Conservative Quote by Douglas Wilson Download Open image “To say that someone is a conservative does not tell us what he is interested in conserving.” — Douglas Wilson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conservative Doe
Being a conservative can never be about simply an attitude. Being a conservative cannot simply be about how long you're willing to scream, how… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
A conservative is a man who has plenty of money and don't see any reason why he shouldn't always have plenty of money. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It has become more acceptable to describe yourself as a conservative, but not everyone who uses that term about themselves really is truly conservative. — Jesse Helms Copy Share Image
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
A conservative is someone who does not think he is morally superior to his grandfather. — John Howard Copy Share Image
It's almost impossible to make the case that Bush is a conservative. That may be good; that may be bad. — Tucker Carlson Copy Share Image
A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The ground for the necessity of Christian schools lies in this very thing, that no fact can be known unless it be known in its relationship to God. And once this point is clearly seen, the doubt as to the value of teaching arithmetic in Christian schools falls out of the picture. Of course arithmetic must be taught in a… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share
Throughout the country, I see the same design problems and solutions over and over. — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
“You do not create ex nihilo. You rearrange and recombine. You are the same old flour and eggs in search of a new recipe.” — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
“Sensory experience should not be draped on top of the story as sort of a last-minute decoration. Done right, it is woven into the fabric of the story, and as this happens, the reader is woven in, right alongside the description. In giving advice to writers, E. L. Doctorow once said that good writing should communicate more than the mere fact… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share
“When the travesties scattered throughout our modern art museums are set alongside the glories of ancient Greece, the Christian heart should swell with pride.” — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
Immodest and attractive is easy. Modest and repulsive is easy too. But modest and attractive is an art form. — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
“We were in desperate straits. Christ came to “ransom captive Israel” and to “disperse the gloomy clouds of night.” In our insolence, we were… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
“This is why stories like this, with great evils in them, are necessary for children to read. Kids just got here—they are still figuring things out, and stories are one of the central realities that can help them. Chesterton says somewhere that stories about dragons and knights do not teach children to fear dragons. They had dragons under the bed… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share
“Every culture has blasphemy laws. They are not always called that, but no society allows citizens to rail against the reigning deity. In our… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
“We sometimes do not appreciate the magnitude of the problem here. How could the eternal Word of the eternal Father take on limits? How… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Progressive Conservative candidates from Quebec want to exert real power in Ottawa, not simply be content with playing a secondary role. — Kim Campbell Copy Share Image
Play small ball. Get back to basics. I would say that you need to be a conservative, but you need to maintain your independent… — Andrea Tantaros Copy Share Image
I am a conservative type of person, so sometimes when I'm chilling with myself, people always come ask me, 'What's wrong with you? What… — Wayne Wonder Copy Share Image
In the Tea Party era, it is the restless conservative Republican who has become passion's plaything, the toy of impetuous romance, an erotomania only… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
I would say I'm a fiscal conservative and a social liberal, if that contradiction can make sense, because in Bolivia, we have a great… — Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada Copy Share Image
My dad's quite a conservative person, and he brought me up to be very questioning of the commercial world. He looked down on pop… — Marina and the Diamonds Copy Share Image
To all conservative women out there: If you are so sure the embryo needed for stem cell research are precious human life that can't… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
A faithfully kept program of savings and conservative investments can give you more money and a better life than that of your neighbors who… — Jane Bryant Quinn Copy Share Image