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Letter "I" » in advance
«It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to be; it is even thought that it will not be impossible to publish daily forecasts, which would be very useful to soci»
Author: Antoine Lavoisier
(Chemist)
| Keywords:
forecasting, forecasts, in advance, predict, probability, publish, range, weather forecast, weather forecasting
«I thank you in advance for the great round of applause I'm about to get.»
«And what have you laymen made of hell? A kind of penal servitude for eternity, on the lines of your convict prisons on earth, to which you condemn in advance all the wretched felons your police have hunted from the beginning -- ''enemies of society,'' as you call them. You're kind enough to include the blasphemers and the profane. What proud or reasonable man could stomach such a notion of God's justice? And when you find that notion inconvenient it's easy enough for you to put it on one side. Hell is not to love any more, Madame. Not to love any more!»
Author: Georges Bernanos
| Keywords:
blasphemer, blasphemers, convict, felon, felons, hunted, include, inconvenient, in advance, layman, laymen, penal, profane, Reasonable man
«Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.»
Author: Ralph W. Sockman
| Keywords:
bankrupt, bankrupts, borrowing, in advance, paying, regrets, The Troubles
«Never do I hesitate to look squarely at the unexpected face that every passing hour unveils to us, and to sacrifice the false images of it formed in advance, however dear they may be»
Author: Romain Rolland
(Writer)
| Keywords:
false face, hesitate, in advance, squarely, unveil, unveiled, unveiling, unveils
«Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes»
Author: William Gilmore Simms
| About:
Genius
| Keywords:
Eye of, in advance, pioneer, Pioneering, pioneers, precedes, wing
«A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.»
«If Darwin's theory should be true, it will not degrade man; it will simply raise the whole animal world into dignity, leaving man as far in advance as he is at present»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| About:
Dignity,
Mankind,
Theory,
Truth
| Keywords:
Animal World, at present, Darwin, degrade, far left, in advance
«He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.»
«Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is still theoretically possible; and as the test of belief is willingness to act, one may say that faith is the readiness to act in a cause the prosperous issue of which is not certified to us in advance.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
certified, certify, in advance, theoretically
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