Top 13 Quotes About Being Principled
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. Anybody in my job steers a tightrope between being popular and being principled.
Virginia Bottomley
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. Being Cassandra is a principled choice when there is cause for alarm.
Robin Morgan
#10. 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
#11. September: it was the most beautiful of words, he'd always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.
Alexander Theroux
#12. If you snub Conscience a few times she will cut your acquaintance.
Austin O'Malley
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