Quotes about Nexus

Subramanian Swamy

Not all politicians have a nexus with Veerappan.

John Adams

Foreigners, when they come to trade with a nations, make themselves temporary citizens, and tacitly consent to be bound by the same laws.

In the particular case, the issue was whether the businessmen of our French allies should suffer from a devaluation of American currency that was then contemplated. American merchants would pay for goods in devalued currency and pay back loans with the same. Americans, and most other trading nations, have been on both sides of this issue ever since as a function of the specifics of the issues and the times.

Alfred North Whitehead

But in the prevalent discussion of classes, there are illegitimate transitions to the notions of a 'nexus' and of a 'proposition'. The appeal to a class to perform the services of a proper entity is exactly analogous to an appeal to an imaginary terrier to kill a real rat.
Process and Reality

Thomas Carlyle

Cash-payment is not the sole nexus of man with man.

Cheo Hodari Coker

Harlem has always been the nexus of music, politics, culture, criminal figures.

Carroll Quigley

Each individual in a society is a nexus where innumerable relationships of this character intersect.

Stephen King

Yet suppose further. Suppose that all worlds, all universes, met at a single nexus, a single pylon, a Tower. And within it, a stairway, perhaps rising to the Godhead itself. Would you dare climb to the top, gunslinger? Could it be that somewhere above all of endless reality, there exists a room?...' You dare not.' And in the gunslinger's mind, those words echoed: You dare not.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Belief in the causal nexus is superstition.

Jenji Kohan

I'm always looking for a nexus, where you can put all these diverse people together, see how they respond to one another, see what they learn about each other, and what they like and don't like.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

It is clear that the causal nexus is not a nexus at all.

Nexus Quotes