Orthodoxies Quotes

#1. My definition of success? The more you are actively and practically engaged, the more successful you will feel.

Richard Branson

#2. Cultural debates are always conflicts between orthodoxies.

Anonymous

#3. I have always been skeptical of medical orthodoxies, because sooner, rather than later, so many of them are turned on their heads. Or, put another way, providing you are prepared to wait it out, what was adjudged bad for you yesterday is likely to prove beneficial today.

Mordecai Richler

#4. Inflation is not always the main problem, or indeed a problem at all. Sometimes, though rarely, deflation is a more serious threat, and we need to shelve many of the orthodoxies we have held so dear.

Gavyn Davies

#5. Government lawyers have a duty to disclose evidence of wrongdoing in the government.

Ken Starr

#6. Say what you want but you NEVER say it with violence!

Gerard Way

#7. The two most potent post-war orthodoxies
socialist politics and modernist art
have at least one feature in common: they are bothforms of snobbery, the anti-bourgeois snobbery of people convinced of their right to dictate to the common man in the name of the common man.

Roger Scruton

#8. Smiling can lift one's spirits, and moreover, make a difference in each life you encounter.

Asa Don Brown

#9. It's our responsibility as humans to take care of each other.

Caitlin Crosby

#10. I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again.

Mary Augusta Ward

#11. Harder still was the pretense her studies demanded: the need to dissemble, to parrot her professors' orthodoxies, to feign interest in theories that were of no use to her.

John Wray

#12. When journalists are 'accused' of being 'advocates', that means: challenging and deviating from DC orthodoxies.

Glenn Greenwald

#13. Happiness is the best revenge

Jacki Kane

#14. I've never been in a competition before, and I said I'm going to go. I think - I just love to sing.

Fantasia Barrino

#15. Progress both in the United States and other nations was only ever achieved through the ability to challenge power and orthodoxies and to pioneer new ways of thinking and living.

Glenn Greenwald

#16. Science fictions are suppressed only when likely to contribute more knowledge and freedom than the defensive orthodoxies they challenge.

Timothy Leary

#17. A sure romance killer is to NOT shut the bathroom door.

Toni Sorenson

#18. Orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that outrage them.

Gertrude Atherton

#19. A type hated with equal hatred by all the smelly little orthodoxies which are now contending for our souls.

George Orwell

#20. I dreamed of becoming a writer. And ... this dream is about to become a reality with the publication of my first, and hopefully not my last, children's book ...

Gloria Estefan

#21. To feel like a woman, wear heels, to feel like a goddess, wear five inches.

Christian Louboutin

#22. Trust her gut?
Her gut was currently telling her to run her hands through Tristan's dark hair.
She wasn't so sure her gut was reliable.

Chelsea Fine

#23. If ever household affections and loves are graceful things, they are graceful in the poor. The ties that bind the wealthy and the proud to home may be forged on earth, but those which link the poor man to his humble hearth are of the true metal and bear the stamp of heaven.

Charles Dickens

#24. Tobin's just a guy - like a ton of guys. Even as I run those words through my head, trying to convince myself, I know it's a lie. Tobin will never be just a guy. Not to me. And he shouldn't be just a guy to anyone who meets him or to anyone else that's lucky enough to love him.

Jolene Perry

#25. The affirmative of affirmatives ... is love.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#26. I knew I could never be accepted as a straight-ahead jazz musician, nor would Iaccept myself as that. I would never be accepted as a minimalist. I wouldn't be adowntown composer. Because I find all orthodoxies, all doctrines to be ultimatelybanal.

Anthony Davis

#27. At News Corporation, we have a history of challenging media orthodoxies.

Rupert Murdoch

#28. But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society.

Rowan Atkinson