172 Quotes About Branches

I pledged to him unrestrained support in his Government in its exceedingly difficult task from all branches and organizations of Economy.

The judicial branch has, in its finest hours, stood firmly on the side of individuals against those who would trample their rights.

There's three branches of government, the executive, the legislative, the judicial. In Pittsburgh, that court was all three.

Every time there is a robbery at one of our branches we try to figure out what happened and why the numbers go up ... most of us are left scratching our heads.

The impossibility of separating the nomenclature of a science from the science itself, is owing to this, that every branch of physical science must consist of three things; the series of facts which are the objects of the science, the ideas which represent these facts, and the words by which these ideas are expressed. Like three impressions of the same seal, the word ought to produce the idea, and the idea to be a picture of the fact.

The founder of any branch must be more ingenious than the common man. However, if his achievement is not carried on by disciples of the same ingenuity, then things will only become formalized and get stuck in a cul-de-sac; whereby breakthrough and progress will be almost impossible.

There is a difficulty about disagreeing with God. He is the source from which all your reasoning power comes: you could not be right and he wrong any more than a stream can rise higher than its own source. When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.

I'm a bit of a deconstructionist myself. It's kind of exciting - the last intellectual thrill left. Like sawing through the branch you're sitting on.

Death, vicious death, Leave a green branch for love.