Coherent Quotations

Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective.

I am totally convinced the Christian faith is the most coherent worldview around.

To go back to architecture, what's organic about architecture as a field, unlike product design, is this whole issue of holism and of monumentality is really our realm. Like, we have to design things which are coherent as a single object, but also break down into small rooms and have an identity of both the big scale and the small scale.

I realized if I'm not really making an album, I don't have to be concerned about things like stylistic consistency, pacing, a coherent mood. All that stuff goes out the window.

If people are going to watch TV, let's give them something coherent with actual dialogue.

Space can vibrate, space can fluctuate, space can be quantum mechanical, but what the devil is it? And, you know, everybody has their own idea about what it is, but there's no coherent final consensus on why there is space.

Launching a newspaper without a coherent idea of how you're going to promote it, or get it to people who might want to read it, is like launching a boat without a rudder or an engine... or a hull, now that I think about it.

Thousands of civilians have lost their lives to terrorist attacks inside Pakistan, and thousands more will - because, unlike the Pakistani government, which has no coherent policy to deal with the radicals, the Taliban have one to deal with Pakistan and its citizens.

As for writing novels - it's what I've done for 30 some-odd years. I can't suddenly say I'm going to take up golf. I need something in my life. As long as I can write a coherent sentence, I'll keep at it.

We have to define and put into practice a better, more coherent and effective policy on income security.

It's a weird city because the uglier the weather, the more beautiful the city. And the uglier the buildings, the more coherent the city.

Work is a way of bringing order to chaos, and there's a basic satisfaction in seeing that we are able to make something a little more coherent by the end of the day.

What we have to do is put this in a coherent form for them at the end of the day, and on the big events, give them the kind of context that they deserve.

Thus, the forces and value systems that are most threatened by this shift are becoming the most coherent and are rising to the top as minority or plurality powers. But they do not represent either the shift, the change, or the future.

Think what evil creeps liberals would be if their plans to enfeeble the individual, exhaust the economy, impede the rule of law, and cripple national defense were guided by a coherent ideology instead of smug ignorance.

The connectivity declaration is about uniting the whole industry - a lot of companies that typically compete very fiercely - to push in a coherent direction.

When you think of the number of hours that go into casting, shooting and assembling the tape into a coherent story, ... it's not an easy process to do. For our audience, it's a show that's very 'relate-able.' It's a lot of fun to watch because you can see people have personal disasters, which is something our audience really enjoys watching.

Until the administration can articulate a coherent and convincing policy for closing Guantanamo, it should remain open.

We're meeting with each other, trying to coordinate the managers, we have several as you know, and each has an assigned task, and we're busily preparing our remarks and trying to time them and make sure they are coherent and comprehensive, ... So, just the usual preparation for a trial.

Basically, on the question of Europe, I want to see a social Europe, a cohesive Europe, a coherent Europe, not a free market Europe.

I have a little headache still, but I'm a little more coherent today. With a full day's rest, I'll be fine by (Saturday's game).

He is forced to be literate about the illiterate, witty about the witless and coherent about the incoherent.

There is a huge demand for spare parts that only Sikorsky can meet. Without the Teamsters, the company can't maintain a coherent production schedule.

There is a growing body of concern about the lack of any coherent strategy for arranging roadside furniture.

I think it's a stupid way to read a book, ... to say that because something happens to one person the author is trying to suggest that all people are like this. The novel is the art of the particular. And I'm talking about a particular person whose development from innocence to guilt, if you like, is his own particular narrative arc. The point is to make that coherent - not to read the book as some kind of simple allegory, but to read it as a story about a person.

I think the governor and I had an appreciation for a more coherent and organized communications structure than was employed by prior administrations,

I think the government presented a relatively streamlined case. It was a pretty coherent presentation of the witnesses.

Labor has failed to do enough to present a courageous and coherent set of policies. We've got to outline our own vision for Australia, which I believe should include an independent foreign policy, bold social policy and economic policy that delivers prosperity for all.

Our history has never been properly collated in any coherent form. It dates back from the Roman period. There were black soldiers working on Hadrian's Wall. There were many black personalities during the Edwardian period.

Surreal fiction is a sophisticated art form. Events happen divorced from conventional logic, as events in a dream may happen. But unlike dreams, everything in the story contributes to an overall coherent point, impression or emotion.

I would love to give you a more in-depth coherent explanation of my view of the soul, and if I had one I would. The soul and my concept of it are as ephemeral as anybody's, and possibly more so.

We have to ... put more emphasis on the incoming data and the anecdotes we get from the business community and other audiences and try to put together a coherent assessment of the economy.

We've made every effort to create a world as close to the one in which our characters moved, ... a world that is coherent and convincing.

There is a total lack of a coherent national plan. Our government needs to come up with a plan to address the problem of illegal immigration. It's not going to go away, it's only going to get worse.

We think that coming up on a regular scheduled basis ... has been very productive, ... It requires us ... to have a structure of policy that is coherent to the Congress.

Without a coherent U.S. aviation policy that reverses the bias against airline size and removes the barriers that prevent us from constructive consolidation, U.S. carriers will be unable to compete on a global scale and we risk being marginalized,

The government's case was coherent and made sense and was put in terms that the jury should be able to understand.

You have to regain the (peace) momentum by getting people to respect the cease-fire, come up with a coherent negotiating position and when the negotiations resume on November 20, to get the rebels as well as the government ... to make more progress toward a peace accord,

At this point, our main concern is to make sure Ashley is all right. She was moving her hands and feet and she was coherent when she left. (The paramedics) took a precautionary measure to eliminate any potential injury to her neck and upper back.

The Rumsfeld comment is further proof that the administration doesn't have a coherent policy. There are very conflicting signals.

Profit growth seems accessible and coherent with economic growth.

People go for different reasons. Consequently, it makes it more challenging for the league or a given team to put out a single, coherent marketing message that says, 'This is the reason you attend.' You see that throughout sports, but it's a little bit more fragmented in soccer because you have the multiple target markets and you have the difference in the style and size of the stadiums.

A writer is always, always searching, even against her will, against all her better instincts, for the thread of a story. Everything is fodder. Everything is fuel. You can feel it coming on like the tingling of a sore throat. The brain never stops struggling to reshape every experience and feeling into a coherent narrative.

The most fundamental reality is this: for a nation with an economy that is so heavily dependent on oil, we have no coherent energy policy to reduce our dependence on foreign oil or our vulnerability to rapidly escalating price spikes like this one,

They were fantabulous. They were able to distill the kernel of hundreds of thousands of comments into coherent documents that the policymakers were able to access. It was government at its best.

Americans do see Europe as one destination, even if they come to Europe and then go to different destinations, but it's a very important step to have a coherent branding of 'Europe' as a destination.

This is unacceptable, ... If our country had had a coherent energy policy over the last eight years, then we'd be prepared for temporary shortfalls and disruptions. But the fact is we aren't.

a coherent policy that can punish the regime while offering sustenance and hope to the people of Iraq.

Despite all kinds of centrifugal forces, the Internet's technology has stayed reasonably unified and coherent during the tremendous growth of the last 20 years, the enormous changes in underlying transmission technology and the era of telecommunications liberalization.

You try to help them tell a coherent story about what is happening, to make sense of it, so they feel less guilt and shame over protecting others, which is so common,

It will stand or fall on the quality of the writers. They need a team of directors and writers with a shared aesthetic and a coherent outlook, who won't be dominated by executives and commissioning editors.

Arnold, or someone, has to sit through all this advice and sort out a coherent plan. One thing we haven't seen in the Schwarzenegger administration is coherence.

The failure to find DNA in the Martian rock is assumed to argue against Martian life. But this logic is coherent only if Martian life must use the same type of DNA as Earth life uses.

I'm afraid the workings of J.J. Abrams' mind falls outside the predictive capacity of any coherent theory.

I never cared about making one coherent masterpiece with a conventional narrative. I always wanted my movies to have images falling from all directions in a vaudevillian way. If you didn't like what was happening in one scene, you could just snooze through it until the next scene.

In 1956, when I began doing theoretical physics, the study of elementary particles was like a patchwork quilt. Electrodynamics, weak interactions, and strong interactions were clearly separate disciplines, separately taught and separately studied. There was no coherent theory that described them all.

I had a lot of trouble speaking as a kid. I didn't really speak in coherent sentences until I was, like, 6 years old. There was a long time where everybody was very worried, because my sisters were so advanced for their age, and I would barely talk.

If you accept the truth of that, then nothing else really matters that much. We have to organize quickly to come up with a coherent and really strong response, and that's what I'm devoting myself to.

In spite of all the refinements of society that conspired to make art the dizzying perfection of the string quartet or the sprawling grandeur of Fragonards canvases beauty was savage. It was as dangerous and lawless as the earth had been eons before man had one single coherent thought in his head or wrote codes of conduct on tablets of clay. Beauty was a Savage Garden.

In the bioethics community, this is widely understood as utterly out of the realm of coherent human subject protections and a failure in the duties of a tenured professor.

In fact, I would go so far as to say that I am playing emotions and expressing them in a coherent public language called music.

This is a committed and coherent effort to promote responsible drinking in this country,

The European Union now has a coherent approach to banning airlines. This black list will keep dubious airlines out of Europe. It will also make sure that all airlines operating in Europe's sky meet the highest safety standards.

The forces are clearly more wary of being hit. They've had to disperse more and are having a harder time operating in large, coherent units.

The deployment of cameras is a bit of a lottery. The easiest solution is to put up a camera and some partnerships are far keener on them than others. There are such huge discrepancies that it isn't a coherent national policy.