Quotes About Integrity

I don't want to be like a flag in the wind one day like this and one day like the other, praying for a few points. Sometimes at this level we have to, sadly, work within this pressure in your day to day work, and that's quite normal.

When officials lie, we lose faith in authority, get our information elsewhere and throw caution to the wind.

Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.

It only takes 140 characters to toss one's character out the window.

We will not bow down to the winds of PC culture whichever way they may blow.

I don't feel I'm thrown around by the winds of taste and fashion.

There are so many ways of posturing that people associate with being a writer. They imagine you wearing a beret and drinking only red wine and being full of yourself, and so, for a long time, the way I felt about writing was too private. I felt it too important and didn't want to be teased about it. So I lied about it.

Is it honest for me to go and sit there on communion day and drink the wine and eat the bread while feeling it all to be mummery?

For the record, I've never taken a bung in my life. I might have enjoyed a meal or a bottle of wine on an agent or two but that is it. I was earning £1.5m a year, so I didn't need a little bit extra from an agent. It would have been madness.

At the risk of being old-fartish, I like old-school wines that taste the way the winemaker intended, as opposed to organic and untreated ones with more bottle variation. If I want to take a risk, I'll go bungee-jumping.

There have been times - and not just on 'The Newsroom,' but on 'The West Wing,' 'Sports Night,' 'Studio 60'... - where it was hard to look the cast and crew in the eye, when I put a script on the table that I knew just wasn't good enough.

I've never done anything that I need to be doing tomorrow. If someone says, 'We no longer want you here,' I won't show up again. It was true at 'The West Wing.' It was true in the Senate.

Money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.

I don't really mind not being a part of a film - because if there is no part for me, I will never force myself upon a film. I feel like it's just a distraction. If it is not organically incorporated into the story, it just feels like a stupid appearance, like a sort of wink. I hate that.

There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.

Once he became a series character, I made the conscious choice that he would never act like a series character, never wink at the reader, never pull his punches. Better for him, better for me.

The thing I'm having a hard time with are the Christians who will stab you in the back in a wink.

We never wanted to be ironic; we didn't want to wink at the audience.

At the end of the day it's better to be an unpleasant winner than a nice loser.

A winner for me is someone who stands up for the right, is honest and can even go against their friends while pursuing truth.

I gotta do what I think is right, and if enough people like it, I'm a winner. And if they don't, I'll open a bookstore.

I never faked my emotions or my desire to be a winner.

The winner must promote social jusitce, remove corruption and discrmination, and stand against political, cultural and economic plots.

I want to say sorry for abusing my position as an 'X Factor' winner because I owe everything to this thing.