Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is with honesty in one particular as with wealth,--those that have the thing care less about the credit of it than those who have it not. No poor man can well afford to be thought so, and the less of honesty a finished rogue possesses the less he can afford to be supposed to want it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Honesty is not only the deepest policy, but the highest wisdom; since, however difficult it may be for integrity to get on, it is a thousand times more difficult for knavery to get off; and no error is more fatal than that of those who think that Virtue has no other reward because they have heard that she is her own.

Alan Moore

You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.

Alan Chambers

It says in this world you will have trouble in John 16:33 but take heart you can have peace in me because I've overcome the world. I think for believers you know we are helping people pursue holiness through a relationship with Christ, through biblical community in their local church, through honesty and transparency, sharing what it is that troubles them, being accountable.

Akira Kurosawa

Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

Chris Colfer

I’m not really afraid to be my awkward self, and I know there’s lots and lots of other people just like me out there that are awkward themselves. And I think they just appreciate that I’m not afraid to say the weird things that I say and tweet the obnoxious things that I tweet. But I’ve tried being other people and myself suits me the best. I think you just be honest. I think people respond to honesty.

Chogyam Trungpa

Facing yourself is a question of honesty rather than condemning yourself. Good or bad the idea is simply to face the facts. Just see the simple, straightforward truth about yourself without cutting yourself down.

David Ricardo

...I wish that I may never think the smiles of the great and powerful a sufficient inducement to turn aside from the straight path of honesty and the convictions of my own mind.

David Ricardo

There can be no greater error then in supposing that capital is increased by non-consumption.

A. A. Milne

Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?' 'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh after careful thought. Piglet was comforted by this.

Thomas Paine

There is something absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.

Thomas Paine

Small islands, not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something absurd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Supposing truth is a woman -- what then?

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The Beauty of the Mountain is hidden for all those who try to discover it from the top, supposing that, one way or an other, one can reach this place directly. The Beauty of the Mountain reveals only to those who climbed it...

Gertrude Stein

Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.

Isaiah Berlin

There is no a prior reason for supposing that the truth, when it is discovered, will necessarily prove interesting.

Mark Twain

Some things you can't find out; but you will never know you can't by guessing and supposing: no, you have to be patient and go on experimenting until you find out that you can't find out.

Bill Maher

I hear this all the time: 'Obama's policies aren't working.' He hasn't been allowed to put his policies into place.

Bogan Durr

They need to put the receptacles back in until the university is ready to back up the policy with some enforcement.

Brenda Holloway

Motown's policy was to build one act at a time or their favorites.

Donald Trump

Hillary Clinton's policies obviously didn't work. What you have to do is look at Libya, look at anything you want to look at and to have it work.

Abraham Lincoln

My policy is to have no policy.

Donald Rumsfeld

Sausage making and policy-making shouldn't be seen close-up.

Donald Rumsfeld

From where you sit, the White House may look as untidy as the inside of a stomach. As is said of the legislative process, sausage-making and policy-making shouldn't be seen close-up. Don't let that panic you. Things may be going better than they look from the inside.

William Shakespeare

Policy sits above conscience.

Stephen Harper

Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy.