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.

Dick Cavett

I watched one of the Lennon programs yesterday,

Martin Gammon

It is undoubtedly the most significant Lennon manuscript to be offered at auction, and arguably, the most significant musical manuscript of the 20th century.

Mark David Chapman

I willingly took John Lennon's life. What I did was despicable.

Mark David Chapman

I just shot John Lennon.

Julian Lennon

I am not John Lennon; I never will be!

Bob Schindler

People like Terry, who was disabled, and the elderly, are being victimized, brutally victimized. They're dying and no one knows about it.

Mike Farrell

It is an ugly, brutal development, ... a good and smart and decent professional.

Bruno Heller

I think it was a brutal time filled with people who were strangely sophisticated and uncivilized. Over the years movies tended to take a Victorian gentleman's view of this world ù all marbleized sets and men. But Caesar was a great warrior and writer and a war criminal, by our definition. ...There was a dichotomy between sophistication and viciousness that was specifically Roman.

Gabrielle Richards

I think this will be really big for our confidence after those brutal losses. This is a quality school in a quality league.

Edward Olmos

It is brutal - brutal - when you see what happened to them, ... You simply go, 'Wait a minute - this was not shown to anyone?'

David Naude

I don't interpret this as a sign of recovery in activity. Rather, the increase in unemployment of the last six to eight months has been too brutal and exaggerated not to generate this type of correction.

Christopher Cox

He is, of course, a brutal thug, ... Late Edition.

Stephen Hall

This was one of the most brutal and heinous crimes committed in the county, ... I do, frankly, feel sorry for your family.

Tangee Overly

I can't lie and say that I'm sorry that this conclusion happened because I'm not. Dan was very brutally murdered.