Quotes About Being Principled

#1. Math gives us a way of being unsure in a principled way: not just throwing up our hands and saying "huh," but rather making a firm assertion: "I'm not sure, this is why I'm not sure, and this is roughly how not-sure I am." Or even more: "I'm unsure, and you should be too.

Jordan Ellenberg

#2. You'll see! We're going to the palace. Fetch Angua. We might need her. And bring the search warrant.
You mean the sledgehammer, sir?
Yes.

Terry Pratchett

#3. Being against other people's policies eventually puts you in a downward spiral. It's fine to be principled and oppose views that you don't agree with, but you also have to have an alternative.

Jeb Bush

#4. We have little choice but to place a certain level of trust in scientists - even when it comes to the model-driven speculative discipline of climate change. And, need it be said, most scientists take great care in being honest, principled and precise.

David Harsanyi

#5. It's often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, Stay there. Don't move.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#6. Being Cassandra is a principled choice when there is cause for alarm.

Robin Morgan

#7. It's not about some principled debate as to whether I should focus on what I have, or on what I don't have. Rather, it's about being thankful that I have the privilege to enjoy the former, and the opportunity to contemplate the latter.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#8. September: it was the most beautiful of words, he'd always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.

Alexander Theroux

#9. He glosses over and doesn't even tell the truth ... Here is a guy who is the ultimate flip-flopper running for president, and he's attacking me for not being principled? That doesn't wash.

Rick Santorum

#10. For liberals, generally speaking, honoring procedures - means - is the core of what being 'principled' means. For conservatives, fighting for the right outcome - ends - even at the expense of procedural nicety, is what being 'principled' means.

Rick Perlstein

#11. If you snub Conscience a few times she will cut your acquaintance.

Austin O'Malley

#12. I loved Allan Dwan. He was a tough old guy.

Harry Carey Jr.

#13. Anybody in my job steers a tightrope between being popular and being principled.

Virginia Bottomley