Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ai Weiwei

If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain

Ed Sheeran

I don't really do that whole 'single life' thing. I'm kind of heads down and get things done.

Bryant H. McGill

One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.

Brendan Gill

We must all face the fact that in a single lifetime we lead several simultaneous lives; our intention should be to make them reinforce one another instead of colliding.

Don Herold

Intellectuals should never marry; they won't enjoy it; and besides, they should not reproduce themselves.

Dan O'Brien

I always know where the scissors are.

Jessica Savitch

The single life is not one I willingly chose for myself.

Jeremy Piven

I'm just mystified and fascinated by women, and I'm still single. Hence all of that, and the fact that I celebrate them so much, I understand that I'm unevolved at this exact moment to share my life with one. I wouldn't inflict that upon anyone yet. But, I'm getting closer.

Nadine Gordimer

Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

George Washington

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair

Spike Jonze

Maurice Sendak never - I remember he said something that was very striking because it's something I never thought about. I always loved his work, and he said, 'I don't really view myself as a children's book author. I just try and write about childhood as honestly as I can.'

Gene Cisewski

Nobody ever questioned your honesty. I have never thought of you as less than an honest person.

Chuck Grassley

More of his unreserved honesty is needed inside the beltway,

Lilly Singh

My fans are honestly so unique and so similar. Wherever I travel, they are so, so different but so the same.

Tom Selleck

I think of myself as an actor first, not a sex symbol. Do I think I'm sexy? No, that's someone else's judgment, and I honestly don't think you can try to be sexy and really succeed.

Charles Peguy

The life of an honest man must be a perpetual infidelity.

Charles Peguy

The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful to truth must make himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable renascent errors

Charles Peguy

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

Baltasar Gracian

Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.

Arianna Huffington

It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.

Aries Spears

The average comedian is kind of an observer looking at everyday things that everyone could relate to and then trying to find the exaggeration in those things.

Drew Carey

Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.

Mark Twain

It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.

Honore de Balzac

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no one who does not exaggerate!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

Victor Hugo

It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which should be simply illuminated and studied. How great is the force of benevolent and searching examination! We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.