Top 530 Based Quotes

We had to forge an alliance of strength based not on co

We had to forge an alliance of strength based not on colour but on commitment to the total abolition of apartheid and oppression; we would seek allies, of whatever colour, as long as they were totally agreed on our liberation aims.
Oliver Tambo
My entire political career has been based on building up Britain’s political standing and economic prosperity through our membership of the E.U. and the European project.
Kenneth Clarke
Wars based on principle are far more destructive… the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.
Alan Watts
All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
Mahatma Gandhi
Lincoln’s leadership is based on a number of precepts, but my favorite one is that he acted in the name, and for the good, of the people.
Steven Spielberg
My paintings and comedy have a lot in common. They are both improvisations based on observation.
Jonathan Winters
The United States and Israel have a unique relationship based on our mutual commitment to democracy, freedom, and peace. Therefore, just as our commitment to these principles must be steadfast, so must our support for Israel.
John Boehner
And it is because a series of elements in Spanish life which operate today the same way as they did in the times of Blanco White made obvious my relationship with him, based on a similarity in Spain’s condition.
Juan Goytisolo
Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
We are living in a world where everything is based on security.
Alain Robert
Nature is based on harmony. So it says if we want to survive and become more like nature, then we actually have to understand that it’s cooperation versus competition.
Bruce Lipton
Through a long and painful process, I’ve learned that happiness is an inside job – not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I’ve become a different and better person – not perfect, but still a work in progress.
Alana Stewart
However, most of my part, I play a pediatrician, and most of my role had to do with being in another place, staying at the hospital and trying to save kids and stay until people could come. So, it was more based on reality.
Sela Ward
Berlin is all about volatility. Its identity is based not on stability but on change.
Rory MacLean
We based the look on rock ‘n roll right from the beginning.
Vivienne Westwood
Among the most serious allegations a federal court can address are that an Executive agency has targeted citizens for mistreatment based on their political views. No citizen – Republican or Democrat, Socialist or libertarian – should be targeted or even have to fear being targeted on those grounds.
Raymond Kethledge
I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little know period and develop a story based on that, I will probably continue to do it.
Jean M. Auel
It’s a miracle was the last track recorded for the album, we based it on the rhythm from the middle of ‘Late Home Tonight, where there’s Graham Broad playing lots and lots of drums with me shouting in the background, pretending to be a mad Arab leader.
Roger Waters
And some of what we’re doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.
Patricia Hewitt
The new republic should be based on diversity, respect and equal rights for all.
Evo Morales
Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth.
Rupert Sheldrake
The whole universe is based on rhythms. Everything happens in circles, in spirals.
John Hartford
Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism.
Scott Pelley
When you try to build an identity based on one idea, the easy part is to stick with the good things that you do.
Nuno Espirito Santo
Anyone can write a story based on the kind of horror where you see a guy in car and then there’s the bad guy in the back seat. It’s infantile to rely on that for telling a story. That’s like going to bed and thinking there’s a monster under your bed. It’s silly.
Sergio Aragones
I am very partial to Lucknow Chikankari work. My colors that I love to work with are ivory based colors, to make it more festive I throw in Mukesh embroidery which brings the color alive.
Rhea Pillai
The scale of impact that people aspire to create, based out of the Bay Area, is truly incredible.
Ritesh Agarwal
In the end, you make your reputation and you have your success based upon credibility and being able to provide people who are really hungry for information what they want.
Brit Hume
I’ve read both books that ‘Beautiful Boy’ is based on, and I can’t wait to see that film. I root for that film.
Peter Hedges
That’s the great thing about G.I. Joe: it’s essentially superheroes, but it’s military based – and it’s based in reality.
D. J. Cotrona
When you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.
Jordan Peterson
It's almost like living a double life where I'm in a li

It’s almost like living a double life where I’m in a limbo space where Amanda Knox, a real person, exists, ‘Foxy Knoxy,’ an idea of a person, exists, and I’m constantly having to juggle how someone is interacting with me based upon that two-dimensional person of me that has been in the public’s imagination for so long.
Amanda Knox
As it happens in relationships that are open and frank and based on mutual respect, you say things as you think them, and this doesn’t mean that you don’t work together in a constructive way.
Federica Mogherini
Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.
Phyllis Schlafly
There’s no trajectory to follow. Even if you were to say, ‘OK, I’m going to model my ascent based on this other person’s,’ luck and timing play such a big part that it’s really futile.
Allison Williams
Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
Peter Ustinov
I will, based on the existing ROC constitutional system, based on democratic principles, on the basis of the largest public opinion, promote cross-strait policy.
Tsai Ing-wen
Olympism is a philosophy which, by blending sport with culture, seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of good example and respect for universal ethical principles.
Juan Antonio Samaranch
Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience.
Lasse Hallstrom
This is the absolute truth: and on this truth our tactics must be based. All tactics that are not based on this are false, and lead the proletariat to terrible defeat.
Herman Gorter
Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.
Herbert Hoover
Closest to my heart is probably ‘Toast of London’ because I came up with the character, based on a bunch of people I worked with in the industry. And Channel 4 didn’t mess with it. Head to screen, it was exactly as I wanted it.
Matt Berry
The film ‘Harjeeta’ is based on the remarkable true story of a underdog, who overcomes his circumstances, fights against all odds and at end, comes out as a winner.
Ammy Virk
The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history of Leibniz’s influence was suppressed.
Robert Trout
Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.
Julien Benda
I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek.
Patrick Stewart
My job is to interpret the law based on how the legislature and the court has done it and then, of course, to use our system of justice to develop some new legal tools and new concepts.
Bill Scott
Giving triggers social cohesion. It’s also the basis for an economy not based on money.
Lily Cole
I was voted valedictorian, and at my school it wasn’t based on grades; that was the popular vote.
Thomas Middleditch
People are saying I don’t need science, I have everything, but everything is based on science.
Rolf-Dieter Heuer
I am not anti-media at all. But the media, the news anywhere in the world, is based on drama.
Peter Jackson
A food’s value is based on how good it tastes.
Homaro Cantu
‘Harjeeta’ is a film based on the inspiring story of a sportsman, grappling with life’s struggles, and surviving against all odds and managing to end the nation’s 15-year-old drought in the Junior Championship by lifting the coveted trophy.
Ammy Virk
All my collections are based on something I like or something I’m dealing with. They are always deeply personal.
Kerby Jean-Raymond
The Postfix security model is based on keeping software simple and stupid.
Wietse Venema
I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.
Coretta Scott King
I grew up in Perugia, Umbria, in a world outside of fashion, so I didn’t learn about it until I was older and moved away. In Milan, the women are really into fashion, and all the big fashion brands are based there, but I don’t think they feel pressure to look good all the time.
Monica Bellucci
When I got ‘Youth,’ I also got a small role in ‘Star Wars.’ I didn’t know what to do. I decided to choose based on the character.
Chloe Pirrie
Experience burned into me the conviction that access to education ought to be based on how much you are willing to learn and how hard you are willing to work, not on how many dollars your family has in their bank account.
Dave Obey