If you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future.
Joyce MeyerOne aspect of appellate judging is we have to give reasons for all of our decisions. And when you sit down and try to write it out, sometimes you find that your first judgment wasn’t the right one.
Ruth Bader GinsburgOf two evils, choose neither.
Charles SpurgeonThe spread of online information isn’t just good for charities. It’s also good for donors. You can go to a site like Charity Navigator, which evaluates nonprofits on their financial health as well as the amount of information they share about their work.
Bill GatesThe time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.
Billy GrahamThe jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert FrostNothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
Blaise PascalEven if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
Mahatma GandhiYeah, I’m an open book.
Amy WinehouseWhat is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
Francis BaconIf you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.
Jeff BezosI went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. It’s the truth.
Charlie ChaplinIf I want to do well in racing I need to be more focused so I stopped going to school. If I wasn’t a very good driver it would not be a wise decision, but it gives me an advantage over my competitors.
Lando NorrisTruth has rough flavours if we bite it through.
George EliotThe more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
Benjamin DisraeliCensorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
George Bernard ShawWho shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?
Alexander PopeThe truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
J. K. RowlingIt is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Virginia WoolfMy parents didn’t want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that’s the law.
Jerry SeinfeldEverybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they’re transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.
Brian EnoI am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.
Mahatma GandhiMy mind doesn’t work, my memories don’t work like a computer file where I can just retrieve them and, boy, there it is. My mind is selective in terms of memories. When I try to think back to college or high school, there are gaps. I try to fill them in. But I can’t tell you it’s always the truth.
John KennedyFacts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous HuxleyThis nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.
Joe BidenI said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman’s equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.
Ruth Bader GinsburgThere’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.
Golda MeirThere’s just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.
Frank OceanTo conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
Charles DickensPeople seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
Bob DylanI don’t ever make moves under pressure.
Nipsey HussleThere are lies, damned lies and statistics.
Mark TwainWhen you’re 40, you can’t ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.
Dolly PartonTo see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.
ConfuciusBe slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
Benjamin FranklinAnyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
Albert EinsteinPeople need good lies. There are too many bad ones.
Kurt VonnegutSomething unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
Benjamin DisraeliI can make more generals, but horses cost money.
Abraham LincolnEvery man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this – death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.
Terry PratchettMy way of joking is to tell the truth. That’s the funniest joke in the world.
Muhammad AliNo one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.
Bill GatesOne of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
PlatoI grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
Thomas CarlyleDo I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I’m riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown traffic. But when I’m riding on secure protected lanes or on the paths that run along the Hudson or through Central Park – no, I don’t wear the dreaded helmet then.
David ByrneI know now that there is no one thing that is true – it is all true.
Ernest HemingwayExaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
Khalil GibranHuman behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
PlatoWhen you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.
Sunil ChhetriI have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision.
Narendra ModiI make decisions all day, so it’s nice for a woman like me to go to dinner and have the man take the menu and say, ‚Let me order.‘ Other women would be offended by that, but I’m like, ‚Good. Because I can’t make one more decision today.‘ I want someone to rub my feet without being asked.
Abby Lee MillerWisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.
Herbert HooverEvery act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.
Andrew CarnegieAn unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
Aldous HuxleyThe lie is a condition of life.
Friedrich NietzscheIf you judge, investigate.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThe problem with car dealerships is you’ve already decided what you want to buy before you even go there, and you’re really just going there to talk through some annoying negotiation.
Elon MuskCowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.
Martin Luther King, Jr.There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
William James