Principles Quotes · Page 19

Fasting is the first principle of medicine.

— Rumi

The principles of comedy are the principles of comedy. I can hear funny.

— Stephan Pastis

“Sir, I had rather be right than to be President.”

— Henry Clay

The Tao principle is what happens of itself.

— Laozi

There can be no compromise on moral principles.

— Ayn Rand

“Being rich or famous does not equate an effective life”

— Sunday Adelaja

A deaf church is a dead church: that is an unalterable principle.

— John Stott

Never compromise your principles maintain their cover at all times.

— The Covert Comic

“The fact that I can get away with something is the very reason why I shouldn’t do it.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

One of the major principles is that Soviet literature must be inseverably linked with the policy of the Communist party

— Nikita Khrushchev

The trouble with selfish motives is that they harden into principles, and you end up sending your kids to war for them.

— Robert Breault

We are a nation built on principles of freedom, and high on the list of freedoms is freedom of religious expression.

— Alexander Acosta

If you claim to have a theory that deduces unexpected consequences from nontrivial principles, let's see it.

— Noam Chomsky

The purpose of establishing different houses of legislation is to introduce the influence of different interests or different principles.

— Thomas Jefferson

Y'know, Nature's unpredictable -- that's why we had to tame her. Maybe we went too far, but in principle we made the…

— Jeanette Winterson

The great need to grasp principles had caused me to spend most of my time on fruitless persuits.

— Albert Einstein

Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they…

— John Polkinghorne

I think the best thing that can happen to the Republican Party is that it is identified as a party organized around…

— Marco Rubio

An opponent is entitled to the same regard for his principles as we would expect others to have for ours. Non-violence demands…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I think a lot of people start out full of idealism and fresh ideas. And then a lot of times, being re-elected…

— Matt Salmon

Those who yearn for the end of capitalism should pray for government by men who believe that all positive action is inimical…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of…

— Voltairine de Cleyre

Our religious freedoms are under constant attack from a variety of groups who seek to undermine our constitutional rights and threaten our…

— Scott Pruitt

When the human condition is finally demystified, human insecurity and nervousness will be at a maximum...for this ultimate enlightenment to be allowed,…

— Jeremy Griffith

Before that I had largely thought of selling as just a way of making a living for myself. I had dreaded to…

— Frank Bettger

It has long been my personal view that the separation of practical and theoretical work is artificial and injurious. Much of the…

— Christopher Strachey

I look upon parliamentary government as the noblest government in the world, and certainly one most suited to England. But without the…

— Benjamin Disraeli

Their usual mistaken premise is that they affirm some consensus among people, at least among tame peoples, concerning certain moral principles, and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Nine Principles Never have a wicked heart. Train not by thought, but by practice. Learn a wide variety of arts and skills,…

— Kazumi Tabata

To begin with, the key principle of American indie rock wasn't a circumscribed musical style; it was the punk ethos of DIY,…

— Michael Azerrad

There is no evidence for a god, no coherent definition of a god, no good argument for a god, good positive arguments…

— Dan Barker

Never, I say, had a country so many openings to happiness as this… Her cause was good. Her principles just and liberal.…

— Thomas Paine

“I am a man of principles, and my first principle is flexibility.”

— Everett Dirksen

Principles are sometimes an unaffordable luxury.

— Mary Jo Putney

“Let your neighbor’s needs be your concern”

— Sunday Adelaja

Behavior, n. Conduct, as determined, not by principle, but by breeding.

— Ambrose Bierce

“Your destiny is connected with your calling”

— Sunday Adelaja

Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others.

— Anonymous

“Reality came first, and the principles and logic followed.”

— Haruki Murakami

Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

— Anatole France