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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious. -- Herbert Spencer
Volumes in the series on Lyndon Johnson, including Master of the Senate and The Path Power, describe how Johnson created resources out of nothing and built a substantial power base. -- Jeffrey Pfeffer
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
Volumes can be and have been written about the issue of freedom versus dictatorship, but, in essence, it comes down to a single question: do you consider it moral to treat men as sacrificial animals and to rule them by physical force? -- Ayn Rand
Why need I volumes, if one word suffice? -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
My presence speaks volumes before I say a word. -- Mos Def
The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes. -- James Agee
Basically, I only play one character; I just play him at different volumes. -- Chris Farley
It is not a life at all. It is a reticence, in three volumes. -- William E. Gladstone
And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock. -- George Chapman
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
I think 'I Spy,' still when you look at it, speaks volumes in terms of propaganda for equality. It's just magnificent. -- Bill Cosby
Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes. -- Theodore Dreiser
With everything that I design, from a church to a plate to skyscraper to a spoon. I am always thinking about voluptuous volumes and spaces. -- Greg Lynn
Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness. -- Mark Kennedy
For me, it's really like, okay, if you go far with the unexpected materials and unexpected proportions or volumes, then keep the colors quite simple and straightforward for men. -- Dries van Noten
I sometimes look at my bookshelves today and wonder which volumes my sons will treasure in twenty or thirty years. Which should I be saving for them? Which will fade with time? -- Rick Riordan
There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust, there are still those who would deny it. -- Mark Udall
If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! -- William Makepeace Thackeray
Your internal dialogue has got to be different from what you say. And, you know, in film, hopefully that registers and speaks volumes. It's always the unspoken word and what's happening behind someone's eyes that makes it so rich. -- Viola Davis
Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered them his women, and in the bound volumes of his magazine he would always possess them. -- Gay Talese
From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. Pleased with the 'Pilgrim's Progress,' my first collection was of John Bunyan's works in separate little volumes. -- Benjamin Franklin
A poet could write volumes about diners, because they're so beautiful. They're brightly lit, with chrome and booths and Naugahyde and great waitresses. Now, it might not be so great in the health department, but I think diner food is really worth experiencing periodically. -- David Lynch
What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it - the process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialized language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve; empathy can be replaced by cynicism. -- Abraham Verghese
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence. -- Edmond de Goncourt
People are totally overusing LOL and a wink - and I'm very guilty of using the wink - that's probably my favourite emoticon to use because 'I'm being sarcastic, don't misinterpret; don't misconstrue; I'm just kidding.' Again, for as many benefits as it has, also picking up the phone and having a conversation speaks volumes. -- Carly Pope
Whether I'm doing a routine where I want to move people, or if I want to feel moved myself, I definitely tap into those moments where it's not just dancing or movement. It might just be a hand gesture or just a slow look, or even just the way you slightly tip your head forward. These subtleties speak volumes. -- Derek Hough
I do not concern myself much with reading long commentary volumes designed to enlarge at length upon that which is found in the scriptures. Rather, I prefer to dwell with the source, tasting of the unadulterated waters of the fountain of truth - the word of God as he gave it and as it has been recorded in the books we accept as scripture. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
But the silence spoke volumes. -- Haruki Murakami
Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes. -- Mason Cooley
Are we not like two volumes of one book? -- Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes. -- Czeslaw Milosz
History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page. -- Lord Byron
Kindness n: A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction. -- Ambrose Bierce
When we don't have the words chocolate can speak volumes. -- Joan Bauer
A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character -- Thomas Jefferson
Winston has written four volumes about himself and called it 'World Crisis'. -- Arthur Balfour
Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven, curtain round the vault of heaven. -- Thomas Love Peacock
How you carry yourself speaks volumes about how you feel about yourself. -- Cindy Ann Peterson
Its a very 18th-century thing to have a book broken into several volumes. -- Matthew Tobin Anderson
Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is. -- Voltaire
The sheer act of listening speaks volumes that even a great speech can't communicate. -- John C. Maxwell
The price we paid for the volumes of ourselves that we suffocated in the dark. -- Nicole Krauss
I have in the past acquired a reputation for concocting non-existent writers and unwritten volumes. -- Jim Crace
How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. -- Theodore Dreiser
Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory? -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
I think that music at inappropriate times with inappropriate volumes can be the funniest thing ever. -- Ed Helms
...their voices are quieter than the other groups around them, but their body language speaks volumes. -- Sandy Hall
It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice. -- Leo Tolstoy
I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself. -- Henry David Thoreau
Huge volumes of data may be compelling at first glance, but without an interpretive structure they are meaningless. -- Tom Boellstorff
Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
Our customers want to give us more business and the key for us is to manage growing volumes properly. -- James Young
Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting. -- Voltaire
Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers. -- Diana Gabaldon
Read a short story every day. By the end of the week you would have read volumes of stories. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
...how odd to think of one's life not as chapters in a book but as complete volumes, separate and distinct. -- Jim Fergus
Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom. -- William Shakespeare
My soule her wings doth spread And heaven-ward flies, Th' Almighty's Mysteries to read In the large volumes of the skies. -- William Habington
Cablegate is 3,000 volumes of material. It is the greatest intellectual treasure to have entered into the public record in modern times. -- Julian Assange
How science dwindles, and how volumes swell, How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun! -- Edward Young
Before Gutenberg, libraries were small -- the Cambridge University library had only 122 volumes in 1424, for instance; after Gutenberg literacy became widespread. -- Larry Stone
These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes. -- Samuel Johnson
Still, looking through the old volumes was soothing, because thinking of the past made the present seem a little less real. -- Dodie Smith
Whatever doubt there may be as to the quality or purpose of our free speech we certainly have ample volumes in production. -- Herbert Hoover
The sheer volumes of songs have come from the hours of cold and darkness that one spends inside with the lights on. -- Paul Westerberg
I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes. -- Charles Lamb
That's an interesting thing about an object. One object speaks volumes about the company that produced it and its values and priorities. -- Jonathan Ive
The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas. -- Maira Kalman
When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable. -- Oscar Wilde
There is enough information capacity in a single human cell to store the Encyclopedia Britannica, all 30 volumes of it, three or four times over. -- Richard Dawkins
One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world ... -- Ellen Glasgow
In organic chemistry there exist certain types which are conserved even when, in place of hydrogen, equal volumes of chlorine, of bromine, etc. are introduced. -- Jean-Baptiste Dumas
Beginning empty handed and alone frightens the best of men. It also speaks volumes of just how sure they are that God is with them. -- Gene Edwards
The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged. -- Robert Morgan
U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well. -- Barton Gellman
You have not really learned a commandment until you have obeyed it. The Church suffers today from Christians who know volumes more than they practice. -- Vance Havner
The savants will write excellent volumes. There will be laureates. But wars will continue just the same until the forces of the circumstances render them impossible. -- Alfred Nobel
Rachel Cusk's books are like pop-up volumes for grown-ups, the prose springing out of the page to bop you neatly between the eyes with its insights. -- Julie Burchill
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
To make a library It takes two volumes And a fire. Two volumes and a fire, And interest. The interest alone will do If logs are few. -- Carolyn Wells
I think that sonically, music speaks volumes more than words do, and I have always thought that and will continue to think that for the rest of my life. -- Zach Condon
They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell that survives a deluge. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
'The New Jedi Order' was a pure publishing project: a single massive story - virtually one huge novel spread across multiple volumes - told by a succession of authors. -- Matthew Stover
The New Jedi Order' was a pure publishing project: a single massive story - virtually one huge novel spread across multiple volumes - told by a succession of authors. -- Matthew Stover
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
Cyriack, whose Grandsire on the Royal Bench Of British Themis, with no mean applause Pronounced and in his volumes taught our Laws, Which others at their Bar so often wrench -- John Milton
Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find. -- Seneca the Younger
I've been asked to write my autobiography and really they only want 8 years (1962-1970), and I keep saying it would be five volumes before I even got into the band! -- Ringo Starr
Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice nasty stories. I don't know. -- Imogen Cunningham
Love need not speak volumes. It need not demand proof. It never has a happy ending - simply because it doesn't end as long as love is pure and true. -- Amit Abraham
At a very early age I started a cartoon scrapbook, actually when I was in high school. And it became, in turn, a scrapbook of my life. And there are about 2,000 volumes. -- Hugh Hefner
When all is said and done, we exist only in relation to the world, and our senses evolved as scouts who bridge that divide and provide volumes of information, warnings and rewards. -- Diane Ackerman
I don't think many people have ever read the report. Who has read 26 volumes of this case? How many read the summary? If you read the summary, it takes a long time. -- John Sherman Cooper
It is difficult sharing and capturing so many years of memories and the people behind the words-and even though that guest book can speak volumes, in between, the pages remain so silent. -- Eugenie Anderson
Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions. -- John Bates Clark
The volumes which record the history of the human race are filled with the deeds and the words of great men ... [but] The Twentieth Century Woman ... questions the completeness of the story. -- Mary Ritter Beard
The volumes of antiquity, like medals, may very well serve to amuse the curious, but the works of the moderns, like the current coin of a kingdom, are much better for immediate use. -- Oliver Goldsmith
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Children are dying." Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words. -- Steven Erikson
The discrepancy or contradiction is the entire story. And being the entire story, it by itself discredits the entire twenty-six volumes of the Warren Commission. Nothing else has to be shown or even argued. -- Vincent Bugliosi
I got four volumes of the letters and speeches of Oliver Cromwell. He is prominent among the great unread, and treated so oddly by history that I wanted to hear his side of things. -- Marilynne Robinson
There is probably no greater idler than myself. And I would consider myself a lazy-bones if I did not write so many volumes, and if I did not admire my diligence once I begin writing. -- Henryk Sienkiewicz
I therefore set to work, and after two and a half years of not inconsiderable labour I now have the privilege and the satisfaction of accompanying the early volumes of the series with this preface. -- James Loeb
Note, however, that you cannot simply add temperatures the way you can add volumes or weights. Two people in bed, each with body temperatures of 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit, do not normally create a 197.2 degree under-the-cover oven. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson

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