Bases Quotes · Page 27

It is illegal to discriminate on the basis of pregnancy or gender. It is not illegal to talk about it.

— Sheryl Sandberg

A mind wishing to benefit other people and other sentient beings is the very basis of peace and happiness.

— Dalai Lama

The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

— Oscar Wilde

I want to walk the bases - I want to do all the actor-y stuff.

— John Cho

We have no basis to conclude she [Hillary Clinton] lied to the FBI.

— James Comey

There is no substitute for the riches gained on a lifetime basis by the young American who studies or works abroad.

— Letitia Baldrige

Skill in concentrating and steadying the mind is the basis for all types of meditation.

— Jack Kornfield

We will develop love, we will practice it, we will make it both a way and a basis...

— Gautama Buddha

My dad was also a teacher until he was 34. I think there is a basis in reality. But I'd only done…

— Domhnall Gleeson

As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only…

— Emily Greene Balch

It was reported today that U.S. military bases will not show 'Brokeback Mountain.' However, during interrogations, U.S. troops will continue to show…

— Conan O'Brien

While the climate crisis gathers front-page attention on a regular basis, people - even those who profess great environmental consciousness - continue…

— Daniel Pauly

The gospel proceeds on the basis of universal depravity; the gospel assimilates all varieties of human nature into one common experience of…

— William Morley Punshon

Critics of Fox News have pointed out that Fox News does partisan propaganda, and there's ample evidence on a daily basis.

— David Shuster

A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you…

— Charlie Trotter

There may be a basis in the case of some individuals, as perhaps when a male prostitute uses a condom, where this…

— Pope Benedict XVI

We can think of solutions in various theoretical ways, but it's not so on the ground. If they don't have a reference…

— Tariq Ramadan

I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more…

— Charles R. Swindoll

I expect to see the State, which is in a position to calculate the marginal efficiency of capital-goods on long views and…

— John Maynard Keynes

One of my favorite things that Yahoo does on a regular basis is this story: "Wealthiest Rap Artists." That's an example of…

— DJ Shadow

Anarchism means all sort of things to different people but the traditional anarchists' movements assumed that there'd be a highly organized society,…

— Noam Chomsky

There will never be a replacement for that ongoing physical contact. But I don't think blogging is meant to replace the face-to-face…

— Indra Nooyi

I think I did have a reputation for being grumpy. I don't think I'm grumpy. I have opinions. I have an independent…

— Harrison Ford

Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed…

— Alain Badiou

The new advocates of ID [Intelligent Design] ask that their ideas be judged by scientific, not religious, criteria. OK, let's see how…

— Chet Raymo

I realized that most white Americans knew very little about our history and our struggle, and were having difficulty understanding the basis…

— Harry Belafonte

I think we can end the divisions within the United States. What I think is quite clear is that we can work…

— Robert Kennedy

In this game, you have to think about making plays, you can't worry about making mistakes. At times, a guy will get…

— Mike Scioscia

Insularity is the foundation of ethnocentrism and intolerance; when you only know of those like yourself, it is easy to imagine that…

— David Eller

The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

Consider the Koran... this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

People spend thousands of dollars on stereos. Sometimes tens of thousands. There is a specialist industry right here in the States which…

— Lee Child

I want my arguments to be good arguments on the basis of what I actually have to say.

— Judith Butler

There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.

— John Maynard Keynes

The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others.

— Anais Nin

The idea that consciousness is the ground of being is the basis of all spiritual traditions.

— Amit Goswami

The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous...

— Abraham Lincoln

Stubborn opposition to proposals often has no other basis than the complaining question, 'Why wasn't I consulted?'

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The nature of our mind may be displayed in many ways, but Ashe is the fundamental basis.

— Sakyong Mipham

As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.

— Cass Sunstein