Base Quotes

1089 quotes by 911 authors

He said that love was an emotion contra natura that condemned two strangers to a base and unhealthy dependence, and the more intense it was,… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
All this, all of this love we're talking about, it would just be a memory. Maybe not even a memory. Am I wrong? Am I… — Raymond Carver
If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon… — Leonardo da Vinci
We are slaves, all of us...Some are slaves to fear. Others are slaves to reasonâ€”or base desire. It is our lot to be slaves...and the… — Rick Yancey
If you stepped out of the shower and saw a leprechaun standing at the base of your toilet, would you scream, or would you innately… — David Sedaris
Every fiction has its base in fact. — Gayle Forman
It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact that they exist at all, their… — Arundhati Roy
All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality. — Thomas Pynchon
To do an evil action is base; to do a good action without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of a… — Plutarch
Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed. — William Shakespeare
The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human… — Livy
The lover is moved by the beloved object as the senses are by sensual objects; and they unite and become one and the same thing.… — Leonardo da Vinci
If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise paid over the… — Mark Twain
To suggest that war can prevent war is a base play on words and a despicable form of warmongering. The objective of any who sincerely… — Ralph Bunche
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since… — Albert Einstein
By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon, and it will be American. — Newt Gingrich
These, Gentlemen, are the opinions upon which I base my facts. — Winston Churchill
The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development. — Confucius
Modern equalitarian societies whether democratic or authoritarian in their political forms, always base themselves on the claim that they are making life happier. Happiness thus… — Robert Warshow
The real survivors are the Earth inhabitants that have lived millions of years without consuming their ecological capital, the base from which all abundance flows. — Janine Benyus

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