Provinces Quotes - Page 5

• We like to say that India has the advantage of being a large market. We have provinces, we have the rule of law, we have a system of justice. But those are also weaknesses when compared with China. On the other hand, one of our strengths is that we are very individualistic, and as individuals we are very creative. But that, too, is a weakness, because it keeps us from working well together. Everyone thinks only about his own profit.

  Ratan Tata

  Thinking, Hands, Law

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• Our province needs united leadership and shared purpose in tackling the challenges we face.

  Jim Prentice

  Leadership, Challenges, Needs

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• To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Book, Character, Winning

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.14, Stanford University Press

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• To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a living, but to extend our intercourse beyond our own time and province.

  Virginia Woolf

  Reading, Delight, Chiefs

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.63, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The views of the Contact Group member-states must be taken seriously, as well as the guidelines set out in their document on Kosovo, which clearly says that the province should not be divided.

  Martti Ahtisaari

  Taken, Views, Groups

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• The province of faith begins where probabilities cease and sight and sense fail.

  George Muller

  Sight, Failing, Probability

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• There is no structural organization of society which can bring about the coming of the Kingdom of God on earth since all systems can be perverted by the selfishness of man. The Malvern Manifesto: Drawn up by a Conference of the Province of York, January 10, 1941; signed for the Conference by Temple, then Archbishop of York .

  William Temple

  Men, Organization, Society

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• Withdraw from the Canada Pension Plan... Collect our own revenue from personal income tax... Resume provincial responsibility for health-care policy. If Ottawa objects to provincial policy, fight in the courts... [E]ach province should raise its own revenue for health... It is imperative to take the initiative, to build firewalls around Alberta.

  Stephen Harper

  Responsibility, Fighting, Pension Plans

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• To recommend a monarchy on account of the prosperity it gives the provinces seems to me like recommending that a man should have liberty to treat his children as slaves, if at the same time he treats his slaves with reasonable consideration.

  Robert Graves

  Children, Men, Should Have

  Robert Graves, Richard Francis (2000). “I, Claudius ; and, Claudius the god”, Carcanet Press Ltd.

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• If we do not learn to regard a war, and the separate campaigns of which it is composed, as a chain of linked engagements each leading to the next, but instead succumb to the idea that the capture of certain geographical points or the seizure of undefended provinces are of value in themselves, we are liable to regard them as windfall profits.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Ideas, Campaigns

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (2007). “On War”, p.139, Oxford University Press, USA

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• War is the province of danger.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Danger

  Carl Von Clausewitz (2014). “Essential On War for Business: The Classic Work by Carl von Clausewitz for Business Today”, p.21, Hachette UK

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• The civil war which has so long prevailed between Spain and the Provinces in South America still continues, without any prospect of its speedy termination.

  James Monroe

  War, America, Long

  James Monroe (199?). “The Writings of James Monroe: 1817-1823”

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• I have learnt that all our theories are not Truth itself, but resting places or stages on the way to the conquest of Truth, and that we must be contented to have obtained for the strivers after Truth such a resting place which, if it is on a mountain, permits us to view the provinces already won and those still to be conquered.

  Justus von Liebig

  Science, Views, Mountain

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• Jacobins, I have a truth to tell you. You do not know your most deadly enemies; they are the constitutional priests. It is they who protest most in the provinces against anarchists, disorganisers, Dantonism, Robespierrism, Jacobinism... Do not cherish any longer the popular errors; cut at the roots of superstition! Declare openly that the priests are your enemies.

  Jean-Paul Marat

  Cutting, Errors, Roots

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• The United States trades more with the province of Ontario alone than with Japan.

  Ronald Reagan

  Japan, Presidential, Ontario

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• The study of economic organization commonly proceeds as though market and administrative modes of organization were disjunct. Market organi­zation is the province of economists. Inter­nal organization is the concern of organization theory specialist. And never the twain shall meet.

  Oliver E. Williamson

  Organization, Study, Economic

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• It is the peculiar province of the legislature to prescribe general rules for the government of society; the application of those rules to individuals in society would seem to be the duty of other departments.

  John Marshall

  Government, Peculiar, Individual

  John Marshall, Joseph Potter Cotton (2000). “The Constitutional Decisions of John Marshall”, p.245, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• The unknown is the province of the student; it is the field for his lifes adventure, and it is a wide field full of beckonings

  Lincoln Steffens

  Adventure, Fields, Students

  Lincoln Steffens (1931). “The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens”, p.119, Heyday

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• I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province.

  Francis Bacon

  Taken, Knowledge, Science

  Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1834). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition:”, p.274

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• I now never make the preparations for penetrating into some small province of nature hitherto undiscovered without breathing a prayer to the Being who hides His secrets from me only to allure me graciously on to the unfolding of them.

  Louis Agassiz

  Nature, Prayer, Science

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• If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.

  Frederick The Great

  Government, Prussia, Philosopher

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• The concern for world evangelization is not something tacked on to a man's personal Christianity, which he may take or leave as he chooses. It is rooted in the character of the God who has come to us in Christ Jesus. Thus, it can never be the province of a few enthusiasts, a sideline or a specialty of those who happen to have a bent that way. It is the distinctive mark of being a Christian.

  James Stuart Stewart

  Christian, Jesus, Character

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• Our problem is this: we usually discover him within some denominational or Christian ghetto. We meet him in a province and, having caught some little view, we paint him in smaller strokes. The Lion of Judah is reduced to something kittenish because our understanding cannot, at first, write larger definitions.

  Calvin Miller

  Christian, Jesus, Writing

  Calvin Miller (1984). “The Table of Inwardness”, Intervarsity Press

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• Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees.

  Hudson Taylor

  Christian, Brother, Prayer

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• The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than
  is the analysis of the human heart. We live in an age of universal
  investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.
  France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama,
  because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other
  the individual lot of man. These embrace the whole of life. But it is the
  province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond
  life, beyond time, into eternity.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Philosophy, Drama, Heart

  Alfred De Vigny (2018). “Cinq Mars”, p.11, BoD – Books on Demand

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