I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The American formal position has been that we oppose violence by governments against their people. That principle should not be abandoned. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Our forefathers got it; they got it, man. They took godly principles and they put them into action, and they developed our… — Luke Scott Copy Share Image
What we need is new leadership that takes conservative principles and applies them so that people can rise up. — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
Just as predatory animals follow a similar general design and behave in similar ways, so organizations, especially those in competition with one… — Robert Shea Copy Share Image
So use all that is called fortune. Most men gamble with her, and gain all and lose all, as her wheel rolls...… — Pat Tillman Copy Share Image
The truth of good economic doctoring is to know the general principles, and to really know the specifics. To understand the context,… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
When I was eleven or twelve years old, I became for a while fixated on the question whether there could be two… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
Ancient traditions have long associated holy wells and springs as very special places of the Goddess or anima mundi: symbolic of the… — Christopher McDowell Copy Share Image
It is a grand thing to see a man thoroughly possessed with one master-passion. Such a man is sure to be strong,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was… — Alex Kapranos Copy Share Image
Self-love is almost always the ruling principle of our friendships. It makes us avoid all our obligations in unprofitable situations, and even… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
As mineralogy constitutes a part of chemistry, it is clear that this arrangement [of minerals] must derive its principles from chemistry. The… — Jons Jacob Berzelius Copy Share Image
The constant exercise of our faith by lofty thinking, prayer, devotion, and acts of righteousness is just as essential to spiritual health… — O. Leslie Stone Copy Share Image
Next, to make them expert in the usefullest points of grammar; and withal to season them and win them early to the… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form. — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle. I go for recognition of human rights, without distinction of sect, party, sex,… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
In fundamental theory socialism and democracy are almost if not quite one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The English follow the principle that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. They keep up their lies,… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
Humility is the mother of all virtues. Humility says we are not in control, principles are in control, therefore we submit ourselves… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which… — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
From the Balkans to Africa, from Asia to the Middle East, we have witnessed the weakening or absence of effective governance leading… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
I love the term "everything is copy," attributed to Nora Ephron, which was my guiding principle as I wrote. — Andy Cohen Copy Share Image
