance is necessarily limited, as the occasions for civil resistance in a man's life must not be frequent.

Non-co-operation in the political field is an extension of the doctrine as it is practised in the domestic field.

If intellect plays a large part in the field of violence, I hold that it plays a larger part in the field of nonviolence.

History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors' version is given prominence and holds the field.

During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800, this had become entirely impracticable.

To any who know the star field well from one certain reference point, stars are as individual as people. Jump ten parsecs, however, and not even your own sun is recognizable.

The wonderful purity of nature at this season is a most pleasing fact.... In the bare fields and tinkling woods, see what virtue survives. In the coldest and bleakest places, the warmest charities still maintain a foothold.

Politics is but a narrow field.

There is one thought for the field, another for the house. I would have my thoughts, like wild apples, to be food for walkers, and will not warrant them to be palatable if tasted in the house.

Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps.

I fear that he who walks over these fields a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples. Ah, poor man, there are many pleasures which he will not know!

For my part, I would rather look toward Rutland than Jerusalem. Rutland,--modern town,--land of ruts,--trivial and worn,--not toosacred,--with no holy sepulchre, but profane green fields and dusty roads, and opportunity to live as holy a life as you can, where the sacredness, if there is any, is all in yourself and not in the place.

The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology.

Women are the field that produces our nation. And if you can't protect your women, you can't protect your nation.

Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and shew'd how fields were won.

There's a surge, there's a kind of energy field that says, 'I'm in my groove, I'm in my groove.' and nobody has to tell you, 'You go, girl,' because you know you're already gone.

You only have power in your energy field ... so the only way to live the life you want is in your energy field ... and your greatest power is love.

The crop always seems better in our neighbor's field, and our neighbor's cow gives more milk.

Let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer . . .

Goodness is not in the backyard of the individual nor in the open field of the collective; goodness flowers only in freedom from both.

Time is a great legalizer, even in the field of morals

The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on 'I am not too sure'.

The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn.

It is of very doubtful value to enlist the gifts of a woman into fields that have been defined as male; it frightens the men, unsexes the women, and muffles and distorts the contribution women could make.

Outside, beyond what is right and wrong, there exists a vast field. We will find each other there

Be the best at what you do. Get to know more about your field than anybody alive.

We only live once, since we are given the gift of life it should be our persistent endeavor to immortalize ourselves no matter what field of endeavor we choose.

Imagination labors best in distant fields.

When I ask for a water cress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

God is entirely and personally present in the wilderness, in the garden, in the field.

Truth has drawn me into the field of politics; and I can say without the slightest hesitation, and yet in all humility, that those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means.

Actually, all I ever wanted to be was the best in my field.

We are constantly being astonished these days at the amazing discoveries in the field of violence. But I maintain that far more undreamt of and seemingly impossible discoveries will be made in the field of nonviolence.

Most pioneers are at the mercy of doubt at the beginning, whether of their worth, of their theories, or of the whole enigmatic field in which they labour.

The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties.

Strawberry Fields is anywhere you want to go

Strawberry fields forever

I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.

Time spent in the cultivation of the fields passes very pleasantly.

A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage.

The field cannot be well seen from within the field. The astronomer must have his diameter of the earth's orbit as a base to fix the parallax of any other star

A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy. A fop of fields is no better than his brother on Broadway.

The field cannot be seen from within the field.

Work unto death! I am with you, and when I am gone, my spirit will work with you. This life comes and goes; wealth, fame, enjoyments are only of a few days. It is better, far better to die on the field of duty, preaching the truth, than to die like a worldly worm. Advance!

When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.

Only now have I finally realized that my life has been an unending field trip. And I have tried hard not to be a tourist. But to be an adventurer, a traveler, an explorer, a learner, and a pilgrim.

It will not do merely to listen to great principles. You must apply them in the practical field, turn them into constant practice. What will be the good of cramming the high - sounding dicta of the scriptures? You have first to grasp the teachings of the Shastras, and then to work them out in practical life. Do you understand? This is called practical religion.

To take a single step beyond the text would be to take possession of a boundless field of power.

For like a poisonous breath over the fields, like a mass of locusts over Egypt, so the swarm of excuses is a general plaque, a ruinous infection among men, that eats off the sprouts of the Eternal.

Beyond ideas, there's a field. Will you meet me there?

Loaves of bread remind us of sunlight, but when we are inside that orb,we lose interest in building ovens,in millwork and the preparation of fields before the planting.

There is a field beyond all notions of right and wrong. Come, meet me there.

In this earth, in this immaculate field, we shall not plant any seeds except for compassion, except for love.

There was one field in which man was unsurpassed; he showed unlimited ingenuity in devising bigger and more efficient ways to kill off, enslave, harass, and in all ways make an unbearable nuisance of himself to himself.

If an elderly respected expert in a given field tells you that something can be done he is almost certainly right. If an elderly respected expert in a given field tells you that something is impossible, he is almost certainly wrong.

Beyond the rightness or wrongness of things there is a field, I'll meet you there

Each moment from all sides rushes to us the call to love. We are running to contemplate its vast green field. Do you want to come with us?

the field of knolege is the common property of all mankind

Improv. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but when it does, it's like open-field running.

To trace in Nature's most minute design The signature and stamp of power divine. ... The Invisible in things scarce seen revealed, To whom an atom is an ample field.

Whatever the field under discussion, those who engage in debate must not only believe in each other's good faith, but also in their capacity to arrive at the truth.

By surrendering, you create an energy field of receptivity for the solution to appear.

When you trace a particle back to its origins, you find that it's nothing but pure energy. All of us come from this energy field.

Everyone and everything that shows up in the world of form in this universe originates not from a particle, as quantum physics teaches us, but from an energy field.

Opening to the power of intention, you begin knowing that conception, birth and death are all natural aspects of the energy field of creation.

Anything that has been accomplished by any other human being in the physical realm is within the field of possibility.

That energy field can be called God, soul, spirit, or consciousness.

If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.

Speaking for the one field which I feel definitely qualified to comment on, I fully believe the animated picture will emerge as one of the greatest mediums, not only of entertainment but also of education.

Sir, when you have seen one green field, you have seen all green fields. Let us walk down Cheapside.

The wheat field has ...poetry; it is like a memory of something one has once seen. We can only make our pictures speak.

Well, I am ploughing on my canvases as they do on their fields (the peasants). It goes badly enough in our profession - in fact that has always been so, but at the moment it is very bad.

I work as diligently on my canvases as the laborers do in their fields.

Our thoughts are a field of energy cycles, a mind field, and just by our thoughts alone we impact not only ourselves but those around us as well.

I do what I love, and I love what I do. I think we all were intended out of a field of energy called love, so you must be love in order to intend.

Intention is not something you do, but rather a force that exists in the universe as an invisible field of energy, a power that can carry us.

In my opinion, the entire field of investment management, involving hundreds of billions of dollars, would be more satisfactorily conducted if everyone had a good yardstick for measurement of ability and sensibly applied it.

So if you are evaluating others (or yourself!) in the investment field, think out some standards - apply them - interpret them.

Referring to the bad sun conditions in left field at the stadium: It gets late out there early.

Fields' reply: He'd think I was a sissy.

Oh there is blessing in this gentle breeze, A visitant that while it fans my cheek Doth seem half-conscious of the joy it brings From the green fields, and from yon azure sky. Whate'er its mission, the soft breeze can come To none more grateful than to me; escaped From the vast city, where I long had pined A discontented sojourner: now free, Free as a bird to settle where I will.

The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the 'pure' experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.

I know of only six genuine comic geniuses in movie history; Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Groucho Marx & Harpo Marx, Peter Sellers, and W.C. Fields.

If I could just hope to have a major talent, then I would rather have it in music than in any other field.

Nothing will bring American sympathy along with us so much as American blood shed in the field.

We shall fight in parking lots, we shall fight in empty fields and on wide streets, we shall never surrender.