Quotes of: Derive Keyword

Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.

Emile M. Cioran

I have derived enormous confidence from being a husband and father.

Julian Fellowes

Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

Victor Hugo

The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.

Bruce Henderson

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character.

James Weldon Johnson

I guess after Dances With Wolves they probably tried some derivative westerns, and if they didn't work, they said the western is dead and moved on to something else.

Tom Selleck

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

Meditations

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

George Washington

The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century.

Alfred Marshall

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Elizabeth Hardwick

I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love.

William Shatner

What is more precious: a thousand answers derived from one question? Or, one answer…from a thousand questions?

G.F. Smith

Do not measure the number of tragedies you suffer, quantify the success derived from the.

Jacqueline Susann

The discussion of derivatives in the political world has become a zero sum game.

Jim Himes

When I got out of the Nazz, I had it in my mind that simply to be eclectic was an important aspect of making music. It was something that I derived from The Beatles.

Todd Rundgren

I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.

Harmony Korine

My job is to draw little points on little graphs and to derive little information.

Anonymous

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

William Godwin

Technos and clerics have much in common. Both take a world that can’t be fully understood and try to explain its fundamental properties. Clerics postulate beliefs that can never be proven; they demand you accept these postulates as your Faith, whic...

Unholy Domain

I now want to examine a second major feature of Western civilization that derives from Christianity. This is what philosopher Charles Taylor calls the 'affirmation of ordinary life.' It is the simple idea that ordinary people are fallible, and yet th...

What's So Great About Christianity

I do transcendental meditation, which is, I suppose, derived from Vedic or Ayurvedic principles, which is sort of Hindu principles.

Russell Brand