No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.
John Ruskin

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
Bertrand Russell

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
William James

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams

In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.
John Kenneth Galbraith

You've got as many lives as you like, and more, even ones you don't want.
George Harrison

When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.
Peter De Vries

I'm not in the loop; I don't know any actors, really, just the ones I work with.
Denzel Washington

It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new ones to replace them.
Brigham Young

Women should stop going for the bad guys, stop looking so far when the good ones are right there.
Jennifer Aniston

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.
Dee Hock

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
Aesop

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.
Ralph Ellison

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
Baltasar Gracian

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.
Red Auerbach

The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.
Toni Morrison

When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached.
Gottfried Leibniz

Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.
John Updike

You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.
Dale Earnhardt

A lot of celebrities, especially when you're talking about the really big ones, live in what I call the fame bubble. Nobody ever says no to them or challenges them or even teases them.
Kathy Griffin