Quotes About Foundations

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

The network of right-wing foundations, the corporations that fund them, and the journalists who echo their claims have created a tremendous problem for American science. A recent academic study found that of the fifty-six "environmentally skeptical" books published in the 1990s, 92 percent were linked to these right-wing foundations (only thirteen were published in the 1980s, and 100 percent were linked to the foundations).

And how do you undo damage that's been built into the foundations? With houses, it's easier to pull the whole thing down and start again. You can't do that with people.

The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms; and as there cannot be good laws where the state is not well armed, it follows that where they are well armed they have good laws.

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.

He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building.

I realized that sorrow is an important word for defining the world. It lies at the foundations of everything, it is the fifth element, the quintessence.

As I gazed at the black-and-white landscape of the Plateau, I realized that sorrow is an important word for defining the world. It lies at the foundations of everything, it is the fifth element, the quintessence.

First principles thinking is the practice of getting behind this tendency to follow, and to question everything you think is set in stone and realizing that they are probably assumptions.

This is an age of superstition and wishful thinking. The sky is full of evening's empires, and every one of them is founded on sand.

Philosophers hold liberty and justice to be universal and necessary concepts because they know of no societies other than those founded on private property.

The typical American, after he has lost the foundations of his existence, works for new foundations.

First master the fundamentals." —LARRY BIRD

From small foundations of hope, empires can be built.

For a fire has been kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains.

At that time Joshua invoked this solemn oath: “Cursed before the LORD is the man who rises up and rebuilds this city, Jericho; at the cost of his firstborn he will lay its foundations; at the cost of his youngest he will set up its gates.”

Then the earth shook and quaked; the foundations of the heavens trembled; they were shaken because He burned with anger.

The channels of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the world were exposed at the rebuke of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of His nostrils.

Let it be known to the king that the Jews who came from you to us have returned to Jerusalem. And they are rebuilding that rebellious and wicked city, restoring its walls, and repairing its foundations.

He shakes the earth from its place, so that its foundations tremble.

They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were swept away by a flood.

The foundations of heaven quake, astounded at His rebuke.

If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”

Then the earth shook and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains trembled; they were shaken because He burned with anger.