Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Freeman Clarke

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.

Robert Schenkkan

Abigail is the conscience of the piece. Her father has tricked Jabez into an impossible situation. He can't marry Abigail unless ... well, I don't want to give too much away, here.

Thomas Hobbes

A man's conscience and his judgement is the same thing; and as the judgement, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.

Mark Rydell

For 30 years he was the conscience of Hollywood,

Rosemary Dillard

This man has no soul; he has no conscience.

John Bolton

This is the kind of development that I think shocks our conscience in America, to see the humanitarian impulse so cynically manipulated,

Cleveland Amory

The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops you from enjoying it.

Karen Hughes

Now, I can understand if out of conscience you take a principled stand and you would decide that you were so opposed to this that you would actually throw your medals. But to pretend to do so, I think that's very revealing.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The sting of conscience teacheth one to sting.

Charles Caleb Colton

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Courage is like the diamond,--very brilliant; not changed by fire, capable of high polish, but except for the purpose of cutting hard bodies useless.

Charles Stanley

When God speaks, oftentimes His voice will call for an act of courage on our part.

David Hume

Courage, of all national qualities, is the most precarious; because it is exerted only at intervals, and by a few in every nation; whereas industry, knowledge, civility, may be of constant and universal use, and for several ages, may become habitual to the whole people.

Benazir Bhutto

The forces of moderation and democracy must, and will, prevail against extremism and dictatorship. I will not be intimidated...Despite threats of death, I will not acquiesce to tyranny, but rather lead the fight against it.

Bear Grylls

There is little faith involved in setting out on a journey where the destination is certain and every step in between has been mapped in detail. Bravery, trust, is about leaving camp in the dark, when we do not know the route ahead and cannot be certain we will ever return.

August Strindberg

I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.

Audrey Hepburn

My greatest ambition is to have a career without becoming a career woman.

Antony Sher

As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are.

Alan Alda

I've never tried to manipulate my image.

David Hume

What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?

Arne Glimcher

I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager.

Brian Trehearne

The poetry was the man, the man was the poetry.

Bertrand Russell

What science cannot tell us, mankind cannot know.

William James

Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.

Taya Kyle

When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man.

Mike Smith

We wanted to throw a little more tonight, but old man weather wouldn't let us do that.

Charles M. Schwab

I will not be in the position of having management dictated to by labor.

Charles Stanley

You will never go wrong obeying God.

Charles Stanley

Obey God and leave all the consequences to Him.

Alex Brown

The teachers here are way cool, ... If you obey the rules and turn in your assignments, you get parties.

Nancy Pelosi

This isn't about whether you want to protect the American people or not, this is about whether you want to obey the law.

Thomas Jefferson

Resisting tyranny is obeying God

Stephen Holmes

It did not specifically say in so many words that he was not to be on the premises. It said that he was supposed to obey all laws.

Moby

And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves, and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.

Mark Keller

It would also be wise for truckers to obey the posted weight limits.

Eddie Montgomery

We're still who we are at the roots. I reckon, hopefully, you let it branch out a little bit and you learn. You live and learn, so that's what we've tried to do.

Camille Paglia

Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader.

Casey Kasem

A non-violent world has roots in a non-violent diet.

Carl Jung

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.

Edgar Mitchell

I've been very involved in this quantum holographic formalism and helping to explore it as explanatory of the very root of our perceptual capabilities. It is postulated, for example, that this very basic entanglement, at the quantum level, at the level of subatomic matter, is really a part of quantum mechanics.

Benjamin Franklin

An infallible Remedy for the Tooth-ach, viz Wash the Root of an aching Tooth, in Elder Vinegar, and let it dry half an hour in the Sun; after which it will never ach more; Probatum est.

Ben Affleck

Anybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn't have any.

Tony Skinn

Well, being from our conference, I know they're rooting for us, anyway.

Charles Blake

It strengthens me to be rooted in the word of God.