Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlize Theron

I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I don't want to be anything other than what we are. I want to just be a woman.

Barry Sanders

I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.

Dante Alighieri

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

Frances Wright

Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on which it stands.

David Kerr

You really need to look at making repairs that are profitable in terms of selling the house. They want to see that pedestal sink.

Neal Shusterman

A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.

Pierre Jean de Beranger

Many have lived on a pedestal who will never have a statue when dead.

Vivienne Westwood

I like to literally put women on a pedestal

Alan Chadwick

Patience is not a virtue!

William Shakespeare

If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not.

William Shakespeare

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

Edmund Burke

That cardinal virtue, temperance.

Edmund Burke

All virtue which is impracticable is spurious.

Archibald Alexander

Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellowmen, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation.

Juvenal

Virtue is the only and true nobility. [Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.]

Juvenal

So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.

Bertolt Brecht

Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.

Bill Williams

Pope John Paul II, a man of peace and compassion, was one of the most revered leaders of our time. With this stately, white rose, we pay homage to his far-reaching impact upon the people of the world.

Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.

Javier Garcia

I'm kind of paying homage to the old styles, (and) at the same time mixing it up.

David Pierce

I did a big movie this summer, during my hiatus. That's really the time when I can do anything where I have a large part. That was Down With Love, an homage to the Rock Hudson-Doris Day films.