Canon Quotes

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A love song must respect the canons of music beauty, entering the fibers of those who are listening. It must make them dream and pleasantly… — Andrea Bocelli
I have been committed to carrying out my duties... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable rules of ethics and canons… — Samuel Alito
I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the pope and his… — Abraham Lincoln
His best-known piece is probably his "Canon in D." He also has 'Hexachordium Apollonis', which is also quite famous. — Johann Pachelbel
Serious or trivial, his daily behavior has instituted a canon which millions observe this day with conscious memory. No one regarded by any section of… — David George Hogarth
It struck me recently, that one should really consider the sequence of a protein molecule about to fold into a precise geometric form as a… — Christian B. Anfinsen
A bifurcation of loyalties that requires religious to put canon law above civil law and moral law puts us in a situation where the keepers… — Joan D. Chittister
That beautiful sister of mine was an overwhelming and volatile mixture. One had the feeling that she'd been shot from a canon and showered her… — Joan Bennett
As both a local resident and a parent with a CF-afflicted child, I'm thankful for companies like Canon, Chase and Outback who believe that giving… — Boomer Esiason
Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One. — Roger Mahony
So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people do not merely passively assent, but actively cooperate.… — Charles Hodge
English is, from my point of view as an Americanist, an ethnicity. And English literature should be studied in Comparative Literature. And American literature should… — Paula Gunn Allen
Take any country that has laws against hate crimes, inspiring hatred and genocide and so on. The first thing they would do is ban the… — Noam Chomsky
One thing must be emphatically stated. The New Testament books did not become authoritative for the Church because they were formally included in a canonical… — F. F. Bruce
I am imbued with the notion that a Muse is necessarily a dead woman, inaccessible or absent; that a poetic structure - like the canon,… — Michel Leiris
After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon… — Abbe Pierre
The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for… — Brian Ferneyhough
One canon reduced to writing by God himself, two testaments, three creeds, four general councils, five centuries, and the series of Fathers in that period… — Lancelot Andrewes
The Gospel is not a mere message of deliverance, but a canon of conduct; it is not a theology to be accepted, but it is… — Alexander MacLaren
Before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my brother against our… — Leon Uris

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