Bastions Quotes

#1. Comedy clubs are arguably one of the last bastions of uncensored, public free speech.

Ted Alexandro

#2. This ( ... ) had made me aware for the first time of the well-disguised myth that they and the academic institutions they represent are bastions of a free exchange of ideas. They are -but only of those ideas that don't 'rock the boat', that refrain from challenging hallowed taboos.

Jack Kevorkian

#3. Dwarves are still the butt of jokes. It's one of the last bastions of acceptable prejudice.

Peter Dinklage

#4. This is the way I think about politics: We want two diametrically opposed things from a politician. On one hand we want them to be bastions of moral integrity, perfect people, saints. And on the other hand, we want them to be effective leaders.

Beau Willimon

#5. I t was a well-known fact among Christian homeschoolers that public
schools were bastions of gangs, drugs, teen pregnancy, rap music, pop culture, secular humanism, witchcraft, and body piercings.

Josh Sundquist

#6. We must rip the foundations out from under all the bastions of human reasoning that say, "I don't need God!" We must demolish every non-God story of life. We must pulverize every God-is-not-good life narrative.

James MacDonald

#7. In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo.

Tony Campolo

#8. Engaging the city around us and ministering to its needs reveal to us the remaining bastions of sin in our lives, the areas we refuse to surrender to God.

Matt Chandler

#9. Bastions of wealth
are no deference for the man
who treads the grand altar of Justice
down and out of sight.

Aeschylus

#10. Soul Sister
Evoking all my inner goodness
with bastions of time
I cradle your heart
sisterly into mine ...

Muse

#11. Prosperity's disciples build careful bastions against age and change ...

Hildegard Knef

#12. I think television is one of the last real bastions of the white beauty standard, but still in many industries the workers can be replaced by someone who's willing to play the game or who looks like the person in charge. And this is a problem for all women, not just women of color.

Jami Floyd

#13. Community is and must be inclusive. The great enemy of community is exclusivity. Groups that exclude others because they are poor or doubters or divorced or sinners or of some different race or nationality are not communities; they are cliques
actually defensive bastions against community.

M. Scott Peck

#14. The kitchen is tough. It's one of the last bastions in civilized culture that sets out to crush the spirit.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#15. The foundations demand that public schools and teachers be held accountable for performance, but they themselves are accountable to no one. If their plans fail, no sanctions are levied against them. They are bastions of unaccountability.

Diane Ravitch

#16. Poetry is an enumeration of birds, bees, babies, butterflies, bugs, bambinos, babayagas, and bipeds, beating their way up bewildering bastions.

Carl Sandburg

#17. The old bastions of the post-communist regime collapsed before my very eyes. The monsters who had kept Ukraine in a criminal state left the stage.

Yulia Tymoshenko

#18. Gangs are bastions of conditional love, and one of the ways to counteract it is to offer community, which will always trump gang, and that's what happens at Homeboy Industries.

Greg Boyle

#19. Ultimately, we all have to decide what our own life is for. I will die one day, and, whether my day is near or far, I choose to look back on my time and know that I walked through the doors that inspired me.

Shaun Chamberlin

#20. Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.

Mark Twain

#21. There are many secrets in us, in the depths of our souls, that we don't want anyone to know about.

Charles Durning

#22. Stop looking for an epiphany, and start looking for weak points. Stop looking for angels, and start looking for angles. There are options. Settle in for the long haul and then try each and every possibility, and you'll get there.

Anonymous

#23. Nothing in physics seems so hopeful to as the idea that it is possible for a theory to have a high degree of symmetry was hidden from us in everyday life. The physicist's task is to find this deeper symmetry.

Steven Weinberg

#24. Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

Michel De Montaigne

#25. It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

Roger Babson

#26. One can always come up with funny lists and jokes. You know what? I take it back. Not everyone can always come up with funny lists and some jokes. I'm very lucky to have a gift where I can do that pretty ably.

John Hodgman

#27. In order for criticism to be credible it must have balance

Charles Spencer King

#28. If it takes seven days to make a living, you ought to be doing something else.

S. Truett Cathy

#29. The first and immediate thing to do when you find yourself stuck in terror is to breathe!

Deborah Sandella

#30. Mobile phones are misnamed. They should be called gateways to human knowledge.

Ray Kurzweil

#31. It's OK to get butterfly in your stomach; the key is to learn how to make them fly in formation.

Georges St-Pierre