Canon Quotes
68 quotes by 64 authors
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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
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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
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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
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His best-known piece is probably his "Canon in D." He also has 'Hexachordium Apollonis', which is also quite famous.
— Johann Pachelbel
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One.
— Roger Mahony
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Canon Quotes
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