There is a mean in all things; even virtue itself has stated limits; which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be virtue.
The young artist. . . will discover out of ordinary things the meaning of ordinariness. He will not try to make them extraordinary. Only their real meaning will be stated.
A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
A problem is often half-solved when it is clearly stated.
Too often we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living, when his stated purpose is to increase our standard of giving. (Look again at 2 Corinthians 8:14 and 9:11).
I have always stated I designed the stadium as a toilet seat. I don't care if this is a great cultural event or a national symbol. It has nothing to do with me. It deals with the city.
The worth of a faith does not consist in the clarity with which it is stated but in the steadfastness with which it is defended.
Do you ever wonder if--well, if there are people living on the third planet?' 'The third planet is incapable of supporting life,' stated the husband patiently. 'Our scientists have said there's far too much oxygen in their atmosphere.
What the [James] Monroe Doctrine stated, in effect, is that the US should dominate the hemisphere.
Sudan replaced the U. S. on the U. N. Human Rights Commission joining Syria, and Cuba. So now, the commission members have no interest in upholding the stated mission of the panel. It's just like the Senate Ethics Committee.
Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.
Simply stated, girls want role models and mentors.
The United States military is undoubtedly the world's finest. It's also far and away the most generously funded, with policymakers offering U. S. troops no shortage of opportunities to practice their craft. So why doesn't this great military ever win anything? Or put another way, why in recent decades have those forces been unable to accomplish Washington's stated wartime objectives? Why has the now 15-year-old war on terror failed to result in even a single real success anywhere in the Greater Middle East?
Problems are often stated in vague terms. . . because it is quite uncertain what the problems really are.
It was not until the Abraham Lincoln administration that an income tax was imposed on Americans. Its stated purpose was to finance the war, but it took until 1872 for it to be repealed. During the Grover Cleveland administration, Congress enacted the Income Tax Act of 1894. The U. S. Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional in 1895. It took the Sixteenth Amendment (1913) to make permanent what the Framers feared -- today's income tax.
Christian theology teaches the doctrine of prevenient grace, which briefly stated means this, that before a man can seek God, God must first have sought the man.
There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there's a constant shifting between sublime and pathetic.
I am under no illusions. My position, no matter how clearly stated, is likely to be misunderstood.
Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best.
The Prime Minister of India, at a meeting that I co-chaired a few months ago, stated that any development that is not sustainable is not development.
