Principle Quotations | Page 5

The Principle of Appearance that deludes as multiple manifestation is Maya. It is not external to God; it is inherent in God, just as all Powers are inherent in Him.

The principle of equality and liberty are not just words on paper.

The principle office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.

The principle of no military presence from non-Caspian countries is becoming increasingly important in view of the increased activity of some countries that do not belong to the region.

The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great best-sellers.

The principle that a central bank, charged with controlling inflation, should be independent from the government is unassailable. It may also be true that it's easier for the central bank to guard its independence from political pressure when it mainly holds government securities.

The principle was right there - you couldn't miss it. The more you did for your customers, the more they did for us.

The priority is a sage, inspiring, leader-by-example who is unyielding in principle and valor.

When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money

When a figure is balanced on a pivot in space it becomes elongated in all four directions; that is the basic principle behind this square on a pivot.

We conveyed to President Clinton our acceptance in principle to the proposal ... with our own explanations and interpretations of those proposals in relation to all the issues,

We gave committee members some additional information without violating the principle that we had set forth, which is to limit a briefing on the full program.

It's good to be free. I went to jail to preserve the time-honored principle that a journalist must respect a promise not to reveal the identity of a confidential source. . . . I am leaving jail today because my source has now voluntarily and personally released me from my promise of confidentiality regarding our conversations relating to the Wilson-Plame matter.

It's based on unit cohesion, ... The principle is that -- in the event there is something that requires a unit to be involved in, and people are in a personal situation where their time was ending -- they put a stop-loss on it so cohesion is maintained.

The removal of the sodomy laws. That really was the biggest achievement. Because while many states had already done that, there were many that had not. And once the Federal Government said NO to such laws, that was the coup de grace - that was the principle thing so far as I'm concerned.

This lawless situation must not continue, ... Every imprisoned person should have the right to test the legality of their detention. It is this basic principle that has been denied to our clients.

This lawless situation must not continue. Every imprisoned person should have the right to test the legality of their detention. It is this basic principle that has been denied to our clients,

I call upon governments to start supporting companies to use more sustainable materials in their products instead of continuing with antiquated incentives, such as import duties on synthetic materials that are in principle much higher compared with those placed on leather goods regardless of the environmental footprint.

How specifically to define the one-China principle -- and how concretely to realize it -- is best left to the two sides of the strait on a mutually acceptable basis, ... not to mediate, not to exert pressure, but to understand.

How much is an hour of your time worth? It's worth whatever wage you would get if you spent that hour working. If you work for an hourly rate, this is an easy calculation. Even if you work for a salary and a fixed number of hours, the principle is the same: It's whatever your salary works out to per hour.

However much our late fatalists have boasted of this principle as of a law of nature... I am persuaded that, whenever they shall be pleased to give us any measure of the strength of motives distinct from their prevalence, it will appear, from experience, that the strongest motive does not always prevail.

I am very pleased to see Chef America's innovative, high growth and high-margin business joining us, giving Nestle the lead in two out of three principle categories in the world's frozen food market.

I don't think the outcome necessarily benefits students or raises test scores. It's not going to achieve that. I don't see how it will benefit improvements in education. When those in government forgo the principle of local control it's a little frustrating.

Beijing will adhere to the principle of 'frugal Olympics' in organizing the 2008 Games. We used the paper two-sided now.

America was founded on the principle of freedom of speech.

An athlete who uses banned substances comes under this principle and therefore I would not support measures to render our legislation -- which is one of the most just and severe in the world -- weaker for people who use (banned) substances.

The interpretations go against the principle enshrined in the Constitution that all citizens are equal before the law.

The likelihood of that is remote because this is one relationship where ... you don't have difficulty in reconciling principle and practice or the vital national interests with values.

One may say that predictions are dangerous particularly for the future. If the danger involved in a prediction is not incurred, no consequence follows and the uncertainty principle is not violated.

Thus, the more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known, and conversely.

In the strict formulation of the law of causality—if we know the present, we can calculate the future—it is not the conclusion that is wrong but the premise. On an implication of the uncertainty principle.

Money, not morality, is the principle of commerce and commercial nations

Perseverance is a principle that should be commendable in those who have judgment to govern it

Perfect wisdom has four parts, viz., wisdom, the principle of doing things aright; justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private; fortitude, the principle of not flying danger, but meeting it; and temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.

Now, what I want is, facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir!

My fixed principle never to be the tool of any man, nor the partisan of any nation, would forever exclude me from the smiles and favors or courts

If One Wishes That a Sect of a Republic Live a Long Time, It Is Necessary to Draw It Back Often toward Its Principle

Frugality is founded on the principle that all riches have limits

He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

We can make truth ours by actively modulating its inter-relations. This is the work of art; for reality is not based in the substance of things but in the principle of relationship. Truth is the infinite pursued by metaphysics; fact is the infinite p

My principle is to do whatever is right, and leave the consequences to Him who has the disposal of them

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle

It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writing than to put one principle into practice

Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist

. . . it is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner. He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.

Those institutions which are static in their nature raise walls of division; this is why, in the history of religions, priesthood has always maintained dissensions and hindered the freedom of man. But the principle of life unites, it deals with the v

Tis against some men's principle to pay interest, and seems against others' interest to pay the principle

The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Well, the principle seems the same. The water still keeps falling over.

Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principles of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of concentration.

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

The selfish spirit of commerce knows no country, and feels no passion of principle but that of gain

To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle

Always stand on principle even if you stand alone.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life, and that to destroy, to harm, or to hinder life is evil

This doctrine (of ruling passions) is in itself pernicious as well as false: its tendency is to produce the belief of a kind of moral predestination, or overruling principle which cannot be resisted; he that admits it, is prepared to comply with ever

In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is:hit the line hard.

If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

That is the principle thing - not to remain with the dream, with the intention, with the being-in-the-mood, but always forcibly to convert it into all things

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.

I now perceive one immense omission in my psychology -- the deepest principle of Human Nature is the craving to be appreciated.

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes in life they make five or minus three; and sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in disorder and the pedagogue with a black eye.

Through some strange and powerful principle of ''mental chemistry'' which she has never divulged, nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire, ''that something'' which recognizes no such word as ''impossible,'' and accepts no such reality as failure.

If it is any use to know it, I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that does

All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.

Over a very small number of rolls of the dice, the uncertainty principle is very important.

In effect, we have redefined the task of science to be the discovery of laws that will enable us to predict events up to the limits set by the uncertainty principle.