Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocating them… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Those who would practice magic must be scrupulously honest in their personal lives. In one sense, magic works on the principle that… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
In this same tradition, beauty is inextricably bound up with the principles of order and harmony believed to underlie the cosmos. Artists… — John Walford Copy Share Image
Only common mortals like the Somervilles have good old rotten hates, dear,' said her mother. 'Sir Graham manages to love everybody and… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
Those who assume hypotheses as first principles of their speculations.....may indeed form an ingenious romance, but a romance it will still be. — Roger Cotes Copy Share Image
If you are animated by right principles, and are fully awakened to the true dignity of life, the subject of amusements may… — Thornton T. Munger Copy Share Image
The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the… — Norman Bethune Copy Share Image
Reason as an organ for perceiving the true nature of reality and determining the guiding principles of our lives has come to… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Those who deny the first principle should be flogged or burned until they admit that it is not the same thing to… — Avicenna Copy Share Image
The people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation and a sure principle of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Architecture is not about designing somehting from a free, fanciful idea. It is about discovering and establishing one's own principle, some kind… — Shigeru Ban Copy Share Image
I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty… — Roger Nash Baldwin Copy Share Image
Free speech is one of our fundamental principles and it's pretty hard to speak freely when people are yelling at you when… — Jack Layton Copy Share Image
The problem of the negro is so criminal that many individuals and organizations are going to have to sacrifice what they call… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Sound principles and eternal truths need to be frequently repeated so that we do not forget their application nor become dissuaded by… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The Principle of Power gives us just what we ask of it; if we only undertake little things, it only gives us… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
Predictions of a disappearing political center are a warning of a bleak future that we can avoid only by adhering to our… — Susan Collins Copy Share Image
In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I have added these principles to the law: get the Knights into action before both Bishops are developed — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
Don't follow the mind. Don't follow the body. Follow the Conscience. That is the main principle of this text. So we should… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
