Cardinal Quotes

122 quotes by 110 authors

In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use… — David Attenborough
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return. — Wystan Hugh Auden
The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go. — Lord Byron
Every time I see a cardinal, I know my grandmother is with me. This regal, red bird was Grandma's favorite. — Kris Carr
The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God. — Andrew Dickson White
There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.There are… — Sun Tzu
I believe that good defense embodies seven cardinal principle: reduce the number of your opponent's shots; force your opponent into low percentage shots; control everything… — Adolph Rupp
The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The Christian faith, simply stated, reminds us that our fundamental problem is not moral; rather, our fundamental problem is spiritual. It is not just that… — Ravi Zacharias
Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound… — Charles Dickens
The experimental investigation by which Ampere established the law of the mechanical action between electric currents is one of the most brilliant achievements in science.… — James Clerk Maxwell
We fought a military war; our opponents fought a political one. We sought physical attrition; our opponents aimed for our psychological exhaustion. In the process… — Henry A. Kissinger
I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing-to be clear. I have given up all thought of… — Isaac Asimov
It is a cardinal sin to bore the reader. — Larry Niven
During a frustrating argument with a Roman Catholic cardinal, Napoleon Bonaparte supposedly burst out: Your eminence, are you not aware that I have the power… — Ross Douthat
The first thing I would like to tell you about death is that there is no bigger lie than death. And yet, death appears to… — Rajneesh
Funny, but after trading for more than 15 years, I still am capable of forgetting a cardinal rule: The paper you own, in the end,… — Jim Cramer
When we come to the moral principles on which the government is to be administered, we come to what is proper for all conditions of… — Thomas Jefferson
Mating Strategy is influenced by the cardinal fact that women have more at stake in sexual activity than men, because of the limited age span… — E. O. Wilson
Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses. — John Weitz

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