You see tragedy requires persons of heroic stature. It works on the principle of people being more than humansuper-humanand also being only… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I consider myself to have been formed by a lot of the locutions and aesthetics and principles of the Muslim way of… — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
I have made it clear that we will hunt down terrorists who threaten our country, wherever they are. That means I will… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
“To be a person of principle is to accept the reality that their stance will never cease to draw the fire of… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be… — George Packer Copy Share Image
There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Integrity is what you do behind closed doors or when you think nobody is watching. Integrity is the true essence of who… — Erik Qualman Copy Share Image
“POWER PRINCIPLES PRINCIPLE #1 Power is about altering the states of others. PRINCIPLE #2 Power is part of every relationship and interaction.… — Dacher Keltner Copy Share Image
I hold that two principles are important; first that there should be a steady expansion of public services, not an irregular one… — John James Cowperthwaite Copy Share Image
When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God,… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Philosophy would long ago have reached a high level if our predecessors and fathers had put this into practice; and we would… — Marin Mersenne Copy Share Image
Agnosticism, in fact, is not a creed, but a method, the essence of which lies in the rigorous application of a single… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Where some people may see loving grandparents, I see a pair of feckless boobs who can't drive, take way too long to… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
“Today I am more convinced than ever. Conceptual integrity is central to product quality. Having a system architect is the most important… — Frederick P. Brooks Jr Copy Share Image
To me, the essence of keeping the soul nourished is obedience to one's conscience. I don't think that the soul can be… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The difference between architecture and building is that the former expresses an idea, while the latter is merely a structure built on… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The important thing, I think, going into any organization, is that all of the principles, all of the decision-makers are pointed in… — Mike Holmgren Copy Share Image
The First Amendment has created a wall of separation between the church and the State. But that wall is one directional. It… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Long intervals frequently elapse between the discovery of new principles in science and their practical application... Those intellectual qualifications, which give birth… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Live the principles and the values. Almost nobody in America is living them. Learn the truth. Live the life of our founders.… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah Copy Share Image
I say to everyone within the sound of my voice, 'Do not fail the Lord'. We must accept the truth that the… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
Mr. Darwin contributes some striking and ingenious instances of the way in which the principle partially affects the chain, or rather network… — Richard Owen Copy Share Image
In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Government has no right to make itself a party in any debates respecting the principles or mode of forming or of changing,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
[T]o preserve the republican form and principles of our Constitution and cleave to the salutary distribution of powers which that [the Constitution]… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
That every will must consider every other will its equal would be a principle hostile to life, an agent of the dissolution… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
No one who has lived in the world as long as you & I have, can entertain the pious delusion that it… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
A person who has truly realized the principle of nonviolence has the God given strength for his weapon, and the world has… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The principle, that should be a fundamental principle in our democracy, the principle of "one person, one vote," says that the vote… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
The task for me is to not only comprehend the world, but to change the world. I would like to see a… — Ronald Takaki Copy Share Image
A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions… — A. P. Herbert Copy Share Image
The truth of good economic doctoring is to know the general principles, and to really know the specifics. To understand the context,… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I was, though some principle of… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The only constitutional exception to the power of making treaties is, that it shall not change the Constitution.… On natural principles, a… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims is a doctrine which is… — Roy Hattersley Copy Share Image