Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonah Goldberg

(I)f France's righteous bloviating against war makes them your Dashboard Saint of International Integrity, it's either because you are sand-poundingly ignorant of how the world works or it's because you think France's self-interest is more important than America's. If the former applies to you, read a book. If it's the latter, maybe you should move there along with Alec Baldwin, Robert Altman, and the rest of the crowd who promised to leave a long time ago. But whatever you do, don't call France's position principled, because that just insults us both.

Emma Goldman

The majority cares little for ideals and integrity. What it craves is display.

John McCain

Despite occasional policy differences between us, I have long respected Jim Jeffords' integrity, and his conscientious service to his constituents and to the nation.

John Donne

Men are sponges, which, to pour out, receive; Who know false play, rather than lose, deceive. For in best understandings sin began, Angels sinn'd first, then devils, and then man. Only perchance beasts sin not ; wretched we Are beasts in all but white integrity.

John Eldredge

I don't write anything that I haven't lived. In terms of integrity, you have to write what you live. And if you write beyond what you live, it is theory. And theory is not helpful. It is just not.

John O'Donohue

When you acknowledge the integrity of your solitude, and settle into its mystery, your relationships with others take on a new warmth, adventure and wonder.

John O'Donohue

Part of understanding the notion of Justice is to recognize the disproportions among which we live...it takes an awful lot of living with the powerless to really understand what it is like to be powerless, to have your voice, thoughts, ideas and concerns count for very little. We, who have been given much, whose voices can be heard, have a great duty and responsibility to make our voices heard with absolute integrity for those who are powerless.

John Calvin

Integrity is the best of all protectors...we cannot be more secure than when fortified by a good conscience.

George A. Sheehan

Success rests with having the courage and endurance and, above all, the will to become the person you are, however peculiar that may be. Then you will be able to say, I found my hero and he is me.

Gabrielle Giffords

But the safety of the world, in some sense, depends on your saying no to inhumane ideas. Standing up for one's own integrity makes you no friends. It is costly. Yet defiance of the mob, in the service of that which is right, is one of the highest expressions of courage I know.

Frank Bruni

After all, a creature without passionate conviction doesn't cling to extremes. He surveys the scenery and makes sure his outfit doesn't clash.

Lorenzo Snow

They will sustain the constitution and laws and institutions of the United States, and be the champions of liberty and of that constitution when its integrity shall be threatened.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

I think everyone must settle for what is in the parameter of their own rights. No one must have an evil intention toward the territorial benefit or integrity of other nations.

Freya Stark

This is excellence - the following of anything for its own sake and with its own integrity ...

Freya Stark

Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter.

Freya Stark

In one form or another, conscious or unconscious, we have all become propagandists; integrity alone can keep us truthful.

Frank Lautenberg

We depend on the Supreme Court to uphold the integrity of our government.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.

Ellis Peters

Integrity expects integrity.

Henry Kravis

If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it.

Henry Kravis

If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the building won't crumble.

Henry Cloud

I'm not an expert in the sociological realities of all the pastors in the world, but I would say that there are some very, very positive things about the state of integrity in church leaders.

John Maynard Keynes

Nothing can preserve the integrity of contact between individuals, except a discretionary authority in the state to revise what has become intolerable. The powers of uninterrupted usury are too great. If the accretions of vested interests were to grow without mitigation for many generations, half the population would be no better than slaves to the other half.

John Locke

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.

John Banville

A man is not much if he can't depend on himself, and nothing if others can't depend on him.

Jim Palmer

You have to be honest, have integrity, be able to cooperate and get along with other people. Sigma Chi is a great place to learn that and that's why it's a great thing to join this fraternity.

George Mason

Attend with Diligence and strict Integrity to the Interest of your Correspondents and enter into no Engagements which you have not the almost certain Means of performing.

Tony Blair

a man of rare vision, integrity and courage, whose leadership over nearly 50 years did so much for Jordan, its people and the region.

They have every right to take a vote after I left, but I just had to walk out because of the issue of integrity and the question there.

You don't find people of integrity who operate in that zone.

Diane Setterfield

People whose lives are not balanced by a healthy love of money suffer from an appalling obsession with personal integrity.

Dianna Agron

You have to protect the integrity of the show, your health, the character, all those things. So it's just about finding the right moments for everything. And if you're too stressed or tired, you to just back off for a little bit.

Alan Bullock

No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance.