Quotes About Integrity

I won't fuck around," he said. "Just so you know. I nearly lost you. I won't risk that again. I told you before I'd never be a one-woman man, but I was wrong.

I couldn't evict Cooper for having a girlfriend who wasn't me. Well, that and the law and the general sense of decency and fair play my parents raised me with, but I swear—if it weren't for all that, he'd be out on his ass.

Yeah, this good-guy bullshit wasn't his gig at all.

What good is your reality, when justice fails and dishonesty is glossed over and the ones who keep faith suffer

What good is your reality, when justice fails and dishonesty is glossed over and the ones who keep faith suffer .... What good is your reality then?

I speak as I must and cannot be silent.

Pídele cuentas a la pura verdad que no se pringa, que no tiene piedad; yo sólo me colgué medallas que no gané.

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

I don't really make movies because I want to see my face on a billboard or because I want to get good reviews or have a big box office. That doesn't really matter to me at all.

What mattered was stil there. That was what they all felt, and what surprised them all. What mattered couldnt be shaken.

Love can't be taken back once it's given

what mattered was still there. That was what they all felt, what surprised them all. What mattered couldn't be shaken.

We have the incredible privilege of serving in the highest offices in the state. We must prove ourselves worthy of our fellow citizens' faith. We must be trusted to always place the public's good above our own and to always choose fairness over favoritism.

When teenagers lie, it's often for the same reasons that adults do: to impress people, to advance themselves (academically, financially, or in some other way), to protect their friends, and — like Cain — to get out of trouble. While these reasons may make a lie understandable, they should never make lying acceptable . God doesn't wink at deception.

From what I've seen, a girl's got to behave like a mental midget before she'll get any action in this town. If resisting that makes me a freak, so be it. I may die with my hymen intact, but at least I'll have my dignity" ~ Confessions of a Triple Shot Betty

Ask yourself, What kind of person aspires to have sex with a comatose young woman? And how do you label someone who deliberately gets a girl drunk in order to do so?

If life has taught me one thing, it's that there are no villains. Only people, doing their best.

Hard words are for fools and cowards.

Some things have to be done. It's better to do them, than to live with the fear of them.

Good steel bends, but never breaks. Good steel stays always sharp and ready. Good steel feels no pain, no pity, and above all, no remorse

When you tell a lie, you have to sound like you believe it. Goes double for the ones you tell yourself.

Still, it was better to swear an oath and never follow through than not even to bother with the oath. Wasn't it?

Men can have all manner of deeply held beliefs about the world in general that they find most inconvenient when called upon to apply to their own lives. Few people let morality get in the way of expediency. Or even convenience. A man who truly believes in a thing beyond the point where it costs him is a rare and dangerous thing.

The beauty o' making yourself a promise is that no one else complains if you break it.