The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future. — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
These actions were taken with the support and financing of the United States. How can you say this is part of U.S.… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Treating HIV/AIDS is a lifelong commitment that demands strict adherence to drug protocols, consistent care, and a trusting relationship with health care… — David Mixner Copy Share Image
“start with a baseline of how often a habit or practice atrophies or breaks down, and then you start stacking up advantages… — Sebastian Marshall Copy Share Image
In art there are two principal schools between which each aspirant has to choose--one distinguished by its close adherence to nature, and… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Virtue is the fragrance of the flowers which the tree of life puts forth. Educated people must be identified in society by… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
English tradition debars from dinner-table conversation almost all topics that might interest the conversers and insists upon strict adherence to banalities. — Elspeth Huxley Copy Share Image
The ultimate success of this government and the stability of its institutions, its progress in all that can make a nation honored,… — Jon Lord Copy Share Image
The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
The doctrine of the Church cannot be fully understood unless it is tested by mind and feelings, by intellect and emotions, by… — John Andreas Widtsoe Copy Share Image
To its devotees the bowtie suggests iconoclasm of an Old World sort, a fusty adherence to a contrarian point of view. The… — Warren St. John Copy Share Image
By adherence to a special set of rules, the child of the shabby-genteel can sometimes leap across the time which has passed… — Murray Kempton Copy Share Image
That the foundation of our national policy should be laid in private morality. If individuals be not influenced by moral principles, it… — James Madison Copy Share Image
One opinion I share with the Dadaists is that art-making presupposes a revolutionary state of mind. Assimilating the practice into commodity or… — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
It is time that Christians were judged more by their likeness to Christ than their notions of Christ. Were this sentiment generally… — Lucretia Mott Copy Share Image
During the nineteenth century, the rapid emergence and proliferation of new manufacturing methods and building technologies led to the establishment of polytechnic… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
That no free government, nor the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice,… — George Mason Copy Share Image
Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
What the Tea Parties are standing for is constitutional principle. It's not fundamentally about tax rates or whether to have a consumption… — Robert P. George Copy Share Image
The Conservative does not despise government. He despises tyranny. This is precisely why the Conservative reveres the Constitution and insists on adherence… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing is more dangerous in practice, than an obstinate, unbending adherence to a system, particularly in its application to the wants and… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
Golfers should not fail to realize that it is a game of great traditions, of high ideals of sportsmanship, one in which… — Francis Ouimet Copy Share Image
I am tolerably ignorant about Judaism, and much of what I do know about it seems hard to swallow, because it is… — Fred Melamed Copy Share Image
How much better if life were more like books, if life lied a little more, and gave up its stubborn and boring… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Sustainable change, after all, depends not upon compliance with external mandates or blind adherence to regulation, but rather upon the pursuit of… — Douglas B. Reeves Copy Share Image
You will search the world over and not find a nonsuperstitious community. As long as there is ignorance, there will be adherence… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
By his willingly renouncing self-defence, the Christian affirms his absolute adherence to Jesus, and his freedom from the tyranny of his own… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
There are more than 9,000 billing codes for individual procedures and units of care. But there is not a single billing code… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For any student of history, change is the law of life. Any attempt to contain it guarantees an explosion down the road;… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
In the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is a good saying to the effect that when a new book appears one should read an old one. As as… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is… — George Haven Putnam Copy Share Image
It is a tragedy that religion for us means, today, nothing more than restrictions on food and drink, nothing more than adherence… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Our creed [atheism] is indeed a queer creed. You others, Christians (and similar people), consider our ethics much inferior, indeed abominable. There… — Erwin Schrödinger Copy Share Image
Intellectual adherence is never owed to anything whatsoever, for it is never in any degree a voluntary thing. Attention alone is voluntary.… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The government believed that adherence to authority was human nature, so the Gezi protests were a real surprise to them. After the… — Safak Pavey Copy Share Image
Sometimes it may seem as if progress is stalled but what history of post-war Germany shows is that strength and determination and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
You have to get buy-in as a leader, instead of demanding adherence to management. Phil Jackson sought Michael Jordan's support before installing… — Chris Lytle Copy Share Image
For the totalitarian mind, adherence to state propaganda does not suffice: one must display proper enthusiasm while marching in the parade. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image