Robert Walpole Quotes
I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war; but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from.Robert Walpole
Quotes to Explore
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I act on my principles, whether they're popular or not.
Gavin Newsom -
Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
Daniel Defoe -
A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I consider no man honest who does not observe towards other nations the principles which he desires to be observed towards his own: and therefore I will not interfere in your domestic questions.
Lajos Kossuth -
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
Larry Wall -
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
Saint Augustine
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I'm pretty well grounded in Christian principles.
Ted Yoho -
By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
Galileo Galilei -
What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation.
Hans Hofmann -
Because the eternal principle of agency gives us the freedom to choose and think for ourselves, we should become increasingly able to solve problems. We may make the occasional mistake, but as long as we are following gospel principles and guidelines, we can learn from those mistakes and become more understanding of others and more effective in serving them.
M. Russell Ballard -
It seems hopelessly improbable that any particular rules accidentally led to the miracle of intelligent life. Nevertheless, this is exactly what most physicists have believed: intelligent life is a purely serendipitous consequence of physical principles that have nothing to do with our own existence.
Leonard Susskind -
When you cannot answer a skeptic, be content to wait for more light; but never forsake a great principle.
J. C. Ryle
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Evolution by natural selection is not an idle hypothesis. The genetic variation on which selection acts is well understood in principle all the way down to the molecular level.
E. O. Wilson -
Circumstances should never alter principles!
Oscar Wilde -
The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of that activity by reference to principles.
R. H. Tawney -
He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in turn. Only England could have produced him, and he always said that the country was going to the dogs. His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.
Oscar Wilde -
Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary premises,principles.
Aristotle -
The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.
Aristotle
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Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer -
My fans are so funny, they make me laugh so much. I've got some really, really, funny, clever fans.
Ellie Goulding -
I am like a TV antenna. I catch everything that is in the air, and then I do it my way.
Karl Lagerfeld -
I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war; but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from.
Robert Walpole