There are cases in which the blade springs, but the plant does not go on to flower. There are cases where it flowers, but no fruit is subsequently produced.
COMFORT, n. A state of mind produced by contemplation of a neighbor's uneasiness.
Injury is the thing every exhausting piece of strategy and every single weapon is designed to bring into being: it is not something inadvertently produced on the way to producing something else but is the relentless object of all military activity.
Grandeur of effect is produced by two different ways which seem entirely opposed to each other. One is by reducing the colors to little more than chiaroscuro. . . and the other, by making the colors very distinct and forcible. . . but still, the presiding principle of both those manners is simplicity.
I think there are only three things that America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music and baseball. They're the three most beautifully designed things this culture has ever produced.
Years ago when DNA was going on, I produced a record in Italy but I didn't think I'd do another one.
The people who invented the twenty-first century were pot-smoking, sandal-wearing hippies from the West Coast like Steve, because they saw differently,” he said. "The hierarchical systems of the East Coast, England, Germany, and Japan do not encourage this different thinking. The sixties produced an anarchic mind-set that is great for imagining a world not yet in existence.
This process, this method necessary to man's survival and prosperity upon the earth, has often been derided as unduly or exclusively "materialistic. " But it should be clear that what has happened in this activity proper to man's nature is a fusion of "spirit" and matter; man's mind, using the ideas it has learned, directs his energy in transforming and reshaping matter into ways to sustain and advance his wants and his life. Behind every "produced" good, behind every man-made transformation of natural resources, is an idea directing the effort, a manifestation of man's spirit.
Nothing on 'Relapse' and very little on 'Recovery' was produced by me.
I started my first novel when I was 10, and have produced thousands of pages of juvenilia since.
The struggle of ordinary people for a decent living, for security, is as old as the republic, but it's taken on a new and urgent edge. Instead of shared prosperity our political system has now produced a winner-take-all economy.
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual; everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort.
The good things of life are produced by learning with hard work; the bad are reaped of their own accord, without hard work.
There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensated appropriation of wealth produced by others; this is the political means.
We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
Consistent motivation usually comes from a consuming desire to be able to perform at your best under pressure, namely, the pressure produced by tough competition. If a player needed me to light a fire under him by turning the other team into a demon, he was lacking something I couldn't give him.
How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?
Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced.
When it came to the music that we produced, I am pretty happy with what we did.