Foundations Quotes

323 quotes by 277 authors

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations… — Saint Augustine
We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law. — Mahmoud Abbas
A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back… — Sai Baba
I think it's really terrifying that a country based on the foundations and ideals of God, is now systematically removing God from everything. Everything! — Stephen Baldwin
We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself. — Jean Baudrillard
Continents may break up, continents may emerge, but the human race is immortal in its origin and in its growth, and there is nothing to… — Annie Besant
Nothing but an imperious intellectual and moral necessity can drive into doubt a religious mind, for it is as though an earthquake shook the foundations… — Annie Besant
I've always been on the side of science that tries to help man. I play an active part with the foundations I'm involved in. Science… — Andrea Bocelli
I believe that a newspaper is a great civic asset and that ownership is best in the hands of foundations or wealthy families that want… — Eli Broad
Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot… — George W. Bush
We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them. — C. West Churchman
The old foundations of success are gone ... The world's wealthiest man, Bill Gates, owns nothing tangible: no land, no gold or oil, no factories… — Lester Thurow
The discrepancy between American ideals and American practice - between our aims and what we actually do - creates a moral dry rot which eats… — Helen Gahagan Douglas
Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality. — Henry David Thoreau
Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that… — James A. Baldwin
Not to have an adequate air force in the present state of the world is to compromise the foundations of national freedom and independence. — Winston Churchill
The foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience of everyday life. — Alfred North Whitehead
The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
May it be my privilege to have the happiness of establishing the commonwealth on a firm and stable basis and thus enjoy the reward which… — Augustus
Deep is the sea, and deep is hell, but pride mineth deeper; it is coiled as a poisonous worm about the foundations of the soul. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

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