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

George W. Bush

Islam is a faith that brings comfort to people. It inspires them to lead lives based on honesty, and justice, and compassion.

Elton John

I'll even pay sometimes for a woman that's ugly.

W. Eugene Smith

I am an idealist. I often feel I would like to be an artist in an ivory tower. Yet it is imperative that I speak to people, so I must desert that ivory tower. To do this, I am a journalist—a photojournalist. But I am always torn between the attitude of the journalist, who is a recorder of facts, and the artist, who is often necessarily at odds with the facts. My principle concern is for honesty, above all honesty with myself…

Walter Lippmann

You don't have to preach honesty to men with a creative purpose. A genuine craftsman will not adulterate this product. The reason isn't because duty says he shouldn't, but because passion says he couldn't.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.

Mayim Bialik

I'm generally intimidated by adults.

Charles Peguy

Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics.

T. S. Eliot

To make an end is to make a beginning.

Emma Forrest

Are you mine?” Yes. “Are you mine?” Yes. “Are you mine?” No. “No?” No. I loved being yours. But now I’m mine, which is all I ever was, in the end.

Jean Sibelius

For me, music begins where words end.

Jean de La Fontaine

We ought to consider the end in everything.

Jean de La Fontaine

In everything one must consider the end.

Jil Sander

In the end, you can' t talk to everyone.

Groucho Marx

I eat like a vulture. Unfortunately the resemblance doesn't end there.

Gregory Maguire

In the end, all disguises must drop.