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The best we can do is live our highest right, gracefully as we can, and let the Principle of Coincidence take it from there. Seven — Richard Bach

It is the aim of the modern school, not to treat every position according to one general law, but according to the principle inherent in the position — Richard Reti

When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice. — Otto Von Bismarck

A moral principle in genetic testing is that it should always be done with the consent of the individual. No one wants someone snooping into his DNA. — Arthur Caplan

Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it. — Brian Greene

It's not a matter of pride; it's a matter of principle. I simply will not bow, for I stand too tall for even the Heavens to climb. — Lionel Suggs

When a company or an individual compromises one time, whether it's on price or principle, the next compromise is right around the corner. — Zig Ziglar

I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows. — Ernest Hemingway,

Donald Trump has taken the Peter Principle to unprecedented heights. Or is it depths? — Michael R. Burch

The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract. — Walter Lippmann

We should live, act, and say nothing to the injury of anyone. It is not only best as a matter of principle, but it is the path to peace and honor. — Robert E.Lee

I'd rather be broke and have a whole lot of respect.
It's the principle of it. — O.C.

Call it the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle of Error: we can be wrong, or we can know it, but we can't do both at the same time. — Kathryn Schulz

It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. — James F. Cooper

This is the fundamental principle when it comes to day-to-day execution: Do what's important first, not last. — Matt Perman

It is the principle of sin, rebellion against God and His truth which has brought about birth defects and other destructive natural occurrences. — E.W. Jackson

When a fellow says, 'It ain't the money but the principle of the thing,' it's the money. — Kin Hubbard

Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections. — Meg Greenfield

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. — Joseph Wood Krutch

The principle of love within us is an attribute of the Deity, and it is placed within us to be dispensed independently according to our own will. — Brigham Young

The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; it's love - that one principle. — Tom Shadyac

Empathy is not merely the basic principle of artistic creation. It is also the only path by which one can reach the truth about life and society. — Kafu Nagai

Whether religion be true or false, it must be necessarily granted to be the only wise principle and safe hypothesis for a man to live and die by. — John Tillotson

Unfair in practice is not the same thing as wrong in principle, but sometimes it has to do. — Hendrik Hertzberg

I have made it a principle to give advice that does not serve my personal interest but rather the common interests. — George Soros

Are we truly acting from principle and not from interest? Surely it is at least convenient that for us the two coincide. — John Colville

It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail. — Thomas Jefferson

It's not that I'm against nudity. I'm German, I'm very open, in Germany they lay in the park naked. It's just the principle. — Claudia Schiffer

The coming together of people I find obscene as a principle. It is not human. It is not a natural thing as some people would have us believe. — David Bowie

It is not a vice or a show of weakness when you live by the principle of delay gratification. — Sunday Adelaja

I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle. — Henry Addington

Dwelling on your problems doesn't fix them; it just makes you an expert at them. — Tommy Newberry

The world is the puzzle, itself; but it is always in principle. — Dada Bhagwan

There can be no intelligent control of the lead danger in industry unless it is based on the principle of keeping the air clear from dust and fumes. — Alice Hamilton

I affirm the qualia of reality, for the principle of wisdom captivates the thought, even if it's only offering a mere modicum of value in belief. — Lionel Suggs

Socialism, or communism as it is sometimes called, is merely a secular religion, where the State becomes a god. — Stefan Molyneux

Maybe they were all either pimps or whores. Maybe it was life's classifying principle, maybe I had seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker. — Robert B. Parker

Truth has a resonance to it that fills the cracks where falsehoods lie. — Rick DeStefanis

It's the picnic principle. Things taste better outdoors. And if it's a forbidden thing, so much the better. — Franny Billingsley

In military science there is a principle more important than "Forward": it is that the task should be proportionate to the means. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Avoid trouble. This was the operating principle of Abdul Hakim Husain, an idea so fiercely held that it seemed imprinted on his physical form. — Katherine Boo

[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it — Aristotle.

It's an Islamic principle that you must follow the law of the land where you reside. — Cat Stevens

If there's a simple, easy design principle that binds everything together, it's probably about starting with the people. — Bill Moggridge

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before. — Steve Young

A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it's the humanitarian principle he's defending, I suppose. — Rachel Cusk

It's the anthropic principle's evil twin, he thought. — Peter Watts

In our faith we follow in someone's steps. In our faith we leave footprints to guide others. It's the principle of discipleship — Max Lucado

It's a strange principle but it's true, nevertheless, that those who give the most have the most of whatever they give. — Norman Vincent Peale

Raging fires grow from the tiniest spark; it is the same principle at work in life. As long as there's a spark, tend to your fire. Never give up. — Richelle E. Goodrich

They say it's the number of people I killed, I say it's the principle. — Aileen Wuornos

The whole principle (censorship) is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak. — Robert A. Heinlein

The plot, then, is the first principle, and, as it were, the soul of a tragedy; Character holds the second place. — Aristotle.

It is a waste if you embrace the kingdom of God without its principles — Sunday Adelaja

The bad principle is that any man should hold over another the power to bind and loose. It's a false relationship to stand in towards one's fellows — Ethel Lilian Voynich

It is a principle of law, that a person intends to do that which is the natural effect of what he does. — Edward Law, 1st Earl Of Ellenborough

So visibly shaken by some recent loss of principle that it would have been noticed by a stranger across the aisle — John Cheever

What is God? God is the great life that fills the universe; it is the principle of life aswell. — Masahisa Goi

A development, to be faithful, must retain both the doctrine and the principle with which it started. Doctrine — John Henry Newman

Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice. — Woodrow Wilson

I am willing to take any measures when it comes to the fundamental principle of human rights. — Ban Ki-moon

Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The principle of equal pay for equal work is written in the EU Treaties since 1957. It is high time that it is put in practice everywhere. — Viviane Reding

The principle question before us is not, do we comprehend the atonement, but, do we accept it. — George Q. Morris

I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy. — Arthur C. Clarke

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it. — Abraham Lincoln

The thegn who deems an unjust doom is to lose his thegnship. It is a principle which can be widely applied — Edward Jenks

Collectivism is the ancient principle of savagery. ... Collectivism is not the 'New Order of Tomorrow.' It is the order of a very dark yesterday. — Ayn Rand

Murphy's Law; When someone says 'It's not the money, it's the principle,' nine times out of ten, it's the money. — Mitchell Symons

It's unnatural and unhealthy for a nation to be engaged in global crusades for some principle or idea while neglecting the needs of its own people. — J. William Fulbright

Timeless principles never age, and truth is as young as the day it was spoken into existence. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Charity is all very nice,but people want to get something out of it.That's the principle of charity affairs. — Simone De Beauvoir

The key principle I have always try to live by is peace. So If it doesn't bring you joy & happiness...it will never bring you peace. Just walk away! — Timothy Pina

The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding; your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be. — Raymond Charles Barker

It is right in principle that those should be the best loved who have contributed most to the elevation of the human race and human life. — Albert Einstein

Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to observe it. Antiparticle: — Stephen Hawking

Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think. — Helen Keller

It also reminds me of an organizing principle: Anybody who is experiencing something is more expert in it than the experts. — Gloria Steinem

In the Kural there is a chapter on invocation to God. But there is no place in it for principle of idol worship. — Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

It's a principle of mine to come into the story as late as possible, and to tell it as fast as you can. — John Le Carre

The first principle of Buddhism is 'Suffering exists. How do I escape it?' Buddhism — Yuval Noah Harari

The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. — W. Somerset Maugham

Doctinaires are the vultures of principle. They feed upon principle after it is dead. — David Lloyd George

Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it. — Arthur Miller

It's called the principle of favorability. When you play cards the first time, you are almost sure to win. Beginner's luck. — Paulo Coelho

The principle is so perfectly general that no particular application of it is possible. — George Polya

I think that our popular theology has gained in decorum, and not in principle, over the superstitions it has displaced. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Ukrainian opposition should adopt democratic unity as its main principle, and it also must have one leader. — Zbigniew Brzezinski

It is no accident that faith in Jesus Christ - not only believing in Him but believing Him - is the first principle of the gospel. — Sheri L. Dew

Although the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing. — Barack Obama

One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation. — Anne Carson

To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to have some kind of guiding principle. A belief of some kind — Judith Guest

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good. — Mahatma Gandhi

If a principle exists it must be immutable, for that is what a principle is - a truth standing apart from the mood of the times. — Jeff Cooper

If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself ... — Boris Pasternak

It is so much in the nature of men to overreach and deceive one another, that their very sports and plays are founded on that principle. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. — Thomas Jefferson

It is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly. — Tom Clancy

Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will be taken over by a Central government — Peter Drucker

Net neutrality is such an important principle for the Web and for the Internet. It's how the Internet's operated for all this time. — Megan Smith