Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

Is there a difference between a man who thinks that honesty is the best policy, and an honest man?

Carl Sagan

The values of science and the values of democracy are concordant, in many cases indistinguishable. Science and democracy began - in their civilized incarnations - in the same time and place, Greece in the seventh and sixth centuries B.C. . . . Science thrives on, indeed requires, the free exchange of ideas; its values are antithetical to secrecy. Science holds to no special vantage points or privileged positions. Both science and democracy encourage unconventional opinions and vigorous debate. Both demand adequate reason, coherent argument, rigorous standards of evidence and honesty.

Bette Davis

They say that in Hollywood one can't be honest, but I think honesty counts in Hollywood just as much as it does anywhere else. I think it's just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself.

Bill Vaughan

Because democratic institutions do not renew themselves as effortlessly as flowering trees, they demand the ceaseless tinkering of people who possess both the courage and the honesty to admit their mistakes and accept responsibility for even the most inglorious acts.

Burton Kaplan

I did it, in all honesty, because I thought I was going to be made a scapegoat in this case.

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.

Charles Kennedy

Three simple words - freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for.

Charles Comiskey

No one has any license to brag because he is honest. That should be natural instinct and, besides, if you are not, they put you in jail. Honesty is merely a form of insurance.

Charles Darwin

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other.

Bill Delahunt

Its hard to exaggerate the importance of preserving the financial integrity of Social Security.

Bill Cosby

If you speak your mind and if it is true what you're saying, then I think the integrity of what you're saying carries through.

Ashton Kutcher

I wouldn't say I'm personally trying to transition from comedy into drama. I don't look at things like, 'Oh, I need to do a drama now.' I get a lot of material sent to me, and if I feel like something has the creative integrity and the right director and the right whoever involved, the right actors and is a great story, then I do it.

Bud Selig

There is an integrity issue, and that transcends that (progress being made),

Dan Quayle

He (Gore) has a different interpretation of what integrity is all about, ... That will be an issue in this campaign.

Eddie Long

We touch a lot of people, ... This is a world-impacting ministry, and I personally get a little offended when my integrity is questioned.

Al Gore

I did very extensive diligence on Al Jazeera English, the network from which Al Jazeera America is going to be derived, and it's really very clear that they have long since established a reputation for excellence and integrity and objectivity.

Blaise Pascal

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

Jennifer Todd

Our parents got divorced when I was 8 or 9.

Maggie Gallagher

People in the United States, on average, marry in their mid to late 20s, and half of all divorces take place in the first seven years of marriage.

Bianca Jagger

During the first 10 years of my life, while my parents were married, I enjoyed a privileged upbringing. After their divorce, my life was difficult.

C. S. Lewis

Every poet and musician and artist, but for grace, is drawn away from love of the things he tells to love of the telling...

C. S. Lewis

No, I don’t wish I knew Heaven was like the picture in my Great Divorce, because, if we knew that, we should know it was no better. The good things even of this world are far too good ever to be reached by imagination. Even the common orange, you know: no one could have imagined it before he tasted it. How much less Heaven.

Cecelia Ahern

When something tragic has happened, you'll find that you, the tragicee, become the person that has to make everything comfortable for everyone else.... As a tragicee and future divorcee, you'll also find that people will question you on the biggest decisions you've ever made in your life as though you hadn't thought about them at all before – as though, through their twenty questions and dubious faces, they're going to shine light on something that you missed the hundredth time around during your darkest hours.

Carrie Brownstein

I've realized that I have a lot of different loves, and I want to pursue writing, but I can never divorce myself from music.

Ashton Kutcher

I never thought in my life, I never really thought I would get married. I watched my parents go through a divorce, and I thought, like, this is just not something people are supposed to do.

Tina Knowles

Jay doesn't want to manage her. All the rumors about how I'm getting a divorce and I'm going to manage her or Jay is going to manage her ... it's just crazy.