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.

Augustine Birrell

History is a pageant and not a philosophy.

Ayelet Waldman

Those of us whose parenting style can be described as "a series of reflexes, instincts, and minute-by-minute adjustments," as Julie of A Little Pregnant puts it, rather than as a philosophy, are less invested in our own practices. What we do is often less a matter of conviction than one of convenience. What we need to remember is that there is no need to apologize for that, even in the face of the most red-faced outrage.

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.

Brenda Song

I'd have to say I'm pretty adventurous. I just went to Shanghai for the Special Olympics and I tried dim sum. I'd never really had it before and some of it looked pretty scary, but I tried it anyway. My philosophy is, you're not going to know if you like it until you try it.

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.

David Vincent

A record's a record. A number doesn't have any moral value. People do.

Carl von Clausewitz

Every combat is the bloody and destructive measuring of the strength of forces, physical and moral; whoever at the close has the greatest amount of both left is the conqueror.

Alan Dershowitz

It is difficult to offend a New Yorker.

Bille August

The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.

Dennis Prager

We have a moral obligation to act happy even if we don't feel it

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.

David Williams

You might think, 'How can I get it all right?' ... You have to put it into day-to-day practice. Ethics to me is when you internalize it.

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.

Ingrid Reed

It's exactly what we want the ethics rules to prevent.

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.