Mixture Quotations

Both Iraq and Syria are a fissile mixture of ethnicities and religions thrown together after Versailles by departing French and British imperialists and only kept together by Baathist tyranny and violence.

The Lord has been there from wanting to be a momma, to having a wonderful childhood life and dreaming of having a good motherhood as a child; always wanting to meet a good old country boy and having someone to love as much as I love my husband Roland and having a little boy that is a mixture of the both of us.

I was a mixture of a country boy and a town boy, really. Chichester is a town on the coast of England, and I grew up all along that strip of coast that Chichester branches out into. Sometimes I was living in a house in the country, and sometimes I was living in a town.

In the Philippines, we don't have that much of a problem. There's not much difference between the men and the women. In our business, we always have a good mixture of the men and the women.

You don't need a uniform color: We used a mixture of brick red, browns and grays, and then threw in seashells, branches and various types of rock, so our walls ended up looking like cave paintings!

The coupling of aryl halides with copper at very high temperature is called the Ullmann reaction, which is of broad scope and has been used to prepare many symmetrical biaryls. However, when a mixture of two different aryl halides is used, there are three possible biaryl products.

When Mary arrived, I felt a mixture of emotions, including panic and overwhelming love. I felt a great sense of responsibility, not just towards my child but also towards her father. There have been many influences on my life, but that thing of finally becoming a family person was the greatest.

I am a toxico-nutritional neuro-epidemiologist. It's the study of neurological disorders caused by a mixture of toxins and malnutrition using epidemiological methods... We are just three or four in the world, even fewer than sword swallowers.

The southern Chinese are a mixture of the Han, or northern Chinese, and the local tribes, some of which allowed women a great deal of freedom - much to the horror of the Chinese who were good Confucians. As a result, the folklore from southern China has strong females; and I found that the folktales mirrored my own experience.

The stimulus legislation, technically known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, was a mixture of tax cuts for families and businesses; increased transfer payments, like unemployment insurance; and increased direct government spending, like infrastructure investment.

Glamour is an imaginative process that creates a specific emotional response: a sharp mixture of projection, longing, admiration, and aspiration. It evokes an audience's hopes and dreams and makes them seem attainable, all the while maintaining enough distance to sustain the fantasy.

There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence.

When I think back to my childhood, it's with a mixture of amusement and embarrassment. I was always forgetting things. My mum called me scatty because I could never sit still. But there was no sense I was suffering from a medical condition as such.

New-season lamb shoulder, cooked pink, is the perfect platform for a mixture of fresh and cooked herbs.

The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.

I can't tell you how many things I've worked on where I sat on it for a few years, and then somebody else did something very similar. Whether it's some weird vocal effect you hear on another record, or a drum beat, or even a song title, a subject matter, or a mixture of different kinds of music.

Writing lyrics is part spontaneous, intuitive and part really thought through and carefully analyzed as you write it. It's a mixture of two approaches, and I imagine writing anything is like that, really. Some of it just flows, and you just go with it.

Oxford is a funny place, as it is a mixture of town and gown. You have the students at the main university and at Oxford Brookes, but there is also a big working-class community.

I have been playing acoustic music for a very long time, and it's something that I am very comfortable doing, so if I made a record, it would probably be a mixture of that and some other things that I'm interested in.

I came across few whites as a boy at Qunu. The local magistrate, of course, was white, as was the nearest shopkeeper. Occasionally, white travelers or policemen passed through our area. These whites appeared as grand as gods to me, and I was aware that they were to be treated with a mixture of fear and respect.

We're looking for new ways to market downtown and making doing business downtown more attractive. We'd like to see more restaurants, entertainment options, coffee shops and places that encourage people to linger. We need a mixture you won't find in a typical shopping center.

We were too perimeter-oriented. Toledo played a mixture of defenses and they really had us on our heels. We were just settling for 3s.

There are millions of people who think that having heard about something is the same as knowing it, and their notion of culture is a mixture of elegant lifestyle and big names.

We're a Muslim family, but we're also very cultured and we have a mixture of different religions. For example, my brother-in-law is Catholic, and my sister converted and my nephews are baptized. I have an uncle who just graduated and currently he's a priest.

She proceeds to dip here little fountain-pen filler into pots of oily venom and to squirt this mixture at all her friends.

Mr. Pence has a belief the problem is solely rooted in spending issues. We think it's a mixture of spending and tax issues.

Nature is mixture of opposites ..It is beautiful and dangerous, constant and inconstant, vulnerable and strong ..simply it is an image of heathen god.

People want to be entertained when they watch dramas. 'Mistresses' has a mixture of escapism and reality.

Philadelphia has everything we were looking for and more, ... A fascinating mixture of old and new, street life and high culture, a booming real estate market, accessibility, innovative technology, cutting-edge restaurants, theater and music.

Pluto is so unlike any planet we've ever visited. It's this strange little duck, sitting out there, this mixture of rock and ice but with an atmosphere. There is so much to learn about this planet.

If we could get consistent pitching and get the fundamentals down, we'll be OK. We've got two good pitchers and we've got a nice little squad here. We've got a mixture of grades and we're picking each other up.

I have high hopes for the whole tour to be shared to a wide audience at home in a mixture of pay-per-view and free special Web casts. Some of the proceeds will go to charity, of course.

But we had a number of other athletes who specialized. Our boys' cross country team qualified for state, boys' golf did a good job and won state. So it's a mixture of the core group of girls and other athletes.

I'm an aggressive player who likes to go deep and go up and get the ball. I'm a mixture of speed and strength.

I have a strange feeling back here, ... I can't explain it. It's a strange mixture of the tragedies and the good things that happened here.

I felt a mixture of emotions. I was obviously disappointed about not playing in the final game, but a medal is a medal and our team worked hard for it. So, I'm happy about that.

I feel like we've got a good mixture of guys. We don't try to overpower each other, but have enough experience on field to let people know what's up and help people get better.

I can't say this is bad or good, it's a kind of mixture of negatives and positive factors.

If we all work together, we'll have a sustaining mixture for all of us to have.

He had a lot of size, and he was able to move well. He had a good mixture of size and athletic ability. We want to see if he can physically go against a 22 year-old senior.

He had a great mixture of an engineer's mind and the creativity of an artist. He was one of the most impressive young men I've ever met. I am so proud to have been his teacher.

We can look back on these last six games and be proud of what we accomplished. Since our first team meeting, we've felt like it was something special. We have a nice mixture of veterans and young guys who really care about each other and enjoy coming together each week.

We threw high passes, we dropped balls, I called the wrong plays. It's just a mixture of things. You can say we weren't ready. We didn't have the emotion that we had the last couple of games. That's pretty obvious.

He's a great mixture of strength and vulnerability,

We must deal with the new situation with the right mixture of firm adherence to basic principles and creativity to meet a rapidly evolving reality.

I was an absolute idiot, wearing polo-necks, reading Kerouac, watching Woody Allen movies, and jazz fitted right into all of that. My interest in that whole world became very genuine, but perhaps started off a bit affected - a mixture of right and wrong reasons. I was always drawn to non-commercial music, perhaps pathologically so.

I was a mixture of upset and disappointed. When we have a 6-5 lead and go to Schmidgall, I expect us to win.

I think we'll see a combination of everything. I think they'll do what they do. They're good coaches. They're smart. I think we'll see a mixture of things. They're multiple in the attack that they present to us. So we'll certainly see some of those things.

I was very tentative going into this year with this mixture of seniors and younger kids. But the kids deserve a lot of credit. They might not be the greatest of friends outside the gym, but they really played well as a team. They just made my job so much easier.

It is a mixture. Within the mixture we found virus that is highly, highly resistant. When you look at the virus as a whole, it is partially resistant.

Robin considers that crows are a fiery mixture of intelligence, tenacity and spirit poured into a frail body.

Stage is the ultimate test; I like watching established screen actors on stage to see if they can really do it. But it's great to have a healthy mixture of the two. Film is so technical: there's something very particular about the relationship between you and the camera. It took a long time for me to get good on film.

My parents are a wonderful mixture of bohemian eccentric, but also incredibly practical and not airy-fairy.

It doesn't depend on the number. We have to put the right mixture in the rooms.

It has a wonderfully earthy flavor that complements the mixture of spices you often find in it. It's hearty without being filling.

I think 'Mistresses' is so successful because it's a mixture of intriguing storylines with lots of twists and it is rooted very strongly in reality and it's really glossy.

We need all that mixture of paper (junk mail, catalogs and newspapers) to recycle quality newsprint.

That's the problem. Many of these foods have a mixture of whole and refined grains. You may be eating three times as much of the refined grains as the whole grains.

Most of the people know about the man who introduced football to Brazil, although I didn't know he was born in Sao Paulo. I've watched some old videos of Charles Miller in Brazil. He loved British football and I think he created a very good mixture of British football and Brazilian football.

We have a good mixture of youth and experience, but the returning guys have adjusted and played really well with the new guys. They have a very good feel for each other. They know each other's range and arm strength.

We have a good mixture of experienced and new officers. We have also had a lot of help from all the surrounding agencies to help get us up and running.

We have a new group of players. And a mixture of guys who have won trophies in the past and want to find out if they can still win trophies, and those who have never won trophies before. On top of that, we all want to know if we can win trophies together. We're feeling good about ourselves, and we feel we can win the cup.

We have the perfect bland of merchandise. We have a mixture of everything. We offer a good mix of things that appeal to a broad range of people.

We have a superb cast for Beauty and the Beast. It's a good mixture of adults, with at least one in his 80s, and children as young as age seven, representing a cross section of the community.

We send out mass e-mails to the handlers we have signed up, and we include in our mailings to them the dates of our training, ... We make sure that there is a mixture of veteran handlers and new handlers.

We demonstrated that a realistic pesticides mixture (based on a mixture applied to an actual field) at low, ecologically relevant concentrations can have dramatic effects on amphibian development and growth and ultimately, we predict, survivorship.

The definition of the composition of air ensues from this program of research : atmospheric air is not an element, that is, a simple body, but a mixture of several gases. Approximately a quarter of atmospheric air is composed by dephologisticated or

There has to be a mixture of winning against developing talent and exposing them to a standard they'll learn from.

We attract a different crowd than mainstream sports. We tend to get the people who never exercised, or thought of themselves as athletes, or ever considered taking up any sport. It appeals to the romantic as well as the intellectual side in a lot of us. We get a decent cross mixture of people, a lot of dreamers, gamers and other types.

Both the painting and the lyric have so many characters and a mixture of the real and the made up. They share this love of the grotesque, the macabre, this kind of ghastly sense of humor about modern life,

What is IT agility? It's the mixture of art and engineering that delivers robust 80% solutions fast enough to capitalize on opportunities before profit margins drop.

You had a little bit of a back swell with Hurricane Maria, then Nate sent more of a backswell.   So basically you have a mixture of four different swells coming in and just making great waves for this area.

What does a Northern European, Native American and Southeast Asian mixture look like? That's a fair question. We're told the photographs are extremely helpful.

What the Americans want to see is life in their drama. Life of all sorts: hard lives, easy lives, or lives which, like most of ours, are a mixture of the two.

We feel like we have some power in the middle of our lineup, and pitchers have to expend a lot of energy to get through that middle. We have a nice mixture of speed and power, and we've been able to score some runs. It's been a lot of fun.

Violence was a mixture of ideology (and) macho status...,

We like to use a mixture of flowers, particularly if the dress is hard to match.

Brittany is one of the top players to come out of Memphis this year. She comes into our program with great size and is a very skillful and technical player. Not too often do you find a player with that type of mixture and ability.

There's kind of a cosmopolitan feel among these kids, which could end up being something very distinctive. It's a mishmash of stuff, and it's all just sort of thrown together, which is very much what this generation is like: a mixture of what they take from their families . . . and purely American kids.

The victim apparently removed a packet of the heroin-cocaine mixture that the defendant had placed in the same pocket that contained the candy,

The state's abilities in terms of content control online -- through a mixture of methods -- should not be underestimated.

The sight of cancer-ridden lungs and yellowing teeth may reinforce a non-smoker's decision not to light up, but does nothing to convince those already addicted. The reason for this is a mixture of denial and familiarity.

I've always said that running for president requires a mixture of humility and confidence,

Ten years ago when Microsoft came out with NT the worry was that there would be little choice at this point in time. But technology buyers have a great deal of choice. We still have multiple flavors of Unix. We have Sun with a mixture of open and commercial Unix, and we've got Linux.

Sometimes I have thought that a song should look disappointing on the page - a little thin, perhaps, a little repetitive, or a little on the obvious side, or a mixture of all of these things.

Once you have a flavor in mind, it's really about what your supplier can give you. The more exotic ones are made by adding a mixture to a background flavor.

Any given week or day doesn't have to be devoted to improving a particular aspect of guest service. An effective customer service approach can come from a mixture of ideas.

Ballet Hispanico is a mixture of ethnic, ballet, social, jazz - you name it, it's doing it. The company has been going strong for more than 20 years, and you can see why: It may not be refined, but it's full of beans.

The mixture of police and military duties is dangerous. Our history has taught us that. And a World Cup is not in any way a reason to deviate from that principle.

The mixture of music we play, draws an eclectic crowd, all ages, all types. These are songs you aren't going to hear anywhere else in Albuquerque but here.

The mixture of all kinds of things, all kinds of beings - it's just like what we have here in this country.

The mixture is yet to be finally determined.

They don't take plays off or games off. They expect to win close games. They've got a toughness about them. They've got a mixture of youthful enthusiasm and veteran leadership. They've got just the right amount of depth.

This man...came in with such lofty ideals, no policy but much hope for a new style and the total mixture has been at least disappointing and, at worst, disastrous for the city,

This is the problem, you gotta get into all this mixture of rock and blues that is happening in a feeble way these days. No one wants to go out and see a guy in a club who really can't play that well playing through a 300-watt Marshall blowing their face off. People have become disillusioned by the quality of the music, by the volume of the music, by the lack of humility that you see in some of these people because they think they can just pick up a guitar and walk out there and after three months be somebody. And you know what? Nothing is further from the truth.

It seems to me there's a mixture of good news and bad news, it's probably fairly accurate,

It seems that comets are...a mixture of materials formed at all temperatures, at places very near the early sun and at places very remote from it.

It was a mixture of excitement and fear.

It was a mixture of a lot of things. She went out, and the crowd, and we just didn't play very well. But this is another chance, and we want to win it.

It's a nice mixture of songs. My dog, Miyagi, seems comforted by it. It's like leaving the TV on for him.