Dean Inge Quotes

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

Dean Inge

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• Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.

  

  Jack Youngblood
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• Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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• What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.

  

  Samantha Shannon
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• Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.

  

  Sally Phillips
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• Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.

  

  Indra Devi
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• Lumpy and lazy; I aspired to lethargy. In the second year of university, I missed half my classes just because I couldn't pull myself out of bed.

  

  Victor LaValle
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• Even if it was a difficult operation to copy a song, it only takes one person to do it. After that the spread of the song via the Internet or other means of propagation is only limited by the honesty of the users.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • Song
  • Internet
  • Honesty

• I'm the opposite of those writers who believe that my work is sacrosanct and cannot be touched.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Opposite

• If anybody is interested in listening to good modern music, I would recommend Jim Fassett, 'Symphony of the Birds.' It's really beautiful... with real birds.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Good
  • Music
  • Real

• I think the most important thing journalism taught me is to mine for details. The details are key. You can't try to be funny or strange or poignant; you have to let the details be funny or strange or poignant for you.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Important
  • Funny
  • Journalism

• If 'Married With Children' hadn't come out when it did, would we really be looking at 'Roseanne,' 'The Middle,' and 'Raising Hope' and being, like, 'Look at how stereotypical they are to lower-income white people!'

  

  Parvesh Cheena
  • People
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• Holy scripture does not hold women back. It's the people that decide to interpret it in such a way for their own, sometimes political, agendas.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People
  • Women
  • Political

• Tokyo may have more money and Kyoto more culture; Nara may have more history and Kobe more style. But Osaka has the biggest heart.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Money
  • Heart
  • May

• I think, by nature, human beings are curious. And I think that's only amplified as an artist.

  

  Haley Bennett
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  • Think
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• For me, photography is not just about exposing film, it's about exposing the viewer to something new, a place they haven't gone before, but most importantly, to people that they might be afraid of.

  

  iO Tillett Wright
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• Life starts at conception and must be protected from the first moment.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Life
  • Moment
  • First

• (That is it!)

  

  Karl Marx

• I enjoyed it from a very early age. When I had to make my own living after college, I decided to give doing what I enjoyed most a shot as a profession. It worked out and I’ve never had to 'work' for a living since. If I hadn’t gotten so lucky, there were plenty of options open to me being, after all, a young educated white male in America.

  

  Clancy Brown
  • Work
  • America
  • Age

• Coach Knapp is a tremendous quarterbacks coach.

  

  Brock Osweiler

• Pray a little each day in a childlike way for the Spirit of prayer. If you feel that you know, as yet, very little concerning the deep things of prayer and what prayer really is, then pray for the Spirit of prayer. There is nothing He would rather do than unveil to you the grace of prayer.

  

  Ole Hallesby
  • Deep
  • Prayer

• To be honest with my music... for me to expect anyone to connect it has to come from a place of honesty.

  

  Keri Hilson The Clutch
  • Music
  • Honesty

• Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your reputation. Be not apt to relate news, if you know not the truth thereof. Speak no evil of the absent, for it is unjust. Undertake not what you cannot perform, but be careful to keep your promise. There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth, and pursue it steadily. Nothing but harmony, honesty, industry and frugality are necessary to make us a great and happy nation.

  

  George Washington
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Quality

• I don't put myself above anyone, and I have as many shortcomings as any non-believer. I just choose to turn to a higher power to help me gain wisdom and, I hope, improve over time.

  

  Van Jones
  • Time
  • Power
  • Help

• Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

  

  Dean Inge
  • Honesty