Principles Quotes
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To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.
Walter Pater
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After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.
Salvatore Quasimodo
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I'm pretty well grounded in Christian principles.
Ted Yoho
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Everyone has values; even criminal gangs have values. Values govern people's behavior but principles govern the consequences of those behaviors.
Stephen Covey
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Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
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The politicians of New York as not so fastidious as some gentlemen are, as to disclosing the principles on which they act. They boldly preach what they practice...if they are defeated, they expect to retire from office. If they are successful, they claim, as a matter of right, the advantages of success. They see nothing wrong in the rule that to the victor belongs the spoils of the enemy.
William L. Marcy
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In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who we are' operate on precisely the same principles that we do.
Antonio Damasio
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That happy sense of purpose people have when standing up for a principle they haven't really been knocked down for yet.
P. J. O'Rourke
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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
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I very much admire Uri Ariel. I think he's a man of principles, and effective, and I love him.
Naftali Bennett
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For a moment the feeling crept over me that my work, my vision, is going to destroy me, and for a fleeting moment I let myself take a long, hard look at myself, something I would not otherwise do--out of instinct, on principle, out of self-preservation--look at myself with objective curiosity to see whether my vision has not destroyed me already. I found it comforting to note that I was still breathing.
Werner Herzog
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Maintaining control indefinitely over millions of Palestinians will inevitably lead to a demographic nightmare and cannot be sustained if Israel is to remain true to its founding principles.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
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If you can find a way that your principles are actually the strategically smartest thing to do, you've kind of figured it out.
Oscar Isaac
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When you put ungodly people in office you put ungodly principles in office. God can't bless ungodly principles therefore God can't bless you for promoting ungodly principles. If you put Godly people in office you put Godly in office God can bless Godly principles therefore he can bless you for promoting Godly principles.
David Barton
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The way I work with my cinematographer is not based on general principles, but the ideas are triggered by the locations where we shoot.
Paolo Sorrentino
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A principle isn't a principle until it costs you something.
William Bernbach
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We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!
William Lloyd Garrison
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By sticking to my principles and what I firmly believe in - I always have my own attitude towards everything in life. I wish to create trends rather than follow them. My daily routine at the moment is really just a combination of work and family.
Li Bingbing
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Just because we have different views, that doesn't mean that we lack principles.
Olympia Snowe
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In randori we learn employ the principle of maximum efficiency even when we could easily overpower an opponent.
Kano Jigoro
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Principles of motion take precedence over sequence of motion.
Ed Parker
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The highest ideal of cure is the rapid, gentle and permanent restoration of health; that is, the lifting and annihilation of the disease in its entire extent in the shortest, most reliable, and least disadvantageous way, according to clearly realizable principles.
Samuel Hahnemann
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Personal participation is the universal principle of knowing.
Michael Polanyi
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There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.
Honore de Balzac