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«Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection...»
Author: Edward Weston
| Keywords:
accomplished fact, consult, consulting, deduce, deduced, gravitation, law of gravitation, Rules of
«I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.»
«I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.»
«It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he would still be picking colors.»
«LEVIATHAN, n. An enormous aquatic animal mentioned by Job. Some suppose it to have been the whale, but that distinguished ichthyologer, Dr. Jordan, of Stanford University, maintains with considerable heat that it was a species of gigantic Tadpole (_Thaddeus Polandensis_) or Polliwig --_Maria pseudo-hirsuta_. For an exhaustive description and history of the Tadpole consult the famous monograph of Jane Potter, _Thaddeus of Warsaw_.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
aquatic, consult, description, Dr., Dr, exhaustive, History of the, job description, leviathan, maintains, monograph, potter, pseudo, tadpole
«Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.»
Author: Dale Carnegie
| About:
Age
| Keywords:
consult, of age, period, repent, too little, too soon, to the full
«It is undoubtedly the business of ministers very much to consult the inclinations of the people, but they ought to take great care that they do not receive that inclination from the few persons who may happen to approach them»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
consult, great care, inclination, ministers
«In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.»
Author: Jonathan Swift
(Author, Satirist)
| Keywords:
abilities, appearing, chimera, chimeras, choosing, confirmed, consult, eminent, employment, entered, entertained, extravagant, favorites, instructing, irrational, know the score, maintained, ministers, monarchs, persuading, placing, princes, professors, projector, projectors, proposing, public good, Public place, qualified, schemes, School of, services, the Monarch, The school
«I do not allot work to this person or that, or consult anyone for ideas and suggestions.»
«If you wish to do a good deed, consult no one.»
Author: Turkish Proverb
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consult
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