Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Kennedy

Today is an ominous day for the country, signifying a new low since Watergate in terms of openness and honesty in our government,

Maria Sharapova

I think at some point I may be able to dominate, but honesty, I don't think I'm physically there yet and I don't want to go out there and say I am, when I'm really not.

Lord Shaftesbury

A right mind and generous affection hath more beauty and charms than all other symmetries in the world besides; and a grain of honesty and native worth is of more value than all the adventitious ornaments, estates, or preferments; for the sake of which some of the better sort so oft turn knaves.

Richard P. Feynman

The only way to have real success in science, the field I'm familiar with, is to describe the evidence very carefully without regard to the way you feel it should be. If you have a theory , you must try to explain what's good and what's bad about it equally. In science, you learn a kind of standard integrity and honesty .

Richard P. Feynman

If science is to progress, what we need is the ability to experiment, honesty in reporting results—the results must be reported without somebody saying what they would like the results to have been—and finally—an important thing—the intelligence to interpret the results.

Richard K. Morgan

For me, any fiction of nobles and swords necessarily has to be a story of corruption, injustice and savagely violent conflict - because any other treatment is going to have all the heft and realistic honesty of a bedtime fairy tale for five year olds.

Richard J. Needham

The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.

Richard J. Needham

People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.

Richard Hofstadter

One of the primary tests of the mood of a society at any given time is whether its comfortable people tend to identify, psychologically, with the power and achievements of the very successful or with the needs and sufferings of the underprivileged.

Rex Harrison

Tomorrow is a thief of pleasure.

Regina Spektor

We're living in a den of thieves

Jackson Pollock

The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief.

Man Ray

If I'd had the nerve, I'd have become a thief or a gangster, but since I didn't, I became a photographer.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

[On dishonesty:] If there were a cry of 'stop thief!' we would all stand still.

Murray Rothbard

The State is a gang of thieves writ large - the most immoral, grasping and unscrupulous individuals in any society.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Procrastinatio n is still the thief of time.

Patrick Rothfuss

Thieves, Heretics, and Whores

Barbara Ehrenreich

Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene.

Richelle Mead

You will lose what you value most, so treasure it while you can.

Richard Bach

Your life is a treasure and you are so much more than you know.

Samuel Rogers

When with care we have raised an imaginary treasure of happiness, we find at last that the materials of the structure are frail and perishing, and the foundation itself is laid in the sand.

Rebecca Wells

Sometimes lost treasures can be reclaimed.

Roberto Unger

The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset.

Roger Moore

Movies such as this remind us that Owen Wilson is nothing less than a national treasure.

Kurt Sanger

In times of yen weakness, Lexus is just a treasure chest,

Lope de Vega

Profits on the exchange are the treasures of goblins.

Mike Huckabee

Inside every human being there are treasures to unlock.