Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donna Dubinsky

It strikes at a fundamental human need to be organized.

Ronald Fisher

We may consequently state the fundamental theorem of Natural Selection in the form: The rate of increase in fitness of any organism at any time is equal to its genetic variance in fitness at that time.

Bob Brown

I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.

Tom Udall

A majority of senators should be able to adopt rules at the beginning of each Congress.

John Paul Stevens

Just as the right to speak and the right to refrain from speaking are complementary components of a broader concept of individual freedom, so also the individual's freedom to choose his own creed is the counterpart of his right to refrain from accepting the creed established by the majority.

Zalmay Khalilzad

Since no single party will have a majority there will be a need for a very broad-based coalition.

Thelma Underberg

I don't know how many we'll get, but the ones that sign the pledge are the ones who will have the support from the majority of the people in South Dakota, I'm quite sure.

Phil Goff

It is not within the power of the president to remove the prime minister other than on the vote of a majority of the house,

Kendrick Lamar

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

Mahatma Gandhi

A living faith cannot be manufactured by the rule of majority

Adrian Rogers

Don't make decisions by majority vote. The majority is almost always wrong.

Alan Lightman

The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.

Jane Austen

His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.

Clay Shirky

The Shirky Principle declares that complex solutions, like a company, or an industry, can become so dedicated to the problem they are the solution to, that often they inadvertently perpetuate the problem.

D. H. Lawrence

The only principle I can see in this life, is that one must forfeit the less for the greater.

David Lloyd George

Doctinaires are the vultures of principle. They feed upon principle after it is dead.

Andy Stanley

A principle is a principle, and God created all the principles.

Rene Descartes

I accept no principles of physics which are not also accepted in mathematics.

Thomas Sowell

To say that being non-judgmental is better than being judgmental is itself a judgment, and therefore a violation of principle.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

I am a person who is inclined to define relations between individuals based on principles.