Based Quotes - page 4

I know nothing more annoying when people I don't know jump to conclusions on my person based on nothing but gossip or speculation. (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau)
Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things. View quote
Ferdinand de Saussure
Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken. View quote
Ferdinand de Saussure
From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase. View quote
Alex Campbell
The East Germans first used biomechanics. This meant that rather than guessing about technique and form, they could apply changes to athletic performance based on science. View quote
Bill Toomey
No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education. View quote
Bobby Scott
In the end, you make your reputation and you have your success based upon credibility and being able to provide people who are really hungry for information what they want. View quote
Brit Hume
In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press. View quote
Christiane Amanpour
Science is the international language, so when we are able to convince countries that good decision-making for human health and animal health is based upon science, that's a real success story for us. View quote
Mike Johanns
So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument. View quote
Miroslav Vitous
My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions. (Omar Bongo)
Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision. View quote
Paul Wellstone
Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between theoretical and experimental findings have become possible. View quote
Yuan T. Lee
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
I think that's because believable action is based on authenticity, and accuracy is very important to me. I always spend time researching my novels, exploring the customs and attitudes of the county I'm using for their setting. View quote
Sidney Sheldon
Existential psychotherapy is the movement which, although standing on one side on the scientific analysis owed chiefly to the genius of Freud, also brings back into the picture the understanding of man on the deeper and broader level - man as the being who is human. It is based on the assumption that it is possible to have a science of man which does not fragmentize man and destroy his humanity at the same moment as it studies him. It unites science and ontology. View quote
Rollo May
I said that this would be a Budget based on prudence for a purpose and that guides us also in our approach to public spending. View quote
Gordon Brown
Love can't flourish in a "society" based on money and meaningless work, but rather requires complete economic, as well as personal, freedom, leisure time and the opportunity to engage in intensely absorbing, emotionally satisfying activities which, when shared with those you respect, lead to deep friendship, but which our "society" provides practically no opportunity to engage in. View quote
Valerie Solanas
[B]y requiring that an execution be relatively painless, we necessarily protect the inmate from enduring any punishment that is comparable to the suffering inflicted on his victim. This trend, while appropriate and required by the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment, actually undermines the very premise on which public approval of the retribution rationale is based. View quote
John Paul Stevens
Neither federal nor state government acts compatibly with equal protection when a law or official policy denies to women, simply because they are women, full citizenship stature - equal opportunity to aspire, achieve, participate in and contribute to society based on their individual talents and capacities. View quote
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
It seems to me that life's circumstances, being ephemeral, teach us less about durable truths than the fictions based on those truths; and that the best lessons of delicacy and self-respect are to be found in novels where the feelings are so naturally portrayed that you fancy you are witnessing real life as you read. (Anne Louise Germaine de Staël)
I'm not trying to frighten you, but only a fool makes predictions based on ignorance; I am not that sort of fool. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Anybody who's ever been broken up with, or had their heart stepped on or ripped out of them; you question everything you've based your whole life on. It's like, is anything real? Cause nothing 's more real than that, and now it's gone. View quote
Kristen Stewart
A crown, a throne could not be based on the not too very solid foundation of blood. View quote
Muhammad Reza Pahlavi
I have an intensive hatred for discrimination based on colour. View quote
John Diefenbaker