If you stand with the Customs and Border Protection officers who staff the passport booths at Dulles airport near the nation's capital,… — David K. Shipler Copy Share Image
Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
But to my mind, though I am native here, And to the manner born, it is a custom, More honored in the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I think it is important also to recognize that our Customs border protection officers who secure our borders and conduct inspections of… — Kendrick Meek Copy Share Image
Christmas is a glorious time of the year, simple in origin, deep in meaning, beautiful in tradition and custom, rich in memories,… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Bad roads and indifferent inns, ... the continual converse one is obliged to have with the vilest part of mankind - innkeepers,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
I knew that I would speak in the language of the vanquished No more durable than old customs, family rituals, Christmas tinsel,… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
There is a fine line in the Third World between half a dozen customs officials waiting for you to offer them a… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
... Jimmy Page bought a Les Paul because he liked mine, but it was stolen, so he bought a Standard everybody raved… — Albert Lee Copy Share Image
What is religion? I want to remove the chaff from the grain. For me it is not what it is for the… — Asghar Ali Engineer Copy Share Image
The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature. We have been given a miraculous… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Women have a hard time of it in this world. They are oppressed by man-made laws, man-made social customs, masculine egoism, the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Although Customs and Border Protection analyzes cargo and other information to target specific shipments for closer inspection, it still physically inspects only… — Mike Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
In my home office, I built a custom sit-stand desk to which I connected a big, kidney shaped glass top which I… — William Gurstelle Copy Share Image
Society will be obeyed; if you refuse obedience, you must take the consequences. Society has only one law, and that is custom.… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
When one begins the transformative process, death and birth are imminent: the death of custom as authority, the birth of the self. — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them - in a word, to… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
The tyrant custom, most grave senators, Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war My thrice-driven bed of down. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The custom of my grandfather's day is still going strong in Latin America. American girls do not seem to understand it. — Desi Arnaz Copy Share Image
Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
These are the sensations and feelings that are gradually blunted by education, staled by custom, rejected in favor of social conformity. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
The despotism of custom is on the wane. We are not content to know that things are; we ask whether they ought… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
It behaves more like a tribe than a democratic institution...responding to custom rather than reason and using its own liturgy and language… — Chris Patten Copy Share Image
Society having ordained certain customs, men are bound to obey the law of society, and conform to its harmless orders. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
I don't have one specific tattooing specialty. I enjoy doing full-color new school, portraits, neo-traditional, realistic, black and gray, ultra detailed art,… — William Webb Copy Share Image
... no community where more than one-half of the adults are disfranchised and otherwise incapacitated by law and custom, can be free… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
Some of the strongest resistance to necessary change is the result of what Jim O'Toole has so aptly characterized as "the ideology… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
America has a way of inventing tradition each morning and erasing the past by nightfall, and thehold of ancient custom is endangered… — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Travelers learn not just foreign customs and curious cuisines and unfamiliar beliefs and novel forms of government. They learn, if they are… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
RITE, n. A religious or semi-religious ceremony fixed by law, precept or custom, with the essential oil of sincerity carefully squeezed out… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Surely one advantage of traveling is that, while it removes much prejudice against foreigners and their customs, it intensifies tenfold one's appreciation… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
I have heard that M. Guesdon is dictating lessons to his seminarians. This is contrary to the custom of the Company and… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Women's position includes so many pre-Islamic customs that have become an integral part of the Shariat. I am fighting that. Triple talaq… — Asghar Ali Engineer Copy Share Image
Little wonder that we. . .find the old pictures of openness - pictures usually without any blur, and made by what seems… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disenfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes; it suggests, further, a full range of experience…it suggests a spectrum upon which… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
