Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Foster Bennett

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

Rene Descartes

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.

Thomas Paine

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

Thomas Sowell

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

Thomas Jefferson

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Steve Squyres

Having been given that public trust, we have a responsibility to share with the public.

Stephen Leacock

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

Stephen Leacock

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

Stephen King

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Ashton Eaton

I want to see where I measure up against everyone in the world and everyone who has ever competed in the sport, and there's that innate sense of wanting to challenge myself. I'm competitive in all aspects.

Arthur Ashe

My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.

Jamie Foxx

I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling.

Carroll Shelby

In 1964, when Lee Iacocca said, 'Shelby, I want you to make a sports car out of the Mustang,' the first thing I said was, 'Lee, you can't make a race horse out of a mule. I don't want to do it.' He said, 'I didn't ask you to make it; you work for me.'

Aimee Mullins

The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body's normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.

Charles Barkley

There's nobody you'd rather beat than your good friend.

Charles Barkley

Curling is not a sport. I called my grandmother and told her she could win a gold medal because they have dusting in the Olympics now.

Jason Collins

I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black. And I'm gay. I didn't set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport. But since I am, I'm happy to start the conversation. I wish I wasn't the kid in the classroom raising his hand and saying, 'I'm different.' If I had my way, someone else would have already done this. Nobody has, which is why I'm raising my hand.

Jason Bateman

I played a ton of team sports growing up, and team wins are just incredibly gratifying.

Azar Nafisi

What we search for in fiction is not so much reality, but the epiphany of truth.

Brian Bosworth

You see 'awesome' and I see 'lost.' It's very easy to lose touch with reality when you've got that many people thinking you are more than you really are.

Jamie Drummond

Not only has President Bush broken his word on funding, he has not put in the effort required to turn this excellent idea into a lifesaving reality.

Carl Sandburg

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.

Arthur C. Clarke

Any path to knowledge is a path to God-or Reality, whichever word one prefers to use

Brian Cox

We explore because we are curious, not because we wish to develop grand views of reality or better widgets.

Bret Easton Ellis

What keeps me interested--and it always does--is how can she be a bad actress on film but a good one in reality?

Bret Easton Ellis

I had all the characteristics of a human being—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that my normal ability to feel compassion had been eradicated, the victim of a slow, purposeful erasure. I was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human being, with only a dim corner of my mind functioning

Bob Dylan

Ain't no use jiving, ain't no use joking, everything is broken.