Principles Quotes - Page 30

The several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

Engineering is the application of scientific principles toward practical ends. If the engineering isn't practical, it's bad engineering.

The first principle of contract negotiations is don't remind them of what you did in the past - tell them what you're going to do in the future.

It seems to me that we have to draw the line in sibling rivalry whenever rivalry goes out of bounds into destructive behavior of aphysical or verbal kind. The principle needs to be this: Whatever the reasons for your feelings you will have to find civilized solutions.

The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied.

After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.

As the owner of the company, I'm always focusing on how my company can do more for less. And it's one of the principles of the world.

The whole principle (censorship) is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.

Stand up for your principles, but be a decent human being while you're doing it.

Life is a game in which the rules are constantly changing; nothing spoils a game more than those who take it seriously. Adultery? Phooey! You should never subjugate yourself to another nor seek the subjugation of someone else to yourself. If you follow that Crispian principle you will be able to say Phooey, too, instead of reaching for your gun when you fancy yourself betrayed.

We will not try to replace our founding principles, we will reapply our founding principles.

We must not offer people a system of redemption, a set of insights and principles. We offer people a Redeemer.

I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about Jazz.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

This principle of unity of the whole along with respect for individual differences is symbolized in the Mishkan, the Tabernacle.

I went from one state of life to another state of life by obeying, understanding, and applying the principles that are laid down in the Bible.

Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.

A free society is regarded as one that does not engage, on principle, in attempting to control what people find meaningful, and a totalitarian society is regarded as one that does, on principle, attempt such control.

Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.

The most basic of conservative principles is that if you reward bad behavior you get more of it.

Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.

The habit of ubiquitous interventionism, combining pinprick strikes by precision weapons with pious invocations of high principle, would lead us into endless difficulties. Interventions must be limited in number and overwhelming in their impact.

In accordance with the foregoing investigations on mathematical principles, let bronze vessels be made, proportionate to the size of the theatre, and let them be so fashioned that, when touched, they may produce with one another the notes of the fourth, the fifth, and so on up the double octave.

As soon as we surrender the principle that the state should not interfere in any questions touching on the individuals mode of life, we end by regulating and restricting the latter down to the smallest details.