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Every man is a volume if you know how to read him. -- William Ellery Channing
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it. -- James M. Barrie
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased. -- Alexander Hamilton
When we don't have the words chocolate can speak volumes. -- Joan Bauer
Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is. -- Voltaire
It was not the volume of sin that sent Christ to the cross; it was the fact of sin. -- Ravi Zacharias
Do remember that one line does nothing; it is only in relation to another that it creates a volume. -- Henri Matisse
Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone. -- Susan Sontag
I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands. -- Thomas Jefferson
I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age. -- Charlie Sheen
Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. -- Samuel Johnson
Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. -- Virginia Woolf
Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light taught Monet to paint, the earth may be teaching you music. -- Pete Seeger
I love the way music inside a car makes you feel invisible; if you plan the stereo at max volume, it's almost like the other people can't see into your vehicle. It tints your windows, somehow. -- Chuck Klosterman
Let us remember the loving-kindness of the Lord and rehearse His deeds of grace. Let us open the volume of recollection, which is so richly illuminated with memories of His mercy, and we will soon be happy. -- Alistair Begg
Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind. -- Florence Nightingale
I didn't think it was going to be this fun. But everything just gets heightened when you have a baby. The volume gets turned up on life. I never knew I could be this happy, and that's the truth. -- Jimmy Fallon
To ensure that the self doesn't shrink, to see that it holds on to its volume, memories have to be watered like potted flowers, and the watering calls for regular contact with the witnesses of the past, that is to say, with friends. -- Milan Kundera
Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce...when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate. -- James A. Garfield
Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love. -- George Eliot
Books help to form us. If you cut me open, you will find volume after volume, page after page, the contents of every one I have ever read, somehow transmuted and transformed into me just as my genes and the soul within me make me uniquely me, so I am the unique sum of the books I have read. I am my literary DNA. -- Susan Hill
Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world. -- Virginia Woolf
Volume grows spatially slower than scaling. -- Terence Tao
When volume drops off, prices settle down. Volume is the force that turns stocks higher. -- Louis Navellier
I've read all the books but one Only remains sacred: this Volume of wonders, open Always before my eyes. -- Kathleen Raine
The road to hell is paved with the pursuit of volume. Volume leads to marginal products, marginal customers, and greatly increased managerial complexity. -- Richard Koch
They asked me what I wanted to call my autobiography. I suggested: The Definitive Volume on the Finest Bloody Fast Bowler That Ever Drew Breath. -- Fred Trueman
Bob Dylan wrote in his elliptical memoir, Chronicles: Volume One, he was washed up in the 1980s, no longer a commercial success, and no longer putting out good work. -- Bob Dylan
When I approached Volume 1 of Lucid, I realized I could tell something that only exists in four issues, or I could roll the dice a bit and approach this as Season 1 of a TV show. -- Michael McMillian
Volume in your hair is sexy, and it doesn't necessarily have to be that Brigitte Bardot kind of volume - it's just that nice texture up top that gives it some life and body to it. -- Chrissy Teigen
When I approached Volume 1 of 'Lucid,' I realized I could tell something that only exists in four issues, or I could roll the dice a bit and approach this as Season 1 of a TV show. -- Michael McMillian
I could write an entirely new book about Andy Warhol, but I don't think I will. I certainly don't think Nancy Reagan would like that, as she's been patiently waiting for Volume 2 of my chronicle of the life of her and Ronnie. -- Bob Colacello
One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography. -- William Ellery Channing
The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume. -- Paul Theroux
Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce. -- James A. Garfield
Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town. -- Steven Curtis Chapman
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. -- Don Marquis
I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice. -- Zack de la Rocha
People can change the volume, the location and the composition of their income, and they can do so in response to changes in government policies. -- Arthur Laffer
Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today. -- Ralph Merkle
But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder. -- Ritchie Blackmore
Before computers, you'd start designing using shapes of cubes. Now I can start with something like a handkerchief, an object that doesn't have strong inside and outside boundaries or much closed volume. -- Greg Lynn
There may be something good in silence. It's a brand new thing. You can hear the funniest little discussions, if you keep turning the volume down. Shut yourself up, and listen out loud. -- Wes Borland
We are the country that has attracted the biggest volume of foreign investment in southeastern Europe in the past few years. Romania doesn't need to beat itself, believing that it is a second-class citizen. -- Traian Basescu
The journey and excursions in Mexico which have originated the narrative and remarks contained in this volume were made in the months of March, April, May, and June of 1856, for the most part on horseback. -- Edward Burnett Tylor
An abundant supply of excellent water, forming a volume equal in bulk to the human body, is conveyed by one of these pipes, and distributed about the city, where it is used by the inhabitants for drink and other purposes. -- Hernan Cortes
For the second straight year, craft beer is the fastest growing segment of the U.S. alcoholic beverage industry. In 2005, craft beer experienced a 9 percent increase in volume, nearly triple that of the growth experienced in the wine and spirits industry. -- Sherwood Boehlert
When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait. -- Pablo Picasso
I think size is the most unused quotient in the sculptor's repertoire because it requires lots of commitment and time. To me it's the best tool. With size you get space and atmosphere: atmosphere becomes volume. You stand in the shape, in the zone. -- Michael Heizer
A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself. -- Roberto Burle Marx
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power. -- Alexander Hamilton
I'm fascinated by the ways in which people express themselves, because their responses are often counter to what they're actually feeling. Like when they're frightened, they tend to freeze. When they're angry, it doesn't always come out as volume. There are wonderful contradictions in the way that people express their emotions. -- Edward Norton
A child rightly trained may be a world-wide blessing, with an influence reaching onward to eternal years. But a neglected or misdirected directed child may live to blight and blast mankind, and leave influences of evil which shall roll on in increasing volume till they plunge into the gulf of eternal perdition. -- George Muller
I'm really lucky in the sense that my hair holds curl awesomely well. It looks the same at 10 P.M. as it does at 10 A.M. One of my favorite products is Oribe Dry Texturizing Spray. I can get a lot of volume with it. I'm from the South - I like big hair. -- Carrie Underwood
Hairpieces are brilliant for adding volume. -- Alexandra Roach
Within the book and volume of thy brain... -- William Shakespeare
If you can't win by reason, go for volume. -- Bill Watterson
Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. -- Khaled Hosseini
The volume of Nature is the book of knowledge. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up. -- George Saunders
Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries! -- Walter Scott
The volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases. -- Jerry Brown
Donald Trump lies with astonishing frequency and in stunning volume. -- David Remnick
I have this prejudice that trilogies are long, three-volume novels. -- William Gibson
Nature is a volume of which God is the author. -- William Harvey
A page digested is better than a volume hurriedly read. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Every human being is a volume, worthy to be studied. -- William Ellery Channing
New York is like America with the volume turned up to 10. -- Rocky Carroll
Never think of the surface except as an extension of a volume. -- Henry Moore
I like adventures and people who live with the volume on high. -- Lisa Edelstein
Why do people always assume that volume will succeed when logic won't? -- L. J. Smith
I'm always throwing out ideas, so it's not creativity, it's just volume. -- Ben Huh
Everyone knows the best volume of the encyclopedia is the one with ships-S. -- Roger Angell
Extreme volume in music very often disguises a lack of actually important content. -- Michael Tilson Thomas
The freedom of any society varies proportionately with the volume of its laughter. -- Zero Mostel
American-French relations, their pitch and volume, have always been influenced by the media. -- Rosecrans Baldwin
You benefit from getting in enough volume at the beginning of your training. -- Bernard Lagat
The only technical things I know are treble, volume and reverb, that's all. -- Johnny Thunders
Avoid results-by volume approach, instead focus on few critically important but uncomfortable actions. -- Tim Ferriss
I've always had volume on my side: the big-voice-in-a-small-package thing. I surprise people. -- Anna Kendrick
Let the massacres remind us to turn down our political volume and venom. -- Phillip Adams
It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program. -- Al Sharpton
I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume. -- Grazia Deledda
The weight of your words is more important than the volume of your voice! -- Manprit Kaur
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg's six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln. -- Gore Vidal
When I turn down the volume, it's amazing how much I can actually hear. -- John Waire
Only a large-volume market like space travel can attack the barrier of high costs. -- Buzz Aldrin
From birth to the teenage years, the brain undergoes a fourfold increase in volume -- Eric Jensen
My goal is not to eliminate jobs but to secure jobs by increasing production volume. -- Martin Winterkorn
Growth that adds volume without improving productivity is fat. Growth that diminishes productivity is cancer. -- Peter Drucker
Flirtation is a circulating library, in which we seldom ask twice for the same volume. -- Nathaniel Parker Willis
I like seeing my physical progress through a volume, particularly if it's a big book. -- Elizabeth McCracken
I tend to play better in the studio, no pressures, just sheer volume and alcohol. -- Colin Greenwood
In volume terms, the Tasmanian wine industry is as tiny as its potential is large. -- James Halliday
The voices of women need to be heard. The volume needs to be turned up. -- Ann Bancroft
And in singing, what my voice lacked in quality it made up for in volume. -- Hedda Hopper
People tend to prefer their own race online in terms of the volume of messages. -- Christian Rudder
With a book, there's no volume to turn up. You're very naked with a book. -- Henry Rollins
We're a high-volume, low-margin business, so we decided to reinvent our own approach to health care. -- Steven Burd
Happy salesmen not only multiply their volume of business and their income, they also multiply themselves. -- Walter Russell
I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart. -- Twyla Tharp
Creating a character is about what they look like. The look speaks volume to the audience. -- Ashley Madekwe
The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all. -- William Penn
At length I fell asleep, with the volume in my hand; and never slept so sound before -- Herman Melville
Achieving something that has never existed in manned spaceflight and that is high volume and public access. -- Burt Rutan
Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature. -- Oscar Wilde
The publication of the third volume of Capital has made hardly any impression upon bourgeois economic science. -- Rudolf Hilferding
There are times when the simple dignity of movementcan fulfill the function of a volume of words. -- Doris Humphrey
thought without expression is dynamic and gathers volume by repression. Evolution when blocked and suppressed becomes revolution. -- Nellie L. McClung
Ignorance speaks loudly, so as to be heard; but its volume proves reason to doubt every word. -- Wes Fesler
I like to watch French movies with the volume up so my neighbors could think I'm terrorist. -- Felipe Esparza
So when your mom walks in, turn down the volume and act like you're doing your homework. -- Willie D
The volume of your muscles doesn't make you a good husband. The way you treat her does. -- Amen Muffler
Flowers and flames. And color. Color as color, not as volume or light - only as color. -- Charles Demuth
Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It's the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared. -- Voltaire
The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty ... students perusal of the sacred volume will make us better citizens. -- Thomas Jefferson
The velocity and volume on the Web are so great that nothing is forgotten and nothing is remembered, -- Leon Wieseltier
I don't want anybody to not recognize how appreciative I am of the volume of e-mails I get. -- Gary Vaynerchuk

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