Quotes of: Operating-system Keyword

Your belief system saturates the space around you.

Aaron Huey

The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges.

Benazir Bhutto

A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.

Bill Vaughan

We intend to destroy all dogmatic verbal systems.

William S. Burroughs

America's grossly unfair tax system won't lead to class war. Or, if it does, the war will be brief.

P. J. O'Rourke

Global war is a clash of systems, not just battalions biffing one another in some godforsaken forest.

Rick Atkinson

My job is not to solve people's problems or make them happy, but to help them see the grace operating in their lives.

The Contemplative Pastor: Returning to the Art of Spiritual Direction

The County Jail looked like a tall, forbidding elementary school. Seven stories of dirty brown brick, one hundred years old and now operating at 330 percent of capacity.

Clockers

Bowden Cable is the sort of honest and dependable operative that is the backbone of SpecOps. They never win commendations or medals and the public has no knowledge of them at all. They are all worth ten of people like me.

The Eyre Affair

My best ideas come when I distance myself from day-to-day operations. It gives me more focus.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

The violence of language consists in its effort to capture the ineffable and, hence, to destroy it, to seize hold of that which must remain elusive for language to operate as a living thing.

Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative

They [terrorists] can’t claim that their suicide bombings are martyrdom operations and that they become the heroes of the Muslim Ummah [global brotherhood]. No, they become heroes of hellfire, and they are leading towards hellfire.

Fatwa on Terrorism and Suicide Bombings

The relational leader operates not by being known by everyone, but by authentically creating positive relationships with people around her.

The Hidden Leader: Discover and Develop Greatness Within Your Company

Determine the result you desire..law of averages does not know the objective untill the decision is made. Once a decision is made, the law of averages goes into operation.

How to Turn Your Ability Into Cash

An enormous semiofficial drug-smuggling operation was established in order to improve Britain's unfavorable balance of payments with China—the direct result of the British love of tea.

A History of the World in 6 Glasses

A brick could be used in a heart transplant operation. And for just $25,000 more dollars, that brick could be switched with a real or artificial heart. 

Brick and Blanket Test in Brick City (Ocala) Florida

I was the first to advocate the Web. But I am very troubled by this thing that every kid must have a laptop computer. The kids are totally in the computer age. There's a whole new brain operation that's being moulded by the computer.

Camille Paglia

Our subliminal mental processes operate outside awareness because they arise in these portions of our mind that are inaccessible to our conscious self; their inaccessibility is due to the architecture of the brain rather than because they have been s...

Leonard Mlodinow

We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is created; an equal quantity of matter exists both before and after the experiment; the quality and quantity of the elements remain precisely the sa...

Antoine Lavoisier

In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how...

Frank Ocean

The back door popped open, and Claire, fairy wings all a-flutter, pulled Miranda inside. It was like a military operation, only with one hundred percent less camouflage.

All Hallows