Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oliver Goldsmith

Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity.

Oliver Goldsmith

Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity. The ignorant peasant without fault is greater than the philosopher with many. What is genius or courage without a heart?

Marcy Kaptur

We have seen voters denied their rights in recent elections as they have been incorrectly purged from lists, their absentee votes not counted, and voting machine integrity and security not assured.

Kathy Ireland

Keep integrity and your work ethics intact. So what if that means working a little harder; an honorable character is your best calling card, and that's something anyone can have!

Margaret Thatcher

Today I have lost one of my dearest friends, England one of her greatest men. Keith Joseph understood that it was necessary to win again the intellectual argument for freedom, and that to do this we must start from first principles. He was in many ways an unlikely revolutionary. For all his towering intellect, he was deeply humble. He spoke out boldly, however hostile the audience. Yet he hated to give offence. Above all, his integrity shone out in everything he said and did. His best memorial lies in the younger generations of politicians whom he inspired. But for me he is irreplaceable.

Margaret Cho

If you are a woman, if you're a person of color, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are a person of intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world...And it's going to be really hard to find messages of self-love and support anywhere. It's all about how you have to look a certain way or else you're worthless.. For us to have self-esteem is truly an act of revolution and our revolution is long overdue.

Margaret Cho

If you are a woman, if you are a person of colour, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are person of intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world.

Mark Twain

If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?

Madonna Ciccone

I'm not going to compromise my artistic integrity.

Michael D. Higgins

Through the inspiration of Vaclav's words, the courage of his dissidence and the integrity of his leadership, Czechoslovakia successfully transitioned from an authoritarian state to a free democracy at the heart of Europe.

Michael Crichton

Anyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of very human ego.

Michael Crichton

Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other.

Mark Twain

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

Mark Twain

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

Mark Twain

Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.

Mary Schapiro

Brokerage firms and their executives cannot use threats regarding research activities as a way to obtain investment banking business. The threat to drop research coverage if Piper were not selected as the lead underwriter for a secondary offering was totally inappropriate and undermines the integrity of the market.

Mark McGrath

When you become a commodity to a record label because you're making them millions of dollars, you can take all of your artistic integrity and throw it out the window.

Marilyn Monroe

I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity, and that includes all kinds of parts.

Marilyn Monroe

Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one ... I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity.

Marvin J. Ashton

A quality person is someone with integrity. To be worthy of the highest trust is a noble attribute and compliment. You will need to maintain confidences. Certainly it is greater to be trusted than loved. Truly happy persons will always be totally honest in their dealings with their fellowman.

Paul Begala

When your mission is to restore honor and integrity to the White House, you've got to be willing to use any means necessary.

Marya Mannes

You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.

Michel de Montaigne

I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.

Michael Musto

For better or worse, I've always tried to march to my own drum and tell it like it is, while preserving some integrity and style. God, I'm fabulous!

Mark Twain

If one is honest there is no need to remember.

Marianne Williamson

As long as we remain vigilant at building our internal abundance—an abundance of integrity, an abundance of forgiveness, an abundance of service, an abundance of love—then external lack is bound to be temporary.

Marianne Williamson

The Goddess doesn't enter us from outside; she emerges from deep within. She is not held back by what happened in the past. She is conceived in consciousness, born in love, and nurtured by higher thinking. She is integrity and value, created and sustained by the hard work of personal growth and the discipline of a life lived actively in hope.

Mario Cuomo

Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.

Frank O'Hara

Leaf! you are so big! How can you change your color, then just fall! As if there were no such thing as integrity!

Germaine Greer

Once a paper admits any principle of censorship for survival, the we-don't-want-to-do-it-but-we-don't-want-to-lose-the-printer kind of censorship, it jeopardizes the integrity of its editorial principle. It's better to print and be damned, because you'll be damned anyway.

Harry Houdini

But it must not be thought that I say this out of personal experience: for in the many years that I have been before the public my secret methods have been steadily shielded by the strict integrity of my assistants, most of whom have been with me for years.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

We cannot restore integrity and morality to our society until each of us-singly and individually-takes responsibility for our actions.

Fran Lebowitz

I think one manifestation of integrity is holding a grudge. Saying no is a little different. Holding a grudge is the modern equivalent of having standards.