According Quotes

According to my wife, my use of vocabulary is wide and varied.

The ship was masted according to the proportion of the navy; but on my application the masts were shortened, as I thought them too much for her, considering the nature of the voyage.

According to the standard model billions of years ago some little quantum fluctuation, perhaps a slightly lower density of matter, maybe right where we're sitting right now, caused our galaxy to start collapsing around here.

I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.

In particular, the efforts to reestablish peace after the World War have been directed toward the formation of states and the regulation of their frontiers according to a consciously national program.

Acceleration is finite, I think according to some laws of physics.

It is the hope of the European Union that Ariel Sharon will keep the peace process alive and continue the dialogue according to the wishes of all the parties involved.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.

I'm very focused on the world and my career and my Porsche turbo and making money and Stevie B. Inc. I'm just living according to the standards of the world.

There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible.

Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature.

Let each produce according to his aptitudes and his force; let each consume according to his need.

I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one is living in.

My home State of North Carolina ranks 12th in the United States for increased aging population and, according to a national report, 41st in overall health. According to this same report, individuals aged 50+ are the least healthy.

The world has not been in existence from eternity nor could it have been according to the present dispensation and ordering of things.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts.

Fashion is about dressing according to what's fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.

Of those who die from avoidable, poverty-related causes, nearly 10 million, according to UNICEF, are children under five. They die from diseases such as measles, diarrhoea, and malaria that are easy and inexpensive to treat or prevent.

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.

A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.

Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.

In the end of five years I made supplication to the king to go out of this land, desiring to see my poor wife and children according to conscience and nature.

Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.

According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in brilliancy. There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.

The state of minds vary according to the angle under which one examines them.

Every man should be considered as having a right to the character which he deserves; that is, to be spoken of according to his actions.

Members of Congress must live according to the same laws as everyone else.