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.

Tom Brennan

The irony was not lost on me, and it better not be lost on LSU.

Robert Newman

The irony is in many places the railroads are laying track where they removed it over the past two decades.

Masanobu Fukuoka

The irony is that science has served only to show how small human knowledge is.

Miuccia Prada

I like the irony in my work.

Lily Allen

There's a certain amount of what I wear that I wear for irony.

Philip Levine

The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.

Laurell K. Hamilton

I know the universe has a sense of irony, and sometimes you get reminded just how sadistic that can be.

John Hurt

Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.

Haruki Murakami

[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.

Mike Huckabee

I'm not against anybody. I'm really not. I'm not a hater. I'm not homophobic. I honestly don't care what people do personally in their individual lives.

Theo Epstein

had a lot of honest talks in that last week, reflecting on ourselves and the organization and the job, and whether it was right for me and for the team.

Dave Auday

Going into the season, I knew they were going to be the one seed in the Foothills League. I honestly thought we would be the No. 2 team and we proved it today.

Brett Hall

He's been taking input on this from everyone. I honestly don't know what he's going to do.

George Crabbe

What is a church? - Our honest sexton tells, / 'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells.

Norm Coleman

We take very seriously the importance of testifying honestly before this committee,

Tom Crean

I thought our team learned something over the (Rutgers loss). They have learned to be honest when they don't play up to their standards.

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.

Bill Clinton

I think some of these people make honest mistakes.