Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sagan

The values of science and the values of democracy are concordant, in many cases indistinguishable. Science and democracy began - in their civilized incarnations - in the same time and place, Greece in the seventh and sixth centuries B.C. . . . Science thrives on, indeed requires, the free exchange of ideas; its values are antithetical to secrecy. Science holds to no special vantage points or privileged positions. Both science and democracy encourage unconventional opinions and vigorous debate. Both demand adequate reason, coherent argument, rigorous standards of evidence and honesty.

Bette Davis

They say that in Hollywood one can't be honest, but I think honesty counts in Hollywood just as much as it does anywhere else. I think it's just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself.

Bill Vaughan

Because democratic institutions do not renew themselves as effortlessly as flowering trees, they demand the ceaseless tinkering of people who possess both the courage and the honesty to admit their mistakes and accept responsibility for even the most inglorious acts.

William Shakespeare

Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty?

Baz Luhrmann

I don't have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I've never fought with any actor ever.

William Shakespeare

Corruption wins not more than honesty.

William Shakespeare

That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty.

William Shakespeare

Honesty is not the best policy - merely the safest

William Shakespeare

A very honest woman but something given to lie

C. S. Lewis

Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something, together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not.

Carl Maria von Weber

The hardest thing is to endure the applause of fools, and patiently suffer the booing, while with the bravissimo of the foolish one would rather strike them between the ears.

Carl Sagan

If the press descended, the science would surely suffer.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Bertrand Russell

There is in Aristotle an almost complete absence of what may be called benevolence or philanthropy. The sufferings of mankind . . . there is no evidence that they cause him unhappiness except when the sufferers happen to be his friends.

William Shakespeare

Suffer love! A good ephitet! I do suffer love indeed, for I love thee against my will.

Maurice Maeterlinck

To be good we must needs have suffered; but perhaps it is necessary to have caused suffering before we can become better.

Nermine Othman

Why use them? Why show them? We have had enough suffering and we don't want any more.

Milwaukee Brewers

I'm suffering now so I won't have to suffer later,

Angelina Jolie

It can poison you if you have success and you're not a successful person

William Shakespeare

Hide not thy poison with such sugar'd words

Ben Nelson

I look at ANWR (Artic National Wildlife Refuge) as a poison pill in the energy bill.

A. E. Housman

Mithridates, he died old. Housman's passage is based on the belief of the ancients that Mithridates the Great [c. 135-63 B.C.] had so saturated his body with poisons that none could injure him. When captured by the Romans he tried in vain to poison himself, then ordered a Gallic mercenary to kill him.

Eric Betzig

Honestly, I feel you are poisoned if you read too much of the scientific literature because it makes you start thinking like other people. You're better off having a vague sense of what's going on and making your own way.

D. H. Lawrence

Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.

Christopher Paolini

The poison dart hidden in the raisin tart. ...

Anne Bishop

Briarwood is the pretty poison. There is no cure for Briarwood.

Andre Maurois

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.