Branches Quotes - Page 8

The most effective executive branch officials try to help legislators develop explanations for the votes they are being asked to take.

Congress is the most powerful branch. It can expand a progressive society, or it can block a progressive society.

I definitely don't want to do drama. I'm not looking to branch out into that world.

Remember, we without our roots and branches cannot be saved.

My very identities as a reader and a writer began at the Walt Whitman branch library.

We live in a democracy and I do not understand why highly respected scientists from top international branches are not able express themselves!

An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.

Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches.

The nice men in periwigs who came up with the Fourth Amendment were recklessly naive to imagine that branches of a government, each of whose power is enhanced when the power of the other branches grows, would serve to check one another.

I have a duty to protect the Executive Branch from legislative encroachment.

Life is not so simple. There are many futures. The life of a single person is like a great tree: every branch, every twig, every leaf is a possible future.

Over-production is not possible in all branches of industry at once, but it is possible in some as compared to others.

Faith branches off the highroad before reason begins

The sciences are of a sociable disposition, and flourish best in the neighborhood of each other; nor is there any branch of learning but may be helped and improved by assistance drawn from other arts.

Optimism is not the ability to live on the highest branch. It is the faith to learn to fly.

There's a branch of math called the foundations of math. It's kind of like quantum mechanics. It's about how this very complex theory of math can be built up from very basic parts.

We've got to get the system right. That's why we've got this root-and-branch reform under way.

I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.

The science of political economy is essentially practical, and applicable to the common business of human life. There are few branches of human knowledge where false views may do more harm, or just views more good.

And, in general, that branch which is to act ultimately and without appeal on any law is the rightful expositor of the validity of the law, uncontrolled by the opinions of the other coordinate authorities.

[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch of the same government.

Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.

Present-day Hinduism and Buddhism were growths from the same branch. Buddhism degenerated, and Shankara lopped it off!

I look down from the branch I'm perched on. The Careers look murderous. Now I smile.'How have things been with you?' I ask sweetly.

The origin of Homo sapiens, as a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree, lies well below the boundary.