Quotes About Integrity

But people —the ordinary, the decent and basically honest— couldn't get through the day without that one indispensable bit of programming, that allowed you to say one thing and mean, feel, even do, another.

I'm meant to love you, no matter how you act, no matter what you do? I couldn't respect myself if I felt that way.

For instance, your life is a lie, and she never lies. When she heard the story of George Washington chopping down the cherry tree, she barely understood it. "Of course he told the truth. The chopping down of a cherry tree would be a very big thing to cover up," she said.

How did you ever survive that scandal?" She said, "I refused to be shamed." "How did you do that?" you asked. "When they came at me, I kept coming," she said.

Every word the right one and exactly where it should be.

The way I see it," Lambiase says, "you saved A. J. Fikry's life when you stole that manuscript. That's the way I see it." "What kind of cop are you?" Ismay asks. "The old kind," he says.

Despite everything that transpired at Unfair Games on December 4th, 2005, and despite evidence to the contrary, it is not an inevitability that we should be our worst selves behind the mask of an avatar.

he had referred to blurbs as "the blood diamonds of publishing.

The most annoying thing about it is that once a person gives a shit about one thing, he finds he has to start giving a shit about everything. No

It wasn't illegal, but it was possibly immoral," Ruby said. "Maybe it wasn't immoral, but it was definitely disloyal. Maybe—" "Never mind, this seems terribly complicated," said Embeth. "Let's put a pin in that.

She never says she loves a book if she doesn't.

I was brought up the Mexican way, where actors are paid very little and every part you take is an act of faith. If people respect that, then great.

When you care for someone, you don't ruin their life!

The Alice Montague I love is not the kind of woman who uses her body to get what she wants." Her eyes widened in surprise. "What?" he asked insolently. "Y-you just said you love me.

Alice Montague was that rarest of flowers, a beautiful woman of integrity. Someone he might even be able to trust, in time. He had searched the world for such a creature. He had her in his grasp. How could he possibly let her slip through his fingers? He could not. He could not help himself.

Speaking as one who was given to you as a plaything, your behavior towards women has been beastly. I know for a fact that you're better than this." "My, my, now you are starting to sound like a wife. Too bad I'm not in the market for none of those." "No, why should you be? You're too busy sleeping with other men's wives to bother finding your own.

He that promises most will perform least.

I trust you to find the good in me, but the bad I must be sure you don't overlook.

Who judges the judge who judges wrong?

You're Only the fairest when your fairest to yourself

the reason you give your body is what makes it right or makes it shameful, and only you can decide that.

I'm not sure I know what 'simple-hearted' means," I said haughtily. "When there's no deceit or malice in your heart. Most of us have some; it protects us. People without it are rare.

Yes, if you believed in words, if you lived by words, you had better be careful which words you say and how you say them. You had better be careful what you look up, which words, which names. Jane Clifford, in The Odd Woman

A real man has no need of governments, of laws, of moral or ethical codes, to say nothing of battleships, police clubs, high-powered bombers and such things."76