The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I am not one of these people that believes that Russia is doomed, or somehow, you know, inevitably disposed to act according… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
I'm no respecter of tradition and I have no time for the Manchester Uniteds and Arsenals of this world. There's nothing to… — Simon Jordan Copy Share Image
As an American writer, the literary tradition that I draw on the most is the Anglo-American one, and when you are writing… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
Peptic ulcers became more common in the 20th century at the same time that these theories of Freud and other psychoanalysts became… — Barry Marshall Copy Share Image
The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The truly longstanding tradition in the church is that some are called to celibacy. Some feel called to it. But the church… — Gene Robinson Copy Share Image
How are fears born? They are born because of differences in tradition and history; they are born because of differences in emotional,… — Ehud Olmert Copy Share Image
Personally, I have been very impressed by the slow food movement. It is about celebrating the culture of food, of sharing the… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
Through our own creative experience we came to know that the real tradition in art is not housed only in museums and… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in photographing traditions and customs - especially in America. The prom is an American tradition, a rite of… — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
The very essence of the Sufi spiritual tradition requires you to purify your heart, to liberate yourself from your ego and to… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“Our second danger is to associate tradition with the immovable; to think of it as something hostile to all change; to aim… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
It has long been a tradition among novel writers that a book must end by everybody getting just what they wanted, or… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
It is a Constitution that morphs while you look at it like Plasticman… That is contrary to our whole tradition, to in… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Tradition is only democracy extended through time; it may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
For members of a traditional society where many traditions have been discredited, an interest in modernity can result in a restless sophistication.… — George W. S. Trow Copy Share Image
Christmas is a glorious time of the year, simple in origin, deep in meaning, beautiful in tradition and custom, rich in memories,… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
America has its roots in a tradition of risk-taking pioneers. In more conservative Europe, if you fail in business or actually end… — Stelios Haji-Ioannou Copy Share Image
No more verbally incomprehensible no more devoid of the vision thing and no more the cautious pragmatist proudly displaying the virtues of… — Bob Dole Copy Share Image
Dave Rocha is a modern player out of the hard-bop tradition, with a beautiful sound and tremendous facility on the horn. You… — Dan Feiszli Copy Share Image
Americans, they have an incredible operatic tradition: the Metropolitan Opera House is - if not the most prestigious - one of the… — Jose Carreras Copy Share Image
I became interested in photography during my first visit to the United States. I was a student at a university in Holland.… — Frans Lanting Copy Share Image
I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
We can best serve the cause of Canadian unity and understanding by living first in and through and then beyond our own… — Vincent Massey Copy Share Image
A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The Dalai Lama, these days, encourages Westerners not to take up Buddhism, partly because he feels that our roots are deep in… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
You run into people who want to write poetry who don't want to read anything in the tradition. That's like wanting to… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
There's an honourable tradition of British actors who've gone to Hollywood playing baddies. Part of that is because we grow up with… — Mark Strong Copy Share Image
In the Sikh tradition there is no prohibition of showing your hair. It's not that hair cannot be seen. It's an identity,… — Jagmeet Singh Copy Share Image
“The advantage of having an artistic tradition is that the younger artist could see an organic link between the real life of… — Kuo Pao Kun Copy Share Image
The use of history is to tell us what we are, for at our birth we are nearly empty vessels and we… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
Spiritual formation in a Christian tradition answers a specific human question: 'What kind of person am I going to be?' It is… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The great divide is not between faiths, but one between intolerant zealots of any tradition and the large numbers of decent, peaceful… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
[Bob] Dylan's many quotations from classic American roots music (that song is from an album aptly titled Love and Theft) join the… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
Truth is new, as well as old. It has new forms; and where you may find a new statement, an earnest statement,… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The American people are beginning to think in new ways about health and illness . . . Bernie Siegel is helping to… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
America glories in its tradition of the self-made individual. Political candidates compete to be a friend to entrepreneurs, and policymakers, imagining the… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those… — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
On a small planet, where minute follows minute, day follows day, year follows year, where tradition marches on with a deafening, orderly… — Mary E. Pearson Copy Share Image