All Quotes

Just as one can compose colors, or forms, so one can compose motions.
‐‐ Alexander Calder

Just as our adversaries and threats continue to evolve, so, too, must the FBI. The key to this evolution lies with our greatest assets: our people and our partnerships. Every FBI professional understands that thwarting the threats facing our nation means constantly striving to be more effective and more efficient.
‐‐ James Comey

Just as our ancient ancestors drew animals on cave walls and carved animals from wood and bone, we decorate our homes with animal prints and motifs, give our children stuffed animals to clutch, cartoon animals to watch, animal stories to read.
‐‐ Diane Ackerman

Just as our brains fill in the details of an image our eyes record only roughly, so, too, do our brains employ tricks we are unaware of to fill in details about people we don't know intimately.
‐‐ Leonard Mlodinow

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
‐‐ Napoleon Hill

Just as our solar system has a certain idiosyncratic assortment of planets and moons, different from any neighboring system yet categorically equivalent, so each distinct period of human history might have special qualities and individuals, characteristics and events, yet still be essentially akin beneath the surface to all the others.
‐‐ Paul Di Filippo

Just as Parkinson's isn't a big topic of conversation in my house, neither is my career.
‐‐ Michael J. Fox

Just as people can watch spellbound a circus artist tumbling through the air in a phosphorized costume, so they can listen to a preacher who uses the Word of God to draw attention to himself. But a sensational preacher stimulates the senses and leaves the spirit untouched. Instead of being the way to God, his 'being different' gets in the way.
‐‐ Henri Nouwen

Just as people have long believed that strengthening ties of trade improves the prospects for peace and the free exchange of ideas, Facebook friendships or Twitter followings already transcend national borders.
‐‐ Douglas Alexander

Just as performers, I think you'd be an idiot not to utilize YouTube.
‐‐ Noel Wells

Just as physical exercise is a well-known and well-accepted means to improve health for anyone, regardless of age or background, so can the brain be put 'into shape' for optimal learning.
‐‐ Naveen Jain

Just as playgrounds didn't even make the priority list of most of those responding to Katrina, they all too often slip off the radar of those building our schools, designing our neighborhoods, and drafting government budgets.
‐‐ Darell Hammond

Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter 'found' and used the smudge and the blur to ravish the eye, creating works of psychic and physical power.
‐‐ Jerry Saltz

Just as predatory animals follow a similar general design and behave in similar ways, so organizations, especially those in competition with one another, must follow certain design principles if they are to succeed and prevail.
‐‐ Robert Shea

Just as producers often give consumers things they want but didn't think to ask for, consumers sometimes come up with surprising uses for new inventions. When a new product appears, it can uncover dissatisfactions and desires no one knew were there.
‐‐ Virginia Postrel

Just as pure abstract art is not dogmatic, neither is it decorative.
‐‐ Piet Mondrian

Just as radical heirs apparent are said to lay aside all inconvenient revolutionary opinions when they come to the throne, it was believed that Mr. Mill in Parliament would be an entirely different person from Mr. Mill in his study.
‐‐ Millicent Fawcett

Just as Renaissance artists provided narratives for the era they lived in, so do I. I'm always looking beyond the surface. I've done that ever since I first picked up a camera.
‐‐ David LaChapelle

Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
‐‐ Cameron Mathison

Just as someone who's been interested in radio and programming for so long, I can usually tell when an interviewer is doing a segment just to fill a programming slot. They ask questions, but they don't care about the answers.
‐‐ Chris Hardwick

Just as the 99% of Soviet citizens who supported the Soviet regime in 1985 was no indication of what the people inside the USSR really thought, the army of true believers that we think we see in the Arab world is an illusion.
‐‐ Natan Sharansky

Just as the best way to judge an adult is by his or her record collection, the best way to judge a pub is by the albums on its jukebox.
‐‐ Ned Beauman

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.
‐‐ Alma Gluck

Just as the body goes into shock after a physical trauma, so does the human psyche go into shock after the impact of a major loss.
‐‐ Anne Grant

Just as the British subject loves England despite her faults, so we must insist that all Germans who were part of the old Germany and helped shape her, recognize the greatness and worthiness of present-day Germany.
‐‐ Gustav Stresemann

Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood.
‐‐ Gustav Stresemann

Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.
‐‐ Vaclav Havel

Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my involvement with public art is a continuation of wall drawings.
‐‐ Sol LeWitt

Just as the earth is a planet in its own right, so each of us is an individual in our own sphere of habitation. We are individuals, but we live in families and communities where order provides a system of harmony that hinges on obedience to principles.
‐‐ James E. Faust

Just as the England football manager starts with bells and flags and balloons and ends up reviled, so do prime ministers. Tony Blair - is there anyone more despised now? Gordon Brown - all right, nobody voted for him but, you know... just think of any of them. Margaret Thatcher. John Major. Steve McLaren. Fabio Capello.
‐‐ Terry Wogan

Just as the financial crisis has created toxic assets and 'zombie' financial institutions, so has it transformed conservatism into a movement of the living dead.
‐‐ Thomas Frank

Just as the formation of the family is basic to the formation of the state, so the states themselves are the only units that can form the basic constitution of a viable international organization.
‐‐ Leon Bourgeois

Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting 'O.K.' has deposed the more affirmative 'Yes,' so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of 'like' are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness.
‐‐ Christopher Hitchens

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.
‐‐ Claude Levi-Strauss

Just as the Internet drops transaction and collaboration costs in business and government, it also drops the cost of dissent, of rebellion, and even insurrection.
‐‐ Don Tapscott

Just as the Japanese pioneered a new form of manufacturing - lean production and quite new standards of reliability - so Tata, too, is embracing new forms of manufacture in order to revolutionise the price to meet the consumer needs of a poor, developing country.
‐‐ Martin Jacques

Just as the left has to be more willing to question 'Government knows best,' the right has to rethink its laissez-faire attitude toward government.
‐‐ Jack Kemp

Just as the mind emerges from the actions of individual neurons and their cooperation, the success of an organization emerges not only from its individual participants, but also from the interplay between them.
‐‐ Justin Rosenstein

Just as the music industry couldn't combat the financial impact of digital piracy, major corporations will have to rethink how to maintain margins when many of their most profitable items can be easily manufactured at home.
‐‐ Jay Samit

Just as the only reservoir for the typhus virus in nature is provided by man, so the only vector of infection is the louse. The bite of the louse is not virulent immediately after the infecting meal. It becomes so only towards the 7th day following infection.
‐‐ Charles Jules Henry Nicole

Just as the PC bled back into industrial economy, I think the Internet is going to bleed back into our overall economy and have a transformative effect on major sectors that we don't yet foresee.
‐‐ Tim O'Reilly

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.
‐‐ Georg C. Lichtenberg

Just as the police review their operational tactics, so we in the Home Office will review the powers available to the police.
‐‐ Theresa May

Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing their own prohibition laws, so individual states must now take the initiative with respect to repealing marijuana prohibition laws.
‐‐ George Soros

Just as the Red Sox proved the critics wrong, Maine can compete and can win.
‐‐ John Baldacci

Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.
‐‐ Jeane Kirkpatrick

Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.
‐‐ Edward Thorndike

Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century - freedom against Communism - so too it is largely on the sidelines in our contemporary struggles against international terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
‐‐ John Bolton

Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female.
‐‐ Susan Griffin