Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sylvia Schenk

Sports is a big economic area. And just like in other sectors of society, sports is vulnerable to corruption. It's not a holy realm.

Nong Manh

It is not that there is more corruption than before, it is that they are being uncovered and we need to punish them.

John Alexander

I think the state of this country worsens every day, ... It's full of garbage, there's a lot of crime and a lot of corruption in the government and police. It's all upside down ? everything.

Ryan Toohey

For seven years now, from Wall Street to public corruption to big drug companies, no one in this state has done more to stand up to special interests and the status quo than Eliot Spitzer.

William Shakespeare

I hate ingratitude more in a person; than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or, any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood.

Iyad Allawi

I don't think it is fair at all that we should shift the focus from the corruption during Saddam's time and from the corruption that prevailed before sovereignty was transferred to the Iraqis to a period of six months when I was prime minister,

Nancy Pelosi

For more than a decade... House Republicans have benefited from their systemic culture of corruption at the expense of the American people.

George Marek

Hypocracy defined: A modern form of government by hypocrisy.

Mikhail Saakashvili

He understood the shortcoming which we had. He understood we had corruption.

Morag Joss

I think there are spirits who are just too frail for the events life throws at them. Where do these people hide, and how do they survive?

Kate Bush

I'm a very strong person, and I think that's why, actually, I find it really infuriating when I read, 'She had a nervous breakdown' or 'She's not very mentally stable, just a weak, frail little creature.'

Sylvia Plath

One soul passes through the other, frail as smokeAnd utterly ignorant of the way it took.

Joel Hirschhorn

She's 64 years old. She's a frail woman. I think she's in a state of shock, understandably so.

Sara Teasdale

Life is a frail moth flyingCaught in the web of the years that pass.

Alexander McCall Smith

You do not have to ladle on the impasto to make a point about human frailty or ambitions.

Cormac McCarthy

The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren't.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

Francis Bacon

Who then to frail mortality shall trust,/ But limns the water, or but writes in dust.

Gregory Lagana

People know when they take this job this could happen, because it's the nature of the contracting business, but it still hurts. We hate to see this happen. We hate to lose the work and we hate to lay off employees.

Harold Duarte-Bernhardt

People never hate you! They just dont like themselves in your presence.

Joseph Conrad

Remember, Razumov, that women, children, and revolutionists hate irony, which is the negation of all saving instincts, of all faith, of all devotion, of all action.

Bruce Fein

plant the seeds of racial separateness and of hatred in the law.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Patch smiled. “You come by your red hair naturally?” I stared at him. “I don’t have red hair.” “I hate to break it to you, but it’s red. I could light it on fire and it wouldn’t turn any redder.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Hate to disappoint, but no feathers. I came to Earth stripped naked.

Barry McGuire

Think of all the hate there is in Red China, then take a look around to Selma, Alabama.

Barry McGuire

Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace.

Barry Lopez

The opposite of love is not hate; it's indifference. To be indifferent is to not express love.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands! A civilization that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Since the dawn of time, women have been attracted to mates with strong survival skills—like intelligence and physical prowess— because men with these qualities are more likely to bring home dinner at the end of the day.” He stuck his thumbs in the air and grinned. “Dinner equals survival, team

Becca Fitzpatrick

Go ahead. You're not going to walk in on anyone. I'm home alone." "The whole night?" Immediately, I realized it might not have been the smartest thing to say. "Dorothea will be coming soon." That was a lie. Dorothea was long gone. It was close to midnight. "Dorothea?" "Our housekeeper. She's old- but strong. Very strong." I tried to squeeze past him. Unsuccessfully. "Sounds frightening," he said, retrieving the key from the lock. He held it out for me. "She can clean a toilet inside and out in under a minute. More like terrifying.

Barry Pepper

Well, I'm Canadian. True, north, strong, and free.

Barry Manilow

I'm still hungry. I've still got a million ideas. I'm still strong and ready to create.

B. D. Wong

I'm a strong nonbeliever in the Christmas letter where you don't really read it because it's just full of kind of meaningless information. It doesn't really resonate to the person reading it, but it means so much to the person that wrote it.

B. H. Liddell Hart

It should be the aim of grand strategy to discover and pierce the Achilles' heel of the opposing government's power to make war. Strategy, in turn, should seek to penetrate a joint in the harness of the opposing forces. To apply one's strength where the opponent is strong weakens oneself disproportionately to the effect attained. To strike with strong effect, one must strike at weakness.

B. H. Liddell Hart

If you find your opponent in a strong position costly to force, you should leave him a line of retreat as the quickest way of loosening his resistance. It should, equally, be a principle of policy, especially in war, to provide your opponent with a ladder by which he can climb down.

B. H. Liddell Hart

The most consistently successful commanders, when faced by an enemy in a position that was strong naturally or materially, have hardly ever tackled it in a direct way. And when, under pressure of circumstances, they have risked a direct attack, the result has commonly been to blot their record with a failure.

Bergen Evans

The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.

Antoine Rivarol

There is even the dignity of vice.

Matt Mullenweg

Just because someone uses Twitter doesn't mean they shouldn't use WordPress, and vice versa.

Dan Rather

I don't want to be argumentative, Mr. Vice President.

Juvenal

No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap

Benjamin Disraeli

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

Elfriede Jelinek

Vice is basically the love of failure.

Augustus Hare

Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.

Dev Hynes

Yeah, I associate every sound with a color and vice versa.

Abu Bakr

When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.

Warren Zevon

I remember certain lines and whose they are.