Institution Quotes - page 16

Historically, royal families have represented an institution. The institution is built on heritage, and is timeless in that sense. (Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark)
This fundraising is consuming us. It's impossible to overstate, I think, what it's doing to members and their ability to just focus on the job that they were elected to do. The collective concentration of the institution is being undermined every day by the need to fund-raise. View quote
John Sarbanes
As marriage and the family institution constitute the foundation and chief cornerstone of civil society, it is of the greatest moment that the marriage-tie should never be dissolved save for the most urgent reason. I cannot assent, however, to the doctrine that it should never be dissolved at all. View quote
Joseph P. Bradley
The Senate is a remarkable institution. It is unique. There is no other body, no other political body, no other democratic legislature in the world quite like the U.S. Senate. View quote
Max Baucus
Except here it's more power, more energy, younger and also in Europe it's still not only entertainment. Theater or films are looked at as a moral institution. That's why maybe they're so poetic. Here it's clear entertainment. View quote
Maximilian Schell
Marriage is two imperfect people committing themselves to a perfect institution, by making perfect vows from imperfect lips before a perfect God. View quote
Myles Munroe
Governments take too long to get things done and there are far too many varied interests at stake. If you were starting a business today and needed a partner, you would never choose a large bureaucratic institution like the government. View quote
Naveen Jain
A collection that embraces the whole world allows you to consider the whole world. That is what an institution such as the British Museum is for. View quote
Neil MacGregor
My father's own view was more than entrepreneurship; it was really a passion to build an institution in India. View quote
Nita Ambani
It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions. View quote
Omar Bongo
Say what you will about the leadership of 'SNL,' they have crafted an institution as opposed to just running a show. I don't think that's by accident. (Phil LaMarr)
In the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty. View quote
Russell M. Nelson
I can say without hesitation that there is certainly no greater show to be a contestant on than 'Price' - the prizes can be huge, and the whole world loves and watches the show. It's an American institution! View quote
Randy West
Any institution faces two basic choices if they hope to spark new ideas. One is to leverage the brains trust within their organization by creating a special event dedicated to new thinking. The other is to look outside themselves to stimulate solutions. View quote
Simon Mainwaring
I loved the Army as an institution and loathed every single thing it required me to do. View quote
Simon Raven
I always enjoy the job and the work that I do, because that's the condition that I attach in accepting any job. This way, I can really work and dedicate myself to the institution for achieving the goal which I believe is a noble one. View quote
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
As far as the targets hit by the Islamic attackers, I do not consider the WTC a U.S. institution, but the headquarters of most that's wrong with our present masters. View quote
Tom Metzger
The Senate as an institution is broken. We're not doing the work of the American people and the rules are being abused. The only way to get us back to the traditions where the Senate is doing the work of the American people is to change the rules. View quote
Tom Udall
Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery? View quote
Tatyana Ali
I'm considering getting married again. I've not lost faith in that institution. I'm older; I'm smarter. I'm no longer searching for something to complete me... and therefore I'm now able to find someone to be a partner with. View quote
Teri Polo
He declared that the gold made in it was distilled from human blood, from mothers' tears, from the agonies and dying groans of gasping, suffocating men and women, and that it would sear and blister the soul of him that touched it; in short, he talked as whole-souled, unpractical fellows are apt to talk about what respectable people sometimes do. Nobody had ever instructed him that a slaveship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by which closely. packed heathens are brought over to enjoy the light of the Gospel. (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by which closely-packed heathen are brought over to enjoy the light of the Gospel. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Whoever visits some estates there, and witnesses the good-humored indulgence of some masters and mistresses, and the affectionate loyalty of some slaves, might be tempted to dream the oft-fabled poetic legend of a patriarchal institution, and all that; but over and above the scene there broods a portentous shadow - the shadow of law. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
It closely resembles the situation that exists within a mental institution: in tight quarters, in similar garb, dissimilar minds attempt to build a consensus reality that, with a monumental effort of empathy, cannot-can never!-take concrete form. View quote
Jeff VanderMeer
I never believed marriage was a lasting institution. I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever. View quote
Lauren Bacall