Established Quotes

• The man of perfect virtue, wishing to be established himself, seeks also to establish others; wishing to be enlarged himself, he seeks also to enlarge others.

  

  Confucius
  • Virtue
  • Established
  • Enlarge

• Being established in my life, buttressed by my thinking nature, fastened down in this transcendental field which was opened for me by my first perception, and in which all absence is merely the obverse of a presence, all silence a modality of the being of sound, I enjoy a sort of ubiquity and theoretical eternity, I feel destined to move in a flow of endless life, neither the beginning nor the end of which I can experience in thought, since it is my living self who think of them, and since thus my life always precedes and survives itself.

  

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty
  • Silence
  • My Life
  • Survives

• The Reformation was cradled in the printing-press, and established by no other instrument.

  

  Agnes Strickland
  • Instrument
  • Established
  • Reformation

• I think here is the irony of American history. We don't have an established church. When you have an established church nobody takes religion as seriously as we do here. We have a free market in religion. The religious groups are competing with each other.

  

  Eric Foner
  • Church
  • Religion
  • Irony

• One hundred years ago, visionary political leaders from the Progressive Era established a system of national forests and parks in our country that are the envy of the world and today are the treasure of an entire nation. Why not a similar, global vision for our generation?

  

  Eban Goodstein
  • Nation
  • Treasure
  • Political Leaders

• When I've worked with established artists, I've naturally been more restricted, but you still have to take risks and push yourself to do something different.

  

  Finlay Dow-Smith
  • Yourself
  • Something
  • Naturally

• I suppose the more established one gets, you have what's called a reputation, and so you want to protect that and preserve that. And I think the bravery really comes in one's mid career where you then are constantly trying to move beyond that and move past that, because those so-called successors can become shackles.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Career
  • Reputation
  • Bravery

• It is becoming increasingly clear that the targets in the Kyoto Protocol cannot and will not be met on the established timetable in the United States and elsewhere.

  

  Eileen Claussen
  • United States
  • Established
  • Targets

• We are grateful to Hans for his work on behalf of our employees and shareholders as he provided a guiding hand while we established our integration plan.

  

  Doug Parker
  • Grateful
  • Plan
  • Employees

• When the rich and well-established, who should be generous, are instead spiteful and cruel, they make their behavior wretched and base in spite of their wealth and position. When the intellectually brilliant, who should be reserved, instead show off, they are ignorant and foolish in their weakness in spite of their brilliance.

  

  Zicheng Hong
  • Brilliant
  • Foolish
  • Ignorant

• I don't want to be known as a serial entrepreneur. I like doing one thing at a time and making sure that gets my full attention until it's well established. I enjoy the initial years of a company because they are the most dynamic, and that is when I can give the best of myself.

  

  Silvio Scaglia
  • Attention
  • Enjoy
  • Entrepreneur

• How someone she trusted so much could turn on her. So she’s established a revolutionary new medical health center in the remote town of Hilltop, Alaska, where.

  

  Brenda Novak
  • Revolutionary
  • Established
  • Trusted

• Information, listening to every word with rapt attention. Now that she had established herself in the duke’s household, the last thing.

  

  Brenda Novak
  • Attention
  • Information
  • Household

• I established strong connections between Rockwell and Israel Aircraft Industries.

  

  Arnon Milchan
  • Connections
  • Established

• Surely as a man may say of a rock--nothing more quiet, because it is never stirred; and yet nothing more unquiet, because it is ever assaulted--so we may say of the church--nothing more peaceable, because it is established upon a rock; and yet nothing more unpeaceable, because that rock is in the midst of seas, winds, enemies, and persecutions.

  

  Edward Reynolds
  • Church
  • Rock
  • Enemies

• No religious doctrine shall be established by law.

  

  Elbridge Gerry
  • Law
  • Established
  • Religious Doctrines

• Violence in our society has reached epidemic proportions. ... Violence in the media for entertainment purposes has been established as a major contributing factor.

  

  Deborah Prothrow-Stith
  • Society
  • Violence
  • Contributing

• Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Way
  • Mediocrity
  • Established

• You know, when you've established a certain thing, what can you do? You're stuck with it.

  

  George Shearing
  • Thing
  • Stuck
  • Established

• There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Religion
  • Intelligent
  • Established

• If they are really persuaded that the army is annually established by me, that I have the sole disposal of posts and honours, that I employ this power in the destruction of liberty and the diminution of commerce, let me awaken them from their delusion.

  

  Robert Walpole
  • Destruction
  • Disposal
  • Honours

• Here even the various mind-pleasing blossoming flowers, and attractive shining supreme golden houses, have no inherently existent maker at all. They are set up through the power of thought. Through the power of conceptuality the world is established.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Flowers
  • Established
  • Houses

• One of the striking features of the form of globalisation that has now been established is that it is based on the premise that goods and even capital should be free to roam but labour must remain imprisoned within the nation state.

  

  Roberto Unger
  • Capital
  • Premise
  • Globalisation

• Austrian Republic established after the war gave an amnesty to 90 per cent of members of the Nazi Party in 1948, and to the SS and Gestapo by 1957.

  

  Edmund de Waal
  • Members
  • Established
  • Nazi Party

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