Fides Quotes

#1. The indie world changed when the economy went south. I was frustrated with doing something, then waiting for it to come out, and sometimes it never did, or would just play in New York for 50 people. So I really wanted to try something else.

Jeff Daniels

#2. Comedy is a very personal thing, as you would know if you've ever told the same joke to two people and had one of them laugh their head off and the other one look at you as though you were a completely cretin.

Andrew Denton

#3. Why are you staring at me?" she'd ask.
"'Cause you're pretty," I'd reply.
"You're the first one who's ever said that."
"I'm the only one who knows," I'd tell her. "And believe me, I know.

Haruki Murakami

#4. Fidelity is what cannot be bought or sold. It obeys a law and attaches itself to a necessity. Convenience can be calculated, but fides can only be established by the spontaneous act of a man who is capable of inner nobility. Fides means personality and hierarchy.

Julius Evola

#5. Sometimes a light glimmered out of the physician's eyes, burning blue and ominous, like the reflection of a furnace, or, let us say, like one of those gleams of ghastly fire that darted from Bunyan's awful doorway in the hill-side, and quivered on the pilgrim's face.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#6. My general view is the delivery of news is changing in dramatic ways, and will continue to change into ways we can't even predict.

Stephen Kinzer

#7. You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.

John Green

#8. The Western front is the important one in this war - the intersection between Islam and a liberal democratic tradition so mired in self-loathing it would rather destroy our civilization just to demonstrate its multicultural bona fides.

Mark Steyn

#9. Trust not to outward show.
[Lat., Fronti nulla fides.]

Juvenal

#10. I met five presidents. I had dinner with a president of the United States in the White House. I played golf with a president of the United States. I made money. I mean, when I look at it, I had a unbelievably fabulous career. And I'm extremely grateful.

Jim Leyland

#11. The small share of happiness attainable by man exists only insofar as he is able to cease to think of himself.

Theodor Reik

#12. Jeeves' eyes had taken on the look of cautious reserve which you see in those of parrots, when offered half a banana by a stranger of whose bona fides they are not convinced.

P.G. Wodehouse

#13. I bet those boys bit their way out of the womb," Andy whispers.

Stacey Lee

#14. Ignorance is fertile ground.

Robert Ferrigno

#15. FRONTA NULLA FIDES. Place no trust in appearances.

Amor Towles

#16. Looking forward, it might prove constructive to examine the true historical record of an issue prior to assuming the worst of anyone's motive and deconstructing and questioning anyone's Democratic bona fides. After all, we liberals got feelings.

Gary Ackerman

#17. The views were immensely wide. Everything that you saw made for greatness and freedom, and unequealled nobility.

Karen Blixen

#18. Too many men work on parts of things. Doing a job to completion, satisfies me.

Richard Proenneke

#19. The only rule is don't be boring.

Paris Hilton