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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure. -- Sallust
Bluegrass is wonderful music. I'm glad I originated it. -- Bill Monroe
He was a wise man who originated the idea of God. -- Euripides
Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong. -- Thomas Carlyle
I originated my own cliches, but I'm finding that's not working for me anymore. -- Tom Bodett
In terms of economic growth, PIMCO originated the famous phrase the 'new normal.' -- Bill Gross
Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California. -- Edsger Dijkstra
A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles. -- Thomas Sprat
Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts. -- Henry A. Kissinger
I don't know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, it's always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon, sans anesthesia. -- Koren Zailckas
House music originated in America, and it has always been around, but I guess it just got a tighter hold on Europe and other parts of the world. -- Avicii
The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner. -- Albert J. Nock
If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions on the human mind. -- Wilhelm von Humboldt
The journey and excursions in Mexico which have originated the narrative and remarks contained in this volume were made in the months of March, April, May, and June of 1856, for the most part on horseback. -- Edward Burnett Tylor
Mankind is not special by virtue of our address in the universe, or what spins around us, or because life originated here. Slowly, but surely, we've been compelled to renounce the comfort of these beliefs. -- Nathan Myhrvold
The focus of my research is how secular movements originated in West Asian countries and subsequently changed to pan-Islamic movements. The role of Western countries in this aspect is also a part of the research. -- Taslima Nasrin
When most of us hear the phrase, 'survival of the fittest,' we assume it originated with Charles Darwin. It did not. The phrase doesn't exist anywhere in Darwin's first edition of 'Origin of the Species.' -- Joel A. Barker
Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
I don't know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, it's always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon, sans anesthesia. As a memoirist, you have to crack your head open and examine every uncomfortable thing in there. -- Koren Zailckas
But I think mainly, you know, just up in the East Coast, it's where it all originated. You know, Philadelphia. It goes back to the beginning. So, you know, fans have a lot of history, and they love their teams up here. -- Rafael Palmeiro
From food trucks to hot dog stands to county fair favorites, 'street food' has enjoyed a rich and storied history in American cuisine. However, street food has been around for thousands of years. In fact, street food is believed to have originated as far back as Ancient Rome. -- Homaro Cantu
Modern science says: 'The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.' From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom. -- Nikola Tesla
I think Yandex is something in between two different cultures. One originated from the old Soviet culture of the scientific institute. It was a free atmosphere of scientists, maybe too free because nobody cared about making money. Another origin is something close to what you usually see in California startups. -- Arkady Volozh
The term 'alpha female' originated in my field of animal behavior, but has acquired new meaning. It refers to women who are in charge, for example, by flirting and dating on their own terms. It is also used maliciously for a loud-mouthed, controlling woman who has no patience with deviating opinions. -- Frans de Waal
The art of phlebotomy originated with bloodletting in 1400 B.C., and the modern clinical lab emerged in the 1960s - and it has not fundamentally evolved since then. You go in, sit down, they put a tourniquet on your arm, stick you with a needle, take these tubes and tubes of blood. -- Elizabeth Holmes
Tarot cards likely originated in northern Italy during the late 14th or early 15th century. The oldest surviving set, known as the Visconti-Sforza deck, was created for the Duke of Milan's family around 1440. The cards were used to play a bridge-like game known as tarocchi, popular at the time among nobles and other leisure lovers. -- Brendan I. Koerner
Money could never have originated as paper. -- James Cook
Who originated that most exquisite of inquisitions, the condolence system? -- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
Some people, when they hear an echo, think they originated the sound. -- Ernest Hemingway
I believe every change any word has undergone probably originated in ignorance. -- Rita Mae Brown
Often an idea has impact far larger than the person who originated it. -- Ramez Naam
My commitment originated in my own story and my own relationship to violence. -- Eve Ensler
Life originated in the sea, and about eighty percent of it is still there. -- Isaac Asimov
We sometimes think of quotations as extracts from larger texts, but some quotations originated complete unto themselves. -- Gary Saul Morson
All important things in art have always originated from the deepest feeling about the mystery of Being. -- Max Beckmann
After playing Ballybunion for the first time, a man would think that the game of golf originated here. -- Tom Watson
Yandex originated from a company called Arkadia, which created two search programs under the DOS operating system in 1990. -- Arkady Volozh
Like sin itself, Satan appeals to the senses. He originated and perfected the art of disguising evil as good. -- Charles R. Swindoll
Theatre probably originated without texts, but by the time we get to the classical Greek period, theatre has become text-based. -- Tom Stoppard
The idea of the divine-human friendship originated with God. Had not God said first 'Ye are my friends?' (John 15:14) -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
It is said that there is a principle of conflict which originated with the single cell and has never deteriorated. -- Frank Herbert
Money originated with royalty and slavery, it has nothing to do with democracy or the struggle of the empoverished enslaved majority. -- Aristotle
It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: Is it true in and for itself? -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
A resolution to exercise or eat more nutritious foods is a step taking you back to the well-being from which you originated. -- Wayne Dyer
I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition. -- Martin Heidegger
Alexander Hamilton originated the put and take system in our national treasury: the taxpayers put it in, and the politicians take it out -- Will Rogers
Defending ourselves from internet-based attacks, internet-originated attacks, is much, much more important than our ability to launch attacks against similar targets in foreign countries. -- Edward Snowden
After all, the internet originated around 1960 and wasn't privatized until 1995. That's thirty five years in the public domain during the hard, creative development period. -- Noam Chomsky
The best ideas are the honest ones. Ones born out of personal experience. Ones that originated to help a few but ended up helping many. -- Simon Sinek
All sciences originated among the sons of Israel, the reason being the existence of prophecy among them which made their perfection in the sciences amazing. -- Averroes
Whoever originated the cliche that money is the root of all evil knew hardly anything about the nature of evil and very little about human beings. -- Eric Hoffer
The Council on Foreign Relations is the American branch of a society which originated in England ... [and] ... believes national boundaries should be obliterated and one-world rule established. -- Carroll Quigley
Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force of all. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Religion is a superstition that originated in man`s mental inability to solve natural phenomena. The Church is an orgainized institution that has always been stumbling to block progress. -- Emma Goldman
If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind. -- Wilhelm von Humboldt
I was not an atheist. Few people really are, for that means blind faith in the strange proposition that this universe originated in a cipher and aimlessly rushes nowhere. -- Bill W.
In the year of 1902, when I was about seventeen years old, I happened to invade one of the sections [in New Orleans] where the birth of Jazz originated from. -- Jelly Roll Morton
Marriage probably originated as a straightforward food-for-sex deal among foraging primates. Compatibility was not a big issue, nor, of course, was there any tension over who would control the remote. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
I'm always a person that's a little suspicious of anything that's been converted in post, but if I know that it's been originated, either in live-action or animation, I'm intrigued. -- Dean DeBlois
The moon likes secrets," Meran said. "And secret things. She lets mysteries bleed into her shadows and leaves us to ask whether they originated from otherworlds, or from our own imaginations. -- Charles de Lint
Antipater, now undisputed heir, had called down on his head the utter loathing of the nation, for everyone knew that all the slanders directed against his brothers had originated with him. -- Josephus
Whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth. -- Paulo Coelho
I've found that there isn't any correlation whatsoever between the hours put in and the quality of what comes out. Most of the Beatles' songs probably originated in about five minutes. -- Tom Hodgkinson
I've been fortunate in my career to have performed in revivals of great musicals and to have originated roles in musicals that have in turn been revived. And I'm not dead! -- Bernadette Peters
Horror films have been with us forever, so you can't say I originated that in any way, but it sort of brought back a classical way to make a horror film. -- Roger Corman
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Above all do not ask that justice be just: It is just, because it is justice. The idea of a just justice could have originated only in the brain of an anarchist. -- Honore de Balzac
The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated namely, the lavatory. -- Karl Kraus
The truth is, my folk-lore friends and my Saturday Reviewer differ with me on the important problem of the origin of folk-tales. They think that a tale probably originated where it was found. -- Joseph Jacobs
We like to take credit when we get a new idea, as if we originated the idea in our brain, but what we actually did was no less extraordinary: we channeled the idea. -- Chris Prentiss
The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The ideal of the supreme being is nothing but a regulative principle of reason which directs us to look upon all connection in the world as if it originated from an all-sufficient necessary cause. -- Immanuel Kant
From the scientific view, the theory of karma may be a metaphysical assumption -- but it is no more so than the assumption that all of life is material and originated out of pure chance -- Dalai Lama
Take Christ out of the gospel, and you take its very heart out. He has not only originated a system, but He has put Himself into it, as its very life and soul and power. -- Herrick Johnson
Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion. -- Toni Morrison

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