(889 quotes found)
“Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.”
Anatole France
“I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.”
Jane Austen
“Independence - is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes”
Mark Twain
“If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.”
George W. Bush
“When principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then battle is your calling, and peace has become sin; you must, at the price of dearest peace, lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy, with all the fire of your faith.”
Abraham Kuyper
“The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes in life they make five or minus three; and sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in disorder and the pedagogue with a black eye.”
Winston Churchill
“If it is any use to know it, I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that does”
Ernest Hemingway
“'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.”
Thomas Paine
“High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true.”
Robert H. Schuller
“Enforced uniformity confounds civil and religious liberty and denies the principles of Christianity and civility. No man shall be required to worship or maintain a worship against his will.”
Roger Williams
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