Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means.

Charles Caleb Colton

The integrity that lives only on opinion would starve without it.

Alan Watts

There is an ineffable mystery that underlies ourselves and the world. It is the darkness from which the light shines. When you recognize the integrity of the universe and that death is as certain as birth, then you can relax and accept that this is the way it is. There is nothing else to do.

Alan Greenspan

There is nothing to guarantee the superior judgment, knowledge, and integrity of an inspector or a bureaucrat-and the deadly consequences of entrusting him with arbitrary power are obvious.

Alan Greenspan

Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding that men survive by means of virtue, not vices. It is this superlatively moral system that the welfare statists propose to improve upon by means of preventative law, snooping bureaucrats, and the chronic goad of fear.

Alan Bullock

No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance.

Alan Autry

We must do more to protect our neighborhoods and give integrity to our community plans.

Chris Cannon

Americans are rightly concerned about the security and the integrity of the nation's borders because the system is broken. Some are concerned about the possibility of terrorists crossing our borders and coming into our cities.

Chloe Sevigny

I am most proud of my integrity and least proud of my cynicism.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I was always lucky that I've always had a gig, I'm fortunate in that way.

Ed Bradley

And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Luck is for the ill-prepared.

Bear Grylls

Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.

Bear Grylls

Never depend on those luck moments – they are gifts – but instead always build your own back-up plan.

Bill Mumy

I'm very lucky to work in so many different arenas of the entertainment industry and I do enjoy them all, but making music - original music - in the studio or live onstage is definitely my favorite thing to do.

Charlotte Bronte

Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter.

Chester W. Nimitz

Luck can be attributed to a well-conceived plan carried out by a well-trained and indoctrinated task group.

Charlize Theron

I'd be unbelievably wrong to say there isn't such a thing as the right place, right time-luck.