Base Quotes

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Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them. — William Shakespeare
The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and… — Mark Twain
The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. And a man… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more and more every… — John Ruskin
A miscalculation is not negligence, nor prudence a crime. I am a scientist. I base my action or inaction upon probability and evidence. There is… — Rick Yancey
I would fain coin wisdom,â€”mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and… — Joseph Joubert
A king is he who has laid fear aside and the base longings of an evil heart; whom ambition unrestrained and the fickle favor of… — Seneca the Younger
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do. — Ben Jonson
It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be… — Sophocles
There is no defense against a base on balls. — Joe Garagiola
Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color?… — Joe Garagiola
The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War II] who stood… — Simone Weil
Gain not base gains; base gains are the same as losses. — Hesiod
One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business;… — Charlotte Bronte
I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world. — Felix Baumgartner
I base jumped off the Jesus statue in Rio de Janeiro. — Felix Baumgartner
In some cases, managers and employees have secured pensions beyond their original base salary. It is wrong, the people doing it know it's wrong, and… — Jerry Brown
Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create… — Navid Negahban
If we base our belief systems on the humble assumption that the complexities of the world are ontologically beyond our understanding, then maybe our belief… — Moby
Sirs, you are doubtlessly intelligent people, however, I have a problem understanding how you found a place in prophecy for those I know to be… — Dave Hunt

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