Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maria Sharapova

I think at some point I may be able to dominate, but honesty, I don't think I'm physically there yet and I don't want to go out there and say I am, when I'm really not.

Lord Shaftesbury

A right mind and generous affection hath more beauty and charms than all other symmetries in the world besides; and a grain of honesty and native worth is of more value than all the adventitious ornaments, estates, or preferments; for the sake of which some of the better sort so oft turn knaves.

Richard P. Feynman

The only way to have real success in science, the field I'm familiar with, is to describe the evidence very carefully without regard to the way you feel it should be. If you have a theory , you must try to explain what's good and what's bad about it equally. In science, you learn a kind of standard integrity and honesty .

Richard J. Needham

The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.

Richard J. Needham

People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.

Richard Hofstadter

One of the primary tests of the mood of a society at any given time is whether its comfortable people tend to identify, psychologically, with the power and achievements of the very successful or with the needs and sufferings of the underprivileged.

Richard Whately

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

Richelle Mead

Not me. Give me honesty anytime.

Russell Lynes

It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.

Samuel Johnson

Wealth is nothing in itself; it is not useful but when it departs from us.

Roger Ebert

We exist to have our wealth moved up the economic chain out of our reach.

Wilson Mizner

There's nothing so comfortable as a small bankroll. A big one is always in danger.

William Greider

If we have wealth, it will be protected from inflation and possibly even enhanced in value.

Robert G. Allen

Wealth is thoughts, not things.

William E. Gladstone

Commerce is the equalizer of the wealth of nations.

Jacque Fresco

When you live in a false society, that bases its wealth upon money, then that society itself will collapse eventually. Not because I say so, because it's not based on physical reference.

Henry George

The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each gets in proportion to his contribution to the general stock.

Mahatma Gandhi

The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society.

Jim Martin

I also worked as a lobbyist, Mr. Reed. My job was working as a lobbyist for poor people, consumers, the mentally ill and disabled.

Bill Rogers

I think their whole search has a pall over it because of illegal actions.

Mary Burns

We're pleased that the Illinois legislature has seen the worth of this. And knows that this is the way we protect our children.

Jerry Owens

I think it's real sad because these people are really saying it's OK to be illegal aliens. What Americans are saying is 'Yes, come here. But come here legally.' And I think that's the big problem.

H. Hart

It is illegal for them to sell an item that they know can be used to ingest or inhale an illegal substance.

Mike Quigley

I don't buy that there's nothing we can do to stop criminals and the mentally ill from killing if they want to.

Raimund Fabi

He will not ski because he is ill and has pneumonia. He's back in Austria and had his last test today.

Robin Cook

Chicken masala is now Britain's true national dish, not only because it is the most popular, but because it is a perfect illustration of the way Britain absorbs and adapts external influences.

Virginia Woolf

Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?