Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.

Alfred North Whitehead

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: mathematician
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: February 15, 1861 - December 30, 1947

Topics

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I like that guy Matthew Perry a lot.

John Cho

GuyLikeLotMatthewPerry

'Know thyself' is a good saying, but not in all situations. In many it is better to say 'know others.'

Menander

GoodSayingBetterKnowSayOthers

However, when my parents married in 1945, China was in turmoil and the possibility of returning grew increasingly remote, and they decided to begin their family in the United States.

Steven Chu

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I didn't like to be restricted, because when you're in a choir, you have a part to sing and you sing it. I always liked singing on my own.

Tom Jones

SingingYouMy OwnChoirAlwaysOwn

I started directing chamber orchestras, then adding bigger pieces, adding winds, adding small symphonies. I've always loved chamber music, and I've done a lot.

Joshua Bell

MusicSmallLovedDoneAlwaysWinds

I'd heard Joyce Grenfell on the radio, and when Mum gave me a book of her comic routines, I just loved it. Me and my sister shared a bedroom, and every night I'd drive her mad with my version of 'George, Don't Do That' about people we knew at school.

Dorothy Atkinson

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If I'm going to work, I want to work with my wife.

Brad Pitt

WorkWifeWantGoing

This past year has been something else... it's opened my eyes to many things and many people. It's had its ups and downs and ins and outs. And I believe we've all been able to take something from that and grow in our own imparticular ways. We've over come obstacles, and set in motion opportunities that can change our own individual lives.

Kyle Schmid

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I didn't write. I just wandered about.

Martha Gellhorn

WriteJustAboutWandered

If I'm enjoying myself, I find my opportunities for more fun become greater.

Martha Plimpton

MyselfFunOpportunitiesFindBecome

First of all, we were never not speaking. It's gotten so blown out of proportion. It was a very straightforward difference of opinion. I think because we were so private and refused to talk about it, these stories just got out of control.

Julie Nixon Eisenhower

ControlOpinionThinkTalkNever

The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed by those I had chosen as the guardians of a secret, which was long and honourably kept.

Henry Bessemer

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