The novel tradition is the closest thing I have to a religion, and being a part of that tradition means a lot… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Each country has its own particular features, its own traditions that find their reflection today and will find it in future. There… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Hasidism has a tradition that one of man's purposes is to assist God in the work of redemption by "hallowing" the things… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
God is not a Christian, God is not a Jew, or a Muslim, or a Hindu, or a Buddhist. All of those… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
The palpable sense of mystery in the desert air breeds fables, chiefly of lost treasure. ... It is a question whether it… — Mary Hunter Austin Copy Share Image
I've been on a team that won the world championship of barbecue. But barbecue's interesting, because it's one of these cult foods… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
At home and abroad, military men and women are showing purpose and dedication in defending American ideas. They are performing in our… — Melvin Laird Copy Share Image
Fear is not a motivating factor. You might be able to get a little bit more out of someone in the short… — Mindy Grossman Copy Share Image
This is going to sound really corny, but it's the way I feel: Musicians have been around for a really long time.… — Will Sheff Copy Share Image
That became my aesthetic - a very Chekhovian, American realist aesthetic in the tradition of Raymond Carver, Richard Ford, and Tobias Wolff.… — Jess Row Copy Share Image
I don't care how inventive you are; once you introduce strings into the ensemble for a horror film, you're entering into a… — Christopher Young Copy Share Image
I've never been impressed with bureaucratic tradition. I don't like it when the parties come to me and say, 'This is the… — Jed S. Rakoff Copy Share Image
We were born in a Jewish world, as part of a Jewish faith tradition. We had to translate ourselves into the neo-Platonic… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
It might be crazy to expect a high government official to speak the truth. It might be crazy to believe that government… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
The system of fathers of the world church, the clergy system of the state church, and the pastoral system of the independent… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
There is a sinister anachronistic interpretation of the aesthetic state as some kind of totalitarian regime that puts aesthetic over moral standards;… — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
Autobiography is awfully seductive; it's wonderful. Once I got into it, I realized I was following a tradition established by Frederick Douglass… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
So in this case, Kalamas, don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
By patience and determination, rather than by a harsh upsetting of tradition, we move toward our national aspirations… This is the way… — Newton B. Drury Copy Share Image
It is not without trepidation that I have appropriated the codes of the Sublime and the Picturesque in my work. After all,… — John Pfahl Copy Share Image
The truths of the Judaic-Christian tradition, are infinitely precious, not only, as I believe, because they are true, but also because they… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Language is in the way. Music's in the way. Songs are in the way. Stuff's in the way. That's just our state… — Crowder Copy Share Image
The real goal of a spiritual tradition should not be ascent, but openness, vulnerability, and this does not require great experiences but,… — Morris Berman Copy Share Image
The strengths landscape architecture draws from its garden design heritage include: the Vitruvian design tradition of balancing utility, firmness and beauty; use… — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
The place where I think social media fails is in showing the knowledge, the tradition of stitching the clothing, of cutting the… — Giuseppe Zanotti Copy Share Image
Over the years, the U.S. economy has shown a remarkable ability to absorb shocks of all kinds, to recover, and to continue… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
If our supreme value is the development of the Western tradition - of a man for whom the highest thing in life… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
When I teach a new group of students, I introduce some yoga philosophy, but I don't overload them with information. Just enough… — James Fox Copy Share Image
In fact I don't think of literature, or music, or any art form as having a nationality. Where you're born is simply… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
There are a range of women not represented in the Western fairy tale tradition. Husband-beaters are particularly interesting, as well as male… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
Whether surrounded with error or truth, the web woven around them in childhood's days lasts, and seldom wears threadbare...The traditions of my… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
“The would-be students wish to transcend books. But, ask yourselves: if someone says that books do not contain wisdom, and yet he… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
I feel that at this point in our country's history, it is important that we not reverse marriage equality, that we not… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
All that we make and do is shaped by the communities and traditions that contain us, not to mention by money, power,… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
If there be a mind that, not perceiving in the narratives we have compared the fingermarks of tradition, and hence the legendary… — David Friedrich Strauss Copy Share Image
Europe is so much the home of Horror, with its myths of vampires, werewolves, witchcraft and the undead, yet it's like those… — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
The most important fact about American liberty is that it has never been a single idea, but a set of different and… — David Hackett Fischer Copy Share Image
Scientology is the science of knowing how to know answers. It is a wisdom in the tradition of ten thousand years of… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Phil Cousineau has created a fine companion book to accompany the important film he and Gary Rhine have made in defense of… — Peter Coyote Copy Share Image