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the Week of Proper 7 / Ordinary 12
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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'Principles'

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This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.
William Burroughs, -
Rotary provides training at all levels so that those who have been selected for leadership positions have the opportunity to learn and apply leadership principles to their jobs.
Ron D. Burton, American Businessman
If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.
George W. Bush, American President (1946-  )
I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.
George W. Bush, American President (1946-  )
Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown.
Joseph Butler, English Clergyman (1692-1752)
It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.
Robert Byrd, American Politician (1917-  )
To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
Albert Camus, French Philosopher (1913-1960)
The Republicans have put together serious detailed counter-proposals when we have objected to this administration's agenda. And so, I want to tell the President and remind him again, we're not voting no for political expediency. We've got our principles, and we're going to stand up and defend those.
Eric Cantor, American Politician (1963-  )
The issue for us is rebuilding a governing majority that is comfortable with differences that can transcend the divisiveness and unify behind the principles that we know our party has succeeded on.
Eric Cantor, American Politician (1963-  )
One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.
Karel Capek, Czechoslovakian Writer (1890-1938)
Success in management and success in sport are derived from the same basic principles.
Will Carling, English Athlete (1965-  )
I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.
Andrew Carnegie, American Businessman (1835-1919)
The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.
Andrew Carnegie, American Businessman (1835-1919)
In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'
Jimmy Carter, American President (1924-  )
We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.
Jimmy Carter, American President (1924-  )
God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to do it, He required to know His own principle.
Giacomo Casanova, Italian Celebrity (1725-1798)
So much the worse, it may be, for a particular meeting: but the meeting is the individual, which on evolution principles, must be sacrificed for the development of the race.
Arthur Cayley, British Mathematician (1821-1895)
Just because people are in authority, if it doesn't seem right, don't do it. If it violates your own principles, don't do it.
Steve Chabot, American Politician (1953-  )
Things are still in early stages, but one can imagine that as we build up and systematize our theories of these associations, and try to boil them down to their core, the result might point us toward the sort of fundamental principles I advocate.
David Chalmers, American Philosopher (1966-  )
We would fight not for the political future of a distant city, rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth.
Neville Chamberlain, British Politician (1869-1940)
 
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