Pillars Quotes - Page 4

• It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the supporting pillar being removed, the superstructure should collapse in ruin.

  Juvenal

  Ruins, Fame, Should

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• The perfect world, by Adam trod,
  Was the first temple--built by God--
  His fiat laid the corner stone,
  And heaved its pillars, one by one.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Perfect, World, Stones

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1850). “The poetical works of N.P. Willis”, p.72

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• Marriage is like a temple resting on two pillars. If they come too close to each other the temple will collapse.

  Khalil Gibran

  Relationship, Two, Temples

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• A free press is one of the pillars of democracy.

  Nelson Mandela

  Democracy, Free Press, Presses

  Nelson Mandela (1998). “In the Words of Nelson Mandela”, Birch Lane Press

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• One has to keep in mind the countless human tragedies that played out in these days. Through the middle of a city, where several thousand connections existed daily, despite administrative division, the concrete pillars were driven into the border, which was expanded like a Chinese wall.

  Willy Brandt

  Wall, Cities, Chinese

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• Two of the vital pillars that sustain Father in Heaven’s plan of happiness are marriage and the family. Their lofty significance is underscored by Satan’s relentless efforts to splinter the family and to undermine the significance of temple ordinances, which bind the family together for eternity. The temple sealing has greater meaning as life unfolds. It will help you draw ever closer together and find greater joy and fulfillment in mortality.

  Richard G. Scott

  Father, Two, Effort

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• Bright reds - scarlet, pillar-box red, crimson or cherry - are very cheerful and youthful. There is certainly a red for everyone.

  Christian Dior

  Cheerful, Red, Cherries

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• The pillars of classical liberalism call for flat taxes, with revenues put to limited uses; strong property rights; and free markets.

  Richard Allen Epstein

  Strong, Rights, Use

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• Not gold but only men can makeA people great and strong;Men who for truth and honors sakeStand fast and suffer long. Brave men who work while others sleep,Who dare while others flyThey build a nations pillars deepAnd lift them to the sky.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Sleep, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, “A Nation's Strength”

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• Ashrams and gurukulas (spiritual schools) are the pillars of spiritual culture. If we perform sadhana according to the guru's advice, we need not go anywhere else. We will get whatever we need from the guru.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, School, Advice

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• The quality of life in America is dependent on the quality of the journalism. Most people don't realize that, but if you think about it, journalism is one of the pillars on which our society is perched.

  Scott Pelley

  Thinking, America, People

  "Scott Pelley: In His Own Words" by Beth Knobel, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2011.

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• We have seven pillars of development. India has a cutting edge information technology industry. We are setting up a technology park. We would like to see technology penetration iin education. Besides, we would like to see cooperation in industries like fashion, filmmaking, ship-building, education, health and energy.

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar

  Fashion, Cutting, Technology

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• Two years ago, I shot 'Pillars of the Earth' in Budapest - it was a big part, but I had a lot of time to sit around and visit cafes.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Years, Two, Cafes

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• The children of Israel in the wilderness, led by a cloud by day, and a pillar of fire by night.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Children, Night, Fire

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.45, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Indeed the three policy pillars of the neoliberal age-privatization of the public sphere, deregulation of the corporate sector, and the lowering of income and corporate taxes, paid for with cuts to public spending-are each incompatible with many of the actions we must take to bring our emissions to safe levels.

  Naomi Klein

  Cutting, Age, Income

  Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the world's Priest; -- guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Dark, Men, Fire

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.302

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• I love the stories that have come before, that we know of. I think for me it's always more interesting to start from square one and you take the fundamental pillars of the character and, around that, try to create something new and different.

  Chris Pine

  Character, Thinking, Squares

  "Chris Pine Talks Drawing from the Previous Films, Working with Kenneth Branagh, and More on the Set of JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. January 6, 2014.

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• My real dwelling
  Has no pillars
  And no roof either
  So rain cannot soak it
  And wind cannot blow
  it down.

  Ikkyu

  Real, Rain, Blow

  Ikkyū (2003). “Wild Ways: Zen Poems”, White Pine Press (NY)

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• The Luxembourg financial centre is based on several pillars, we are characterised by the breadth of our product range, we are an active participant in the international credit business.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Credit, Financial, Range

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• The trade unions are a long-established and essential part of our national life. We take our stand by these pillars of our British society as it has gradually developed and evolved itself, of the right of individual labouring men to adjust their wages and conditions by collective bargaining, including the right to strike.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Long, Unions

  Winston Churchill (1950). “Europe Unite: Speeches 1947 and 1948”, London, Cassell

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• People and places are the twin pillars on which most nonfiction is built. Every human event happens somewhere, and the reader wants to know what that somewhere was like.

  William Zinsser

  People, Events, Want

  "On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction". Book by William Zinsser (Chapter 11 "Writing About Places: The Travel Article," p. 80), 1976.

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• Impressed with a conviction that the due administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good Government, I have considered the first arrangement of the Judicial department as essential to the happiness of our Country, and to the stability of its political system.

  George Washington

  Country, Government, Justice

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1852). “Life of Washington”, p.453

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• Belief in one god, praying, charity, the five pillars, ethical moral objectives and messages in the Koran, the history of Islam. There are basic tenants in Islam that we universally believe in but I think it's very naive to think that Sharia, that legal rulings are derived in a vacuum, that people do not bring their own histories and politics and social pledges to bear when they interpret the Koran.

  Mark Durie

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• I think that grief is a profound spiritual, metaphysical, and - oddly - physical reckoning with death, which we don't understand well. It's both the process by which you relearn the world in the absence of someone who was a pillar in it, and the process in which you confront the reality of death.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Spiritual, Grief, Reality

  "Ask the Author Live: Meghan O'Rourke on Grief". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. March 2, 2011.

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• Regarding R. H. Blyth: Two men who may be called pillars of the Western haiku movement, Harold G. Henderson and R. H. Blyth. . . .

  Reginald Horace Blyth

  Men, Two, May

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