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.

J. Horton

It causes severe illness and high mortality rates.

O. Singh

He is subject to no one else s rule, and the Lord, the King, causes everyone to fall at his feet.

Juan Pierre

This was only the first game, but this game it was evident that once you get guys on base, it causes havoc. It's not just me, it's anybody. That's my intent to start off the game, not necessarily with a triple, but to have a good at-bat and let the offense take it from there.

Walter Cunningham

I think it's important, because we have so many children, who are, more or less like latch-key children, or children who are on their own. They need a plan. This gives them a plan, rather than keeping all this to themselves, which festers and causes more problems internally. Now they know who to go to for help.

Azzam Tamimi

What may be seen as a glorification of terrorism by one person might be seen as an explanation of the causes of terrorism by another person.

E. B. White

When hotels close it causes a serious loss, not only in terms of room sales, but also in terms of jobs and tax revenues.

Loren Thompson

What you see in these examples is that the Nunn-McCurdy cost breaches cover a lot of diversity in terms of causes and consequences. To punish programs equally for such different difficulties is not constructive.

Tony DiCecco

I think we have a really good team. I think it's a team that causes and creates problems for people who play us.

Stephen Flynn

It isn't the event but the sudden lack of faith in the system that it causes.

Cynthia Jeanguenat

I have done those for people who have received those letters and they find out they have a refund.

Greg Strobel

I am going to miss each one of them for special reasons. Zinck, for his maturity and the forwardness in the way he practices; Coop in terms of the way he wrestles, he's just phenomenal in the practice room; Letters with his talent; and Frick with his hard-nosed attitude.

Joanne Cortese

He'd write letters to people he'd feel should be donors.

Virginia Woolf

The best letters of our time are precisely those that can never be published.

Virginia Woolf

I was so pleased and excited by your letter that I trotted about all day like a puppy with a bone.

Salman Rushdie

I get a lot of letters - a lot of letters saying, who knew that you were funny?

Zora Neale Hurston

truth is a letter from courage!

Yogi Berra

Never answer an anonymous letter.

Samuel Johnson

A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation - a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something.