Famous Quotes & Sayings

William S. Burroughs

You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

Rich Lowry

It is Hillary's lot in life not to be able to fake it well.

Sai Baba

Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.

Jose Marti

Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

Orson Welles

Fake is as old as the Eden tree.

Benjamin Disraeli

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Ozzy Osbourne

Just take our name off the list. . . . The nomination is meaningless, because it's not voted on by the fans . . . .

Marquis de Sade

One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.

Robert Collier

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Rob Zombie

When you have too many people and you're trying to satisfy everybody's input, you usually end up with something so incredibly generic that it has no point of view.

Richard Paul Evans

Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath.

Richard P. Feynman

[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd.

Richard Dawkins

We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status. You're not allowed to criticise it.

Richard Whately

Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions of the nature of the same thing, as to have had different things in view while they employed the same term.

Richelle Mead

We've had to deal with so many complications. We're still dealing with them. And what can we do? Nothing - well, unless we take your side's point of view and make deals with the devil. But why? Why can't we make deals with God? People do all the time. 'God, if you do this for me, I promise to be good.' Stuff like that. Yeah, but I don't see any contracts like you guys have. No hard evidence that it works. How come we can only get things we want by being bad? Why can't we get them by being good?

Truman Capote

Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons; theyre enraptured by their navels and confined by a view that ends with their own toes.

Trisha Goddard

I had this stereotypical view that black people apart from me probably threw stones and lived in huts.

Calvin Coolidge

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means.

William Cowper

Those flimsy webs that break as soon as wrought, attain not to the dignity of thought.

William Hazlitt

The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.

William Davis

To be Canadian is to live in relative calm and with great dignity.

Yann Martel

To me, religion is about our dignity, not our depravity.

Ellen Glasgow

Dignity is an anachronism.

Rowan Williams

These people are not being left to be victims. They are being helped, trained and given back their dignity and freedom,

Julie Morris

I want the whole world to watch it. I thought it taught so many things about dignity and respect.

Kjell Magne Bondevik

Terrorism is contempt for human dignity.