Diameters Inc Quotes & Sayings

The pyramid that can be constructed on the diameters of earth and moon bears the precise proportions of the Great Pyramid — Bonnie Gaunt

I'm going to do this again," he rasped. "Lay you out where there isn't any damn part of you I can't taste. That's what I want. You. — Kit Rocha

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company. — Samuel Johnson

[...] The movement of the celestial bodies can be given as an example. It is not exactly circular, but elliptic; the ellipse constitutes as it were a first "specification" of the circle, by the splitting of the center into two poles or "foci" in the direction of one of the diameters which thereafter plays a special "axial" part, while at the same time all the other diameters are differentiated one from another in respect of their lengths. It may be added incidentally in this connection that, since the planets describe ellipses of which the sun occupies one of the foci, the question arises as to what the other focus corresponds to; as there is nothing corporeal actually there, there must be something belonging only to the subtle order; but that question cannot be further examined here, as it would be quite outside our subject. — Rene Guenon

You can't see the semantic wood for the syntactic trees. — Christopher Strachey

It is possible to tolerate anything as long as it only affects you. But the method of collective punishment is bigger than that. — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

The sound of his voice was an overwhelming relief, like remembering the name of a beloved song or returning to a childhood haunt to find it totally unchanged. Did he not fee the same swell of relief? Or was he just better at hiding it? — Galt Niederhoffer

Religion is in every aspect of art, when it's not baroque. — Camille Henrot

A historian who would convey the truth must lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it. — Mark Twain

Stony objects with diameters 10 in are intercepted by the Earth's atmosphere every decade, and their entry (at speeds -20 km/s) discharges energy equivalent to about 100 kt TNT, roughly seven times the energy released by the Hiroshima bomb. — The MIT Press

Just because you're trash doesn't mean you can't do great things. It's called garbage can, not garbage cannot. — Unknown

They have likewise discovered two lesser stars, or satellites, which revolve around Mars, whereof the innermost is distant from the center of the primary exactly three of his diameters, and the outermost five: the former revolves in the space of ten hours, and the latter in twenty-one and a half, so that the squares of their periodical times are very near in the same proportion with the cubes of their distances from the center of Mars; which evidently shews them to be governed by the same Law of Gravitation that influences the other heavenly bodies. — Jonathan Swift

In the early stages of wealth, up to 10 years after individuals became very rich, they display a bit of reluctance to spend money. It's a lot easier rationalizing spending a lot for a house. — Frederick Winslow Taylor

In the summer of 1705, an unusually extravagant rumor horrified the citizenry. The Tsar, it was said, had forbidden Russian men to marry for seven years so that Russian women might be married to foreigners being imported by the shipload. To preserve their young women, Astrachaners arranged a mass marriage before the foreigners could arrive, and on a single day, July 30, 1705, a hundred women were married. — Robert K. Massie

The devil depends on a dark secret chance, but God does it now before your own eyes. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Of course, I didn't know he was a hypocrite at first. I thought — Sylvia Plath

MAGNITUDE, n. Size [that is] purely relative. If everything in the universe were increased 1,000 diameters nothing would be any larger than it was before, but if one thing remain unchanged all the others would be larger than they had been. — Ambrose Bierce

You start off with a little spark, and it's whether or not you nurture that spark. You have to expand it and work on it — Ed Sheeran

Great-Uncle Merry stopped reading; but the children sat as still and speechless as if his voice still rang on. The story seemed to fit so perfectly into the green land rolling below them that it was as if they sat in the middle of the past. — Susan Cooper