Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ayn Rand

A house can have integrity, just like a person.

Henry David Thoreau

You need not rest your reputation on the dinners you give.

Henry David Thoreau

Actually, the laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations tomen; his labor would be depreciated in the market. He has no time to be anything but a machine.

Henry David Thoreau

Some, it seems to me, elect their rulers for their crookedness. But I think that a straight stick makes the best cane, and an upright man the best ruler.

Henry David Thoreau

Every man should stand for a force which is perfectly irresistible.

Henry David Thoreau

I expect a time when, or rather an integrity by which, a man will get his coat as honestly and as perfectly fitting as a tree itsbark. Now our garments are typical of our conformity to the ways of the world, i.e., of the devil, and to some extent react on us and poison us, like that shirt which Hercules put on.

Henry David Thoreau

We have need to be as sturdy pioneers still as Miles Standish, or Church, or Lovewell. We are to follow on another trail, it is true, but one as convenient for ambushes. What if the Indians are exterminated, are not savages as grim prowling about the clearings today?

Henry David Thoreau

I must conclude that Conscience, if that be the name of it, was not given us for no purpose, or for a hindrance. However flattering order and expediency may look, it is but the repose of a lethargy, and we will choose rather to be awake, though it be stormy, and maintain ourselves on this earth, and in this life, as we may, without signing our death-warrant. Let us see if we cannot stay here, where He has put us, on his own conditions. Does not his law reach as far as his light? The expedients of the nations clash with one another: only the absolutely right is expedient for all.

Henry David Thoreau

Methinks I am never quite committed, never wholly the creature of my moods, but always to some extent their critic. My only integral experience is in my vision. I see, perchance, with more integrity than I feel.

Tony Russa

That's just the way he pitches. I think it has more to do with him mentally concentrating really well. He hasn't let anything get away from him.

Antisthenes

As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man.

Baruch Spinoza

Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.

Augustus Hare

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Ayn Rand

And man will go on. Man, not men.

Benjamin Disraeli

In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors.

Calvin Coolidge

That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad.

Richard G. Scott

The seminary programs will help you as a young man or woman to lay a foundation for happiness and success in life.

Edward Norton

As we say in the sewer, time and tide wait for no man.

Phillip Phillips

I get scared as crap to perform but I push myself to do it. I don't know what I would be doing without it.

Terry Pratchett

Probably the last sound heard before the Universe folded up like a paper hat would be someone saying, 'What happens if I do this?'

Terry Pratchett

There would be a price... But if you were worried about the price, then why were you in the shop?

Linus Torvalds

I am not out to destroy Microsoft, that would be a completely unintended side effect.

Karl Pilkington

It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.

Paul Kane

Some writers would be kinder than others, I'm sure. Hopefully they might describe my techniques as a mixture of tried and tested formulas - if it aint broke don't fix it - and unexpected twists.

Paul Lynde

If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death.

Paul McCartney

If there were no Carl Perkins, there would be no Beatles.

John Hume

If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless.