Top 100 Base Quotes
#1. While different people may approach opportunities in different ways, we need to base decisions on a fundamental set of values as we chart our course of action.
Ron D. Burton
#2. School systems should base their curriculum not on the idea of separate subjects, but on the much more fertile idea of disciplines ... which makes possible a fluid and dynamic curriculum that is interdisciplinary.
Ken Robinson
#3. Those who speak always and those who never speak are equally unfit for friendship. A food proportion of the talent of listening and speaking is the base of social virtues.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#4. You are who God says you are, not who people say you are. Don't try to base your life on the unstable foundation of human opinions, but instead, build on the unshakable truth of God.
Craig Groeschel
#5. A lot of international companies invest in the U.K. as a base for doing business with the rest of the European Union.
Tim Harford
#6. Now that I feel 100 percent, I'm looking forward to playing my game the way I want to-getting on base, stealing bases and trying to help the team any way I can.
Carlos Beltran
#7. I think what makes a good show is obviously a rabid fan base.
Jim Rash
#8. Now I'm in a top-secret government base somewhere in the middle of fucking Iowa, waiting to find out what the hell is happening. In short - I'm totally losing my shit.
Ernest Cline
#9. Within my heart is lurking suspicion, and base fear, and shame and hate; but above all, tyrannous love sits throned, crowned with her graces, silent and in tears.
William Hazlitt
#10. As a white male in America, I have privilege. As a white male who happens to be an artist with a fan base, I have a platform to spread awareness about that privilege. However, songs about race and privilege are very difficult to A) write and B) dissect as a listener. They're heavy.
Macklemore
#11. My inspiration is always what I think my fans want to listen to. I often write about social problems. If I'm not going through it or I haven't gone through it, I want to make sure it touches someone. That's what I base my music on.
Jenni Rivera
#12. There is a certain kind of small town that grows like a boil on the ass of every Army base in the world.
Neal Stephenson
#13. The reason I was successful in launching my first book with bloggers is this: I assumed that I should spend as much time on a blogger with a million-person readership as I would pitching an editor of a publication with a million person subscription-base.
Timothy Ferriss
#14. I've been very true to know that I have a base of fans and I'm extremely loyal and extremely supportive to that base of fans. To the rest of them, I enjoy the fact that they fill the arenas and tell me to go to hell.
John Cena
#15. Any time you change something classic or iconic, you're going to have some part of the fan base up in arms.
Jim Lee
#16. Talent (a natural way of thinking, feeling, or behaving) x Investment (time spent practicing, developing your skills, and building your knowledge base) = Strength (the ability to consistently provide near-perfect performance)
Tom Rath
#17. Do not crave to know the views of others, nor base your intent thereon. To think independently for yourself is a sign of fearlessness.
Mahatma Gandhi
#19. Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base.
John Ruskin
#21. There are a lot of people who talk about a formula for being able to start a fan base. But for me, it's been about songs and just being hard on myself as a writer, feeling like there is a purpose to it all.
Corey Smith
#23. Base eight is just like base ten really, if you're missing two fingers.
Tom Lehrer
#24. I believe that every innovative thought comes from a creative mindset ... A creative mindset is what drives our world, and art is the base of that.
Omar Epps
#25. The Tea Party emerged from a laudably grassroots base: libertarians, fervent Constitutionalists, and ordinary people alarmed at the suppression of liberties, whether by George W. Bush or Barack Obama.
Naomi Wolf
#26. Seek to advance your fortunes in this world. Set up a strong base so that you can practice your spirituality and be of service to others. This is purity to.
Frederick Lenz
#27. Most of the well-developed world - Australia, Western Europe - they develop their resources base, they inventory it, they develop it, and they view it as a good source of jobs and revenue. We are a country that for too long has taken affordable energy for granted.
John S. Watson
#28. There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.
Virginia Woolf
#30. It's the scale that Yahoo brings - and that user base - that I really want to build products for.
Nick D'Aloisio
#31. With a DVD, you want something you can own, you can watch, you can come to grips with and you can explore. It's something larger than the film, when it's going out to a fan base.
David Slade
#32. I never slept when I lost. I'd see the sun come up without ever having closed my eyes. I'd see those base hits over and over and they would drive me crazy.
Robin Roberts
#33. It takes intelligence to make real comedy, and it takes a reality base to create all that little stuff I like to do that makes you giggle inside.
Chris Tucker
#34. Playing third base, you rarely have time to get into a great fielding position. It's all about reaction.
Morgan Ensberg
#35. Kids are starting at such a low base rate in terms of fitness that it's taking them years to catch up to where people like me started from. Every little bit is making it more difficult for kids to succeed on a world stage.
Daley Thompson
#36. Most of the time, you do films and they can be big films, but you are rarely aware of the fan base that comes with it.
Luke Evans
#37. Those who lack imagination have no choice but to base their conclusions on the reality they see around them. But on the other hand, those who are imaginative have a tendency to build fortified castles they have designed themselves, and to seal off every window. And so it was with Kiyoaki.
Yukio Mishima
#38. It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.
Havelock Ellis
#39. We are trying to persuade all the Iraqi opposition to come breathe freedom in Iraq and use liberated Kurdistan as a base for our common struggle.
Jalal Talabani
#40. I once recommended [in a San Francisco Chronicle column] that a third arm - a plastic arm - be sewn at the base of the spine so that people could have a tripod to sit on while waiting in line, and it was taken seriously.
Alan Abel
#41. Namely, if I am challenging the base of all these institutions, I'm challenging the moral code of altruism. The precept that man's moral duty is to live for others. That man must sacrifice himself to others. Which is the present day morality.
Ayn Rand
#42. Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.
Francis Bacon
#43. The key to winning any general election in the USA is to excite your base and then expand your base - get independent voters and voters who haven't been voting for your party to come to your party.
Rand Paul
#44. Now if we can get white population, immigrants and big companies and so on moving into Africa and if we can get with that Scientology well established in Southern Africa, why we can then look forward to a salvage operation base, in case the northern hemisphere's lights go out.
L. Ron Hubbard
#45. Some argue that our success is short-lived and temporary. So, we now need to make efforts to constantly expand the player base by offering services and titles that can appeal, not only to those who have never played games, but also to those who play them hard.
Satoru Iwata
#46. I'm someone who'd never base how happy I am on how much money I have, or how good a restaurant is because of how posh it is.
Jessie J.
#47. It is, admittedly, a base foodstuff, but lobster, well prepared, can nevertheless be made to satisfy the distinguished gourmand.
Eli Brown
#48. The value of a yellow metal (gold), originally chosen as money because it tickled the fancy of savages, is clearly a chancy and irrelevant thing on which to base the value of our money and the stability of our industrial system.
Dennis Holme Robertson
#49. People are so nice, you know. It's such a credit to Howard Stern - the audience base that he created is such a special thing. It took him a long time to create this family of fans, and I was lucky to be a part of that for a while.
Artie Lange
#50. We are extremely focused on building some of the assets which are going into mid-India, semi-urban and rural, and that's our DNA. We are building a retail bank, and a lot of the deposit base is still in urban India.
Uday Kotak
#51. I feel greatful, though, that Sabin was my home base tonight. He let me come back to him as often as I needed to ground myself. When the noise was too much or the social interaction felt overwhelming, he remained my rock.
Jessica Park
#52. I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much rather eat potato chips on the sidewalk.
Werner Herzog
#53. The "stuffed men" are bound to become more lonely no matter how much they "lean together"; for hollow people do not have a base from which to learn to love.
Rollo May
#54. I don't believe in telling all to the public, but I feel a certain gratitude to them for having provided me with a fine material base that enables me to do pretty much what I want, possibly, for the rest of my life.
George Harrison
#55. Let us come to an understanding about equality; for, if liberty is the summit, equality is the base.
Victor Hugo
#56. Sometimes our experiences helps us build the monument that forms the base for what God wants us to do.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
#57. My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.
Michael Jordan
#58. Give your idea a chance. You'll never hit a home run (or a base hit for that matter) if you don't swing.
Richie Norton
#59. It's perfectly understandable, in my opinion, to find good things in the teachings of Jesus Christ or any other figure, mythical or otherwise. But to base your life on the teachings of Jesus as they are portrayed in the Bible and claim that you are not religious is disingenuous.
David G. McAfee
#60. A platform is the base from which something big happens. In our case, we're an entertainment platform in the sense that there are people signing up like MTV, Burberry, folks like Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber. And why? Because it's their channel to control their entertainment to their fans.
Kevin Systrom
#61. A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.
William Lyon Phelps
#62. I want to go base-jumping off Angel Falls and then canoeing down that river that goes east. That's what I really wanna do.
Billy Magnussen
#63. And you, too, youthful reader, will realize the Vision (not the idle wish) of your heart, be it base or beautiful, or a mixture of both, for you will always gravitate toward that which you, secretly, most love.
James Allen
#64. You have to be smart enough to see the world for yourself and honest. The whole book-publicity thing is not really honest, at base.
Ethan Canin
#65. The invisible bond that gives the baby rein to discover his place in the world also brings the creeping baby back to home base ... In this way he recharges himself. He refuels on the loving energies that flow to him from his mother. Then he's off for another foray of adventure and exploration.
Louise J. Kaplan
#66. Two separate branches had grown out of two different trees that had been growing side by side, and the branches had overlapped, wrapping around the other, the smaller branches tangling and intertwining. The branch from one tree had been damaged and was split at its base.
Amy Harmon
#67. I love my little flat in Spitalfields. Lots of actors live out of a suitcase, so it's nice to have a base to come back to.
Harry Lloyd
#68. By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon, and it will be American.
Newt Gingrich
#69. I don't have a particular recommendation other than that we base decisions on as much hard data as possible. We need to carefully look at all the options and all their ramifications in making our decisions.
Dorothy Denning
#70. He led them around the base of a great fallen tree whose exposed roots resembled more than anything else a huge broom - a broom that would have fired the imagination of Rachel the Dragon toward heroic, legendary feats of sweeping.
Tad Williams
#71. He'd always believed in her. They'd believed in each other. He'd been her rock, in a very real way. The rock that had given her a solid base to build on after a childhood of upheaval and discontent. Then
Nora Roberts
#72. In general, the public knowledge base and thus decision-making behaviors are far more influenced by advertisement than with current science.
David Perlmutter
#73. When an aggressor force continually launches attacks from a particular base of operations, it is sound military strategy to take the flight to the enemy.
Timothy McVeigh
#74. EVERY PILOT REMEMBERS his first flight. For me, it was in a Cessna 172 at Moody Air Force Base in Valdosta, Georgia, in 1968.
George W. Bush
#75. I always wear some make-up, even on quiet days when I am not doing so much with my time. I like to start using Dolce & Gabbana Perfect Finish Creamy Foundation as a base, as it's lighter than air and doesn't make me feel 'caked.'
Monica Bellucci
#76. You have to wake up and say, 'I have a fire in me to be better than I am right now.' That's your base.
Greg Jackson
#77. Let me be cursed, let me be base and vile, but let me also kiss the hem of that garment in which my God is clothed; let me be following the devil at the same time, but still I am also your son, Lord, and I love you, and I feel a joy without which the world cannot stand and be.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#78. Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.
Aristotle.
#79. I played baseball growing up, second base, and then when I got to high school,it just didn't exist there.
Finn Wittrock
#80. Ouch,' my dad says in mock hurt. 'Right in the heart, Lil'
'Its the only place I can reach,' she refutes.
'I'm not sure about that...' Their voices soften. Too quiet. Which means they're lip-locked.
'Mom! Dad!' I shout, and Farrow and I reach the base of the stairs first.
Krista Ritchie
#81. Solitude is a virtue for us, since it is a sublime inclination and impulse to cleanliness which shows that contact between people, "society", inevitably makes things unclean. Somewhere, sometime, every community makes people - "base.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#82. I've been doing stand-up just about every night since I started in 1989. It's my home base. But I'm into doing comedy in all mediums, platforms and situations.
Judah Friedlander
#83. To achieve these Jeffersonian ends, Alexander Hamilton - Jefferson's philosophical rival - devised an ingenious strategy that entailed a strong manufacturing base, a national banking system, a centralized federal government, and an export-led economic scheme protected by the U.S. Navy.
Patrick Mendis
#84. Base stealing for me is another sport all by itself. It's a game within a game. I'm the mouse and the cats are trying to trap me.
Maury Wills
#85. Seriously, what the hell does playing the field mean anyway? Am I like some sports metaphor for you? You made it to home base, so now it's time to go to the Superbowl or whatever?
Charles Sheehan-Miles
#86. I am thrilled to be working with Lane Bryant on this collaboration. Designing apparel women can feel confident and beautiful in has been a long-standing pillar of the Lela Rose brand, and we are looking forward to bringing our designs to Lane Bryant's inspiring base of customers.
Lela Rose
#87. The nearer the cutting off point lies to the main force of the enemy, the more immediate the effect; whereas the closer to the strategic base it takes place, the greater the effect.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#88. I feel that L.A. has not always been my strongest base for support. That can be for various reasons.
Sonny Rollins
#89. Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm, but the base and the liar?
Horace
#90. The common base of all the Semitic creeds, winners or losers, was the ever present idea of world-worthlessness. Their profound reaction from matter led them to preach bareness, renunciation, poverty; and the atmosphere of this invention stifled the minds of the desert pitilessly.
T.E. Lawrence
#91. The black vote is always important, and the reason is it serves as a tremendous base for the Democratic Party. On the national level, Democrats traditionally receive at least 90 percent of the black vote.
Roland Martin
#92. I've been fortunate, I've been blessed, and I attribute my success to all my fans. People want to do things with you when you have a big fan base, and I have a great fan base.
Larry The Cable Guy
#93. If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own ... how much kinder, how much gentler he would be.
William Allen White
#94. You simply cannot continue a nation as America without that Christian base of liberty.
Dan Severson
#95. I'm really surprised how many people knew me as Gina Carano. MMA has a beautiful fan base.
Gina Carano
#96. Easier were it To hurl the rooted mountain from its base, Than force the yoke of slavery upon men Determin'd to be free.
Robert Southey
#97. I still feel like I can play defense at first base at a very high level.
Rafael Palmeiro
#98. We continually hear from our engaged customer base that Shutterstock's content is a true differentiator, given not only the size of the library but also the quality and diversity of the images we offer.
Jon Oringer
#99. If this incomplete ayaan hirsi wants fame sooo much then she shouldn't use religion as a base to be known. Some people justify their in justifications by selling their souls to the devil, ayaan I'm sure u have taken the time to read the bible. Do tell me it's stance on woman comparing to men ...
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#100. The Romulans may rip this base in half, pal. They may even kill me. But I'll be damned if they're going to keep me from enjoying a refreshing beverage.
Michael Jan Friedman
