Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nong Manh

It is not that there is more corruption than before, it is that they are being uncovered and we need to punish them.

George Marek

Hypocracy defined: A modern form of government by hypocrisy.

Vladimir Putin

I'm sure corruption in Chechnya is minimal.

Tony Leon

If you vote ANC, you get failed delivery and corruption. Voting for a third party is the same as voting ANC. And if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve.

Nick Lampson

If you put the work that I have done and the support that I've been given ... to the legacy of theft, corruption and neglect that Tom DeLay seems to have earned for himself, I think he saw the handwriting on the wall, that it was something he couldn't win, and made the decision to get out.

Leah Rush

In the last couple years, federal investigations on public corruption laws are sometimes how these things are discovered.

David Nussbaum

In an environment where the rule of law is still to be fully established, ensuring that there's no corruption is an extremely difficult thing to do.

Alfred Whitehead

Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt egerneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life

Ramsey Lewis

It's corruption from the inside. Not thievery or mischievousness, but falling prey to needing money quickly to pay the execs and shareholders.

Maisie Williams

I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house.

Aarti Sequeira

I don't cook fancy every day. I don't think anybody can, nor would it be very good for you.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

Fancy brings us as many vain hopes as idle fears.

Jack Bruce

I'm not going with some big time producer who takes over completely and I'm just a sideman. I wouldn't fancy that really.

Marquis de Sade

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.

Nicole Miller

Its so boring to just hire a fancy caterer and have them do everything.

Lily Allen

I quite fancy Graham Coxon. I haven't met him yet, though. I'd like to.

Lillian Hellman

I'm good at embroidery. It's what I always wanted to do.... Yep, instead of whoring, I just wanted to do fancy embroidery.

Simon Baker

I don't like fancy fiddly girlie stuff.

Jeremy Jacobs

Jacques had done street theater in Paris. He'd always been interested in large architectural structures and how humans interact with them.

Milo Hamilton

He rode managers. He rode players. It didn't matter. He treated everyone the same way. In short, he was a miserable human being.

Paul Taylor

I think that's a Jewish trait, ... It's also a human trait.

Jenna Marbles

There is no cure for ugly, but you can make yourself into a human optical illusion.

C. Hughes

We are experiencing a human catastrophe of immense proportions, ... We pray today for those who have lost their lives ... and for those who are risking their lives to rescue others.

Jon Ronson

I was always out to paint them with human characteristics we could relate to. They really are, by and large, personable in the flesh.

Nick Cave

I'm not someone who's particularly in touch with the way they feel. I've heard it said that you should be a 'human being' not a 'human doing', but I'm a human doing, very much so.

John Ashcroft

Human trafficking victims are too often people like Got. Too young, too frightened, and too trapped in their circumstances to speak for themselves, ... This is a 4-year-old child. He's a shy, tender little boy.

Paul Martin

Humans are really expensive, and they're really slow.

Johann G. Seume

Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.

Jeremy Collier

Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

Robert Dale Owen

It is idle to await unanimity.

African Proverbs

The crows, the idle person grumbles. - Yoruba, Nigeria

Gustav Mahler

Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.

Victor Hugo

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.

Stephen Merchant

I used to be quite a big video game player at university and post-university in that weird moment in life before you have a proper job and you've got a lot of idle time.

Eliphas Levi

Fear is nothing but idleness of the will...

Alexander McCall Smith

I am capable of being idle.

Eliot Spitzer

Risk is inherent in the market, ... We all understand that and we thrive on that; what we don't tolerate is fraud.

Steve Cauthen

The inherent risks of being a jockey are there whether you're 16 or whether you're 60.

Martin Freeman

Although there's an inherent light-heartedness to 'Sherlock,' I slightly err towards not doing the comedy.

Madhur Bhandarkar

My inherent belief is that motherhood is pious, and I am humbled by it.

Monty Python

Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help, help! I'm being repressed!

David Lodge

These species are not inherently bad. They're just in the wrong place.

James Gray

The state of being in love is so inherently preposterous. It usually lends itself to romantic comedy. I think we've all been there.

Peter Beck

The very nature of sweeping reforms would be inherently destabilizing to the regime. So it's more likely they would be halting reforms.

Alain Sergile

This is something that is not inherent in the operating system.

Kay Redfield Jamison

It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.

Kathy Griffin

KATHY GRIFFIN: MY LIFE ON THE D-LIST ... To Kathy Griffin. Warmest wishes, Renee Zellweger.

Mack Strong

Just things that I've never experienced in my life.

Tom Arnold

I swear on my life that is true.

Mike Summers

It can't be any better. Life has been such a blessing.

Tiffeny Milbrett

I want to be the goal scorer and the play maker out there. I have been doing that all my life.

Daniel Woodrell

I'd met some awfully tough gals in my life, and I find them compelling, if I don't have to socialize with them too much.

Danny Aiello

I was just so blatantly shy throughout my life.

Danny Aiello

At some point in my life, before I was gone, I wanted to make an album, even if it was for no reason other than posterity.

Oscar Wilde

Insincerity is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities

Jim Tracy

It's better than nice. Better than nice. That says a lot. The mere suggestion of it says a lot.

Susan Danly

They have a viewpoint, they have a story to tell, and all of their photos tell that story. This isn't merely a record of something, it has an implication.

Jose Vistan

It merely compounded the problems that have been hounding the country,

Charles M. Schwab

For my own part I am more interested in my work than its mere money value.

Benjamin Franklin

A poet is the mere wastepaper of mankind.

C. S. Lewis

When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them.

Eric Rasmussen

The problem with much of that thinking is that it's taking something from today, like movies, and merely putting it on the Web.

Niels Bohr

You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.

Paul Emsley

I have painted and drawn bulls for some time because of their density and all the symbolism they carry.

Shirin Neshat

Poets use metaphors and symbolism to construct images. I construct my images in the same way, except that I am using a different form.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive.

Haruki Murakami

I don't know a whole lot about symbolism. There seems to me to be a potential danger in symbolism. I feel more comfortable with metaphors and similes.

Edward Albee

I don't like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal.

Arthur C. Clarke

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

Sigmund Freud

After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination.

John Schlesinger

Symbolism perhaps is a bit in your face, and I've tried my best to control that as best I can as I've grown older and thought that one could approach something with a little more subtlety.

The Weeknd

I usually dont like to spoon feed my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Implication is thus the very texture of our web of belief, and logic is the theory that traces it.

Joan Didion

Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.

Binyavanga Wainaina

I love playing with words and texture.

Ricky Gervais

I'm quite squeamish, really. I'm philistine and unsophisticated - not because of my great discerning palate but other reasons. Some are moral grounds, some texture.

Dylan Thomas

The best poem is that whose worked-upon unmagical passages come closest, in texture and intensity, to those moments of magical accident.

Mario Batali

Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it's just as fast.