Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Kennedy

Today is an ominous day for the country, signifying a new low since Watergate in terms of openness and honesty in our government,

Maria Sharapova

I think at some point I may be able to dominate, but honesty, I don't think I'm physically there yet and I don't want to go out there and say I am, when I'm really not.

Lord Shaftesbury

A right mind and generous affection hath more beauty and charms than all other symmetries in the world besides; and a grain of honesty and native worth is of more value than all the adventitious ornaments, estates, or preferments; for the sake of which some of the better sort so oft turn knaves.

Richard P. Feynman

The only way to have real success in science, the field I'm familiar with, is to describe the evidence very carefully without regard to the way you feel it should be. If you have a theory , you must try to explain what's good and what's bad about it equally. In science, you learn a kind of standard integrity and honesty .

Richard P. Feynman

If science is to progress, what we need is the ability to experiment, honesty in reporting results—the results must be reported without somebody saying what they would like the results to have been—and finally—an important thing—the intelligence to interpret the results.

Richard K. Morgan

For me, any fiction of nobles and swords necessarily has to be a story of corruption, injustice and savagely violent conflict - because any other treatment is going to have all the heft and realistic honesty of a bedtime fairy tale for five year olds.

Richard J. Needham

The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.

Richard J. Needham

People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.

Richard Hofstadter

One of the primary tests of the mood of a society at any given time is whether its comfortable people tend to identify, psychologically, with the power and achievements of the very successful or with the needs and sufferings of the underprivileged.

Judy Nadler

I think it raises a red flag in the eyes of the public that an individual would make a call to the Governor's Office to seek $5,000 in bail money. There is certainly the appearance that she may have been seeking some favorable disposition to her legal situation by calling the Governor's Office... It calls into question his judgment.

Kelly Flinn

I think it does give the appearance of preferential treatment with respect to gender or with respect to rank,

Carol Stone

I think investors will pay attention to this appearance by the Fed chairman. He will outline the Federal Reserve's own workings. This will be interesting because many speakers from the Federal Reserves have recently discussed the fact that we are going to have a recovery, but it's going to be slow,

Jeffrey Robbins

I take it you told the staff that from what you could observe all that Mr. Weaver wanted to avoid was any improper and incorrect appearance that he was lobbying Mr. Huang. Is that true?

Gong Li

For me, the beauty of a person is a matter of the whole package. You have to look at the whole thing, not just a matter of outward appearance or whatever. It has to do with one's character, personality, upbringing and so on.

Charles Darwin

Here, both in space and time, we seem to be brought somewhat nearer to the great fact -- the mysteries of mysteries -- the fist appearance of new beings on earth,

Bill Swain

He really wants to make this event his first public appearance in Maine. We just love him here and he will get a real hero's welcome.

Michael Graves

Good design to me is both appearance and functionality together. It's the experience that makes it good design.

Christopher Seeger

He shouldn't be testifying, ... He's got the appearance of being somebody who was there on the scene. He wasn't there.