Pillars Quotes - Page 5

• Acceptable rules of conduct were suspended when it came to the spoon shortage. The deficit had gotten so bad that prices were all but unaffordable, and dynastic spoon succession had become a matter of considerable interest. Spoons were even postcode engraved and carried on one's person to eliminate theft, and good table manners, one of the eight pillars upon which the Collective was built, had been relaxed to allow tea to be stirred - shockingly - with the handle of a fork.

  Jasper Fforde

  Eight, Tea, Table Manners

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• You make the world come alive. You make the world colorful. You are the inspiration behind all that happens. You are the pillar of strength to many around you, the centrifugal force of your own little world, called family. I love being a women and celebrate being one everyday, hope you all do too!! And to all those who battle their various circumstances, the hurdles, the sacrifices and the compromises they make, wish them all inner strength! Happy Women's Day!

  Deeba

  Inspiration, Sacrifice, Love Is

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• There is no greater pillar of stability than a strong, free and educated woman, and there is no more inspiring role model than a man who respects and cherishes women and champions their leadership.

  Angelina Jolie

  Strong, Men, Role Models

  "Emma Watson, Beyonce, 23 More Stars on Embracing Feminism and Empowering Women" by Meena Jang, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 3, 2017.

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• Pluralism and tolerance are pillars of modern society. That has to be accepted. But pluralism doesn't just mean diversity. It means that we share the same rules and values, and are still nevertheless different. Islam doesn't have this idea. And Islam also has no tradition of tolerance.

  Bassam Tibi

  Mean, Ideas, Diversity

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The U.S. corporate media, otherwise known as the "free press," is that hollow pillar on which contemporary American democracy rests.

  Arundhati Roy

  Media, Democracy, Contemporary

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The folkish philosophy is fundamentally distinguished from the Marxist by reason of the fact that the former recognizes the significance of race and therefore also personal worth and has made these the pillars of its structure. These are the most important factors of its view of life.

  Adolf Hitler

  Philosophy, Views, Race

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• Often, we take stability - peace in terms of security and economic activity - to mean a country is doing well. We forget the third and important pillar of rule of law and respect for human rights, because no country can long remain prosperous without that third pillar.

  Kofi Annan

  Country, Mean, Rights

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• From a German point of view, German-American and European-American relations are a pillar of our foreign policy.

  Angela Merkel

  Views, Relation, Point Of View

  Remarks by President Obama and Chancellor Merkel of Germany in a Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 17, 2016.

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• It's time for the New England Patriots to move on and that's what our job is. And as I said, our goal is the same: to have a winning football team, to be a pillar in the community. That's what our direction is; that's what we're going to do.

  Bill Belichick

  Football, Jobs, Team

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• We hope that more assistance will be available to the nations of the region, to include Egypt, on the three pillars that I discussed today: civic society development, education and economic development.

  Colin Powell

  Egypt, Three, Development

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Some of the worst elements of Guyland rest on the twin pillars of men's silence and women's compliance.

  Michael Kimmel

  Men, Silence, Twins

  "How hookups and hang-ups delay manhood". TODAYshow.com Q&A, www.today.com. August 3, 2010.

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• There are three pillars, regardless of your work culture, whether you're in Silicon Valley or on Wall Street: how you look, how you speak, and how you behave. It's all three things, and nailing them makes you a contender.

  Sylvia Ann Hewlett

  Wall, Three Things, Culture

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Isn't the essential pillar of Catholicism papal infallibility? Well, then how can the church ever change its mind about anything unless God gets confused one day? Not all religions claim the direct authority of God speaking to their leader. You know, I'm an atheist, but I'm a Puritan atheist.

  Dave Foley

  Atheist, Confused, Leader

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• The United Nations would probably have to rest on two pillars: one constituted by an assembly of equal executive representatives of individual countries, resembling the present plenary, and the other consisting of a group elected directly by the globe's population in which the number of delegates representing individual nations would, thus, roughly correspond to the size of the nations.

  Vaclav Havel

  Country, Two, Numbers

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• Lot, who said to his wife as she was being turned into a pillar of salt, Stop shaking! Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  Wife, Dinner, Salt

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• [My] pillar of support through life.... I can say conscientiously that I do not know in the world a man of purer integrity, more dispassionate, disinterested, and devoted to genuine Republicanism; nor could I in the whole scope of America and Europe point out an abler head.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Integrity, Men, Europe

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• P. G. Wodehouse... used, when in town, to solve the problem of the long walk to the post-office by the simple expedient of tossing his letters out of his window: his belief that the average human, finding a stamped and addressed envelope on the pavement, would naturally pop it into the nearest pillar-box was never once, in decades, shown to be unfounded.

  Stephen Fry

  Simple, Long Walks, Average

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• A lot of pubs in London are now faceless, expensive yuppy bars. Not like when I was growing up. The pub used to be, and should be, the pillar of community.

  Jason Flemyng

  Growing Up, Community, Bars

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• In France, religion had been considered the enemy of liberty, but in America, as George Washington expressed it, religion and morality were the 'twin pillars of freedom.'

  D. James Kennedy

  Christian, Religious, America

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• As it has been finely expressed, "Principle is a passion for truth." And as an earlier and homelier writer hath it, "The truths we believe in are the pillars of our world.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Truth, Believe, Passion

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• The builders of the British Indian Empire have patiently built its four pillars-the European interests, the army, the Indian princes and the communal divisions.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Army, Division, Four

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• I want to take retirement rather than feel as if it's taking me unawares. Maybe even seize it joyously. But at least behold it without looking back so longingly that I turn into a pillar of regret.

  Klaus H. Carl

  Retirement, Regret, Want

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• In Santiago, the capital of the kingdom of Chile, at the moment of the great earthquake of 1647 in which many thousands lost their lives, a young Spaniard called Jeronimo Rugera was standing beside one of the pillars in the prison to which he had been committed on a criminal charge, and he was about to hang himself.

  Heinrich von Kleist

  Earthquakes, Criminals, Kingdoms

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• Kitsch is the most pernicious of all prisons. The bars are covered with the gold of simplistic, unreal feelings, so that you take them for the pillars of a palace.

  Pascal Mercier

  Feelings, Gold, Bars

  Pascal Mercier (2008). “Night Train to Lisbon: A Novel”, p.332, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The fidelity of the United States to security treaties is not just an empty matter. It is a pillar of peace in the world.

  Dean Rusk

  Peace, United States, World

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