Fundamentals Quotes - Page 28

Many, many times I would shake my head in dismay at the goings-on in the House of Commons, but that never caused me to lose my fundamental faith in the values of our parliamentary institutions.

In the 18th century, people began to adopt the radical new idea that love should be the most fundamental reason for marriage and that young people should be free to choose their marriage partners independently.

When a child dies, it breaks the pattern, the most fundamental pattern in life.

The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness.

For almost half a century, Fermilab has occupied center stage as physicists have sought to understand the fundamental structure of the universe. The lab deserves a good history, and I'm happy to say that in this book it has one. The authors present a compelling, nuanced, and richly detailed account of the place from its beginnings to the present.

Being gay is a fundamental part of my being - the core of who I've always been, and the thing that I had repressed and run from all my life.

At its most fundamental, information is a binary choice. In other words, a single bit of information is one yes-or-no choice.

The fundamental laws of human nature are overlooked by social planners.

There is a fundamental difference, however, between asking to be permitted to keep a vegetative relative on costly machinery, and asking the taxpayers or society as a whole to pay for such machinery.

...it is in the very fundamentals of evil that one always condemns it when they see it but rationalizes it when they do it.

We would be deliberately violating the fundamental obligations we assumed in the Act of Bogota establishing the Organization of American States.

The Constitution is the fundamental rule for people to live in society. If the rule no longer suits the lives of the general public due to changing times, it should be changed. That goes for regular laws as well as the Constitution.

As the primary end of History is to record truth, impartiality, fidelity and accuracy are the fundamental qualities of an Historian.

The fundamental business of the country, that is production and distribution of commodities, is on a sound and prosperous basis.

China needs a currency that reflects underlying economic fundamentals.

I notice that, in the lecture … which Prof. Lowry gave recently, in Paris … he brought forward certain freak formulae for tartaric acid, in which hydrogen figures as bigamist … I may say, he but follows the loose example set by certain Uesanians, especially one G. N. Lewis, a Californian thermodynamiter, who has chosen to disregard the fundamental canons of chemistry—for no obvious reason other than that of indulging in premature speculation upon electrons as the cause of valency

Reproduction is so primitive and fundamental a function of vital organisms that the mechanism by which it is assured is highly complex and not yet clearly understood. It is not necessarily connected with sex, nor is sex necessarily connected with reproduction.

It might not be perfect, but the fundamental stance I adopted with regard to my home was to accept it, problems and all, because it was something I myself had chosen. If it had problems, these were almost certainly problems that had originated within me.

A man cannot have character unless he lives within a fundamental system of morals that creates character.

If you pursue a distancer, he or she will distance more. Consider it a fundamental law of physics.

We have not yet realized that the Indian and his culture were fundamental to the growth of Canadian institutions.

The recurrence of fundamentals is essential to perpetuity.

Nothing is so fundamental to the spiritual life as learning to give thanks.

It's a fundamental human right to decide to have children or not to have children.

That torture is wrong can never be the conclusion to any line of reasoning because it has to be a fundamental premise. Witnessing to the humanity of the other is the place where all moral reasoning must begin.