Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors

Charles Caleb Colton

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Alanis Morissette

I think everyone's hungry for the truth

Alan Watts

Perhaps there is no other knowing than the mere competence of the act. If at the heart of one's being, there is no self to which one ought to be true, then sincerity is simply nerve; it lies in the unabashed vigor of the pretense. But pretense is only pretense when it is assumed that the act is not true to the agent. Find the agent.

Alan Watts

Duality is always secretly unity.

Alan Arkin

Truth is always unfolding. It's not an absolute.

Al Pacino

I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.

Charles Spurgeon

You will always know whether you are delivered from the guilt of sin by answering this question: Am I delivered from the love of sin?

Alan Watts

One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.

Chris Christie

It's a deal that will lead to a nuclear Iran, an Israel that will be less safe and secure, and a much more dangerous Middle East. Let's ask it: Hillary Clinton, as an inept negotiator of the worst nuclear arms deal in American history. Is she guilty or not guilty?

Chris Asplen

This backlog affects not just the ability to identify and convict the guilty, but it also affects our ability to identify the innocent.

David D. Burns

Guilt doesn't help. What should fill in for it? Remorse. Remorse is when you feel bad about what you did. Guilt is when you feel bad about who you are.

Catherine Deneuve

I am frivolous. Then I feel guilty.

Gideon Gono

We are a guilty party from a technical point of view.

William Shakespeare

Glory grows guilty of detested crimes.

Jonah Goldberg

Liberals and leftists have been dismissing inconvenient facts by attacking motives for generations. In the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, Soviet spies and abettors attacked the motives of their accusers because the fact of their guilt was undeniable. In the 1960s, over a thousand psychiatrists who'd never even met Barry Goldwater signed a petition saying the GOP candidate was too mentally unstable to be president.

Charles Spurgeon

One of the greatest rewards that we ever receive for serving God is the permission to do still more for Him.

Catherine the Great

I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.

Eartha Kitt

If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.

Carolyn Wells

Reward is its own virtue.

Brian Jaffe

We're excited, we're optimistic, we're hopeful. Hopefully, the rewards are going to be there. The rewards had better be there.

Brian Weiss

The reward is in doing, but doing without expecting anything...doing unselfishly.

Brian Tracy

Your rewards in life will be determined by what you do, how well you do it, and the difficulty of replacing you.

Juvenal

The thirst for fame is much greater than that for virtue; for who would embrace virtue itself if you take away its rewards? [Lat., Tanto major famae sitis est quam Virtutis: quis enim virtutem amplectitur ipsam Praemia se tollas.]

Daniel H. Pink

When the reward is the activity itself--deepening learning, delighting customers, doing one's best--there are no shortcuts.