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
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
“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 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
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
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
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
What is literary tradition? What is a classic? What is a canonical view of tradition? How are canons of accepted classics formed,and… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I love the best of all the traditions. My discipline is the take-no-prisoners language of good poetry, but a language that actually… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work, and which, again, may restrain his art within the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Those who feel guilty contemplating "betraying" the tradition they love by acknowledging their disapproval of elements within it should reflect on the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Gershwin's melodic gift was phenomenal. His songs contain the essence of New York in the 1920s and have deservedly become classics of… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
We are always giving foreign names to very native things. If there is a thing that reeks of the glorious tradition of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There are insistent calls for autonomy, appeals for a new resource ethic based on the tradition of the commons, demands for the… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
In this constant battle which we call living, we try to set a code of conduct according to the society in which… — Jiddu Krishnamurti 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
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
Well, first of all, I don't want to debate the word conservative, but by my definition, a conservative is someone who wants… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
The best government in the world, the best religion, the best traditions of any people, depend upon the good or evil of… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Now, if King Crimson accepts responsibility for innovating its own tradition, you can't accept responsibility for the audience. And there is an… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
It always depresses me when people moan about how commercial Christmas is. I love everything about it. The tradition of having this… — Richard E. Grant Copy Share Image
