Top 214 Cardinal Quotes & Sayings

Buddhism’s cardinal ethical principle is to avoid causing harm.

[On filmmaking:] Cardinal rule: It's a youth business.

There is something which unites magic and applied science (technology) while separating them from the "wisdom" of earlier ages. For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline , and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

The National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman.

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.

There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient.

I like [John Cardinal O'Connor] a lot. He - I started a - to know him - when I asked William Shawn at The New Yorker, `Sh - can I do a profile of Cardinal O'Connor?' He said, `All right. Find out what he's like.' So I went to his office, and I heard somebody - and it turned out to be O'Connor - yelling outside, and I've never heard him since raise his voice.

Three cardinal virtues of business: creativity, building community, practical realism.

One of the cardinal sins in our country is profanity -- the taking of the name of the Lord in vain.

The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.

The Jackdaw sat in the Cardinal's chair! Bishop and Abbot and Prior were there, Many a monk and many a friar, Many a knight and many a squire, With a great many more of lesser degree,-- In sooth a goodly company; And they served the Lord Primate on bended knee. Never, I ween, Was a prouder seen, Read of in books or dreamt of in dreams, Than the Cardinal Lord Archbishop of Rheims.

Prudence is one of the virtues which were called cardinal by the ancient ethical writers.

If it ever lay in my power, I will work the Cardinal as much displeasure as he has done to me.

The Cardinal ... It was as if a pulsing heart of flame passed by when he came winging through the orchard.

It is a cardinal sin to bore the reader.

A cardinal rule of bureaucracy is that it is better to extend an error than to admit a mistake.

The one and only time I met Pope Benedict XVI was when he was Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger.

I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award.

The cardinal points are a direct reference to the astrological colures. The Cardinals surround the Pope as the cardinal points surround the sun. The sun casts its rays on the Houses as it passes, turning them crimson. The color worn by the physical Cardinals is red, to symbolize that they are illuminated by their proximity to the Pope, the representative of God on earth. The word Pope, may also be a derivative of the word in Egyptian for the evil serpent Apep, Apophis or Apopsa (See Poop Deck and Pupa, and Pepsi, Pepsid, Dr. Pepper, Sgt. Pepper, etc,).

There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness.

Every time I see a cardinal, I know my grandmother is with me. This regal, red bird was Grandma's favorite.

During a frustrating argument with a Roman Catholic cardinal, Napoleon Bonaparte supposedly burst out: “Your eminence, are you not aware that I have the power to destroy the Catholic Church?” The cardinal, the anecdote goes, responded ruefully: “Your majesty, we, the Catholic clergy, have done our best to destroy the church for the last 1,800 years. We have not succeeded, and neither will you.”

[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.

For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline, and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.

It's weird that I'm putting my old green and gold jersey, and I'm moving on to the cardinal and white. I'm a Stanford Cardinal.

If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin.

The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.

It is unbecoming for a cardinal to ski badly.

Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.

Contempt for failure is our cardinal virtue.

Lightness of movement is the cardinal demand one has to make on a dancer.

Hillary Clinton follows a cardinal rule in politics - don't commit to a decision before you have to.

Terrorism is one of the cardinal sins that the Koran threatens with hellfire.

There's a cardinal rule that you don't talk about sharks. If you don't see it, it's not there.

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.

The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing — to be clear.

The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.

The Catholic Church has a tough new policy on child molestors: three strikes and you're a cardinal.

?"Cardinal Baggia," the killer hissed. "Have you prayed yet?" The Italian's eyes were fearless. "Only for your soul.

Breaking a cardinal rule of spy craft, I actually let it be known that I wanted to work for the CIA.

A cardinal American virtue, 'ambition,' promotes a cardinal American vice, 'deviant behavior.

It's such an honour being banned in Italy, the mother of sensuality. It's like being asked to straighten your tie in a bordello... It's ironic that the pictures were removed on the complaint of a cardinal. I regard censorship as a cardinal sin.

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.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

The cardinal error of science lies in shutting the Creator out of His Creation.

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.

That cardinal virtue, temperance.

The cardinal sin is not being badly dressed, but wearing the right thing in the wrong place.

Cardinal rule for all hitters with two strikes on them: Never trust the umpire.

The four cardinal points are three: South and North.

Cedric Gibbons was the grand cardinal of the art department.

A cardinal principle in systems theory is that all parties that have a stake in a system should be represented in its management.

Speaking about symmetry, look out our window, and you may see a cardinal attacking its reflection in the window. The cardinal is the only bird we have who often does this. If it has a nest nearby, the cardinal thinks there is another cardinal trying to invade its territory. It never realizes it is attacking its own reflection. Cardinals don't know much about mirror symmetry!

I'm proud to be a Cardinal.

No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins.

One of the cardinal principles of Buddhism, the principle of neglect.

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.