I make a distinction between manners and etiquette - manners as the principles, which are eternal and universal, etiquette as the particular rules which are arbitrary and different in different times, different situations, different cultures.
The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.
I was not so committed to financial success that I was willing to abandon my principles and priorities. One of the most visible examples of this is our decision to close on Sunday.
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.
There is no question but that the laws and principles which Solon laid down both foreshadowed and prepared the way for all republics of later ages, including our own.
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.
Collaboration and augmentation are the foundational principles of innovation.
I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era.
One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may.
What I want to make clear though is that we oppose terrorism in any form. However, any operation against terrorism should be under the framework of the United Nations and follow the fundamental principles of international laws.
I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz.
I'm running for Congress to reverse Obama's big government policies, to be faithful to the principles on which our nation was founded, and to make members of Congress play by the same rules as the rest of us.
The Tory party is at is strongest when it is in tune with the hopes and aspirations of Britain's hard-working, law-abiding majority, and when it governs through clear Conservative principles.
Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.
Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century.
Great nations need organizing principles, and 'Don't do stupid stuff' is not an organizing principle.
When we began Starbucks, what I wanted to try to do was to create a set of values, guiding principles, and culture.
According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.