Bases Quotes

• One may sigh for all that one loses in giving up the old religion... but the new irreligion is the manlier, honester and simpler thing, and affords a better throry of life and a more solid basis for morality.

  

  Charles Eliot Norton
  • May
  • Giving
  • Morality

• The UN stopped using Chalabi's information as a basis for conducting inspections once the tenuous nature of his sources and his dubious motivations became clear. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the mainstream US media, which give prominent coverage to sources of information that, had they not been related to Hussein's Iraq, would normally be immediately dismissed.

  

  Scott Ritter
  • Giving
  • motivation
  • Clear

• Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

  

  Robert Baden-Powell
  • Trust
  • Moral
  • Training

• Courage comes from acting courageously on a day-to-day basis.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Courage
  • Acting
  • Day-to-day

• 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
  • Problem
  • Government
  • Constitution

• It's impossible to make a picture without values. Values are the basis. If they are not, tell me what is the basis.

  

  William Morris Hunt
  • Values
  • Impossible
  • Bases

• I know that Colbert could quote Thomas Aquinas and all this, but I'm somebody who, because it's a necessity for me on a personal basis. I need it because I'm a lunatic.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Needs
  • Knows
  • Lunatic

• We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases.

  

  Miguel de Icaza
  • Bases
  • Desktop
  • Gnome

• We cannot, after all, ignore the fact that the cold war is being fostered from the U.S. No one will deny that American bases around our country are not being reduced; in fact they are being strengthened. All of this is bound to cause suspicion, and it is bound to cause the Soviet leaders to be cautious and vigilant.

  

  Anastas Mikoyan
  • Bases
  • Cold War
  • Strengthened

• A spatial, temporal work had only to be exhibited in a gallery and then written about and reproduced as a photograph in an art magazine. Then this record of the no longer extant installation, along with accretions of information after the fact, became the basis for its fame, and to a large extent its economic value.

  

  Dan Graham
  • Art
  • Values
  • Economic

• You are the owner of all that you perceive. But you can't perceive apart from your vibration. Feel your way, little-by-little, into a greater sense of abundance by looking for the treasures that the Universe is offering you on a day-to-day basis.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Universe
  • Feels
  • Perception

• Sponsors and networks will really go all out and simply evaluate people on the basis of talent.

  

  Norman Granz
  • People
  • Talent
  • Evaluate

• A state is not the same thing as a society, although the Greeks and Romans thought it was. A state is an organization of power on a territorial basis.

  

  Carroll Quigley
  • Organization
  • Greek
  • States

• Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved.

  

  Red Smith
  • Achieved
  • Ninety
  • Nearest

• We're looking at a quandary here where Bernie's Sanders the winner on a moral and even a political basis. He's made history, and she's the winner on the mathematical basis.

  

  Tom Hayden
  • Political
  • Moral
  • Winner

• Los Angles is not my favorite city. Well, I shouldn't say that... I love to visit it, on a temporary basis. It's just such a company town! You can't go anywhere and not run into someone who wants to be in the business.

  

  Rita Moreno
  • Running
  • Cities
  • Favorite

• Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.

  

  Alan Bersin
  • World
  • Security
  • Continental

• The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works, but rather who God is.

  

  Stanley Hauerwas
  • Ethics
  • Bases
  • Sermons

• If you can do that - if you run, hit, run the bases, hit with power, field, throw and do all other things that are part of the game - then you're a good ballplayer.

  

  Willie Mays
  • Running
  • Baseball
  • Bases

• Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

  

  Carrie Snow
  • Believe
  • Science
  • Evolution

• Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to his materials.

  

  William J. Brennan, Jr.
  • Decision
  • Class
  • Congress

• What sense would it make to classify a man as handicapped because he is in a wheelchair today, if he is expected to be walking again in a month, and competing in track meets before the year is out? Yet Americans are generally given 'class' labels on the basis of their transient location in the income stream. If most Americans do not stay in the same broad income bracket for even a decade, their repeatedly changing 'class' makes class itself a nebulous concept. Yet the intelligentsia are habituated, if not addicted, to seeing the world in class terms.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • World
  • Men
  • Today

• The basis of social relationships is reciprocity: if you cooperate with others, others will cooperate with you.

  

  Carroll Quigley
  • Social
  • Bases
  • Reciprocity

• In 2000 the then Prime Minister of Japan [Yoshirō Mori] asked me to return to this process, this conversation, these talks, and to do so, incidentally, on the basis of the 1956 declaration. I agreed. Since then we have conducted dialogue in this regard but I cannot say that our Japanese partners and friends have remained within the limits of the 1956 declaration.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Conversation
  • Dialogue
  • Declaration

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