Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Letten

Louisiana is famous, if not infamous, for its corruption.

Allan Hoffenblum

Look, the muscle magazine thing was just stupid and he doesn't want to talk about his past womanizing. He's made a lot of mistakes, but corruption is not one of them.

Stephen Harper

No one will ever be held responsible, not legally, not criminally, not politically, as long as this Liberal government is in power, ... A culture of waste, mismanagement and corruption is not going to fix itself.

Ryan Toohey

For seven years now, from Wall Street to public corruption to big drug companies, no one in this state has done more to stand up to special interests and the status quo than Eliot Spitzer.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve.

William Shakespeare

I hate ingratitude more in a person; than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or, any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood.

Alex Gibney

When it comes to governments and corporations, we should demand that less is secret. That's where corruption flowers.

Stan Jones

When I retired and told my wife I wanted to go back to Bozeman and fight political corruption and get involved in politics, she decided to stay in Seattle.

A. K. Antony

All my life I have fought corruption.

Sara Teasdale

Life is a frail moth flyingCaught in the web of the years that pass.

Sylvia Plath

One soul passes through the other, frail as smokeAnd utterly ignorant of the way it took.

Alexander McCall Smith

You do not have to ladle on the impasto to make a point about human frailty or ambitions.

Blanche Lincoln

Right and wrong becomes more difficult for each of us as we grow older, because the older we get the more we know personally about our own human frailties.

Laurie Garrett

'Contagion' should serve as a wake-up call not only about the germs, but perhaps more importantly about the frailty of governance, nationally and worldwide.

Kate Bush

I'm a very strong person, and I think that's why, actually, I find it really infuriating when I read, 'She had a nervous breakdown' or 'She's not very mentally stable, just a weak, frail little creature.'

Rachel Roberts

Whenever I act well, my head clears. Always a bit frail I was personally, but never professionally.

Morag Joss

I think there are spirits who are just too frail for the events life throws at them. Where do these people hide, and how do they survive?

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

Shaun White

Man, I hate that trick. There are times when you're just spinning and you totally lose track of where you are. You don't know where you're going to land. You only hope you're still in the pipe.

Mark Hamill

Luke : Listen, I can't get involved. I've got work to do. It's not that I like the Empire; I hate it. But there's nothing I can do about it right now... It's all such a long way from here. Obi-Wan : That's your uncle talking.

Bertrand Russel

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful, and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous, and loathed because they impose slavery

Sathya Baba

Love and serve the homeland; do not hate or hurt the homeland of others.

E. Hicks

My goodness, I would hate to be picking it for a living. I've never seen parity like this.

Buddha

Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred -- this is the law of eternal.

Tomas Vokoun

Obviously, I hate shootouts. Every goalie hates it.

Deb Price

When you put something like this kind of hatred into a state constitution, there's no telling how long it can take to get it out.

Chris Evert

The difference is almost all mental. The top players just hate to lose. I think that's the difference. A champion hates to lose even more than she loves to win.

Albert Schweitzer

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come.

Chris Evert

I wanted always to appear strong and in control . . . .Then the cookie began to crumble.

Charles Spurgeon

Nothing binds me to my Lord like a strong belief in His changeless love.

Charles Spurgeon

Show the world that your God is worth ten thousand worlds to you. Show rich men how rich you are in your poverty when the Lord God is your helper. Show the strong man how strong you are in your weakness when underneath you are the everlasting arms.

Charles Spurgeon

It is the habit of faith, when she is praying, to use pleas. Mere prayer sayers, who do not pray at all, forget to argue with God; but those who prevail bring forth their reasons and their strong arguments

Charles Spurgeon

Look to the cross, and hate your sin, for sin nailed your Well Beloved to the tree. Look up to the cross, and you will kill sin, for the strength of Jesus' love will make you strong to put down your tendencies to sin.

Charles Perrault

To wait so long/And want a man refined and strong/Is not at all uncommon. And yet to wait one hundred years/Without a tear, without a care/Makes for a very rare woman. So here our tale appears to show/How marriage deferred/Brings joy unheard/Nothing lost after a century or so. But others love with more ardor/And wed quickly out of passion/Whatever they do/I won’t deplore/Nor shall I preach a lesson.

Charles R. Swindoll

Hope doesn't require a massive chain where heavy links of logic hold it together. A thin wire will do...just strong enough to get us through the night until the winds die down.

Diane Lane

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

Elfriede Jelinek

Vice is basically the love of failure.

Dev Hynes

Yeah, I associate every sound with a color and vice versa.

Samuel Butler

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

Samuel Butler

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Ed Rendell

You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.

Charles Caleb Colton

The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys.

David Hume

The end of all moral speculations is to teach us our duty; and, by proper representations of the deformity of vice and beauty of virtue, beget correspondent habits, and engage us to avoid the one, and embrace the other.

William Shakespeare

For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg.

Benjamin Franklin

Let thy vices die before thee.

Warren Zevon

I remember certain lines and whose they are.

Abu Bakr

When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.