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.

Vincent Truglia

Japan is gambling that its policies will result in beneficial, self-sustaining results.

John Waldron

That's the million-dollar question. Why would such a good kid with so much promise do this? We know he had a gambling addiction, but why didn't he seek other options? That has everyone scratching their heads.

Craig Benson

I do not support gambling in this state.

Randy Carter

He kept gambling even though he didn't need to. But he got that one.

Charles Darwin

But Geology carries the day: it is like the pleasure of gambling, speculating, on first arriving, what the rocks may be; I often mentally cry out 3 to 1 Tertiary against primitive; but the latter have hitherto won all the bets.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no gambling like politics.

Nathan Barankin

Many of California's gambling laws were written in the 19th Century, and some of them need to be modernized.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?

Albert Einstein

You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.

Jackie Williams

Recovery is a miracle. It lasts for a life time.

Becca Fitzpatrick

How warm I feel. How icredibly alive and vibrant and heedless every last inch of me feels next to you.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Hello,Pepper. It´s been a while," I said. "The last time we met up, you tried to kidnap me, isn´t that right?" Nora (p.303)

Cecelia Ahern

She couldn't remember the last time she hugged someone, really hugged someone.

Bertrand Russell

The saviors of the world, society's last hope.

Peter Murray

If we can show this lasts weeks ... we've just tapped into probably a billion-dollar market. It's enormous.

Charles Darwin

Thus disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last was complete. The rate was so slow that I felt no distress, and have never since doubted even for a single second that my conclusion was correct.

Channing Tatum

Actually I have a tradition that I always steal my last costume on the last day of filming.

Blaise Pascal

The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.