Cardinal Quotes
122 quotes by 110 authors
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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
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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
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The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.
— Lord Byron
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Every time I see a cardinal, I know my grandmother is with me. This regal, red bird was Grandma's favorite.
— Kris Carr
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The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God.
— Andrew Dickson White
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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It is a cardinal sin to bore the reader.
— Larry Niven
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses.
— John Weitz
Who Wrote These Cardinal Quotes
110 authors contributed a total of 122 Cardinal Quotes, led by these top contributors: