Quotes About Integrity
Maybe sometimes we don't do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don't want to look scared, so we go and do the wrong thing just because it's dangerous.
~ Philip Pullman
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And we have the right to refuse to guide them if they lie, or if they hold anything back, or if they have nothing to tell us. If they live in the world, they should see and touch and hear and love and learn things. We shall make an exception for infants who have not had time to learn anything, but otherwise, if they come down here bringing nothing, we shall not guide them out.
~ Philip Pullman
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Las decisiones no deberían tomarse en función de cómo nos sentimos…, culpables, débiles…
~ Philip Pullman
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You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.
~ Philip Roth
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There were two types of strong men: those like Uncle Monty and Abe Steinheim, remorseless about their making money, and those like my father, ruthlessly obedient to their idea of fair play.
~ Philip Roth
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Either foreswear fucking others or the affair is over.
~ Philip Roth
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It was my job not just to pluck the chickens but to eviscerate them. I hated that part. Nauseating and disgusting, but it had to be done. That's what I learned from my father and what I loved learning from him: that you do what you have to do.
~ Philip Roth
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In the ass is how you create loyalty.
~ Philip Roth
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You've got a good girl this time. Don't screw it up. Don't let her go.
~ Philip Roth
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That's what I learned from my father and what I loved learning from him: that you do what you have to do.
~ Philip Roth
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devi fare solo questo, presentare una buona e coerente versione di te stesso, e nessuno verrà mai a farti domande.
~ Philip Roth
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People say one thing, adopt a public position, and are then quite different on the inside and privately act in a totally different way. They have an expression for this: 'the shifting sands'—ramál mutaharrika
~ Philip Roth
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This man did not deal in fairy tales. You could see that as soon as you walked into his office. Schevitz was somebody who liked to be proved right, somebody whose wish to prevail was his vocation.
~ Philip Roth
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I know the kind of man I am and the kind of writer. I have my own kind of bravery, and please, let's leave it at that.
~ Philip Roth
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wants to have it both ways, rather like big corporations that give to charity and then try to reap PR benefits by hyping their altruism in their ads.
~ David Foster Wallace
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To them, right and wrong is words, boy. He came away and eased himself into his big desk chair, sitting straight, hands out before him on the unscarred presidential cherrywood. Right and wrong ain't words, he said. They're feelings. In your guts and intestines and such. Not words. Not songs with guitars. They're what make you feel like you do. They're inside you. Your heart and digestion. Like the folks you personally love.
~ David Foster Wallace
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Who we are is the result of how we live and act on a daily basis. Our daily actions reflect our prime values and motivations.
~ David Frawley
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Our nation is built from the ground up to handle political disagreement. It is not built to endure mass-scale dishonesty and vindictiveness.
~ Unknown
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Our nation is built from the ground up to handle political disagreement. It is not built to endure mass-scale dishonesty and vindictiveness. No less a light than John Adams understood our nation's unique vulnerability to individual depravity. In his October 11, 1798, letter to the Massachusetts Militia, Adams famously wrote that "our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
~ Unknown
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There is evil in all of us, and it is the mark of a man how he defies the evil within.
~ David Gemmell
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Never violate a woman, nor harm a child. Do not lie, cheat or steal. These things are for lesser men. Protect the weak against the evil strong. And never allow thoughts of gain to lead you into the pursuit of evil. Never back away from an enemy. Either fight or surrender. It is not enough to say I will not be evil. Evil must be fought wherever it is found.
~ David Gemmell
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Never violate a woman, nor harm a child. Do not lie, cheat or steal. These things are for lesser men. Protect the weak against the evil strong. And never allow thoughts of gain to lead you into the pursuit of evil. -The Iron Code of Druss the Legend
~ David Gemmell
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Never liked Kolanos. Was at a feast with him one time. Never heard him fart at all. Can't trust a man who doesn't fart at a feast.
~ David Gemmell
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Never violate a woman, nor harm a child. Do not lie, cheat, or steal. These things are for lesser men. Protect the weak against the evil strong. And never allow thoughts of gain to lead you into the pursuit of evil. That was the iron code of Druss the Legend.
~ David Gemmell
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