Operations famous quotes

Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation.
-- Alexander Hamilton

#Law #Letters #Operations

You want to have stability in the commercial aspect of your operation.
-- Andrew Taylor

#Want #Operations #Aspect

The main Objective of any operation in an open file is the eventual Occupation of the seventh or eighth Rank.
-- Aron Nimzowitsch

#Occupation #Chess #Operations

If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole.
-- Arthur Compton

#Technology #Operations #Science And Technology

Hamas is simply continuing all its operations. And Israel will not let this terror operation decide when it's convenient for them and not convenient for them to attack our people.
-- Benjamin Netanyahu

#Israel #People #Operations

I co-own the ranch with my brother, and he and his wife are really the backbone of the operation.
-- Bill Pullman

#Brother #Wife #Operations

NATO will not become involved in partitioning that country, .. We're not going to engage in an operation that will fix demarcation lines. This is one country, and it will remain one country.
-- Bill Vaughan

#Country #Lines #Operations

I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.
-- Bill Walton

#Health #Long #Operations

Even now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us.
-- Bob Woodward

#Literature #Operations #Evidence

It is to be feared that those who emigrate to New South Wales, generally anticipate too great facility in their future operations and certainty of success in conducting them; but they should recollect that competency cannot be obtained without labour.
-- Charles Sturt

#Conducting #Should #Operations

If I cannot trust someone's judgment, I cannot ask others to do so, and I would not place him at the head of my political operation.
-- Chris Christie

#Political #Judgment #Operations

We worked to develop our own operations to advance U.S. counterterrorism objectives by penetrating terrorist safe havens and collecting intelligence that would inform policy and enable our own operations.
-- Cofer Black

#Safe Haven #Operations #Collecting

We've tried to keep as cheap and lean an operation as possible.
-- David Karp

#Business #Entrepreneurship #Operations

I am doing better now though one of my legs is shorter than the other due to the operations.
-- David Prowse

#Legs #Operations

I just don't like the idea of having an operation to hold up the ageing process.
-- Demi Moore

#Ideas #Process #Operations

It’s not the upfront capital that kills you, it’s the operations and maintenance on the back end.
-- Gene Kim

#Maintenance #Ends #Operations

Inner experience ... is not easily accessible and, viewed from the outside by intelligence, it would even be necessary to see in it a sum of distinct operations, some intellectual, others aesthetic, yet others moral. ... It is only from within, lived to the point of terror, that it appears to unify that which discursive thought must separate.
-- Georges Bataille

#Intellectual #Moral #Operations

Geometric calculus consists in a system of operations analogous to those of algebraic calculus, but in which the entities on which the calculations are carried out, instead of being numbers, are geometric entities which we shall define.
-- Giuseppe Peano

#Numbers #Operations #Entity

Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping.
-- Harri Holkeri

#Enforcement #Kind #Operations

No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force,
-- Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

#Firsts #Force #Operations

Nothing can be so quick and sudden as the operations of the mind, especially when hope, or fear, or jealousy, to which the other two are but journeymen, set it to work.
-- Henry Fielding

#Two #Mind #Operations

The universal basis of co-operation is the proportioning of benefits received to services rendered.
-- Herbert Spencer

#Benefits #Operations #Bases

You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.
-- Irvin S. Cobb

#Sarcastic #Opera #Operations

Like it or not, liberation for women will be achieved only with the full co-operation of men.
-- Ita Buttrose

#Women #Operations #Liberation

The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed.
-- James Allen

#Mind #Body #Operations

They can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of the society.
-- James Madison

#Law #Operations #Mass

How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
-- Jane Austen

#Mind #Wonderful #Operations

The visible world only becomes the real world by the operation of thought
-- Jean Metzinger

#Real #World #Operations

I was most impressed with the professionalism of our soldiers stationed there, and I am now more confident than ever that that the operations at Guantanamo are being conducted in a humane and necessary manner.
-- Jim Ryun

#Soldier #Professionalism #Operations

You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation.
-- John Abizaid

#Military #Type #Operations

Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.
-- John Cage

#Soul #Operations #Music Is

To the patient, any operation is momentous.
-- Joseph Murray

#Patient #Operations

I just had an operation for piles - all my troubles are behind me.
-- Ken Brett

#Trouble #Operations #Behinds

Dichotomy = operation performed on lesbians to make them normal.
-- Kenneth Tynan

#Normal #Operations #Dichotomy

I was responsible for the 9/11 Operation, from A to Z.
-- Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

#Responsible #Operations

I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer.
-- Leland Stanford

#Operations #Employers #Labor

On December 18, 1940, Hitler signed Directive Number 21, better known as Operation Barbarossa.
-- Leopold Trepper

#Numbers #December #Operations

I went in for an operation to remove a brain tumor.
-- Lou Gramm

#Brain #Operations #Brain Tumor

Civilization is a work of peaceful co-operation.
-- Ludwig von Mises

#Civilization #Peaceful #Operations

I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation.
-- Malcolm Muggeridge

#Television #Moral #Operations

Ulcerative colitis can be cured by the operation, but you cannot cure Crohn's disease.
-- Mary Ann Mobley

#Disease #Operations #Cures

Altogether, Cavalry operations are exceedingly difficult, knowledge of the country is absolutely necessary, and ability to comprehend the situation at a glance, and an audacious spirit, are everything.
-- Maurice de Saxe

#Country #Spirit #Operations

Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships.
-- Michael Dell

#Technology #Operations

Military operations cannot be tidy or free of friction - particularly in a coalition whose contributing nations see the campaign through national prisms.
-- Mike Jackson

#Military #Campaigns #Operations

Not much over £1,000 a month for the private soldier on operations is hardly an impressive figure.
-- Mike Jackson

#Soldier #Months #Operations

The operation of consciousness has created the 'apparition' called 'me'.
-- Mooji

#Consciousness #Operations #Apparitions

The motors I build there were exactly as I imagined them. I made no attempt to improve the design, but merely reproduced the pictures as they appeared to my vision and the operation was always as I expected.
-- Nikola Tesla

#Design #Vision #Operations

I'm the computer operator for Operation Rescue National.
-- Norma McCorvey

#Computer #Rescue #Operations

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.
-- Penelope Lively

#Memories #Operations #Preoccupation

I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.
-- Penelope Lively

#Memories #Way #Operations

To find the length of an object, we have to perform certain physical operations. The concept of length is therefore fixed when the operations by which length is measured are fixed that is, the concept of length involves as much as and nothing more than the set of operations by which length is determined.
-- Percy Williams Bridgman

#Determined #Length #Operations

A minor operation is one that is done on someone else
-- Richard Selzer

#Doctors #Done #Operations

It is not the job of mathematicians... to do correct arithmetical operations. It is the job of bank accountants.
-- Samuil Shatunovsky

#Jobs #Mathematics #Operations

Certainly many of us never anticipated that states would become addicted to the tobacco money as a way to finance their operations,
-- Scott Harshbarger

#Way #Finance #Operations

[Operation] Rockingham was spinning reports and emphasizing reports that showed non-compliance (by Iraq with UN inspections) and quashing those which showed compliance. It was cherry-picking intelligence.
-- Scott Ritter

#Iraq #Spinning #Operations

It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir; that Tacitus was right and that peace is merely the desolation left behind after the decisive operations of merciless power.
-- Seamus Heaney

#Desolation #Operations #Left Behind

I will take responsibility for all operations.
-- Shunroku Hata

#Responsibility #Taking Responsibility #Operations

My toes are all squished. During an operation, they had to take nerves out.
-- Steven Tyler

#Toes #Nerves #Operations

I've just had an operation, but nothing too serious.
-- Syd Barrett

#Serious #Operations

For 'Rocky II,' I got a torn pectoral muscle, I got all beat up inside, I had to have an operation to splice things back together.
-- Sylvester Stallone

#Together #Muscles #Operations

It might have changed my whole plan of operation if I'd read that one first.
-- Timothy McVeigh

#Might #Firsts #Operations

Art needs an operation
-- Tristan Tzara

#Art #Needs #Operations

Israel demonstrated real hooliganism during the course of the recent operation, which I demanded.
-- Tzipi Livni

#Real #Israel #Operations

Every sentence in order to have definite scientific meaning must be practically or at least theoretically verifiable as either true or false upon the basis of experimental measurements either practically or theoretically obtainable by carrying out a definite and previously specified operation in the future. The meaning of such a sentence is the method of its verification.
-- Walter A. Shewhart

#Order #Measurement #Operations

The success of a terrorist operation depends almost entirely on the amount of publicity it receives.
-- Walter Laqueur

#Publicity #Operations #Terrorist

Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil.
-- William Godwin

#Evil #Operations #Term

We shall never have a science of economics unless we learn to discern the operation of law even among the most perplexing complications and apparent interruptions.
-- William Stanley Jevons

#Law #Economics #Operations

It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.
-- William Westmoreland

#Running #Operations #Hanoi

It doesn't seem like it's been 50 years. I don't even feel like I'm 50 years old yet, though I've had all these knee and back operations.
-- Willie McCovey

#Years #Knees #Operations

Most crises are not resolved through rhetoric. They are resolved through operations.
-- Eric Dezenhall

#Operations #Crisis #Rhetoric

The dusk was performing its customary intransitive operation of "gathering".
-- Flann O'Brien

#Luck #Gathering #Operations

The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.” (August 9, 1955)
-- Flannery O'Connor

#August #Church #Operations

We know that we can do it, but cannot describe in so many words how we do it, nor can we reduce it to a set of rules. At most, the observable facts of the indexing operation can be described.
-- Hans H Wellisch

#Facts #Operations #Knows

The profession of music is lacking in horse sense, not only because the commonplace variety of horse is absent from its operations, but because parts of the horse are noticeably present.
-- Harry Partch

#Horse #Operations #Music Is

Air transport is just a glorified bus operation.
-- Michael O'Leary

#Air #Aviation #Operations

I'll tell you one thing, when you have young men and women in combat operations and they lose their friends, one thing you quickly learn not to be ashamed of is tears.
-- Rick Hillier

#Men #Tears #Operations

Most of her participation in the United Nations, which [??] history, as I say, I don't take too seriously, because I know how that UN operation works, and it is essentially a facade in which the work is done back in Washington and in the capitals involved, and the people up front are just going through the motions.
-- William A. Rusher

#People #Done #Operations

I never say of an operation that it is without danger.
-- August Bier

#Danger #Operations

The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.
-- Gabriel Lippmann

#Finals #Hours #Operations

It’s not the upfront capital that kills you, it’s the operations and maintenance on the back end.
-- Gene Kim

#Maintenance #Ends #Operations