Basic Quotes

Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept.

I still believe in the nonviolent Jesus and the basic human goodness present in all of us.

One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty.

For far too long the world's poorest people have seen no benefit from the vast natural resources in their own backyards. It is time to end the injustice where ordinary people are silent witnesses, left to suffer without basic services, as the profits from their countries' assets are hidden and plundered by corrupt regimes.

My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind.

The basic idea was that if a country would put its economy as an integrated piece of the world system, that it would benefit from that with economic growth. I concur with that basic view.

Almost any government activity can also be seen as taking property "without just compensation." The basic model of an unconstitutional "taking" would be if the government threw you out of your house.

I do think actually in this case the government does get credit for funding some of the basic research.

You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.

The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.

Mexican food is far more varied than people think. It changes like dialects. I was brought up in Jalisco by the sea on a basic diet - tomatoes, chillis, peppers of every size and rice, which is a Mexican staple. The Pacific coast has a huge array of seafood.

One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.

Today, the growing economic and social pressures in our country are putting millions of women, children and families at increased risk of abuse and neglect, especially when families are denied basic support services and economic opportunity.

I think if you're writing from the heart, very often, the subject matter will adjust as you age... but you try to write the best song you can possibly write. For us, we have the same basic elements that make up the America sound.

There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients.

I mean one of the basic rules when you're acting is that you mustn't stand in judgement on a character, you mustn't say Hitler was a bad man because you can't act in that way.

Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.

Female artists are the perfect example of a creator: They know how to make life and art with their bodies. Life comes from their bodies, so on a very basic level, they have more to write about.

Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent placement for children who cannot return home.

To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!

One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.

My basic philosophy is that no human being is a saint.

For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a basic health care necessity.

Women know the financial, social and physical costs of not having access to basic health care.

That attitude does not exist so much today, but in those days there was a very sharp distinction between basic physics and applied physics. Columbia did not deal with applied physics.

I don't think Obama understands basic economics. Not economics that work. He may understand some theory that someone in Princeton sat and dreamed up, but it's not working.

The basic parts, the start-up molecules, can be supplied in abundance and don't have to be made by some elaborate process. That immediately makes things simpler.

Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness.