Pillars Quotes - Page 4

• The bicycle is a former child's toy that has now been elevated to icon status because, presumably, it can move the human form from pillar to post without damage to the environment.

  Brock Yates

  Children, Moving, Icons

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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