. . . for centuries there has been a long and honorable tradition of women who have resisted and protested against men and their power.
Campaign promises are - by long democratic tradition - the least binding form of human commitment.
I think the best comedy is tragicomic. Yeah, I suppose if you were to look at everything I've done, there is a bit of a black streak through all of it. It's not deliberate: it's what makes me laugh, and there's a fine tradition of it, especially in Ireland.
You see in the Muslim traditions, it's very clear: maintaining law and consultation, not being arbitrary and oppressive. Consultation. And also in the Muslim tradition, the power comes from within the group. I think that's very important.
My goal. . . not to go back to Rembrandt. . . but to bring the great tradition and whatever is great about it, up to date.
Luckily, however, life doesn't always follow tradition, but craves out a path of its own.
A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.
I want to bring back the pride and tradition long associated with the Pittsburgh Steelers, and more importantly, with the people of Pittsburgh.
I don’t know much about history, and I wouldn’t give a nickel for all the history in the world. It means nothing to me. History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.
The study of the traditions doesn't necessarily make you want to convert to another tradition, but it helps you to see your own differently and expands your outlook.
Connection exists. There is immanence and transcendence, and everything beyond and in between. My tradition calls this connection God Herself.
I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.
Speaking from my own religious tradition in this Christmas season, 2,000 years ago a homeless woman gave birth to a homeless child in a manger because the inn was full.
We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.
I dont want to create a monster; I want to make something which is new, exceptional, something that only I do. . . something that references tradition, but is still new.
From the time of the Revolutionary War, when citizens stood forward to defend their liberties against the depredations of tyranny, all the way through Civil War, through the great World Wars, this nation has been defended by the tradition of common ordinary folks who come from behind the plow, come from the store-clerking, come from the classrooms to get on the battlefields - ordinary citizens turned into heroes in defense of their liberty, because that's the potential of freedom.
Science seeks the truth. And it does not discriminate. For better or worse it finds things out. Science is humble. It knows what it knows and it knows what it doesn’t know. It bases its conclusions and beliefs on hard evidence -- evidence that is constantly updated and upgraded. It doesn’t get offended when new facts come along. It embraces the body of knowledge. It doesn’t hold on to medieval practices because they are tradition.
Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
I came here because the city has a tradition and is a very respected food city.
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.