Base Quotes

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
George S. Patton

Men, Best, Fear

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
Aristotle

Good, Men, Jealousy

My decision to end my marriage was such a risk to lose ratings and lose my fan base. I had to take that risk for my inner peace and to be happy with myself.
Kim Kardashian

Marriage, Peace, Happy

My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that's where a lot of preachers' kids get off base sometimes. Because they don't see the same things at both places.
Joel Osteen

Home, Parents, Same

Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
William Blake

Mind, Speak, Ready

When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.
Woody Allen

Guilty, Second, Played

I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.
Gilda Radner

Fashion, Taste, Itch

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing.
Robert Kiyosaki

Money, Food, Everything

Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
Sophocles

Money, Men, Minds

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Men, Selfish, Find

Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
Neil Armstrong

Here, Eagle, Houston

The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
Michel de Montaigne

Find, Ugly, Both

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Today, Strong, Tomorrow

The wavering mind is but a base possession.
Euripides

Mind, Possession

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
Giordano Bruno

Change, Truth, Mind

I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.
Gilda Radner

Fashion, Taste, Itch

All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.
Max Beerbohm

Reality, Fantasy, Solid

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Love, Friendship, Sand

It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.
Sophocles

Fear, Stand, State

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
Joseph Joubert

Religion, Capable, Souls

I don't think Israel can accept an Iranian terror base next to its major cities any more than the United States could accept an al Qaeda base next to New York City.
Benjamin Netanyahu

Accept, Next, United

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
Stevie Wonder

Obama and the Democrats are not focused on the moderates. They're focused on getting their base out, and they're trying to expand that base by forming sympathetic, empathetic alliances with the downtrodden, and there are a lot of downtrodden because Obama has made them that way via his policies.
Rush Limbaugh

Trying, Made, Getting

I still have a spiritual base and a spiritual foundation. And my conversation with God is very open-ended. I pray for humility, honestly, because it's very easy to be caught up in this world.
Katy Perry

God, Spiritual, Humility

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Faith, Great, Souls

It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.
Havelock Ellis

Success, Different, Failures

The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.
Scott Adams

Universe, System, Ways

I'm a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.
Barbara Bush

Good, Great, Important

I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I'd trip her up.
Leo Durocher

Nice, Mother, Winning

My career is like an artichoke. People might think that the leaves are tasty and buttered up and delicious, and they don't even know that there's something magical hidden at the base of it. There's a whole other side of me that people didn't know existed.
Katy Perry

Career, Whole, Might

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