Prescribed Quotes

102 quotes by 91 authors

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices. — Theodor Adorno
My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during… — Winston Churchill
Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. It's like... malaria or something. Maybe it won't be… — Adam Ant
A fact bobbed up from my memory, that the ancient Egyptians prescribed walking through a garden as a cure for the mad. It was a… — Paul Fleischman
Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree,… — John Stuart Mill
No religious reading, instruction or exercise, shall be prescribed or practiced [in the elementary schools] inconsistent with the tenets of any religious sect or denomination. — Thomas Jefferson
Unto each one hath been prescribed a preordained measure, as decreed in God's mighty and guarded Tablets. All that which ye potentially possess can, however,… — BahÃ¡'u'llÃ¡h
Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative… — Andre Norton
Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age purports to equip us to live and is prescribed as a universal remedy for everything… — Malcolm Muggeridge
I could not do otherwise without transcending the limits prescribed by the Constitution for the President and without feeling that I might in some degree… — Andrew Jackson
A LAW, by the very meaning of the term, includes supremacy. It is a rule which those to whom it is prescribed are bound to… — Alexander Hamilton
Let me live according to those holy rules which Thou hast this day prescribed in Thy Holy Word...direct me to the true object, Jesus Christ,… — George Washington
Too rarely is the individual teacher so free from the dictation of authoritative supervisor, textbook on methods, prescribed course of study, etc., that he can… — John Dewey
Since the time of the ancient Greeks a democracy has depended on its philosophers and creative artists. It can only flourish by continuous probing, prodding,… — Uta Hagen
They are not rules prescribed by the sovereign to the subject, but agreements between sovereign and sovereign. — Alexander Hamilton
Optimism can be prescribed and applied as a medicine, and is a remedy in proportion to its purity and the wisdom displayed in its use. — Horace Fletcher
On the one hand, then, in the reproductive functions proper-menstruation, defloration, pregnancy and parturition-woman is biologically doomed to suffer. Nature seems to have no hesitation… — Princess Marie Bonaparte
I sincerely pray that all the members of the human family may, in the time prescribed by the Father of us all, find themselves securely… — Thomas Jefferson
There is no lasting happiness outside the prescribed cycle of painful exhaustion and pleasurable regeneration, and whatever throws this cycle out of balance â€“ poverty… — Hannah Arendt
There are many doors to goodness. (Saying) 'glory to God,' 'praise be to God,' 'there is no deity but God,' enjoining good, forbidding evil, removing… — Muhammad

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