Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Kingsolver

So one time when I was working in this motel one of the toilets leaked and I had to replace the flapper ball. Here's what it said on the package; I kept it till I knew it by heart: 'Please Note. Parts are included for all installations, but no installation requires all of the parts.' That's kind of my philosophy about men. I don't think there's an installation out there that could use all my parts.

Baruch Spinoza

I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.

Ayn Rand

Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

Brian Henson

And again, we're kind of trying to be in that place, that's just so absurd and irreverent and hysterical and it's something that at our company we're kind of, we're so irreverent about everything, we're sort of irreverent about the establishment, we're irreverent about civilization, we're irreverent about philosophy, we're irreverent about religion.

Jamie Sives

I came into acting with that sort of dull, meet-with-triumph-and-disaster-the-same philosophy and it's been the right one for me.

Janis Ian

Truth is not the enemy and whatever does not kill us, sets us free.

Gary L. Francione

Not only are the philosophies of animal rights and animal welfare separated by irreconcilable differences... the enactment of animal welfare measures actually impedes the achievement of animal rights... Welfare reforms, by their very nature, can only serve to retard the pace at which animal rights goals are achieved.

Bob Dylan

If I lived my life by what others were thinkin', the heart inside me would've died.

Blaise Pascal

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

Dennis Prager

Happiness is a moral obligation

Elbert Hubbard

Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown

Lewis Carroll

Everything has got a moral if you can only find it.

Morris Peterson

We should be 3-0 on this road trip, but we're 0-3. There are no moral victories here.

Catherine Young

We don't want to start settling for moral victories, but that was a moral victory for us. We went toe-to-toe with them for 79 minutes, and I'm real proud of the girls.

Katie Gearlds

There's no moral victory here; we wanted to win and that's why it hurts.

Don DeLillo

There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.

Anatole France

Custom alone regulates morals.

Susan Sontag

Camp is a solvent of morality. It neutralizes moral indignation, sponsors playfulness.

Aleksandar Hemon

Politics is about ethics and morality, openly or not openly.

Swami Vivekananda

Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis.

Tom DeLay

If somebody else doesn't file an ethics charge, I will.

Deirdre Fedkenheuer

There was nothing in the file. What was in her file said that, 'Her services were no longer required.'There was nothing in there about ethics violations.