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  • I'm proud to be a Cardinal. -- Stan Musial
  • [On filmmaking:] Cardinal rule: It's a youth business. -- Lynda Obst
  • One Cardinal entered his cathedral for the first time at his funeral. -- Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Cardinal rule for all hitters with two strikes on them: Never trust the umpire. -- Robert Smith
  • The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go. -- Lord Byron
  • I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award. -- Aaron Neville
  • The Cardinal ... It was as if a pulsing heart of flame passed by when he came winging through the orchard. -- Gene Stratton-Porter
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  • Cardinal Mazarin was a great knave, but no great man; much more cunning than able; scandalously false and dirtily greedy. -- Lord Chesterfield
  • If it ever lay in my power, I will work the Cardinal as much displeasure as he has done to me. -- Anne Boleyn
  • Best thing about Al Smith dinner: Cardinal Dolan got the candidates together for a brief prayer before going out on the stage. -- John I. Jenkins
  • Stan Musial, who said, Why didn't they make me the first Polish pope? I was such a good Cardinal. Never got a dinner! -- Red Buttons
  • Joining forces with Cardinal Health supports Kinray's mission to help retail independent pharmacies serve as an integral provider of care for our evolving health care system. -- Stewart Rahr
  • The patterns became even more vivid at Cardinal Hayes High School. That's when I began failing subjects and running away from home for days at a time. -- George Carlin
  • I've met people of great faith. I sat in the home of Billy Graham and in the residence of Cardinal Dolan and prayed with these men of God. -- Mitt Romney
  • Cardinal Arithmetics is much older than Number Theory. People used to exchange things way before there were numbers. Expressing numbers like 762 is already a sign of a very advanced civilization. -- Saharon Shelah
  • After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted. -- Abbe Pierre
  • Following a meeting with Hitler, Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber, a man who had 'courageously criticized the Nazi attacks on the Catholic Church' - went away convinced that Hitler was deeply religious. -- Ian Kershaw
  • The fans know and the Cardinals know that I want to be a Cardinal for my whole career. I love this city. The way that this city has embraced me and my family. -- Albert Pujols
  • The new Pope, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, is now Pope Francis the 1st. Francis was not his first choice for a name. But the Vatican wisely talked him out of Pope Boo Boo. -- Craig Ferguson
  • I've I call [Cardinal John O'Connor] from time to time and he calls me. And when I think there's something he ought to think about doing, I call him and he usually does it. -- Nat Hentoff
  • Cardinal arithmetic will be quite important for us, so we spend some time on it. Since, however, it tends to be trivial, we shall not need to spend much of this time on proofs. -- Keith Devlin
  • Cardinal Dolan, of course, has a very, very hard job: trying to hold up Catholic family values in sexually liberal New York City. I'm not saying New York is the Gay Mecca. But it's at least Gay-rusalem. -- Stephen Colbert
  • My sons remember me most as a Cardinal. My one son is 26 years old, and I don't think he's ever seen me without a beard. It's not as black as it used to be, but it's still there. -- Bruce Sutter
  • Cats exercise... a magic influence upon highly developed men of intellect. This is why these long-tailed Graces of the animal kingdom, these adorable, scintillating electric batteries have been the favorite animal of a Mohammed, Cardinal Richlieu, Crebillon, Rousseau, Wieland. -- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
  • In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written missives on doctrinal issues. -- Carl Bernstein
  • There is not less wit nor invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought. Cardinal du Perron has been heard to say that the happy application of a verse of Virgil has deserved a talent. -- Pierre Bayle
  • [Cardinal John O'Connor] had [my wife] Margot and me over for drinks a couple of times. That was something I never could have envisioned back when I was a kid in Boston, that a cardinal and I would be, if not breaking bread, at least breaking Scotch. -- Nat Hentoff
  • Here is a guy who's supposed to be the Genghis Khan of the church, the pro-choice people hate him, and I don't know about his labor background so I figured there must be more to him, and there is. I wrote a book about [John Cardinal O'Connor]. -- Nat Hentoff
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  • Charles Dickens' creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race - I say it in all seriousness - than Cardinal Newman's Lead Kindly Light Amid the Encircling Gloom. Newman only cried out for light in the gloom of a sad world. Dickens gave it. -- Stephen Leacock
  • This Prince of the Church reserved one of his rooms for cats, where overseers fed them chicken pates twice a day. When he died the overseers and cats were provided for.Cardinal Richelieu, who had dozens of cats, built a cattery at Versailles in which to house them. -- Cardinal Richelieu
  • Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. -- Thomas Hobbes
  • Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates. -- Don Marquis
  • There's a cardinal rule that you don't talk about sharks. If you don't see it, it's not there. -- Mark Warkentin
  • Every time I see a cardinal, I know my grandmother is with me. This regal, red bird was Grandma's favorite. -- Kris Carr
  • Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other. -- Joyce Meyer
  • I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance. -- John Burns
  • Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return. -- W. H. Auden
  • A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships. -- Stephen Covey
  • One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it. -- Mao Zedong
  • When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibition which renders a rapport between the patient and the external world more difficult. -- Karl Abraham
  • If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked. -- Bill Walsh
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  • In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes. -- David Attenborough
  • The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you'll inevitably get less of. Taxing corporate activity means less investing, less hiring, fewer jobs and a smaller economy, which hurts the rich, the poor and the middle class alike. -- Adam Davidson
  • In my family, there was one cardinal priority - education. College was not an option; it was mandatory. So even though we didn't have a lot of money, we made it work. I signed up for financial aid, Pell Grants, work study, anything I could. -- Eva Longoria
  • The cardinal sin in sports, what could really wreck it, is not cheating to win, which has gone on forever, but cheating to lose. That threatens a fundamental aspect of sports' appeal, which is their spontaneity. If games are fixed, they're no different from movies; they're scripted. -- Michael Mandelbaum
  • Until fairly recently, Amish teachers would reprimand the student who raised his or her hand as being too individualistic. Calling attention to oneself, or being 'prideful,' is one of the cardinal Amish worries. Having your name or photo in the papers, even talking to the press, is almost a sin. -- Howard Rheingold
  • The cardinal rule for any performer is that they should know themselves before they enter the spotlight, and I didn't. I was just Neil and I did what I was supposed to do. I was supposed to get married, so I got married. I was supposed to get a job, so I looked for work. -- Neil Diamond
  • A cardinal principle that we must not stray from - no exceptions - is that your genetic information is your business in terms of who sees it. Nobody should be gaining access to that information without your explicit permission, and nobody should be requiring you to take a genetic test unless you decide that that's what you want to do. -- Francis Collins
  • That cardinal virtue, temperance. -- Edmund Burke
  • Contempt for failure is our cardinal virtue. -- Steven Pressfield
  • The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint. -- Elsie de Wolfe
  • It is a cardinal sin to bore the reader. -- Larry Niven
  • It is unbecoming for a cardinal to ski badly. -- Pope John Paul II
  • The four cardinal points are three: South and North. -- Vicente Huidobro
  • Buddhism's cardinal ethical principle is to avoid causing harm. -- Gil Fronsdal
  • Cedric Gibbons was the grand cardinal of the art department. -- Vincente Minnelli
  • Three cardinal virtues of business: creativity, building community, practical realism. -- Ted Malloch
  • National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman. -- John Adams
  • One of the cardinal principles of Buddhism, the principle of neglect. -- Paul Theroux
  • There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient. -- Oliver Sacks
  • There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness. -- Franz Kafka
  • A cardinal American virtue, 'ambition,' promotes a cardinal American vice, 'deviant behavior. -- Robert K. Merton
  • Terrorism is one of the cardinal sins that the Koran threatens with hellfire. -- Fethullah Gulen
  • The cardinal error of science lies in shutting the Creator out of His Creation. -- Walter Russell
  • There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness. -- Frank Capra
  • Lightness of movement is the cardinal demand one has to make on a dancer. -- Frank Thiess
  • The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Prudence is one of the virtues which were called cardinal by the ancient ethical writers. -- William Fleming
  • Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses. -- John Weitz
  • If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin. -- Benmont Tench
  • The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God. -- Andrew Dickson White
  • Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience. -- David Mitchell
  • The Catholic Church has a tough new policy on child molestors: three strikes and you're a cardinal. -- David Letterman
  • The cardinal sin is not being badly dressed, but wearing the right thing in the wrong place. -- Edith Head
  • The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • a certain red cardinal sounded like a little bottle being filled up, up, up with some clear liquid. -- Elizabeth Enright
  • The cardinal rule for hosting the Miss USA and Miss Universe beauty pageants is to expect the unexpected. -- Bob Barker
  • Every transfinite consistent multiplicity, that is, every transfinite set, must have a definite aleph as its cardinal number. -- Georg Cantor
  • A cardinal rule of bureaucracy is that it is better to extend an error than to admit a mistake. -- Colin Greenwood
  • Hillary Clinton follows a cardinal rule in politics - don`t commit to a decision before you have to. -- Chris Matthews
  • The thriller is the cardinal twentieth-century form. All it, like the twentieth century, wants to know is: Who's Guilty? -- Brigid Brophy
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  • The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and achievement. -- Joseph Campbell
  • No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins. -- Eugene McCarthy
  • To me, the "tape" is the final arbiter of any investment decision. I have a cardinal rule: Never fight the tape! -- Martin Zweig
  • One of the cardinal sins in our country is profanity -- the taking of the name of the Lord in vain. -- Ezra Taft Benson
  • I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read. -- Siddhartha Mukherjee
  • A cardinal principle in systems theory is that all parties that have a stake in a system should be represented in its management. -- Malcolm Knowles
  • One cardinal rule of American journalism is that The New York Times Sunday Magazine is a chore, a bore, and a penance to be endured. -- Martin Nolan
  • The cardinal maxim is, that any aid to a present bad Bank is the surest mode of preventing the establishment of a future good Bank. -- Walter Bagehot
  • It is no coincidence that one cardinal rule in brainwashing is to remove from the victim all photographs of himself and people he has known. -- A. D. Coleman
  • A cardinal principle of the gospel is to prepare for the day of scarcity. Work, industry, frugality are part of the royal order of life. -- Keith B. McMullin
  • Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phenomenal performances of these outstanding characters will obviously show. -- Major Taylor
  • In life and business, there are two cardinal sins. The first is to act precipitously without thought and the second is to not act at all. -- Carl Icahn
  • I'm not against speaking publicly and having passion for something. One of the cardinal beauties of America is that we have the freedom to do so. -- Raul Ruiz
  • Attention must be paid' is the cardinal rule of design discipline, for the designer is above all someone who pays attention to the situation at hand. -- Ralph Caplan
  • To inflict cruelties on defenceless creatures, or condone such acts, is to abuse one of the cardinal tenets of a civilized society - reverence for life. -- Jon Evans
  • Selfishness is much more than an ordinary problem because it activates all the cardinal sins! It is the detonator in the breaking of the Ten Commandments. -- Neal A. Maxwell
  • If self is a location, so is love: Bearings taken, markings, cardinal points, Options, obstinacies, dug heels, and distance, Here and there and now and then, a stance. -- Seamus Heaney
  • Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it. -- John Adams
  • Fortunately, I knew the cardinal rule of getting on with one's fellow cooks. It applies in any kitchen and can be summed up in two short words: bust ass. -- Jacques Pepin
  • National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman, and that there is an obligation to perform such a duty absolutely irrespective of party politics or factional differences. -- John Adams
  • Pick the assumptions to pieces till the stuff they are made of is exposed to plain view - this is the cardinal rule for understanding the basis of our beliefs. -- Eric Temple Bell
  • In the action of no-action (wu-wei), a cardinal aspect of the true creative process is set forth. In wu-wei, the mind is silenced and the work is allowed to express itself. -- John Daido Loori
  • In zen, it is a cardinal sin to waste time. To waste time is to squander the here and now, which, if you think about it, is all that we have. -- Philip Toshio Sudo
  • The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Attention is the cardinal psychological virtue. On it depends perhaps the other cardinal virtues, for there can hardly be faith nor hope nor love for anything unless it first receives attention. -- James Hillman
  • In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and to keep them coming back. The longer they play, the more they lose, and in the end, we get it all... -- Robert De Niro
  • Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues - faith and hope. -- Charles Dickens
  • Intolerance is a beautiful thing...There are people that are politically correct that want to say the cardinal sin of the hour is intolerance and I think that is a bunch of junk. -- Randall Terry
  • Just as, at least in one religion, accidia is the first of the cardinal sins, so bordom, and particularly the incredible circumstance of waking up bored, was the only vice Bond utterly condemned. -- Ian Fleming
  • Funny, but after trading for more than 15 years, I still am capable of forgetting a cardinal rule: The paper you own, in the end, will be intertwined with the fate of the 30-year bond. -- Jim Cramer
  • There are three cardinal rules - don't take somebody else's boyfriend unless you've been specifically invited to do so, don't take a drink without being asked, and keep a scrupulous accounting in financial matters. -- W. H. Auden
  • Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order, they make opportunities for its illustration as often as possible. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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