Quotes About Foundations

God allows us to experience fear at times to help us recognize our false foundations, things on which we are resting our security that have no more strength to support us than a mound of whipped cream.

A few scenes have etched themselves into my memory," wrote Skrjabina, "probably until I die: a house demolished almost to its foundations, but one wall remained, still papered in the favorite cornflower design. There is even a picture hanging on it, as straight as ever. Above a heap of bricks, cement, and beams, a whole corner of an upper apartment of another house was preserved.

America is ensnared in self-indulgence and its future hangs in the balance. Our moral and spiritual foundations are rapidly being destroyed. Our arrogance is producing a socialist state that is becoming our god. The entitlement state of mind has created a nation that looks to the government for the answer to our problems, when the only answer is, "Our Father which art in heaven.

All relationships are based on different foundations; the ones that last a lifetime are the ones that are built on trust, and honesty, the kind that merits conversations that are both open and true.

Our success as a nation is not measured by how many years we have governed or how many wars we have won. It is measured by the quality of life which we have created for the society that our ideals were founded upon.

Managers are encouraged to focus on complex initiatives like reengineering or learning organizations, without spending time on the basics.

People never think, until it happens to their place, that all construction is destruction. The whole planet is paved in the dead, who are ignored so the living can dig their foundations.

The food industry, its trade associations, and research foundations, is well financed and highly organized to pressure the FDA.

It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality, freedom, and opportunity for all people.

When understood in all its rich complexity, religion does not simply provide secure foundations but destabilizes every type of religiosity by subverting the oppositional logic of eitherjor.

An unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error may eventually find its foundations insecure.

the task of philosophy is to start over from the beginning time and time again.

The uncomfortable reality is, the diversity agenda isn't about honoring and cherishing all racial, ethnic and religious traditions. It's about apologizing for our Western, Judeo-Christian foundations while pretending not to notice that we're elevating in the eyes of our children the very cultures that hold America in disdain.

The search for the conditions of possibility is in principle posterior to an actual experience, and from this it follows that even if subsequently one determines rigorously the sine qua non of that experience, it can never be washed of the original stain of having been discovered post festum nor ever become what positively founds that experience.

Beveridge Report, published in November 1942, which laid the foundations of Britain's postwar welfare state.

The root of the kingdom is in the state. The root of the state is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its head.

The future of Big Science appears to depend on industry, whose R&D priorities are very different from those of universities, research foundations, and government.

If I were to make your voice shake the foundations of the earth like thunder, would they make themselves deafer in order not to hear?

The minute you get away from fundamentals – whether its proper technique, work ethic or mental preparation – the bottom can fall out of your game, your schoolwork, your job, whatever you're doing.

The American system of education, in its incipiency, and for a long while, was one founded on Bible-teaching and religious exercises. The present system is un-American, anti-American.

Shortcuts will only satisfy and give you success in the present moment. But the future is preserved for those who are fully prepared for it. The people who didn't skip the basics.

Skipping the basic methods will cost you more at the top than following the full process of doing things while you are still at the bottom of the ladder

The last child, which is Islam, acknowledged his elders and gave them credit for the foundations that they laid before him.

Secrets have a way of rotting foundations when those foundations are meant to be built on truth and honor.