Based Quotes

My whole belief system is that our paths are drawn for us. I believe in reincarnation. I believe we're here to learn and grow. We choose how we come into this life based on what it is we have to learn. Some people have harder lessons than others.

My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man by his entire development, his desires, and striving can only have been destined by fate to lead our people into a brighter future.

Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings.

I think journalists have the right to their opinions but I think their opinions should be based on history and what they see, not what they feel, how long they've been waiting or whether it's raining or it's snowing or whatever.

I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on the same elements. I think that's a beautiful line.

Fact is based upon vulgar matter.

In my job I meet many outstanding, world class, British based companies. But we need more companies and more jobs in the companies we have.

If you want my opinion, I say that this is a state based on occupation, that has usurped the rights of others.

I never made a career decision based solely on my desire to be an astronaut. I attended the Naval Academy because I wanted to be a Navy pilot. I majored in math because math had always come pretty easily to me and I liked it.

Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph; with time it fades.

I had an idea of what I thought was funny. It's kind of based on how I am.

Stay with us, please remain in this country and constitute a nation based on national unity.

The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population.

Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.

The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.

It should be known that Israel is based on treachery.

It used to be only on TV that women could lead, that a show could be based on a woman.

You're being cast for your acting ability. It's not based on the way your body functions. If you're playing a lead in a movie, it's for that character and they'll tailor it to you. In a dance company, you have to fit in a definite mold.

Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion?

I think that whenever there's a good script we try to make that happen, but it's all based off of a good story, a good script, but I don't believe you should do it just because it's African-American.

We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.

Interleaf is based on the formatting process.

Our recent 5-year labour agreements, in Canada as well as the United States, are based upon experience, logic and principle rather than on pressure, propaganda and force.

Olympism is a philosophy which, by blending sport with culture, seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of good example and respect for universal ethical principles.

Well, we're just now seeing the reductions in mortgage rates. The mortgage rates are based on the ten-year rate and the Fed controls the overnight or the shorter rates.

'The New York Times' list is a bunch of crap. They ought to call it the editor's choice. It sure isn't based on sales.

Based on all criteria - military power, economic influence, cultural dominance - America remains number one, even though other, new players are increasingly challenging it in that role.

The friend that I based Heffer on was adopted, and it all played into his total personality.

If God is sovereign, then it is impossible for civil government to be neutral on issues of law. All law is based in some religious code.

I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.