There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds. Show a botanist… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
All the same, the fundamental truths which govern that art are still unchangeable; just as the principles of mechanics must always govern… — Ferdinand Foch Copy Share Image
As is well known the principle of virtual velocities transforms all statics into a mathematical assignment, and by D'Alembert's principle for dynamics,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
I should say, a piece of advice that was given to me very early on by the principle of RADA (Royal Academy… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
They say that there is no reality before it has been given shape by words rules regulations. They say that in what… — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
Even though in principle we may "know better", we routinely succumb all the same to the incessant, often frantic and unexamined busyness… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Something like this will test you like nothing else," Mac said. "You're going to find out who you are, Harry. You're going… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
If the Treasury were to fill old bottles with bank-notes, bury them at suitable depths in disused coal-mines which are then filled… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Physically, the heart is an organ that keeps us alive through a coordinated network of cells beating together. Spiritually, the heart is… — Anodea Judith Copy Share Image
The Christmas spirit does not shine out in the Christian snob. For the Christmas spirit is the spirit of those who, like… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
In the military we also learn principles of war which also work in a corporate setting: How do you concentrate as much… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Physicists often quote from T. H. White's epic novel The Once and Future King, where a society of ants declares, "Everything not… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
The same organizational principles which called us forth into self-reflection have called forth self-reflection out of the planet itself. And the problem… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It has been the error of the schools to teach astronomy, and all the other sciences, and subjects of natural philosophy, as… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It sounds schmaltzy to say, but fiction is much more to do with love than people admit or acknowledge. The novelist has… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Everyone deserves love and appreciation. If there is someone in the world whom we do not love, it is our blessing to… — David Wilcock Copy Share Image
There can be no compromise between freedom and government controls; to accept 'just a few controls' is to surrender the principle of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“How do fields express their principles? Physicists use terms like photons, electrons, quarks, quantum wave functions, relativity, and energy conservation. Astronomers use… — Peter J. Denning Copy Share Image
I am not a Tory moderniser for I believe marriage can only be between a man and a woman. I shall not… — Gerald Howarth Copy Share Image
There exists a powerful energizing force in the spiritual life principle. All energy began with the Creator, who infused it not only… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The challenge here is to design a system where market incentives, including profits and recognition, drive those principles to do more for… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
As you show these principles over and over , it becomes engrained into how we think. And, when your kids see that,… — Alex Kendrick Copy Share Image
I know of nothing more terrible than the poor creatures who have learned too much. Instead of the sound powerful judgement which… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
The dual substance of Christ- the yearning, so human, so superhuman, of man to attain God... has always been a deep inscrutable… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
We were happy a hundred years ago. We knew that there were exploiters and exploited, wealthy and poor, and we had a… — Leszek Kolakowski Copy Share Image
All systems of morality are fine. The gospel alone has exhibited a complete assemblage of the principles of morality, divested of all… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Embedded in the gospel of Jesus Christ there are eternal principles and truths that will last far longer than the principles of… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
The slaving Poor are incapable of any Principles: Gentlemen may be converted to true Principles, by Time and Experience. The middling Rank… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I believe each individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruit of his labor, so far… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There's a stronger and more kind of controversial element of Plotinus' view of matter, which is that he actually identifies it with… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
When listening to the sound material, we metamorphose the inside into an outside. This notion of metamorphosis is one of the principles… — Bernard Parmegiani Copy Share Image
The spread of democracy is a wonderful thing-it is a necessary foundation for peace-and it can happen. But it cannot be advanced… — Jonathan Schell Copy Share Image
My primary object is to defend and advance a principle in which I see the only possible relief from much that enthralls… — Henry George Copy Share Image
...one exploiting sect, one people of leeches, one single devouring parasite closely and intimately bound together not only across national boundaries, but… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Geneticists believe that anthropologists have decided what a race is. Ethnologists assume that their classifications embody principles which genetic science has proved… — Lancelot Hogben Copy Share Image
I once heard a theologian remark that in the Gospels people approached Jesus with a question 183 times whereas he replied with… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Though the principles of the banking trade may appear somewhat abstruse, the practice is capable of being reduced to strict rules. To… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
It takes a man a long time to learn all the lessons of all of his mistakes. They say there are two… — Edwin Lefevre Copy Share Image