Quotes of: Principle Keyword

Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. Never would you have wished such beauty away.

Revolution

What separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but the way they hold their knife and fork.

Suite Française

A principle to remember is that saying yes to His directive will always result in advancing the gospel message and a resulting blessing on those to whom God directs it.

The Sifted Generation

Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures tranquility.

Meditations

A basic principle of data processing teaches the folly of trying to maintain independent files in synchonism.

The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.

Molecular Biology of the Gene

Principled hate is a hell of a lot stronger than "Boy, I wish you hadn't mummified me and thrown me into the lake" hate.

Looking for Alaska

When our focus is toward a principle of relatedness and oneness, and away from fragmentation and isolation, health ensues

Space, Time & Medicine

No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them

Sex and Character: An Investigation of Fundamental Principles

That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way.

Sputnik Sweetheart

The great principle of out-of-door relief is, to give the paupers exactly what they don't want; and then they get tired of coming.

Oliver Twist

Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor who have not offended is to give a premium on crime.

Principles of Political Economy

Since evil is nothing positive, there can be no principle of evil. It has no meaning expect in reference to something good.

Philosophy of Science

POLITICS, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Principle of Change #2: Self-awareness is the foundation for change.

Whole New You, A: Six Steps to Ignite Change for Your Best Life

Principle of Change #1: Discontent + Passion Drive Change

Whole New You, A: Six Steps to Ignite Change for Your Best Life

The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man - that is to say, the strongest and cleverest - is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person.

Lafcadio Hearn

Roy Blunt is another white guy in a suit, and I think the public wants change. There's a good old boys' network out there that's hard to penetrate... and it's not always in the best interest of the party or for conservative principles.

Sarah Steelman

These core principles - helping patients, preventing medical errors, promoting best practices and improving quality - are the reasons that health IT is featured in both the 2012 Republican platform and 2012 Democratic platform.

Sheldon Whitehouse

Rouse him, and learn the principle of his activity or inactivity. Force him to reveal himself, so as to find out his vulnerable spots.

The Art of War

Democrats are fighting fire with fire. Our principled stance on Medicare and Social Security is absolutely no different than the Republicans' stance on no revenue increases without cuts.

Judy Chu