Those who fight corruption should be clean themselves.
In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
Tacitus
The more corrupt the state, the more laws.
I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest in writing about my own life or intruding in the privacy of those around me.
Peter Carey
The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
Madeleine Albright
Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.
The Talmud
Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives; they go only as far as the grave, leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond the grave.
Thy friend has a friend, and thy friend's friend has a friend; be discreet.
Loving kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies.
Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.
This is the punishment of a liar: he is not believed, even when he speaks the truth.
The sun will set without thy assistance.
To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these days.
George Tenet
When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.
A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.
Greater even than the pious man is he who eats that which is the fruit of his own toil; for scripture declares him twice-blessed.
I advise everybody not to save: spend your money. Most people save all their lives and leave it to somebody else. Money is to be enjoyed.
Hedy Lamarr
Sin is sweet in the beginning, but bitter in the end.
In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled.
Charles Stanley
The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing - rare but profound - remains at the true heart of the enterprise. On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching.
Jeffrey Eugenides
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
John Locke
I have nothing against younger women and older men on screen. What is sad is that so many women over 40 who have so much to give aren't being considered to play opposite men their own age or younger.
Rene Russo
The mountains are calling and I must go.
John Muir
Credit or debit cards, for starters, are nothing short of shoppers' Novocain. Even in the age of digital purchases and virtual money, we still attach a special value to dirty paper with pictures of presidents on it. Handing some of that to a cashier simply hurts more than handing over a little sliver of plastic.
Jeffrey Kluger
If we're given a number of circumstances to deal with, the brain goes into this mode of trying to find a solution, and it's amazing how good we are at it.
Jon Brion
A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I've seen quite a few deaths, and, with one exception, I've never known anyone to undergo anything like agony. That's amazing when you think about it. I mean, how complicated the mechanism is that's being taken apart.
Lewis Thomas
One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
Norman Cousins
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Madame Curie
If you're an old pro, you know how well you're doing when you're doing it, and your inner government spanks you if you're not doing well.
Jerry Lewis
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
Seneca
Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.
James Madison
I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
George Eliot
Mumford & Sons' music appeals to a lot of America. I'm really proud of them.
Ellie Goulding
People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.
Daniel Goleman
I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.
Haley Joel Osment
I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.
Shirley Bassey
I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.
Sting
I associate going to an airport with work because I travel so much with my job. So when I have a few days free from work, I tend to stay at home.
Evelyn Glennie
Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.
Christopher Plummer
It's interesting - I always thought when I was doing more melodramatic stuff like 'Everwood' that the directors were constantly reeling me in and stopping me from being funny.
Chris Pratt
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