After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.
Elvis Presley

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
Thomas Sowell

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
Tennessee Williams

I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.
Dan Quayle

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
Joseph Addison

To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.
E. Stanley Jones

Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.
E. Stanley Jones

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
Will Durant

The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended and actively promoted by London and Dublin.
Gerry Adams

The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.
Nora Ephron

To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
Maria Montessori

The basic idea was that if a country would put its economy as an integrated piece of the world system, that it would benefit from that with economic growth. I concur with that basic view.
Jeffrey Sachs

My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in supporting Israel honors our own heritage.
Gerald R. Ford

The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.
Steven Biko

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
Imelda Marcos

When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy.
John Cleese

I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights.
Sonia Sotomayor

Basically it starts with four months of training, just basic stretching, kicking and punching. Then you come to the choreography and getting ready to put the dance together.
Keanu Reeves

I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!
Philip Pullman

I can install toilets. I know all about the wax ring. I can tile floors. I'm learning how to do basic wiring.
Sandra Bullock