The journalistic tradition so exalts novelty and flashy discovery, as reputable and newsworthy, that standard accounts for the public not only miss… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I think diversity of thinking and healing traditions from around the world are good for us. The movement itself has evolved enormously… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered… — Robert Menzies Copy Share Image
Powell belongs, in fact to the first generation of American poets who may have grown up without even a vestigial connection to… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
I have never heard of a tradition among Jews that encourages us to support each others' differences. Quite the contrary. What I've… — Irena Klepfisz Copy Share Image
Because it's not only that a child is inseparable from the family in which he lives, but that the lives of families… — Bernice Weissbourd Copy Share Image
The United States-Israeli relationship is based on the broadest conception of American national interest in which our two nations are bound forever… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. With a simple oath, we affirm old traditions… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The Bible is interpreted by the Talmud. Except, in Rabbinic tradition, a Talmudic law has the weight of the Biblical law. Sometimes… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The Goons were always one of our favourites; we always felt we were in that tradition - Goons, Monty Python, Peter Cook,… — Noel Fielding Copy Share Image
I enjoy writing songs that could have been written before [my time]. When I feel like I'm tapping into a deep vein… — Ketch Secor Copy Share Image
Ho Kyuns poetry is in the tradition of his master, the incomparable Tu Fu, while remaining fully his own. Writing nine centuries… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
To AMC's credit, I think what they saw was the show doesn't exist in the marketplace. They knew that there was a… — Alfred Gough Copy Share Image
With respect to those points, on which the declaration of Scripture is positive and decisive, as, for instance, in asserting the low… — William Buckland Copy Share Image
The problem is that those of us who were born into Islam and who don't want to live according to scripture -… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Traditions are the inventions of people who mean to routinely put love and comfort and meaning into their lives and in the… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I like the sensitive look of traditional French films and the fact that the children are often portrayed as rebels, but I… — Celine Sciamma Copy Share Image
When I set out to write crime fiction, I didn't think to myself, 'I'm going to model myself on Agatha Christie' or… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
For many years, our Messianic Jewish brothers and sisters have paid a great price. Other Jews have rejected them, and the Christian… — Bill McCartney Copy Share Image
The Western front is the important one in this war - the intersection between Islam and a liberal democratic tradition so mired… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone - and have… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
There is a tradition of "modernist" theology arising out of post-Kantian thought - Fichte was the real father of it, but Schleiermacher… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
We focus on bringing back Indigenous languages, ceremonies, cultures, traditions - all that was lost over the past 150 years. This is… — Perry Bellegarde Copy Share Image
I deny that art can be taught, or, in other words, maintain that art is completely individual, and that the talent of… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
We have this tradition of the Second Amendment and people's rights to self-defense and a certain suspicion that the government can't be… — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
My whole purpose of taking on miniature painting was to break the tradition, to experiment with it, to find new ways of… — Shahzia Sikander Copy Share Image
Disney movies have had a tradition of excellent music since the beginning. Some of my favorites are 'Fantasia,' 'Dumbo,' 'The Lion King'… — James Newton Howard Copy Share Image
As a performing group, the Beatles began by playing old rock favorites, for dancing, to tough audiences in Liverpool and Hamburg. When… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
I believe in the American tradition of separation of church and state which is expressed in the First Amendment to the Constitution.… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
“Nothing about our world is set in stone—we have made it up. Whether it is a tradition that has been passed on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The point for me is people who are atheists or are coming from different religious traditions; they are coming from their own… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
You can be slum-born and slum-bred and still achieve something worth while; but it is a stupid inverted snobbishness to be proud… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning and intellectual pursuits than Islam. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We falter from childhood amidst shames and fears, we move in closed spaces where stale tradition enervates, we grow hysterical over success… — Ronald Steel Copy Share Image
When I do older folk songs, I'm not doing them because they're old. I have no interest in reviving or continuing a… — Sam Amidon Copy Share Image
The Macedonian people and their kings were of Greek stock, as their traditions and the scanty remains of their language combine to… — J. B. Bury Copy Share Image