#volume

Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#berkeley #bishop #destroyed #experienced #fate

Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up. ↗

— George Saunders

#irony #just #up #volume

I have noticed that people are dealing too much with the negative, with what is wrong. ... Why not try the other way, to look into the patient and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom? ↗

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

#volume- #positivity

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

#could #does #fill #greatest #i

My presence speaks volumes before I say a word. ↗

— Mos Def

#i #presence #say #speaks #volumes

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. ↗

— Hernando Cortes

#abundant #body #bulk #city #conveyed

I did not destroy the 43 volumes of my diary, which report on all these events and the share I had in them; but of my own accord I handed them voluntarily to the officers of the American Army who arrested me. ↗

— Hans Frank

#american #army #arrested #destroy #diary

It is not a life at all. It is a reticence, in three volumes. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

#reticence #three #volumes

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

#after #early #half #i #inconsiderable

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

#build #cube #entire #entire world #exists