“I feel so weak. And if I'm weak, then that just weakens what I stand for.”— Quinn Shephard, Rowan Aldren, Mia Isaac, imdb.com
“A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.”— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com
“Abraham Lincoln once said that, 'If you're a racist, I will attack you with the North.' And those are the principles that I carry with me in the workplace.”— B.J. Novak,, Michael Scott, Steve Carell, imdb.com
“I remind you of that which is more dangerous than any killer. A man who is willing to die for his principles.”— Matt Lambert, Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, imdb.com
“I know it sucks when your entire ideology winds up being a bubble that is easily popped with research, which you’ve claimed to be very fond of. But it’s an opportunity to grow & become a better political ally if you can bring yourself to accept it.”— Caissie St.Onge, twitter.com
“It is said of great Empires, That the best way to preserve them from decay, is to bring them back to the first Principles, and Arts, on which they did begin.”— Robert Hooke, amazon.com
“Can we tolerate this kind of freedom of speech which flagrantly contravenes the principles of our constitution?”— Deng Xiaoping, amazon.com
“Although in our country the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a part only, but of the whole people of the United States.”— James K. Polk, en.wikiquote.org
“Nor, in truth, is it of little importance to prevent the suspicion of any difference having arisen between us from being handed down in any way to our posterity; for it is worse than absurd that parties should be found disagreeing on the very principles, after we have been compelled to make our depa…”— John Calvin, amazon.com
“This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.”— Orson Scott Card, amazon.com
“I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals. It’s the only thing I do believe in.”— E. M. Forster, amazon.com
“One will weave the canvas; another will fell a tree by the light of his ax. Yet another will forge nails, and there will be others who observe the stars to learn how to navigate. And yet all will be as one. Building a boat isn’t about weaving canvas, forging nails, or reading the sky. It’s about giv…”— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, amazon.com
“I don’t think there is a right or wrong anymore. Only horrible and not-quite-so-horrible.”— James Dashner, amazon.com
“I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the onl…”— James Joyce, amazon.com
“You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against.”— Laurie Halse Anderson, amazon.com