Maintaining Personal Integrity Quotes & Sayings

The country was not focused on terrorism before September 11th. — Louis Freeh

Do you remember back at the hotel when you promised that if we lived, you'd get dressed up in a nurse's outfit and give me a sponge bath?" asked Jace.
"It was Simon who promised you the sponge bath."
"As soon as I'm back on my feet, handsome," said Simon.
"I knew we should have left you a rat. — Cassandra Clare

The only thing perfect is our present because we're breathing, moving, loving, feeling. And we're able to let the people in our lives know how much they mean to us. — Alison G. Bailey

If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside. — Robert Cringely

It's strange," Moominmamma thought. "Strange that people can be sad, and even angry because life is too easy. But that's the way it is, I suppose. The only thing to do is to start life afresh. — Tove Jansson

Life as a voice actress is tough. It's not an easy career. — Lucille Bliss

There's a widespread notion that children are open, that the truth about their inner selves just seeps out of them. That's all wrong. No one is more covert than a child, and no one has greater cause to be that way. It's a response to a world that is always using a tin-opener on them to see what they have inside, just in case it ought to be replaced with a more useful type of tinned foodstuff. — Peter Hoeg Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow

I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote. — Frida Kahlo

You're sure your new roommate won't be like the last one who wore tinfoil socks and had a tendency to occasionally urinate in the refrigerator. You're sure you'll pass Math 106 this time around. You're determined to actually join some clubs this year and not just sit around in your dorm eating spray cheese from a can and watching youtube videos about cats. — Patrick Rothfuss

Better be mute, than dispute with the Ignorant. — Pythagoras

You just can't tell or calibrate motive or intelligence or sense. So I don't read anything unless someone tells me that it's really smart or illuminating. I don't read any reviews anymore and it's been really liberating. — Anna Quindlen

Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80. — Anish Kapoor

There were never two people more ill suited for a relationship than us. We were all wrong. We didn't stand a chance.
And that made me want to fight for it even harder. — A Meredith Walters

Efficiency was just a measurement of how fast money moved from the poor to the rich. We prefer the opposite of efficiency, which is to say, justice. — Kim Stanley Robinson

He did not dare to console her, knowing that it would have been like consoling a tiger run thru by a spear. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A philosopher might find the general work unsophisticated, and scientists are often bemused by esoteric talk of zombies, supervenience, and possible worlds. — David Chalmers