Cardinal Sin Quotes

#1. The cardinal sin is not being badly dressed, but wearing the right thing in the wrong place.

Edith Head

#2. Landscaping is the great cardinal sin of modern architecture. It's not your garden, it's not a park - it's a formless patch of grass, shrubbery and the occasional tree that exists purely to stop the original developer's plans from looking like a howling concrete wilderness.

Ben Aaronovitch

#3. God Almighty, I might've just committed a cardinal sin just by thinking it, but he was like Cam 2.0.

J. Lynn

#4. He got fired because he didn't report the incident, and so no one else had the opportunity to learn from it. Not sharing an opportunity to learn is a cardinal sin." Cultures

Charles Duhigg

#5. (He) committed the cardinal sin in a college atmosphere not only of being different but of being different in a way that left a lot of people with the impression that he thought he was better than they were.

John Feinstein

#6. It's such an honour being banned in Italy, the mother of sensuality. It's like being asked to straighten your tie in a bordello ... It's ironic that the pictures were removed on the complaint of a cardinal. I regard censorship as a cardinal sin.

Harold Town

#7. Immediately I give myself a little mental slap. Fishing for compliments is a cardinal sin. "Never mind, I was only joking.

Sally Thorne

#8. I committed a cardinal sin as a kid. I never spoke, and my mother thought there was something seriously wrong with me. A silent child is regarded as a problem in Ireland, and I just read all the time.

Ken Bruen

#9. Indifference towards people and the reality in which they live is actually the one and only cardinal sin in design

Dieter Rams

#10. If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.

David Halberstam

#11. We looked at each other for what seemed like an hour. He seemed to pity me, and I started to hate him, even though it is a cardinal sin to hate a priest, one of the deadliest, I do believe.

Matthew Quick

#12. Comparison, a great teacher once told me, is the cardinal sin of modern life. It traps us in a game that we can't win. Once we define ourselves in terms of others, we lose the freedom to shape our own lives.

James C. Collins

#13. Intolerance is a beautiful thing ... There are people that are politically correct that want to say the cardinal sin of the hour is intolerance and I think that is a bunch of junk.

Randall Terry

#14. Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

W. H. Auden

#15. It is a cardinal sin to bore the reader.

Larry Niven

#16. To play the demagogue for purposes of self-interest is a cardinal sin against the people in a democracy, exactly as to play the courtier for such purposes is a cardinal sin against the people under other forms of government.

Theodore Roosevelt

#17. The surest way of misunderstanding revelation is to take it literally, to imagine that God spoke to the prophet on a long-distance telephone. Yet most of us succumb to such fancy, forgetting that the cardinal sin in thinking about ultimate issues is literal-mindedness.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#18. Self Promotion on Goodreads or Amazon forums is a cardinal sin. Everywhere else on the internet, it's just part of life. If you're running for President, that IS life.

Jack Bee

#19. If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin.

Benmont Tench

#20. There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness.

Frank Capra

#21. Every little girl 'did her knitting stint' each day. Idleness was a cardinal sin in pioneer times.

Anne Macdonald

#22. that city, wherever it was, they had managed to create for themselves a pleasant, cultured way of life. And that was the cardinal sin for which they were now paying so dearly.

Miklos Nyiszli

#23. Impatience is the cardinal sin of youth.

M.T. Bass

#24. That was a sin: to consider yourself victimized or not able to control your destiny or your fate - that was the one cardinal sin in our community.

Condoleezza Rice

#25. In zen, it is a cardinal sin to waste time. To waste time is to squander the here and now, which, if you think about it, is all that we have.

Philip Toshio Sudo

#26. The cardinal sin in sports, what could really wreck it, is not cheating to win, which has gone on forever, but cheating to lose. That threatens a fundamental aspect of sports' appeal, which is their spontaneity. If games are fixed, they're no different from movies; they're scripted.

Michael Mandelbaum

#27. Underestimation of nonconventional units or a guerrilla enemy by regular forces is a cardinal military sin.

Howard R. Simpson

#28. Terrorism is one of the cardinal sins that the Koran threatens with hellfire.

Fethullah Gulen

#29. The cardinal marketing sin is being boring.

Dan Kennedy

#30. Until fairly recently, Amish teachers would reprimand the student who raised his or her hand as being too individualistic. Calling attention to oneself, or being 'prideful,' is one of the cardinal Amish worries. Having your name or photo in the papers, even talking to the press, is almost a sin.

Howard Rheingold