Quotes About Basis

Also there was the thrill, basis indeterminable, which made Glinda shy, and caused her to rush her words, and to speak in a false high voice like an adolescent. How quickly you could be thrown back to the terrible uncertainty of your youth! For

I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.

My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.

Sound science must be a basis to governing our trade relations around the globe.

We need to discuss the basis of a new form of trust built on a meaningful form of citizenship appropriate for a republic.

No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.

Beyond the curiosity and the problem-solving challenge fundamental to good research, I believe that the fantasy of controlling nature lies at the very basis of modern science.

you will find the worst horse is the most valuable one. In your very imperfections you will find the basis for your firm, way-seeking mind... But those who find great difficulties in practicing Zen will find more meaning in it. So I think that sometimes the best horse may be the worst horse, and the worst horse can be the best one.

In your very imperfections you will find the basis for your firm, way-seeking mind.

Asking what is the cause, is just as bizarre as asking what is the cause of not having an accident. Accidents have their basis in the real complexity of the system, not their apparent simplicity.

We will develop love, we will practice it, we will make it both a way and a basis.

Well, being a Canadian, I love SCTV, and I think it's the basis for all good North American comedy, so I compare everything to that.

Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.

I do not despair that some day we shall place politics upon a sound commercial basis, as they have already done in America and France, or leave them entirely in the hands of the police, as they do in Russia.

To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it's a decision, it's a judgement, it's a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. - Fromm

Any system of morals which has a theological basis becomes one of the tools by which the holders of power preserve their authority and impair the intellectual vigor of the young.

Strife is life's oldest and most holy fundament.

I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.

If you suggest a doubt as to the morality of these institutions, it is said directly—"You are a dangerous innovator, a utopian, a theorist, a despiser of the laws; you would shake the basis upon which society rests." If

All greatness in performance rests upon a basis of details. A knowledge of what is general to a subject may suffice for the merely learned man, but a thorough knowledge of details is necessary to form the adept.

To no circumstance is the wide diffusion of error in the world more owing than to our habit of adopting conclusions from insufficiently established data. An indispensable preliminary, then, in every investigation, is to get at facts. Until these are arrived at, every opinion, theory, or system, however ingeniously framed, must necessarily rest upon an uncertain basis.

customer and revenue growth, the degree to which our customers continue to purchase from us on a repeat basis, and the strength of our brand.

The subject of the lesson itself should not become more important that the underlying basis. Drawing thus provides first the written forms of letters and then their printed forms. Based on drawing, we build up to reading.

WWE is like, you can't really get a bigger production as far as traveling wise and what they do on a day to day basis.