Famous Quotes & Sayings

A. Hodge

No one truth is rightly held till it is clearly conceived and stated, and no single truth is adequately comprehended till it is viewed in harmonious relations to all the other truths of the system of which Christ is the centre

Richard Russo

I can be glib and truthful all at once.

Robert De Niro

There is only one way to gain access to the truth and that is to not expect anything.

Vera Farmiga

Honesty is not synonymous with truth.

Robert Ringer

People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.

Robert Redford

What is it with you people? You think not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?

Samuel Johnson

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

Vincent Van Gogh

I have played hell somewhat with the truthfulness of the colours.

Vladimir Lenin

Truth is the most precious thing. That's why we should ration it.

Ricardo Montalban

Revenge is a dish best served cold

Robert Crumb

I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.

Wislawa Szymborska

The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.

William Goldman

I write out of revenge.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable.

Samuel Johnson

What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.

Naomie Harris

I'd like to believe that I would be able to give in the same way Mandela did, but in reality, I don't know whether that is true. It is much more likely that I would be left with an immense sense of injustice and immense desire for revenge.

Naomie Harris

It's more instinctive to want revenge, but we are also capable of immense amounts of forgiveness and love and a compassion that extends even to those who have brutalized us.

Naomie Harris

Mandela is this extraordinary individual who can inspire the world. Instead of wanting revenge after being brutalized, he showed the world how to forgive.

Jason Statham

I was like, 'Well, we'd think he'd be useless around kids,' ... But I think he finds himself more comfortable around children than he realizes.

Tony Buzan

All children are much more intelligent than they are told they are or the school thinks they are; they just have different intelligences.

Sugata Mitra

In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming up. Because measuring the results of rote learning is easy, rote prevails. What kids know is just not important in comparison with whether they can think.

Ann Veneman

There are still too few helicopters to reach more than 1,000 remote villages with lifesaving supplies that children urgently need.

Quentin Blake

I know some children's writers write for specific children, or for the children they once were, but I never have. I just thought children might like my sort of visual humour.

Laura Schlessinger

When men or women make their work their top priority and become hostile to the normal, natural needs of their children and spouse - obviously, something is wrong.

Dannel Malloy

What we want to do is guarantee all 4-year-old children in the City of Stamford a prekindergarten experience regardless of their financial circumstances.

Peter Jensen

Here in the United States, there is a tendency to over-prescribe in some instances. But it pales in comparison to the under-prescription or under-recognition of these problems in children, ... We know from a variety of epidemiologic and other related studies, that as many as half of the children with conditions such as ADHD are not being treated at all.

James Boyle

Having watched their children grow up with a keyboard at their fingertips, parents know that their kids will inevitably turn to their computers for entertainment. And parents also know that downloading music is easy, prevalent and often illegal. These days, colleges and universities can offer alternatives that are just as easy and available, but more importantly to parents, legal.