Top 23 Buttressed Quotes
#1. Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
J.M. Roberts
#2. Our praying, to be strong, must be buttressed by holy living. The life of faith perfects the prayer of faith.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#3. The evil of the Holocaust was realized through the exercise of a certain kind of power - coercive power. It was a power that sought to dominate and control. It was a power legitimated through law, buttressed by propaganda, augmented by terror, and affected through all the institutions of society.
Mary Jo Leddy
#4. In two novels written forty years apart, a man and a woman tell stories of their love ... Taken together they provide an unusually touching story of young love unable to prevail against an opposition whose strength was tragically buttressed by the uncertainties of a cultural divide.
Isabel Colegate
#5. The geographer and politician Edwin Brooks argued more than 40 years ago that what we had to avoid was a dystopian future of a 'crowded glowering planet of massive inequalities of wealth buttressed by stark force and endlessly threatened by desperate men in the global ghettoes'.2 These
Paul Rogers
#6. History is often made and buttressed by myths and folklore rather than facts.
Daikichi Irokawa
#7. At last my liaison pulled up before a squat structure of poured concrete buttressed with steel, bleak and featureless, like a sepulcher for people who didn't believe in an afterlife.
James K. Morrow
#8. Four hours after leaving Kornah, we passed the reputed tomb of Ezra the prophet. At a distance and in the moonlight it looked handsome. There is a buttressed river wall, and above it some long flat-roofed buildings, the centre one surmounted by a tiled dome.
Isabella Bird
#9. To be sure, boxing has always been, at best, a shady and sometimes cutthroat business, buttressed by hype and tomfoolery rivalling, at times, that of carnival circuses.
Dan Hill
#10. Most screenplays, most motion pictures, owe much more to the screenplay. Ingmar Bergman has such an economy of language, so little language in his piece, it is so visual, his moods are introduced and buttressed by camera rather than by word or character. But again, that's unique.
Rod Serling
#11. Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?
Marquis De Sade
#12. I confess to considerable doubts about the eventual stability of democracy, unless buttressed by constitutional safeguards and a general climate of opinion which thoroughly understands the case for liberty in general
Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins
#13. Man must be arched and buttressed from within, else the temple wavers to the dust.
Marcus Aurelius
#14. I've often wondered if Morality is an attribute of Reason. Of course, evil is always buttressed by 'reasonable' arguments. Yet, what if True Reason is an attribute of Morality, and True Morality an attribute of Reason?
Rikki Ducornet
#15. To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.
Richard Whately
#16. You have to accept Jesus Christ to become his property; but by default Satan owns you if you don't have Jesus Christ.
Felix Wantang
#17. The good thing about not calling it a Constitution is that no one can ask for a referendum on it.
Giuliano Amato
#18. Weakness is hard, but it doesn't have to mean defeat. It's our opportunity to experience God's power firsthand.
Lysa TerKeurst
#19. Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
Francis Bacon
#20. He would say ect. instead of ect., and thus instead of ect., instead of ect. and thus and so forth!
Eugene Ionesco
#23. How you expect the heaven, when you make someone else's life hell.
M.F. Moonzajer
