Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wilbur Ross

I see myself as a private-equity investor that helps rebuild companies. Restructuring is a cottage industry in that there aren't that many serious practitioners.

George MacDonald

You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it himself. (Quoted by C.S.Lewis in Mere Christianity)

Lord Chesterfield

Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.

Lord Chesterfield

Cottages have them (falsehood and dissimulation) as well as courts, only with worse manners.

Charlie Sheen

It's definitely safer to be single, especially with this cottage industry that's devoted to extorting celebrities.

Rebecca West

The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted.

Saint Augustine

The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins.

William Graham Sumner

Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty.

William Hazlitt

The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another.

Laurence Sterne

I have so great a contempt and detestation for meanness, that I could sooner make a friend of one who had committed murder, than of a person who could be capable, in any instance, of the former vice. Under meanness, I comprehend dishonesty; under dishonesty, ingratitude; under ingratitude, irreligion; and under this latter, every species of vice and immorality in human nature.

Niccolo Machiavelli

A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and must protect himself from those that will not lose it for him, if this is possible; but if he cannot, he need not concern himself unduly if he ignores these less serious vices.

Cassandra Clare

Perhaps [James Herondale] loved vice for vice's own sake.

Joseph Joubert

Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.

Oscar Wilde

The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.

Robert Shapiro

I was interested in getting courtroom experience. When I was a young lawyer, the only way I could get real courtroom experience was in the criminal law field.

Mary Pierce

Kim has been incredible on hard courts this year.

Michael Adams

Josef Ackermann's personal integrity is not in question. He didn't see the red line that some courts have seen. But it's a squishy concept.

Jack Wyant

I think it'll be nice because we get the courts all to ourselves. It's our show.

David Cardwell

I think it is a very diverse court that represents the diversity of Florida.

Kim Clijsters

I think I stayed very focused and very patient throughout the whole match, ... Even when I was 4-1 up, I was playing really well at the start. I was moving around, just from side-to-side, opening up the court a lot.

Jerry Summers

He (Cooper) does maintain his innocence and will defend himself in court if indicted.

James Wood

Golf takes me out of the crap of a sick world. Golfers are genuinely courteous in a discourteous world. Show me a guest on The Jerry Springer Show who's a golfer.

Anthony Kennedy

It involved a constitutional issue of the gravest importance decided 4-3 by a state court on a federal issue that it was our responsibility to take the case, ... Sometimes it is easy, so it seems, to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of our court.