Josiah Gibbs Quotes

Only one man lived who could understand Gibbs's papers. That was Maxwell, and now he is dead. ~ Muriel Rukeyser

In the last generation, this country produced one of the most eminent men of science in the whole world. His name was quite unknown among us while he lived, and it is still unknown. Yet I may say without too great exaggeration that when I heard it mentioned in a professional assembly in the Netherlands two years ago, everybody got down under the table and touched their foreheads to the floor. His name was Josiah Willard Gibbs. ~ Albert Jay Nock

The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor. ~ Josiah Strong

She had to rediscover fear and, tucked somewhere inside that fear, life. ~ Josiah Bancroft

The temple of art is built in words. ~ Josiah Gilbert Holland

I won't make you wait long,' he said, withdrawing his finger from her mouth and slipping it into her throbbing sex in a light teasing penetration, with only a soft flick on her engorged clit. 'Jesus, that's one stiff little clit. Think you can wait? ~ C.C. Gibbs

No nation is better than its sacred book. In that book are expressed its highest ideals of life, and no nation rises above those ideals. No nation has a sacred book to be compared with ours. This American nation from its first settlement at Jamestown to the present hour is based upon and permeated by the principles of the Bible. The more this Bible enters into our national life the grander and purer and better will that life become. ~ David Josiah Brewer

He was ridiculously handsome, tall, lean yet solid with muscle. Politely immoral, indifferent to censure. As if he knew he was irresistible in all manner of things. Not just to her, but to everyone, to women particularly. ~ C.C. Gibbs

Strong voice doesn't have to be the loudest. ~ Olga Gibbs

Showing STRENGTH doesn't mean we have to fight a battle...Sometimes it's far better to WALK AWAY from all the nonsense and those who indulge in it ~ Karen Gibbs

At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV. ~ Nancy Gibbs

My husband and I don't have sons, so we never had to ask ourselves how we'd have felt about them playing football. ~ Nancy Gibbs

Every revival worthy of the name begins in the restoration of the Word of God to the pulpit, and its fearless proclamation by those anointed of God to preach the Gospel. The revival under Josiah took place when 'Hilkiah found the Book of the Law of the Lord'. ~ Wilbur Moorehead Smith

There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going. ~ Nancy Gibbs

She would not tell him the truth for some weeks, but she would eventually confess that she had left with him because the fear had gone out of her daily leaps. Her hours were filled with confident, minor feats and toothless dangers. She would not call it such, but Adam would later name it for her: it was boredom that had driven her from her mother's side and a secure home. ~ Josiah Bancroft

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature. ~ Josiah Gilbert Holland

If you see yourself in everyone and everything, you will naturally strive for win/win scenarios in all aspects of life. If you wish well for others, you are manifesting success for your broader self. ~ Russell Anthony Gibbs

Congratulations on surviving life up to this point. All the trials, heartaches, deceptions, sorrows and anxieties...You've come through all the adversity and are still here to tell the tale! you are quite simply, brilliant! ~ Karen Gibbs

If you're not too long, I will wait for you here all my life. ~ Chad Alan Gibbs

Nixon urged Clinton to maintain his relationship with Yeltsin but make contact with other democrats in Russia. He warned Clinton away from some ultranationalists and toward those interested in liberty and reform. He pressed Clinton to replace his ambassador in Kiev and concentrate future U.S. economic aid on Ukraine, where it would matter most. ~ Nancy Gibbs

Once you have a plan, you must sell it to the players. It is not enough to put it on the blackboard and say, 'Okay, here it is.' You have to convince the players that the plan is a good one and show them, in specific ways, why it will work. If you do, you send them out to the practice field with more confidence. ~ Joe Gibbs

Yes, we drink our own urine in space. ~ Stuart Gibbs

Innocence waiting to be fucked, he pleasantly thought. And his, he decided with the proprietary instincts of a modern princeling. ~ C.C. Gibbs

Sometimes life takes you into a dark place where you feel it's impossible to breathe. You think you've been buried, but don't give up, because if truth be told, you've actually been planted. ~ Karen Gibbs

While you were out JUDGING others, you left your closet door open...and guess what fell out!....Ooops ~ Karen Gibbs

Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and controlled by the appeals of counsel! ~ David Josiah Brewer

Even if it wasn't always morning in America during the years of his presidency, Reagan's eagerness to insist that it was tapped into a longing among voters. They didn't want to picture themselves turning down their thermostats and buttoning up their cardigans. They wanted to strut again. Reagan opened his arms and said, 'Walk this way.' ~ Nancy Gibbs

I'm a real gangster rapper and I'm a rapper. I just think my music takes different directions. I don't think you can pigeon hole me in one genre. I'm probably the most versatile in the game, period. ~ Freddie Gibbs

But Eisenhower's advice was consistent, from his days as a general, to his years in the White House, to his role as veteran counselor: don't fight unless you are in it to win. Don't waste time and lives with half measures. ~ Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy

Be very mindful of what and where your consciousness goes and how you are thinking at all times. It may be better to proactively place positive thoughts in your consciousness rather than pick up random, unwanted negative thoughts from your environment. ~ Russell Anthony Gibbs

Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - but one we suspect he'd love to have. ~ Nancy Gibbs

What our consciousness is experiencing is just a sliver of the infinite, multiple realities where we exist simultaneously ~ Russell Anthony Gibbs

'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept. ~ Nancy Gibbs

Neighbor is no longer confined to the vocabulary of the individual. It is a national word. Modern inventions have annihilated distance. Commercial relations have broken down barriers of race and religion, and the family of nations is a recognized fact. ~ David Josiah Brewer

To require conformity in the appreciation of sentiments or the interpretation of language, or uniformity of thought, feeling, or action, is a fundamental error in human legislation
a madness which would be only equaled by requiring all men to possess the same countenance, the same voice or the same stature. ~ Josiah Warren

I never felt a feeling that I knew or could know to be unlike the feelings of other people. I never consciously thought, except after patterns that the world or my fellows set for me. ~ Josiah Royce

Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie. ~ Nancy Gibbs

While many alien species are harmless, others pose expensive threats to seas and fields and forests. ~ Nancy Gibbs