Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Millar

But human nature dictates that there will always be cheaters. That's inevitable. Where there's money involved and glory, there are going to be people that cheat, and there will always be ways to cheat.

David Mitchell

Humans live in a pit of cheating, exploiting, hurting, incarcerating. Every time, the species wastes some part of what it could be. This waste is poisonous.

Dave Barry

This was years ago, I think during the early [Ronald] Reagan years. I came up with a plan that everybody just pay $8.95 in taxes. Cheating would be allowed. But the incentive to cheat wouldn't be nearly as great if you only had to pay the $8.95. There were a few people who would have to pay hundreds of millions of dollars under this plan. I think it was Mark Goodson and Bill Todman, the guys who do the quiz shows. But almost everybody else would be off really cheap.

Blu Cantrell

Men are more prone to cheating, definitely.

Eddie Guerrero

If you're not cheating, you're not trying!

David Hockney

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

David Duchovny

Maybe the best things about celebrity are the things like being able to get that seat on the plane that you wouldn't normally get, but that's kind of like cheating.

Dick Dale

I'm a perfectionist. I'm not going to cheat the people.

Carrie Ann Inaba

I have this firm belief that I am who I am for a reason. If I change something, I'm cheating myself of whatever it is I'm supposed to learn from my body. You know, I'm legally blind. I'm 20/750, since I was in fifth grade. I wear glasses and contacts. But I won't even get LASIK.

Alan Shearer

You should always give 100%. If you do that then no-one can ask any more of you. Someone once said to me when I was a kid: 'If you're asked to do ten sprints, by all means do 11 but never do nine because you're only cheating yourself'.

Charlie Munger

...all man's desired geometric progressions, if a high rate of growth is chosen, at last come to grief on a finite earth. And the social system for man on earth is fair enough, eventually, that almost all massive cheating ends in disgrace.

Bobby Heenan

I know all about cheating. I've had six very successful marriages.

Benjamin Franklin

There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war...this is robbery; the second by commerce, which is generally cheating; the third by agriculture, the only honest way.

Benjamin Franklin

He'll cheat without scruple, who can without fear.

Benjamin Franklin

Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife.

To our knowledge, it is the first imaging study on people who lie, cheat and deceive as a group.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not ''happiness and pleasure'' but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Christopher Bond

making it easier to vote but tougher to cheat.

E. O. Wilson

Let's not cheat our children out of an education.

Jamie Carragher

When the Champions League is at stake, ... you do everything you can, whether it's called gamesmanship or cheating, to put the opposition off.

Blaise Pascal

Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.

Diane Lane

I don't want to live in a bubble, in my craft or in the world...I can't, I would be cheating myself out of my generation and the world we live in.

Dean Koontz

The human species was too fond of lying, cheating, envy, ignorance, self-pity, self-righteousness, and utopian visions that always led to mass murder-but until and if it destroyed itself, it harbored the potential to become nobler, to take responsibility for its actions, to live and let live, and to earn the stewardship of the earth.

Dan Ariely

Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.

Dan Ariely

Dishonesty is all about the small acts we can take and then think, 'No, this not real cheating.' So if you think that the main mechanism is rationalization, then what you come up with, and that's what we find, is that we're basically trying to balance feeling good about ourselves.

Clarice Lispector

I just know that I don't want cheating. I refuse. I deepened myself but I don't believe in myself because my thought is invented.

B. C. Forbes

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

Arthur Hugh Clough

Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When it's so lucrative to cheat.

Ava Gardner

I hate cheating. I won’t put up with it. I don’t do it myself.

Ashley Jensen

There was actually a camera on your face. I don't know so much about the animation process but the camera was in our face so it could get expressions from our faces that would eventually arrive on the gnomes. It almost felt like you were cheating at times because it was a wee bit too much fun. You were in that box on your own. Kelly [Asbury] was in Toronto, I was in LA, so I was just on my own. I thought: "I can't be getting paid for this as well!"

She's 20 pounds of love, she may be cheating on that a bit. She might be 21, but you know what, she's my cat. She's my responsibility.

Most students will look back years from now with fond memories of URI, and you don't want them to say to their children, 'boy did I cheat my way through URI,' and lower their integrity, and the university's.

Most of these guys have never really had the opportunity to be around him. It's something that they've all been cheated on, because he's something special.