Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ayn Rand

God help us, ma'am! Do you see what we saw? We saw that we'd been given a law to live by, a moral law, they called it, which punished those who observed it - for observing it. The more you tried to live up to it, the more you suffered; the more you cheated it, the bigger reward you got. Your honesty was like a tool left at the mercy of the next man's dishonesty. The honest ones paid, the dishonest collected. The honest lost, the dishonest won. How long could men stay good under this sort of a law of goodness?

Ayn Rand

An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.

Ayn Rand

Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake existence.

Ayn Rand

Honest people are never touchy about the matter of being trusted

Ayn Rand

Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one’s consciousness can permit the faking of existence.

Ayn Rand

When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed

Ayn Rand

When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed.

Aubrey O'Day

I know that everybody is so obsessed with this idea of fame, and they think that I'm obsessed. In all honesty, I'm just doing me.

Bertrand Russell

The method of "postulating" what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.

Benjamin Bratt

I've always felt that acting is acting at the end of the day, so whether you're doing comedy or heavy drama or anything else in between, you always have to bring a semblance of honesty to it. It's all make believe.

Benjamin Bratt

Part of my aspiration as a film actor is to bring subtlety to everything I do - honesty but subtlety.

Benjamin Cardozo

Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.

Benjamin Cardozo

Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.

Benjamin Cardozo

What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all is this true when honest men have shaped their conduct on the faith of the pronouncement.

Benjamin Disraeli

One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.

To be honest with you, we overlooked them. But we won't overlook them next time.

Bobby Bowden

To be honest with you, we better be thankful we're able to play freshmen. If we couldn't I don't know what we'd do.

To be honest with you, it's very exciting. It's also very scary.

To be honest with you, I think we match up pretty well with them.

Ozzie Guillen

To be honest with you, I'm going to be the same guy, whether people like it or not. It's the way I am. I'm going to tell the media what I think. I'm not going to lie to them. I'm going to be honest. Nobody is going to make me change.

To be honest with you, I don't see how we can play.

To be honest with you, I don't see any end in sight.

Carl Edwards

To be honest with you, I am surprised,

Gary Moore

To be honest this is down to Sophie Mitchell, who has had him all summer,

To be honest ... I didn't know it. It's nice, but the only thing that really matters is that next one.

Caitlin Moran

People get really scared when women reclaim words, talk about themselves honestly and also make jokes because it's a really unstoppable combination.

Jim McKay

And when I take him down there tonight, ... I'm 12 years old, if I'm honest about it.

Mark Recchi

Dumb. I honestly don't know if I could reach him, if I even wanted to punch him.

Kimmo Timonen

Every time we get another win, we just get more confidence. I'll be honest and say I thought we were the better team. I've never been on a team this tight and together.

There's really no reason to listen to music at all, particularly in the world that we have now. The real reason for music is as a way for exchanging money. That's its real source. it has nothing to do with sound or technology or new resources or anything else that I honestly can see.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.

At the end of the day a trial like this is a morality play. It is not just what happened, and who said what to whom, but who is an honest person.

Chad Campbell

Didn't y'all? I was getting ready to go to No. 1, to be honest with you.