(2371 quotes found)
“The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.”
Byron R. White
“Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.”
William Blake
“Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.”
Claude McKay
“The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to give the data authenticity.”
Norman R. Augustine
“A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for instinctual drives must be satisfied”
Cyril Connolly
“I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.”
Carlos Fuentes
“Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month.”
Werner von Braun
“Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today?1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.2) Advising the President.3) Desperately clawing at the inside of his coffin.”
David Letterman
“Report of fashions in proud Italy Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation Limps after in base imitation”
William Shakespeare
“There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a man because of his religious beliefs. Such a society is like a cockroach -- it thrives in the dark. So do those who combine for such an end.”
William Howard Taft
