Upstanding Character Quotes & Sayings

A lot of politicians say they want to get people out to vote; sometimes you can't totally believe they really want that. — Tom Golisano

Tabloid discussion of bad children always blames baby-boomer liberals, careerist mothers and fashion-crazed Nathan Barley types who think it's all enormously funny. But the centre-leftish psycho-thinker Oliver James says it's all down to the Thatcher-and-after culture of turbo-capitalism, making people acquisitive and unsatisfied. — Peter York

It feels good to show some courage. — Joe Namath

Not doing anything can be worse than doing the wrong thing. — Alexandra Potter

You welcomed it not as a human message, but as it truly is, the message of God, which also works effectively in you believers. 1 Thessalonians 2:13 — Beth Moore

What makes you think what happened to you on Earth wasn't an adventure? — Lev Grossman

Don't tell me about the pain. Show me the baby. — Bill Parcells

A woman's judgment: intuitive, clever, expressed with felicitous charm - infallible. A judgment that has nothing to do with justice. The critic and the judge seems to think that in those distant lands all joy is a yell and a war dance, all pathos is a howl and a ghastly grin of filed teeth, and that the solution of all problems is found in the barrel of a revolver or on the point of an assegai. And yet it is not so. But the erring magistrate may plead in excuse the misleading nature of the evidence. — Joseph Conrad

Women hate each other in science. You know why? Because the few that are around were trained by men. They survived by being twice as good and twice as competitive and twice as badass as the guys. — Allegra Goodman