Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price.
Republican attacks are without basis, but when the Democrats attack me they're usually right.
You could have the bases loaded, and you bring up the best pinch-hitter in the world to pinch hit, he hits into a double play, and then all of a sudden: 'How could you do that?'
When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.
Life ought to be lived on a basis of silence, where truth blossoms.
I do my laundry on a weekly basis.
Legitimacy, when challenged, bases itself on an appeal to the past, while justification relates to an end that lies in the future. Violence can be justifiable, but it never will be legitimate.
Coach Bo Pelini and coach Carl Pelini are two coaches I talk to on a regular basis, especially coach Bo. They are coaches I feel elevated my game.
Love is the basis of our friendship as it is of religion.
The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.
Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part.
I don't read my own press, so I don't know what's being reported on a daily basis - I only hear about things when they reach a sort of Def-Con status, and my publicist calls me because we have to do some damage control.
Since life itself is uncertain, nothing which has life for its basis can boast much stability.
I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.
All conceptions in the game of chess have a geometrical basis.
Make yourself useful, not just on a day to day basis, but as a lifetime thing.
I myself happen to find, on the basis of experience and nothing else, that photography can be a high art.
Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved.
The break from the supposedly culturally-narrow religious bases of knowledge in favor of supposedly trans-cultural scientific bases of knowledge served as the self-justification of a particularly pernicious form of cultural imperialism.
The basis of all good human behavior is kindness.