Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.
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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.
DON MARQUIS There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us, and others who please us in spite of their ...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors
FRANCIS HERBERT BRADLEY But she has gathered that Americans, in spite of their public declarations of affection, in spite of...
JHUMPA LAHIRI The fearless are merely fearless. People who act in spite of their fear are truly brave.
JAMES A. LAFOND-LEWIS We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of the...
THOMAS MANN In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don'...
ISABELLE ADJANI For some people, promises define who they are- their character, respect for themselves and others, a...
JOSé N. HARRIS Appointments to the higher judiciary must be through transparent processes, which ensure that person...
KAPIL SIBAL We are recommending that ill persons stay in their rooms.
MARNI STOREY Some people are inherently likeable. If you're not - work on it. It may even improve your social...
ANTONIN SCALIA The fearless are merely fearless. People who act in spite of their fear are truly brave. - Novembe...
JAMES A. LAFOND-LEWIS As a writer, Harold has been unswerving for 50 years,
TOM STOPPARD So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There are, in the King case in particular, some names of confidential informants, persons to whom we...
LOUIS STOKES Richard III is not likeable. Macbeth is not likeable. Hamlet is not likeable. And yet you can't ...
BEAU WILLIMON In spite of our poverty and our economic dependence, we do not have to give in, neither because we a...
OMAR BONGO Children are natural mimics -- they act like their parents in spite of every attempt to teach them g...
SOURCE UNKNOWN Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good...
Children are natural mimics. They act like their parents in spite of every attempt to teach them goo...
UNKNOWN The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive, but in spite of their reli...
MARK TWAIN The most interesting characters keep us hooked. Not likeable ones! Iago, Shylock, Darth Vader - are ...
ALISON OWEN Children are natural mimics: they act like their parents in spite of every attempt to teach them goo...
ANONYMOUS In spite of the direction his medical practice had taken in later years, he’d always remained less...
NICHOLAS SPARKS There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.
NIKKI GIOVANNI Some persons never attain to the happy art of perspicuous expression, and it is equally true that so...
OLIVER ELLSWORTH On Love - Men love women for their virtues. Women love men in spite of their flaws.
MARSHA HINDS All cultures are different. Some commit genocide. Some are uniquely peaceful. Some frequent bathhous...
CASEY AFFLECK Most human beings are quite likeable if you do not see too much of them.
ROBERT WILSON LYND Most human beings are quite likeable if you do not see too much of them.
ROBERT LYND in spite of the terrorism, in spite of the threats.
HAMID KARZAI He who walks in the eightfold noble path with unswerving determination is sure to reach Nirvana.
BUDDHA This condition obtains even where there is no slavery in the legal sense. It is found where as in ca...
B. R. AMBEDKAR I don't have any opinions about Russians. There are celebrity persons in each country. Different...
ALEXEI MORDASHOV Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain
MARQUIS DE SADE There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.
NIKKI GIOVANNI In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
GEORGE ELIOT All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON My clients are not conspiracy theorists. Our problem is just that you have to assure some sense of i...
CHUCK BLANCHARD ...yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From out dark spirits.
JOHN KEATS We are all debtors in life,not necessarily because we owe huge sums of money,but because we owe some...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.
HARVEY MACKAY If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.
ALAN K. SIMPSON kindness makes you likeable.
ALEX KENDRICK And force them, though it was in spite
Of Nature and their stars, to write.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) I would warn my brethren and sisters to never flatter persons because of their ability; for they can...
ELLEN G. WHITE In spite of what some people claim, we are not in a post-racial era. I think it's still an impor...
MALCOLM-JAMAL WARNER The systems in place today at any workplace are for meant for average persons, the best persons are ...
APURVA GAGLANI Most people who are successful don't keep their money. One of the rarest things in the world is ...
SOPHIE B. HAWKINS In spite of the layoffs at MT Picture Display, we're seeing some positive things in the Elmira area.
JOE KOZLOWSKI In spite of God's love for you, in spite of the spirit filling, in spite of your ability to speak in...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Human beings exist that have integrity, that know how to keep their mouth shut, that know the bigger...
SANDRA BULLOCK The Jews are known for their perseverance and this is what helps them achieve their goals. Persevera...
H.W. CHARLES Those entrusted with arms... should be persons of some substance and stake in the country.
WILLIAM WINDHAM The truth is, Krishna was born much ahead of his time. All great persons are born ahead of their tim...
OSHO I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books ar...
JOHN GREEN The persons born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE There are so many inconsistencies between their data and their conclusions you have to question eith...
MICHAEL CADDELL Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
WILLIAM HAZLITT He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist.
WILLIAM GILBERT Integrity is integrity. I don't push it to the side because I'm talking to Julia Roberts.
MARIA MENOUNOS If such ,persons who are secret thieves, dwell in the realm of a king, they constantly harass his go...
GURU NANAK What struck me – with her and with many other female American friends I have – is how invested t...
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE We have been a marquis name in technology for 20 years, ... We are where the action is. I hundred-tr...
ALBERTO VILAR When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them ...
HERMANN HESSE An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some r...
MARTIN LUTHER In spite of crossing guards blowing their whistles and waving their hands, (the driver) kept going, ...
BILL SCHWARTZ Lots of places built new stadiums because their old stadiums are economically obsolete. It's certain...
PHILIP BESS Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in ...
BOURKE COCKRAN Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Ti...
WILLIAM WYCHERLEY I chose Sony Classics, not just because of their practical experience, not just because of their wis...
ARTHUR COHN The sum of greatest is not asking 'What do I want to be' but rather 'Who do I want to be
TODD STOCKER There are too many poor in Latin America in spite of economic growth in the region.
JOSE MIGUEL INSULZA In spite of the advances of medicine, deathly epidemics are more menacing than ever before.
CHRISTIAN DE DUVE The eyes of some persons are large, others small, and others of a moderate size; the last-mentioned ...
ARISTOTLE I've trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and ...
WILL SMITH If we truly love ourselves, in spite of our flaws, then we can love others in spite of theirs.
STEPHEN RICHARDS Everyone must bear his own universe, and most persons are moderately interested in learning how thei...
HENRY ADAMS I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often abou...
STIEG LARSSON In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
ANNE FRANK In spite of everything, I still believe that people are truly good at heart.
KURT HUBER It really takes likeable superstars to get the attention of the masses.
JENNIFER WYATT Most Jews, like most rational persons, know that their personal identity and their ethnic identity a...
DAVID NOVAK The thing that makes me proudest is their integrity in gospel music.
BETTY WHISNANT There are also always those burnt, hard kernels at the bottom that don't pop. You know why they ...
MARC MARON Always expect great things to come to people with a strong work ethic, faith and integrity. For thei...
TROY GATHERS Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artis...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Quiet people always know more than they seem. Although very normal, their inner world is by default ...
CRISS JAMI Wise men say that there are three sorts of persons who are wholly
deprived of judgment,--they who a...
BIDPAI (PILPAY) The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.
JUNIUS I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.
LEO DUROCHER If we know who we're playing (in the playoffs), ... that could be a start (for Marquis).
DAVE DUNCAN Conscious men may doubt their own integrity, never their humility
DORIAN LIGHTING By all accounts, he was a likeable guy.
BARRY HAZEN Downtown had a record year, in spite of extraordinary fuel prices. We fly some 10,000 a month on our...
ROB STILLWELL Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will thei...
C.S. LEWIS My parents did their best - that earns a lot of forgiveness. But they say children grow up in spite ...
LARRY DRAKE I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are still truly good at heart,
ANNE FRANK It's wholly deserved and I am completely thrilled. As a writer he has been unswerving for 50 years, ...
TOM STOPPARD A party full of 'likeable' people doesn't bear contemplating.
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...
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And low at the shrines where my b...
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MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
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MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES All grand thoughts come from the heart.
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MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES Great thoughts always come from the heart.
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MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES Give help rather than advice.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES Strength lies not in defence but in attack.
MARQUIS DE ACERBA Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.
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MARQUIS DE CONDORCET The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
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MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES The idle always have a mind to do something.
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MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is be...
MARQUIS DE SADE Evil is a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed bef...
MARQUIS DE SADE Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adult...
MARQUIS DE SADE Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every c...
MARQUIS DE SADE Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call...
MARQUIS DE SADE Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman i...
MARQUIS DE SADE Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acqu...
MARQUIS DE SADE Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed th...
MARQUIS DE SADE I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none oth...
MARQUIS DE SADE So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to...
MARQUIS DE SADE Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withsta...
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