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.

Richard Boucher

The purpose of these talks is to get started,

Tim Wulfemeyer

The purpose of new technology is to democratize the system a little bit.

Mark Dutro

I did that on purpose. We were down by two, and I didn't want to see Montrose win here on our track.

Richard Dawkins

We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history.

William S. Burroughs

The whole point is, I feel the machine should be eliminated. Now that it has served its purpose of alerting us to the dangers of machine control.

William Matthews

The countenance may be rightly defined as the title page which heralds the contents of the human volume, but like other title pages, it sometimes puzzles, often misleads, and often says nothing to the purpose.

Sarah Brady

There is no personal right to be armed for private purposes unrelated to the service in a well regulated militia.

Sara Gilbert

I like that kind of frantic schedule. It makes me feel like I have a purpose.

Richard Flanagan

The enslavement, humiliation, torture, and ultimate destruction of thousands upon thousands of human beings for a project for which there was ultimately no purpose is a horror that's very hard to imagine, far less understand.

Robert Ingersoll

Heresy is what the minority believe, it is the real name given by the powerful to the doctrine of the weak

William Wilberforce

I continually find it necessary to guard against that natural love of wealth and grandeur which prompts us always, when we come to apply our general doctrine to our own case, to claim an exception.

William Gurnall

Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.

William Arthur Ward

A religion without the Holy Ghost, though it had all the ordinances and all the doctrines of the New Testament, would certainly not be Christianity.

Henry Adams

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

Clayton Christensen

The marginal cost of doing something 'just this once' always seems to be negligible, but the full cost will typically be much higher. Yet unconsciously, we will naturally employ the marginal-cost doctrine in our personal lives.

Pat Robertson

There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.

Margaret Thatcher

I am convinced that there is little force left in the Marxist stimulus to revolution. Its impetus is petering out as the practical failures of the doctrine become more obvious...What is left is a technique of subversion and a collection of catch-phrases. The former is still dangerous. Like terrorism, it is a menace that needs to be fought whenever it occurs.

Randall Terry

If someone doesn't know their Old Testament, they don't know right doctrine, right correction, and they can't be equipped for good works.