Abandonment Quote by Peter Green

As a leader... I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my…

— Nelson Mandela

I've made movies that were adaptations and I've been kind of frustrated by the process because, you know that old axiom, 'It's never as…

— Amber Heard

It should be remembered, as an axiom of eternal truth in politics, that whatever power in any government is independent, is absolute also.

— Thomas Jefferson

It was an axiom of "containment" that no part of the known world could be considered neutral. "Neutralism" was among the Cold Warriors' gravest…

— Christopher Hitchens

We must start with scientific fundamentals, and that means with the data of experiments and not with assumed axioms predicated only upon the misleading…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so…

— Francis Bacon

Geometry, like arithmetic, requires for its logical development only a small number of simple, fundamental principles. These fundamental principles are called the axioms of…

— David Hilbert

“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

But if men would give heed to the nature of substance they would doubt less concerning the Proposition that Existence appertains to the nature…

— Baruch Spinoza

For an act may be wrong judged purely by itself, but when the motive that prompted the act is understood, it is construed differently.…

— Elizabeth Keckley

Based on the considerations of history, ancient history, and international axioms, the logic of following up a citizen with his shadow for the purpose…

— Saddam Hussein

“An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana