As it has been finely expressed, "Principle is a passion for truth." And as an earlier and homelier writer hath it, "The… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Freemasonry is an institution founded on eternal reason and truth; whose deep basis is the civilization of mankind, and whose everlasting glory… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Deftly whipping a small tuning fork from his pocket, he struck it smartly against a pillar and held it next to Jamie's… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
In France, religion had been considered the enemy of liberty, but in America, as George Washington expressed it, religion and morality were… — D. James Kennedy Copy Share Image
My capital budget maintains my commitment to the education of children, health of the Chesapeake Bay, and safety of all Maryland citizens.… — Bob Ehrlich Copy Share Image
We must not think, "Well, we have all the truth, we understand the main pillars of our faith, and we may rest… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
The question remains: which brands will commit to creating a private sector pillar of social change, and which will become casualties of… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
I went to live in Barcelona in 1975, when I was twenty. Even before I went there, I knew more about the… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
Even Republicans seem to think that these undocumented Democrats could be made [GOP] voters...and what happens is that two out every three… — Steve King Copy Share Image
It is indeed immensely picturesque. I can fancy sitting all a summer's day watching its shadows shorten and lengthen again, and drawing… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Belief in one god, praying, charity, the five pillars, ethical moral objectives and messages in the Koran, the history of Islam. There… — Mark Durie Copy Share Image
I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I knew what Saint Dane was sensing. I knew why he was confused. he thought I was done. He thought we were… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Only a few years ago did it suddenly dawn on me that my existential fear regarding my nation’s future and my moral… — Ari Shavit Copy Share Image
Mr. Hussein began building Ghazalia in the early 1980s as a home for army officers and other members of his Baath Party.… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Every great loss demands that we choose life again. We need to grieve in order to do this. The pain we have… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Democracy rests upon two pillars: one, the principle that all men are equally entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness;… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
If acorns start growing into theologians, or if women begin turning into pillars of salt, then we may wish to hypothesize about… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
[T]he blossom of benevolence, of charity, is the fairest flower, no matter whether it blooms by the side of a hovel, or… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Any idiot can build bombs. Our Trinity sits not on some desert sand seared into glass at an abandoned, sad pillar of… — Bill Whittle Copy Share Image
[Dan Fried ]is a pillar of the U.S. State Department. He's part of its institutional memory. He has been in the room… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
As a boy holding to a post or a pillar whirls about it with headlong speed without any fear or falling, so… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist. The… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics. — Paracelsus Copy Share Image
In the long term, Israel's security rests on only one pillar: the Palestinians' acceptance of the country. It isn't the atom bomb… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
Vonnegut could not help looking back, despite the danger of being turned metaphorically into a pillar of salt, into am emblem of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When any of the four pillars of government-religion, justice, counsel, and treasure-are mainly shaken or weakened, men had need to pray for… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The people in your life are like the pillars on your porch. Sometimes they hold you up, and sometimes they lean on… — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
Heavy pillars, carved from the rock, bear the roof. Slowly, one's eyes become accustomed to the dim light; then they can make… — Rudolf Otto Copy Share Image
You are Spider-Man!” she exclaimed. Simon glanced down from his perch halfway up the pillar. “That makes you Mary Jane. She has… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
For two are the mystical pillars, that stand at the gate of the shrine, And two are the powers of Nature, the… — Doreen Valiente Copy Share Image
Dating back to Teddy Roosevelt, hunters have been the pillar of conservation in America, doing more than anyone to conserve wildlife and… — Gale Norton Copy Share Image
Several sets of arms would embrace me. But in the end, the only person I truly want to comfort me is Haymitch,… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Being a caretaker is, and never will be, an easy job; in fact, it is that hardest job in the world and… — Jenna Morasca Copy Share Image
Impressed with a conviction that the due administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good Government, I have considered the first… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image