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There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres. -- Pythagoras
The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect. -- Luciano Berio
Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism. -- Barbara Tuchman
Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination. -- Tycho Brahe
The crucial question one comes back to is the examination; without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society is becoming more and more passive, less and less fired up with enthusiasm, in many spheres. -- Peter Hammill
Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil. -- Robert Anton Wilson
I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe? -- Kate Chopin
To me, its seems necessary to rediscover - and the energy to do so exists - that even the political and economic spheres need moral responsibility, a responsibility that is born in man's heart and, in the end, has to do with the presence or absence of God. -- Pope Benedict XVI
The universe bursts into existence from life, not the other way around as we have been taught. For each life there is a universe, its own universe. We generate spheres of reality, individual bubbles of existence. Our planet is comprised of billions of spheres of reality, generated by each individual human and perhaps even by each animal. -- Robert Lanza
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself. -- Winston Churchill
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere. -- Blaise Pascal
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. -- Albert Einstein
Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere. -- Brigham Young
In the moral sphere, every act of justice or charity involves putting ourselves in the other person's place and thus transcending our own competitive particularity. -- C. S. Lewis
Even the most powerful human being has a limited sphere of strength. Draw him outside of that sphere and into your own, and his strength will dissipate. -- Morihei Ueshiba
Opponents confront us continually, but actually there is no opponent there. Enter deeply into an attack and neutralize it as you draw that misdirected force into your own sphere. -- Morihei Ueshiba
Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point. -- Paul Cezanne
An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension: Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a circle, twist it into a sphere, and punch through the sphere. -- Albert Einstein
Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all. -- Annie Jump Cannon
Until very recently men and women inhabited very separate spheres. There was always interconnection, passion, love. But men and women didn't hang out at the end of the day and chat about what their day was like at the office. -- Anita Diament
It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The soul of the river had entered my soul, And the gathered power of my soul was moving So swiftly, it seemed to be at rest Under cities of cloud and under Spheres of silver and changing worlds Until I saw a flash of trumpets Above the battlements over Time! -- Edgar Lee Masters
The most serious problems lie in the financial sphere, where the economy's debt overhead has grown more rapidly than the 'real' economy's ability to carry this debt. ... The essence of the global financial bubble is that savings are diverted to inflate the stock market, bond market and real estate prices rather than to build new factories and employ more labor. -- Michael Hudson
Why is geometry often described as 'cold' and 'dry?' One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a coastline, or a tree. Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line... Nature exhibits not simply a higher degree but an altogether different level of complexity. -- Benoit Mandelbrot
Sounds are the echo of the "Harmony of the Spheres" which man took into himself when he came down from the divine-spiritual world into the physical world. -- Rudolf Steiner
The Heavenly Spheres make music for us, The Holy Twelve dance with us, All things join in the dance! Ye who dance not, know not what we are knowing. -- Gustav Holst
Intricately plotted, beautifully paced, The Music of the Spheres is an elegant historical novel rich in detail, at times Dickensian in its description of London. Elizabeth Redfern has made an exciting debut. -- Martha Grimes
Relativity must replace absolutism in the realm of morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology. -- Thomas Cochrane
In many spheres of human endeavor, from science to business to education to economic policy, good decisions depend on good measurement. -- Ben Bernanke
Civil law, as well as nature herself, has always recognized a wide difference in the respective spheres and destinies of man and woman. -- Joseph P. Bradley
The United States has overstepped its borders in all spheres - economic, political and humanitarian - and has imposed itself on other states. -- Vladimir Putin
Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status. -- Nelson Mandela
If parents are the fixed stars in the child's universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling, sometimes scorching comets whizzing nearby. -- Alison Gopnik
To drop into being means to recognize your interconnectedness with all life, and with being itself. Your very nature is being part of larger and larger spheres of wholeness. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
No: war material is life-saving for one's own people and whoever works and performs in these spheres can be proud of it; here enterprise as a whole finds its highest justification of existence. -- Gustav Krupp
It is wonderful to contemplate how the planetary forces balance each other so perfectly that universal equilibrium is maintained despite the disturbances of the 1,500 millions which inhabit the Earth alone, not to speak of other spheres. -- Max Heindel
The absence of God in most spheres of life is perceived to be normal, and even Christians feel it as normal - which is why absorbing the culture all around us and its priorities is so dangerous. -- John Piper
We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action, development and conflict: Darwin on the natural world, Freud on the internal world, Marx on the economic world. -- Bruce Jackson
Why must art be static? You look at an abstraction, sculptured or painted, an entirely exciting arrangement of planes, spheres, nuclei, entirely without meaning. It would be perfect, but it is always still. The next step in sculpture is motion. -- Alexander Calder
Fulla is the Arab world's answer to Barbie. Now, according to proponents of the clash of civilizations, Barbie and Fulla occupy these completely separate spheres. They have different interests. They have divergent values. And should they ever come in contact... well, I've got to tell you, it's just not going to be pretty. -- Shereen El Feki
For Christian faith not to be idle in the world, the work of doctors and garbage collectors, business executives and artists, stay-at-home moms or dads and scientists needs to be inserted into God's story with the world. That story needs to provide the most basic rules by which the game in all these spheres is played. -- Miroslav Volf
My definition of hip hop is taking elements from many other spheres of music to make hip hop. Whether it be breakbeat, whether it be the groove and grunt of James Brown or the pickle-pop sounds of Kraftwerk or Yellow Magic Orchestra, hip hop is also part of what they call hip-house now, or trip hop, or even parts of drum n' bass. -- Afrika Bambaataa
Looking back, yes, I made too many comebacks. But each comeback I was 100 percent sure that I would win. I never came back for the money, because I didn't need it. The adulation I was getting anyway in other spheres. But I'm a guy who likes to see how close he can get to the edge of the mountain - that's what makes me tick. -- Sugar Ray Leonard
Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard. -- Jon Meacham
You can make steadily progress in all spheres of life. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
An ideal's love-fraught, imperious call That bides the spheres become articulate. -- Josephine Preston Peabody
Silence is the speech of love, The music of the spheres above. -- Richard Henry Stoddard
In all spheres of life, we find the grace of patient endurance. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Alas, the spheres of truth are less transparent than those of illusion. -- L. E. J. Brouwer
The squeaking of the pump sounds as necessary as the music of the spheres. -- Henry David Thoreau
And the visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright. -- Herman Melville
Declare church and state forever separate and distinct; but each free within their proper spheres. -- Ulysses S. Grant
Are you kidding? That's the music of the spheres, commissar. It's beautiful. Like old jazz. -- Peter Watts
If one is not productive in other spheres, one is not productive in the love either. -- Erich Fromm
Reality and fantasy are not two separate spheres but one whole. They are like a world's atmospher -- Richelle E. Goodrich
Work and Life are not separate spheres. They are integratedmoments in life that happen throughout the day. -- Derric Yuh Ndim
I know that there's a lot of room to maneuver in those kind of ghostly musical spheres... -- Rob Brown
There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres." -- Pythagoras
Management and leadership are not separate spheres. The two skills work together in the larger realm of "communityship. -- Henry Mintzberg
A hidden spark of the dream sleeps In the forest and waits In the celestial spheres of the brain. -- Dejan Stojanovic
Though in many of its aspects this visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright. -- Moby
Germany has acted effectively during the euro crisis. It needs to build on this to engage in other spheres too. -- Joachim Gauck
A society living by the laws of the world is moving towards a global crisis in all its spheres of life. -- Sunday Adelaja
But meditate now on steadfastness and clarity, and let those be the wings that lift and soar through the celestial spheres. -- Rumi
Number, place, and combination . . . the three intersecting but distinct spheres of thought to which all mathematical ideas admit of being referred. -- James Joseph Sylvester
We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something. -- Oswald Chambers
Take all the pleasures of all the spheres, And multiply each through endless years,- One minute of heaven is worth them all. -- Charles Lamb
Our Euripides the human, With his droppings of warm tears, and his touchings of things common Till they rose to meet the spheres. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
There's news that happens in different spheres and can be made just as funny, but it's not necessarily in the normal news medium. -- Trevor Noah
It has been said with some meaning that if men would but rest in silence, they might always hear the music of the spheres. -- Arthur Helps
For there is a music wherever there is a harmony, order, or proportion, and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres. -- Thomas Browne
The stars, they are as the sun. Each star. Every star. And those spheres- they are worlds, realms, each one different yet the same. -- Steven Erikson
In the shaded portions where the two spheres of different lives meet, certain fundamentals- moods, loves, fears, angers- can't be hidden. That's the contract. -- Jeffery Deaver
Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line. -- Benoit Mandelbrot
They were like two inviolable spheres touching at a fine point in their curves, touching but failing to penetrate, failing to breathe the other's air. -- Joshua Ferris
Church must lead all other spheres of influence.We find people from all the mountains there.The church leaders must be able to mentor them -- Dr Paul Gitwaza
I think our lives are surely but the dreams Of spirits, dwelling in the distant spheres, Who as we die, do one by one awake. -- Edgar Saltus
Worship is our first or foundational ministry. It is not our only ministry, but the one that all other spheres of ministry should be built upon. -- Carl Tuttle
Learn to overcome the imprinting that you now have and gain a new and higher imprinting that will lead you into the luminous spheres of awareness. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I also think that one of the things we often fail to realize is that that kind of violence is now legitimated in multiple public spheres. -- Henry Giroux
The moral spectacle of capitalism still offends, as does American capitalism's implacable insistence that the market determine value even in the political, intellectual, and artistic spheres. -- William Pfaff
God's principles of national transformation will give the opportunity to make positive changes in the country, overcoming crisis in politics, economy, social services and other spheres. -- Sunday Adelaja
The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not enter. -- Barney Frank
The angels may have wider spheres of action, may have nobler forms of duty; but right with them and with us is one and the same thing. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
The social relations of capitalism have penetrated slowly into all spheres of life to make wage labour the general condition of existence only in fairly recent times. -- David Harvey
If parents are the fixed stars in the childs universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling, sometimes scorching comets whizzing nearby. -- Alison Gopnik
The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is incarnation. Here the impossible union of spheres of existence is actual. Here the past and future are conquered and reconciled. -- T. S. Eliot
Fifty-five crystal spheres geared to God's crankshaft is my idea of a satisfying universe. I can't think of anything more trivial than quarks, quasars, big bangs and black holes. -- Tom Stoppard
Poetry and philosophy are, according to how you take them, different spheres, different forms, or factors of religion. Try to really combine both, and you will have nothing but religion. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The triune God exercises total government over all things, and He requires us as His image-bearers to exercise government in Christ in our own spheres in terms of His law. -- R.J. Rushdoony
I learned that the Holy Water better be fresh, that I need practice throwing the spheres, and that someone has to watch my back so asshats don't steal my demons. -- Jana Oliver
Facebook and other social networking sites are bringing together spheres that used to be separate. People no longer have private and public lives; the line between the two is becoming blurred. -- Paul Achleitner
In order to effectively interlock with higher spheres of mind and attention, you must have tremendous balance and control. You learn that it is more fun to have control than not to. -- Frederick Lenz
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The wealthy have installed their slaves in the highest spheres of the state. The banks are privately owned. They are concerned solely with profits. They have no interest in the common good. -- Stephane Hessel
I'm an observer of life. I like to watch people, and I like to watch cactus. I like to talk to mountains and communicate with my friends in the other spheres and dimensions. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Confusion has seized us, and all things go wrong, The women have leaped from their spheres, And, instead of fixed stars, shoot as comets along, And are setting the world by the ears! -- Maria Weston Chapman
No: war material is life-saving for one's own people and whoever works and performs in these spheres can be proud of it; here enterprise as a whole finds its highest justification of existence. -- Gustav Krupp
Young people oppose those market-driven values and practices aimed at both creating radically individualized subjects and undermining those public spheres that create bonds of solidarity that reinforce a commitment to the common good. -- Henry Giroux
In any totalitarian society, dissent is viewed as a threat, civic literacy is denounced, and those public spheres that produce engage citizens are dismantled or impoverished through the substitution of training for education. -- Henry Giroux
There are capitalist states which consider themselves cheated, during previous redivisions of spheres of influence, territories, sources of raw materials, markets, etc., and which would again desire to redivide them to their own advantage. -- Joseph Stalin
Within the existing neoliberal historical conjuncture, there is a merging of violence and governance and the systemic disinvestment in and breakdown of institutions and public spheres that have provided the minimal conditions for democracy. -- Henry Giroux
It is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something while leaving itself out of the picture, so impossible that knowing and being are the most opposite of all spheres. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Authority doesn't come from a rank.," Kaladin said, fingering the spheres in his pocket. "Where does it come from?" "From the men who give it to you. That's the only way to get it. -- Brandon Sanderson
There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill; There's music in all things, if men had ears; The earth is but the music of the spheres. -- Lord Byron
With the corporatization and privatization of higher education, it is increasingly more difficult for colleges and universities to expand and deepen democratic public life, produce engaged critical citizens, and operate as democratic public spheres. -- Henry Giroux
The most fateful change that unfolded during the past three decades was not an increase in greed. It was the expansion of markets, and of market values, into spheres of life where they don't belong. -- Michael Sandel
All civil rulers, as such, are the ordinance and ministers of God; and they are all, by the nature of their office, and in their respective spheres and stations, bound to consult the public welfare. -- Jonathan Mayhew
All civil rulers, as such, are the ordinance and ministers of God; and they are all, by the nature of their office, and in their respective spheres and stations, bound to consult the public welfare -- Jonathan Mayhew
In the Lord Jesus Christ we see most clearly the union of prayer and life, the harmony and continual interpenetration of the two spheres of life - communion with God and the work on earth. -- Adolph Saphir

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