Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ayn Rand

There must be only three supreme values which govern a person's life: Reason, Purpose, and Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of knowledge--Purpose, as his choice of the happiness which that tool must proceed to achieve--Self-esteem, as his inviolate certainty that his mind is competent to think and his person is worthy of happiness, which means: is worthy of living. These three values imply and require all of man's virtues, and all his virtues pertain to the relation of existence and consciousness: rationality, independence, integrity, honesty, justice, productiveness, pride.

Benjamin Bratt

I've always felt that acting is acting at the end of the day, so whether you're doing comedy or heavy drama or anything else in between, you always have to bring a semblance of honesty to it. It's all make believe.

Jane Addams

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

Bob Dylan

You say you've lost your faith But that's not where it's at You have no faith to lose and you know it

Merle Haggard

I'll tell you what the public likes more than anything, it's the most rare commodity in the world - honesty.

Michael J. Fox

Whatever the situation, just take it for what it is. You don't have to make it worse or better than it is. It just is what it is. Always deal with the honesty, the truth of what something is, and then you've got all kinds of choices.

Oscar Wilde

Youth is the only thing worth having.

Michel de Montaigne

Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

Buddy Gouldsmith

Maybe we needed that kind of tail kicking to wake us up.

Alan Moore

Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and make a living as a poet today, and you'll find it's very different!

Bruce Latimer

Oil is down, silver is down, so we have to assume those stocks will be down. I think we'll be a little weaker out of the gate.

Nick Shay

A positive outcome of a hurricane season like this is that we've been able to learn more about the Loop Current and its associated warm-water eddies, which are basically hurricane intensity engines.

Joan Didion

The shock of it was that this time, she had a lot of strength, ... Her husband and I assumed she'd overcome it.

Bill Gardner

I see our biggest asset as being the fact that a lot of these girls have played together for two or three years, and they understand the game.

William Kovacs

This is the first time going back to 1890 in which the key assets of the company to be broken up consist of human beings and ideas. Who can predict what these people will do, and how effective the entities will be?

Gregg Laskoski

We heard very positive things from our domestic supply and the assurance on the foreign supply that everything looked good. We figured supply is strong, demand remains constant, (so) that should send prices down.

Alan Greenspan

Because it is difficult to suppress growing market exuberance when the economic environment is perceived as more stable, a highly flexible system needs to be in place to rebalance an economy in which psychology and asset prices could change rapidly,

Bill Dougherty

Value is in the dumps. It's not the managers. The problem last year was asset class performance. If you were a value manager, you didn't do well.

Barry Hyman

You are not getting paid to hold cash anymore. I think if you look at it from that perspective you see an asset allocation switch going on, which is helping this rally.