Quotes of: Basis Keyword

We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.

William Howard Taft

Local prosecutors work alongside local police officers on a regular basis and are therefore conflicted when it comes to prosecuting those same officers. They are under extreme pressure from local police unions and from rank-and-file cops.

Al Sharpton

There are two kinds of friendship: the beneficial friendship and the erroneous friendship. The erroneous friendship balances on the principle of "the closer we are, the more okay it is for me to say anything I want to you and for me to treat you any ...

C. JoyBell C.

All questions have a basis in love. All answers lead to LOVE. If you can color everything in love, you have all the colors in the world.

Create and Move Forward in Life

The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking.

Eric

There is no greater treasure than a husband who models godliness before his wife and children on a daily basis.

A Husband After God's Own Heart

We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without external borrowing from natural phenomena, without transforming those phenomena, in other words: not by abstraction.

Max Bill

A temporary coalition of anger against the old regime was no basis for a stable government.

1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War

Those who stand for different causes during different generations often experience the same oppositions and the same difficulties as those of the previous and the next generations. That is the basis of history repeating itself.

Killosophy

The basis of all true cosmic horror is violation of the order of nature, and the profoundest violations are always the least concrete and describable.

Selected Letters III: 1929-1931

Like many another materialist, that is, he lied cleverly on the basis of insufficient knowledge, because the knowledge supplied seemed to his own particular intelligence inadmissible. ("The Wendigo")

Monster Mix

Humans elect leaders on the basis of the promises they make. We [vampires] try to elect ours based solely on the strength of their character.

Palace of the Damned

The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Gay male and lesbian culture is obsessed with purity of identity as the only basis for figuring out who you can trust or dance with. -Pat Califia

PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality

You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.

The Quotable Gordimer; or, The Wit and Wisdom of Nadine Gordimer

Neighbours are given to us on the same basis as we are given our families. There is no element of choice involved - none at all.

The World According to Bertie

I loved high school. I had the best high school experience of all time. I know that's not a common feeling, but it's the best. You're like, you know, 14 and expressing yourself on a daily basis creatively? That's pretty incredible.

Melonie Diaz

In today's social business marketplace Facebook is one of the best places for nonprofits to be discovered and connect with a larger audience on the basis of shared values. So to get started, a non-profit should launch a Facebook page and invite your ...

Simon Mainwaring

Your unwillingness to change to my view point is purely on the justifiable basis that you have your own strongly held beliefs about important life issues.

Making Success Deliberate

The unfairness of judging others comes in that we judge them on the basis of our own values and beliefs, yet we can never exactly stand on common ground.

Making Success Deliberate

On a daily basis, you're working with Steve Carell; you're not working with Ricky Gervais. You try a line, and you can't be writing for David Brent. You have to be writing for Michael Scott because Steve is Michael Scott.

Greg Daniels