Canada and America are very, very different. It's true that we share a language and many customs. But Americans have a very… — Joseph Boyden Copy Share Image
In the crazy world of touring, if something gets stuck at customs, I can do a show with just my amp! — Kerry King Copy Share Image
The west has decided to channel money and effort into studying other customs and practices, but no one has really given other… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Many man's scruples lie almost wholly about obedience to authority and compliance with indifferent customs, but very seldom about the dangers of… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
It is the custom of Venice to paint on canvas, either because it does not split and is not worm-eaten, or because… — Giorgio Vasari Copy Share Image
The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation. The whole grim apparatus of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Accounting is a big subject and there are huge forces in play. The entire momentum of existing thinking and existing custom is… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Last year, customs officials screened only five percent of the 11 million cargo containers entering the United States. That rate is both… — Allyson Schwartz Copy Share Image
What is Americanization? It manifests itself, in a superficial way, when the immigrant adopts the clothes, the manners and the customs generally… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
It is monstrous that custom should force us to display our faces ostentatiously, however worn and wrinkled and mean they may be,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There are four chief obstacles in grasping truth ... namely, submission to faulty and unworthy authority, influence of custom, popular prejudice, and… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
In the custom of mourning, the fabric of the night had been ripped, revealing a star at each tiny tear. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
If we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I just wish this social institution [religion] wasnt based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I wish I didn't get searched when I come through customs. I wish Christians stop beefin' with Muslims, Wish the poor didn't… — Ed O.G Copy Share Image
We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
In the west, Apollo and Dionysus strive for victory. Apollo makes the boundary lines that are civilization but that lead to convention,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
... Virtue owns a more eternal foe Than Force or Fraud: old Custom, legal Crime, And bloody Faith the foulest birth of Time. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones. — Anatole France Copy Share Image