Quotes of Coherent - somelinesforyou

“ We have to define and put into practice a better, more coherent and effective policy on income security. ”

- Kim Campbell

“ A leader has to 'appear' consistent. That doesn't mean he has to be consistent. ”

- James Callaghan

“ The world is quite right. It does not have to be consistent. ”

- Charlotte P. Gillman

“ The plain truth is that the reporter's trade is for young men. Your feet, which do the legwork, are nine times more important than your head, which fits the facts into a coherent pattern. ”

- Joseph W. Alsop Jr.

“ There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for. ”

- Fred Hoyle

“ That the film turned out to be coherent is a miracle. That it is successful proves there is a God. ”

- Martin Brest

“ There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for. ”

- Saul Bellow

“ The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development ”

- Milan Kundera

“ If you will cling to Nature, to the simple in Nature, to the little things that hardly anyone sees, and that can so unexpectedly become big and beyond measuring; if you have this love of inconsiderable things and seek quite simply, as one who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor: then everything will become easier, more coherent and somehow more conciliatory for you, not in your intellect, perhaps, which lags marveling behind, but in your inmost consciousness, waking and cognizance. ”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

“ The system becomes more coherent as it is further extended. The elements which we require for explaining a new class of facts are already contained in our system. In false theories, the contrary is the case. ”

- William Whewell

“ The thesis… is that the advantages of executability and universality found in programming languages can be effectively combined, in a single coherent language, with the advantages offered by mathematical notation. ”

- Ken Iverson

“ For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life. ”

- W. Somerset Maugham

“ The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is — a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter. ”

- Herbert Spencer

“ The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism. ”

- Elizabeth Hardwick

“ Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once. ”

- Virginia Woolf
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