Unrealistically Virtuous Quotes & Sayings

I think it's important when you make a record that you know you're working with the people who are going to get the best out of you. — Simon Le Bon

I'm not much but I'm all I have. — Philip K. Dick

We tried to create advantages. We were never complacent. — Bobby Rahal

What we really have is a daily reprieve, contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. Am I checking my spiritual condition daily? — Anonymous

The Mathom-house it was called; for anything that Hobbits had no immediate use for, but were unwilling to throw away, they called a mathom. Their dwellings were apt to become rather crowded with mathoms, and many of the presents that passed from hand to hand were of that sort. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him!
hang him! — Oscar Wilde

Character is a question of time. It lasts for a certain length of time, just like a glove. There are good ones that last a long time. But they don't last forever. — Bertolt Brecht

It is at the heart of our human enterprise, that is to say, at the heart of society, to allow consensus a power it ought not to have. — Jesse Ball

It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their lower and simpler forms. But they were believed not to blend. — Asa Gray

[John Edwards] is the man that Rielle Hunter called 'real and authentic,' which tells us all we need to know about her mental abilities. This is why she can't figure out why he picked her. He could have had a multitude of sweet young things but he chose a 42-year-old who is one bleach job away from turning into one big split end, because his tumescent ego demands that he be the pretty one. — Florence King

If we have not found the heaven within,we have not found the heaven without — James Hilton

Women always find their bitterest foes among their own sex. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn