Fundamentals Quotes - Page 25

Mr. Arnold Bennett feels he has ranked himself for ever as a dry wine by what he mixed with himself of Maupassant; nevertheless he has put on the market some grocer's Sauterne in the form of several novels that are highly sentimental so far as their fundamental balance of values is concerned.

Strikingly consistent across all of the battles in Sudan's history has been a fundamental conflict over what are and what are not seen as legitimate aspects of Sudanese identity.

The fundamental delusion of human beings is the belief that we exist separately and independently from the rest of the universe.

The fundamental thing is to drop the split, to become one. Be one, and then all else is possible; even the impossible is possible.

Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship.

My ethical naturalism sees us as facing the predicament of being social animals without evolved adaptations that make social life easy. The fundamental problem that sparks the ethical project lies in our limited responsiveness to one another. The only way we have to address that problem is through a representative, informed, and engaged conversation.

A fundamental responsibility of leadership is make sure that everybody knows the mission, understands it, lives it.

That's one of the central challenges we face - how to stay true to events and compress the fundamentals.

Cosmologists have attempted to account for the day-to-day laws you find in textbooks in terms of fundamental 'superlaws,' but the superlaws themselves must still be accepted as brute facts. So maybe the ultimate laws of nature will always be off-limits to science.

The Bible says that our core problem, the fundamental reason we do what we do, is sin.

I wrote poems and an essay about that weird language. We still remember it to a certain extent, and it still comes up when we're all together. It's so fundamental to how I think.

It's just never the same. At least for me.It's probably because it's just who I am, I never know what that [truth] is. It's so momentary to go, "Oh, yeah, that's true." That's a fundamental starting point for me - to figure out what's true from moment to moment to moment.

Just fundamental things - I played guard and I played forward, so you get into a position where you are pivoting out on the court.

I would love to get with somebody who knows the fundamentals of making the movie, then get my money up and start getting into that.

Wherever illiteracy is a problem, it's as fundamental a problem as getting enough to eat or a place to sleep.

I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is fundamental to our society.

Marx's early manuscripts, with their roots in the Enlightenment and Romanticism, derived fundamental concepts such as alienation from a conception of human nature - what we would call genetically determined.

Historically, several policy domains, including that of foreign policy towards the US and India, budget allocations etc, have been controlled by the Pakistani military, and the civil-military divide can be said to be the most fundamental fracture in Pakistan's body politic.

It is a fact that all the ballet's fundamental dance steps are derived from the folk dances of Western Europe.

There must be an end to white monopoly on political power, and a fundamental restructuring of our political and economic systems to ensure that the inequalities of apartheid are addressed and our society thoroughly democratized.

Science is a fundamental part of our existence.

No one wants to die, and no one wants to die poor. These are the two fundamental truths that transcend culture, they transcend politics, they transcend economic cycles.

Bush explained his fundamental concept to me, that freedom is not an American invention, but rather a gift from God to all people.

In Italian, the word for novel is romanzo, "the romance." The English is "novel" - something new. Both of those elements, experimentation and love, are fundamental to the form.

The fundamental landscape of biology is undergoing a major upheaval, much as it did in the first decades of the 20th Century. This upheaval will take time to fully reveal its implications.