Traditional news is often full of mistakes, but I think that people are getting more sophisticated in knowing what to trust and what not to trust.

I hate any match that isn’t a traditional Tag Team Match or a traditional Singles Match, because anything can happen. It’s truly one of those deals where it’s all about being in the right place at the right time.

If a traditional publisher offered me a quarter of a million dollars for a novel, I’d consider it. But anything less than that, I’m sure I can do better on my own.

I doubt I’ll ever have another traditional print deal.

Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art.

My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front. It’s just not December without that movie in my house.

The true beauty of baseball is found in its traditions, from the seventh-inning stretch to the crack of the bat

Lee Ann Womack is from near where I grew up in East Texas, so I’ve always looked up to her. I sang a lot of Dolly Parton as a kid and a lot of traditional western swing, like Patsy Cline and Roy Rogers.

Baseball is a sport that demands respect for tradition and an openness to innovation

Two widely dissimilar races, whether equal or not, cannot peaceably coexist in the same territory until they are either uniformly mongrelised or cast in folkways of permanent and traditional personal aloofness.

I do not regard the rise of woman as a bad sign. Rather do I fancy that her traditional subordination was itself an artificial and undesirable condition based on Oriental influences. Our virile Teutonic ancestors did not think their wives unworthy to follow them into battle, or scorn to dream of winged Valkyries bearing them to Valhalla.

We seem, as a culture, to start to adhere to these antiheroes and have grown tired of the traditional, straight-up-and-down good guy.

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity

I’m not a jack of all trades; I’m a master of many. I don’t feel there is anything I can’t do if I want to

Traditional credentialing really doesn’t have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart” “It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability that counts.” “Let God’s promises shine on your problems.” “Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning is a skill.

Universities won’t survive. The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast.

Thing is, I went to a born-again Christian high school, was brought up in a traditional Mormon family where these ideas about parenting are of structure and sacrifice. To think outside of that idea of family and parenting that I’ve grown up with is tough but also very freeing.

The average, vague understanding of being can be permeated by traditional theories and opinions about being in such a way that these theories, as the sources of the prevailing understanding, remain hidden.

Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.

The truths of the Judaic-Christian tradition, are infinitely precious, not only, as I believe, because they are true, but also because they provide the moral impulse which alone can lead to that peace, in the true meaning of the word, for which we all long. . . . There is little hope for democracy if the hearts of men and women in democratic societies cannot be touched by a call to something greater than themselves.

I think people, if you really want to be happy, you have to find God yourself, and you’re going to have to have a personal, one-on-one relationship and not look to get through these traditions or these rituals and all this crazy stuff when you could talk to him right here, right now, anytime, anywhere, any place, from any position. And that’s the kind of relationship you want, not a standard.

The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports – football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported.

Of wisdom’s dictates two are principal,
Surpassing all your lore traditional;
Better to fast than eat of every meat.
Better to live alone than mate with all!

You can find things in the traditional religions which are very benign and decent and wonderful and so on, but I mean, the Bible is probably the most genocidal book in the literary canon. The God of the Bible – not only did He order His chosen people to carry out literal genocide – I mean, wipe out every Amalekite to the last man, woman, child, and, you know, donkey and so on, because hundreds of years ago they got in your way when you were trying to cross the desert – not only did He do things like that, but, after all, the God of the Bible was ready to destroy every living creature on earth because some humans irritated Him. That’s the story of Noah. I mean, that’s beyond genocide – you don’t know how to describe this creature. Somebody offended Him, and He was going to destroy every living being on earth? And then He was talked into allowing two of each species to stay alive – that’s supposed to be gentle and wonderful.

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.

Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own.

The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo

Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.