Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Foster Bennett

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

Rene Descartes

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.

Thomas Paine

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

Thomas Sowell

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

Hillary Clinton

We must urgently begin to rebuild the bonds of trust and respect among Americans. Restoring trust in our politics, our press, our markets.

Esther Hicks

Don't worry about this world; it is not broken. And don't worry about others. You worry more about them than they do. There are people waging war; there are people on the battlefield who are more alive than they've ever been before. Don't try to protect people from life; just let them have their experience while you focus upon your own experience.

Ernest Hemingway

You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them.

Eubie Blake

Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.

Ezra Pound

I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.

Charles Darwin

Mr. J.S. Mill speaks, in his celebrated work, "Utilitarianism," of the social feelings as a "powerful natural sentiment," and as "the natural basis of sentiment for utilitarian morality," but on the previous page he says, "if, as is my own belief, the moral feelings are not innate, but acquired, they are not for that reason less natural." It is with hesitation that I venture to differ from so profound a thinker, but it can hardly be disputed that the social feelings are instinctive or innate in the lower animals; and why should they not be so in man?

Demian Bichir

Lincoln' is a powerful film. It's one of those epic films that talk about this very specific issue in history of the United States.

Barbara Bush

You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.

Ann Druyan

It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most effective way he knew to accomplish that, the most powerful tool at his disposal, was the scientific method, which over time winnows out deception. It can't give you absolute truth because science is a permanent revolution, always subject to revision, but it can give you successive approximations of reality.

Ann Brashares

But certain souls cohere. It's rare but possible. But it takes two powerful wills to make it so.

Ann Coulter

But all liberals only have empathy for the exact same victims - always the ones that are represented by powerful liberal interest groups.

Ann Coulter

Liberals despise the rule of law because it interferes with their ability to rule by mob. They love to portray themselves as the weak taking on the powerful. But it is the least powerful who suffer the most once the rule of law is gone.

Amy Waldman

I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That seemed ample justification for using it to avoid my own writing. I finished it - weeping - a day later, and I've been puzzling over its powerful hold on me ever since.

Ama Ata Aidoo

There are powerful forces undermining progress in Africa. But one must never underestimate the power of the people to bring about change.

Anthony Cannon

We're here now. We have a home, and we're finally relieved to know we have a set schedule for now and know what we're going to do next. We have somewhere to call home and we appreciate Louisiana Tech and Ruston for opening their arms to us.

Brian Tracy

Every great success is an accumulation of thousands of ordinary efforts that no one else sees or appreciates.

Hubie Brown

We're 30 years older now, so you can go back and appreciate things a lot more, ... It's made for a wonderful year.

David Krings

The people I work with are nice people, and they seem to appreciate what I am doing.

Billy Thornton

Critics have been very, very good to me -- there are only two or three of them that really hate me, really bad. I really appreciate this award, because you're fun folks.

Dee Tvedt

We like to stay on top of things, and when we're out on patrol, we tend to be the first to hear about new businesses about to open and the first to meet a new puppy. People will often tell us they appreciate our presence, and that they feel safer when we're around.

Todd Lewis

Even some of my goals this year, I fell a bit short on a couple. I think that makes you appreciate hitting your goals. I think if you hit every one of your goals, they're not high enough.

Michael McGuire

While we appreciate and are grateful for the government's comments and narrative of Mr. Fortier's labor in the past three years to assist the government in the investigation and prosecution of these cases, the retreat of support for Mr. Fortier as a trial witness and lukewarm endorsement in that regard is factually inaccurate,

Mike Albert

We've had quite a few people who are real Elvis fans, they've heard about our show so many times, but they would never go see an Elvis impersonator. They finally get talked into it and they appreciate the way we deliver. They come back. That's the best testimonial.