Foundation Quotes - page 40

My own works have been described as works of emptiness, but it is not to be taken for the nihilism of the West. The spiritual foundation would seem to be quite different. (Yasunari Kawabata)
Precedent has shown that sticking to such a political foundation (1992 Consensus) will allow continued healthy development of cross-strait ties. Damaging the foundation will damage the fruit of peaceful development in cross-strait ties, leading to endless problems across the strait. View quote
Zhang Zhijun
It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor. View quote
Frances Wright
In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe. View quote
Lydia Sigourney
Life did what it did, purposelessly, and only humans strove to impose a meaning where no meaning was needed. She viewed herself as random flotsam upon the face of the deep. Without a religious foundation, she wasn't bothered by any questions of an insult to God or the hubris of Prometheus that might have arisen. View quote
Justina Robson
If human thought is a growth, like all other growths, its logic is without foundation of its own, and is only the adjusting constructiveness of all other growing things. View quote
Charles Fort
The Mozilla Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization. View quote
Mitchell Baker
We've broken the code base into logical chunks, called modules, and the foundation staff delegate authority for the modules to people with the most expertise. View quote
Mitchell Baker
Of course, it's hard to support full-time programmers, so we do get funds from a set of companies that are interested in the health of the Mozilla project and so are willing to support the people working for the Foundation as well. View quote
Mitchell Baker
He treated Root exactly as he treated prime numbers. For him, primes were the base on which all other natural numbers relied; and children were the foundation of everything worthwhile in the adult world. View quote
Yōko Ogawa
I will spend the next four years rebuilding the foundation of a opportunity society led by free people and free enterprises. (Mitt Romney)
The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family. View quote
Mitt Romney
People's memories are so short and America's propaganda is so powerful that most, even the greatest losers of this appropriation, have forgotten that a profound change occurred, which we now take for granted. We have been conditioned to react skeptically, even hostilely, to criticism of our current corporate values, values which form the foundation of everyday life today. What's more appalling is that huge numbers of those left behind in the wealth transfer genuflected to the new plutocratic class, celebrating the most vicious of the uber-CEOs. This craven CEO-worshipping is still going on today- middle Americans drag themselves home after work in order to gather around the television and watch billionaire assholes like Donald Trump deliver his "You're fired!" line to some desperate, stressed-out Smithers-abee. View quote
Mark Ames
Mathematics lays the foundation of all the ex­act sciences. It teaches the art of combining num­bers, of calculating and measuring distances, how to solve problems, to weigh mountains, to fathom the depths of the ocean; but gives no directions how to ascertain the existence of a God. View quote
Ernestine Rose
It would wreck the very foundation on which our political government is run ... If you ever injected truth into politics you'd have no politics. View quote
Will Rogers
Science affirmed that choice was not free,- could not be free,- without abandoning the unity of force and the foundation of law. Society insisted that its choice must be left free, whatever became of science or unity. View quote
Henry Adams
Having a Republican candidate speak at the NAACP convention is like trying to build a house starting at the roof. If you don't have a foundation, the roof isn't going to stand. View quote
J. C. Watts
Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues. View quote
Confucius
The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. View quote
Pierre Charron
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society. View quote
Aberjhani
When I came in, the city was on the edge of bankruptcy. I'm proud of what I did. I built the foundation that mayors after me built upon - particularly Bloomberg. But the foundation was essential because if it hadn't occurred, we would have been another Detroit. (Ed Koch)
The people became convinced-being ignorant, stupid and credulous-that the church held the keys of heaven and hell. The foundation for the most terrible mental tyranny that has existed among men was in this way laid. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
They were all, according to my belief, devised by men, and all have for a foundation ignorance of this world and fear of the next. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
The church teaches that man was created perfect, and that for six thousand years he has degenerated. Darwin demonstrated the falsity of this dogma. He shows that man has for thousands of ages steadily advanced; that the Garden of Eden is an ignorant myth; that the doctrine of original sin has no foundation in fact; that the atonement is an absurdity; that the serpent did not tempt, and that man did not "fall.”. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
The agnostic does not simply say, "l do not know." He goes another step, and he says, with great emphasis, that you do not know. He insists that you are trading on the ignorance of others, and on the fear of others. He is not satisfied with saying that you do not know, -- he demonstrates that you do not know, and he drives you from the field of fact -- he drives you from the realm of reason -- he drives you from the light, into the darkness of conjecture -- into the world of dreams and shadows, and he compels you to say, at last, that your faith has no foundation in fact. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll