Quotes about Base

A man does not come to the alms-house or the jail by the tyranny of fate or circumstance, but by the pathway of grovelling thoughts and base desires. Nor does a pure-minded man fall suddenly into crime by stress of any mere external force; the criminal thought had long been secretly fostered in the heart, and the hour of opportunity revealed its gathered power.

Only himself manacles man: thought and action are the gaolers of Fate—they imprison, being base; they are also the angels of Freedom—they liberate, being noble.

The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.

The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.

ON ANGER: "It is the base and vile bramble, the fruit of the earth's curse, that tears and rends what is next to it." Thomas Adams

It's only when the ghastly mob-sleep, the dream helplessness of the mass psyche overcomes him, that he becomes completely base and obscene

This scripture says the love of money is the very root of Satan's operation. We can cut him off at the very root and destroy his base with the love of giving. Glory to God! Is

Oh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition.

Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Galactic Empire.

The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.

So secure was his power that rumblings of discontent had finally surfaced within his own base, among black nationalists upset with his willingness to cut whites and Hispanics into the action, among activists disappointed with his failure to tackle poverty head-on, and among people who preferred the dream to the reality, impotence to compromise.

There could not be a restoration of the gospel without freedom. God provided this country as the base of his operations in these the last days, a place where there would be freedom, where he could restore his gospel.