Doctrinaire Synonym Quotes & Sayings

It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose. — Joseph Conrad

In the penal system, where many of these people would eventually end up, the rapidly growing problem of petty crime had already led to pressure for harsher, more deterrent policies in the state prisons. Administrators and prison experts had argued in the last years of the Weimar Republic for the indefinite imprisonment or security confinement of habitual criminals whose hereditary degeneracy, it was assumed, rendered them incapable of inprovement. Security confinement was increasingly thought to be the long-term answer to the buden thse offenders supposedly imposed on the community. — Richard J. Evans

I dream of acting with Kevin Costner. I would love to do a movie with him. Not something funny, but a dramatic role. — Bill Engvall

The highest order that was ever instituted on earth is the order of faith. — Henry Ward Beecher

It's cool to have instruments lying around because they give you different ideas. — Ezra Koenig

Our darling Roberta,
No sorrow shall hurt her
If we can prevent it
Her whole life long.
Her birthday's our fete day,
We'll make it our great day,
And give her our presents
And sing her our song.
May pleasures attend her
And may the Fates send her
The happiest journey
Along her life's way.
With skies bright above her
And dear ones to love her!
Dear Bob! Many happy
Returns of the day! — E. Nesbit

Take risks in order to innovate — Anna Bligh

To be alive at all involves some risk. Harold Macmillan — Anonymous

When the state comes to execute a man, they laugh. So do I. — Richard Ramirez

Right now, scientists are in exactly the same position as Renaissance painters, commissioned to make the portrait the patron wants done, And if they are smart, they'll make sure their work subtly flatters the patron. Not overtly. Subtly. — Michael Crichton

What higher approval could a person enjoy than to know that what he or she has done is pleasing to God? — R.C. Sproul

If women were as good as men they'd be a lot better! — Terry Pratchett

We the People . . . The People of the Long House. — P.J. Parker

So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple. — Damien Hirst

Aggregate aid is to the Ethiopian economy what Obama's fiscal stimulus was to the American economy: minus these injections, both economies would suffer catastrophically. The theatrical blustering of the Ethiopian government notwithstanding, donor countries have a make-or-break power over the Ethiopia's prosperity. — Eskinder Nega