The love of action is a principle of a much stronger and more doubtful nature. It often leads to anger, to ambition,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
While the proximate ground of discrimination may be of another kind, still the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
Just like zillions of children, album covers educated and informed me, and certainly did I later transpose organically, rather than by intent,… — Hedi Slimane Copy Share Image
Republicans should simply focus on first principles and give the American people what they want - an honest party dedicated to common… — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
The ability to stand by one's principles, to live with integrity and faith according to one's belief-that is what matters, that is… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
I think the guiding principle for me is working with people, because I don't know how long it's going to last, I… — Tony Scott Copy Share Image
The Principle of Uncertainty fixed once for all the realisation that all knowledge is limited. It is an irony of history that… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Plain experience and common sense inform us that no abstract Person can have made us as we are without also wishing to… — Paul F. M. Zahl Copy Share Image
The principle of Creative Limitations calls for freedom within a circle of obstacles and restricted boundaries. Talent is like a muscle: without… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
The trouble with selfish motives is that they harden into principles, and you end up sending your kids to war for them. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
If you are an adult, you are responsible for your life and well-being. No one owes you the fulfillment of your needs… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Our true dignity consists — in thought. Thence we must derive our elevation, not from space or duration. Let us endeavor then… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Nothing will make me change my principles. Even with the knife at my neck I shall still declare, up to this day,… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there… — Chris Patten Copy Share Image
Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has on several occasions talked about transparency as an absolute principle. I don't personally believe that. — Bill Keller Copy Share Image
Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
The single observation I would offer for your consideration is that some things are beyond your control. You can lose your health… — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
That young man seeks opportunities to test his principles as readily as a drunk picks fights in a bar. — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
If biologists so often forget the most universal of all biologic principles [variation], it is not surprising that men and women in… — Alfred Kinsey Copy Share Image
The acceptance of vertical differentiation with the built-in principle of self-determination must apply on as many levels as possible. — P. W. Botha Copy Share Image
We know at lot more now than the 'last time around the 1960s and 1970s - about how to work for smart… — David Perkins Copy Share Image
The idea of duty, that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self, is to the moral… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The synergetic integral of the totality of all principles is God, whose sum-total behavior in pure principle is beyond our comprehension and… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Aikido chagnes constantly. What do not change are the principles. — Christian Tissier Copy Share Image
In principle, if you understood the mechanisms of keeping things repaired, you could keep things going indefinitely. — Cynthia Kenyon Copy Share Image
We cannot safely assume that other people's minds work on the same principles as our own. All too often, others with whom… — Isabel Briggs Myers Copy Share Image
Sometimes that irrational commitment to principle is what society needs to survive. Whenever you talk about radicalism, whenever you talk about activism,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Respect for people who employ you, respect for people you work with, respect for the job you're doing is enormous for me.… — Tony Pulis Copy Share Image
The policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body) may be… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The principle that light can be in two places at the same time is absolutely extraordinary. — Alan Davies Copy Share Image
We will not try to replace our founding principles, we will reapply our founding principles. — Paul Ryan 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
India is a civilization where the principle and philosophy of sacrifice is ingrained as part of our upbringing. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
When you teach, you learn." "And I really don't go for religions of any kind. ...I reject them all....There were principles I… — Helen Suzman Copy Share Image
Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your emancipation. You have read yourself into a… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image