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Principled Quotes (page 4)

I couldn't have written [What Good Are The Arts?] because I--and I'm not alone, by any means--do not have Carey's breadth of reading, nor his calm, wry logic, which enables him to demolish the arguments of just about everyone who has ever talked tosh about objective aesthetic principles. And this group, it turns out, includes anyone who has ever talked about objective aesthetic principles. Nick Hornby
Oscar Wilde quote: "He was always late on principle, his principle being that..."
He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time Oscar Wilde
Now, the language that had grown up and formed itself on those principles is what one is dealing with, and the problem is to bring a work of art in that medium into another medium formed on different principles and heard and understood in a different way. Robert Fitzgerald
I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you've done. Robert Downey, Jr.
And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be forced to create a new official faith and new moral principles which will be binding on its citizens. Christopher Dawson
There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman. Pythagoras
And, you know, I watched him in Texas where he stood on his principle but he also reached out to members of the other party to try to work with them, to try to forge agreement where he could in keeping with his conservative principles to make Texas a better place. Karen Hughes
We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography. Michael Polanyi
Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot. Samuel Horsley
Henry Mayhew quote: "We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from..."
We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles. Henry Mayhew
John C. Maxwell quote: "Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change,..."
Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do. John C. Maxwell
Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors. Wendell Phillips
If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate. Oliver Wendell Holmes
A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle. George William Curtis
We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs. Marianne Williamson

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