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Methodical Quotes (page 10)

Guns are always the best method for a private suicide. They are more stylish looking than single-edged razor blades and natural gas has got so expensive. Drugs are too chancy. You might miscalculate the dosage and just have a good time. P. J. O'Rourke
You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss, or because you. are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage in walking? if the first, I should be completely in your way, and if the second, I can admire you much better as I sit by the fire. Jane Austen
John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806? 8 May 1873), English philosopher, political theorist, political economist, civil servant and Member of Parliament, was an influential liberal thinker of the 19th century whose works on liberty justified freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state control. He was an exponent of utilitarianism, an ethical theory developed by Jeremy Bentham, although his conception of it was very different from Bentham's. He clearly set forth the premises of the... John Stuart Mill
Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions. Agatha Christie
A public-school system, if it means the providing of free education for those who desire it, is a noteworthy and beneficent achievement of modern times; but when once it becomes monopolistic it is the most perfect instrument for tyranny which has yet been devised. Freedom of thought in the middle ages was combated by the Inquisition, but the modern method is far more effective? (1923) John Gresham Machen
Sidney Hook quote: "Everyone who remembers their own educational experience..."
Everyone who remembers their own educational experience remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. Sidney Hook
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "A sufficient and sure method of civilization is in the..."
A sufficient and sure method of civilization is in the influence of good women. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Georgette Heyer quote: "I feel an almost overwhelming interest in the methods of..."
I feel an almost overwhelming interest in the methods of daylight abduction employed by the modern youth. Georgette Heyer
Francis Ford Coppola quote: "I don't see any method at all...Sir"
I don't see any method at all...Sir Francis Ford Coppola
In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read? and they have been many, big, and heavy? I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by practical jokes, mostly cruel. That, however, describes the method of our great teacher, Experience. Charles Sanders Peirce
Let me stop there, but my God, how beautiful Shakespeare is, who else is as mysterious as he is; his language and method are like a brush trembling with excitement and ecstasy. But one must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live. Vincent Van Gogh
We live in a world shaped by the ambiguous legacy of the Enlightenment...[it] enlarged the scope of human freedom, prepared our minds for the scientific method, made man the measure of all things, and placed individual consent front and center on the political stage. James Q. Wilson
It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom. The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech. Ludwig von Mises
Alexander Dumas quote: "to seek a quarrel with a man is a bad method of pleasing the..."
to seek a quarrel with a man is a bad method of pleasing the woman who loves that man. Alexander Dumas
There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration. Bram Stoker

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