Famous Quotes & Sayings

Douglas Adams

The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks. How often have you been presented with an apparently rational explanation of something that works in all respects other than one, which is just that it is hopelessly improbable? Your instinct is to say, 'Yes, but he or she simply wouldn't do that.

Douglas Adams

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

Doris Lessing

For women like me, integrity isn't chastity, it isn't fidelity, it isn't any of the old words. Integrity is the orgasm. That is something I haven't any control over.

Donald Hall

The pleasure we feel, reading a poem, is our assurance of its integrity.

Donald Trump

She [Hillary Clinton] put her emails on a secret server to cover up her pay-for-play scandals in the State Department. Nothing threatens the integrity of our democracy more than when government officials put their public office up for sale.

Donald Trump

My attorney general will restore the integrity of the Department of Justice, which has been severely questioned.

Dwight L. Moody

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I have ever met.

David Foster Wallace

The integrity of my sleep has been forever compromised, sir.

David Chipperfield

I may not be the most interesting architect, but I'm still out there and have maintained some position of integrity.

Davy Crockett

Make sure you're right, then go ahead.

Davy Crockett

Be sure you are right, then go ahead.

Confucius

When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again.

Confucius

Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.

Confucius

Possessed of courage but devoid of morality, a superior man will make trouble while a small man will be a brigand.

Confucius

Make faithfulness and truth thy masters: have no friends unlike thyself: be not ashamed to mend thy faults.

Confucius

He who merely knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them.

Confucius

Be faithful and true of word; let thy walk be plain and lowly: thou wilt get on, though in savage land. If thy words be not faithful and true, thy walk plain and lowly, wilt thou get on, though in thine own home? Standing, see these words ranged before thee; driving, see them written upon the yoke. Then thou wilt get on.

Confucius

Never do to others what you would not like them to do to you.

Confucius

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

Confucius

The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.

David Cameron

Our participation in the single market, and our ability to help set its rules is the principal reason for our membership of the EU. So it is a vital interest for us to protect the integrity and fairness of the single market for all its members.

David Limbaugh

We are living in a time when the very integrity of the Constitution is being threatened daily, from federal bailouts to federal assumption of control over private business.

Desmond Tutu

We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.

Andrew Johnson

There are some who lack confidence in the integrity and capacity of the people to govern themselves. To all who entertain such fears I will most respectfully say that I entertain none . . . If man is not capable, and is not to be trusted with the government of himself, is he to be trusted with the government of others . . . Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing to take charge of our political affairs.

Andy Serkis

What you can do with visual effects is enhance the look of the character, but the actual integrity of the emotional performance and the way the character's facial expressions work, that is what is going to be created on the day with other actors and the director.

Chuck Grassley

Judge [Samuel] Alito has a reputation for being an exceptional and honest judge devoted to the rule of law, as well as being a man of integrity.

Chuck Grassley

My business is the enforcement of the tax laws and the integrity of the tax code and making sure that trustees of charitable giving are true trustees.

Chuck Grassley

Selling drug secrets violates a trust that is fundamental to the integrity of both scientific research and our financial markets.

Ansel Adams

The quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential to the integrity of our existence on this planet.

Andrew Carnegie

A business is seldom if ever built up except on lines of strictest integrity.

Amos Oz

The opposite of compromise is not integrity. The opposite of compromise is not idealism. The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death.

Amy Grant

The people I've been exposed to have been people of amazing integrity.

Amy Grant

You live in a dangerous place when you sacrifice integrity for security.