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.

Bob Carnes

Paul Amos died years ago, but he took a liking to me back then and started cutting molds for me until we got one we liked.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When one is building a ship, one does not begin with gathering timber and cutting planks, but rather by arousing in people the yearning for the great wide sea.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Cooking isn’t taught,” Patch said. “It’s inherent. Either you’ve got it or you don’t. Like chemistry. You think you’re ready for chemistry?” I pressed the knife down through the tomato; it split in two, each half rocking gently on the cutting board. “You tell me. Am I ready for chemistry?” Patch made a deep sound I couldn’t decipher and grinned.

Bill Cosby

All around the United States of America - in the cities and the counties - our public education is suffering and has been suffering. Cuts, cuts, cuts.

C. S. Lewis

The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint ... but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices.

C. S. Lewis

The more lucidly we think, the more we are cut off: the more deeply we enter into reality, the less we can think.

C. S. Lewis

One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.

C. S. Lewis

And since we cannot deceive the whole human race all the time, it is most important thus to cut every generation off from all others; for where learning makes a free commerce between the ages there is always the danger that the characteristic errors of one may be corrected by the characteristic truths of another.

Carrie Vaughn

It’s only a scratch, don’t cut my arm off!

Bhumibol Adulyadej

In Thailand's history there have been dissensions from time to time, but in general, unity has prevailed.

Blaise Pascal

Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.

Deepak Chopra

Your awareness has its source in unity. Instead of seeking outside yourself, go to the source to realize who you are.

Deepak Chopra

Unity consciousness is a state of enlightenment where we pierce the mask of illusion which creates separation and fragmentation. Behind the appearance of separation is one unified field of wholeness. Here the seer and the scenery are one.

Ahmed Ben Bella

Let us all agree to die a little, or even completely so that African unity may not be a vain word

Baha'u'llah

The well-being of mankind, its peace and security, are unattainable unless and until its unity is firmly established.

Baha'u'llah

O ye that dwell on earth! The religion of God is for love and unity; make it not the cause of enmity or dissension.

Bashar al-Assad

There can be no peace without unity.

Edgar Mitchell

I experienced an ecstasy of unity. I not only saw the connectedness, I felt it and experienced it sentiently. The restraints and boundaries of flesh and bone fell away.