Best 1362 quotes in «honest quotes» category

Teenagers are the greatest readers in the world - honest, unsnobby and loyal

That is definitely a misunderstanding between me and a part of my audience. To be honest, I am often unsettled by the responses some people have had to my movies, and that includes many people who like them.

That's the problem with the truth," Darcy said. "Liars and honest men both claim to have it.

That's what I think we're all looking for - an honest love wherever you can find it.

that when given the opportunity, many honest people will cheat.

That which we call wit consists much in quickness and tricks, and is so full of lightness that it seldom goes with judgment and solidity; but when they do meet, it is commonly in an honest man.

The acclaim for Razorhurst means even more to me than usual because, let's be honest, Razorhurst is weird.

The allure becomes, "Can I make these rooms bigger?" Can I fill these 1,500-seat rooms? Then the allure is, how much, if we're being honest, how much can I squeeze out of it financially?

The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history.

The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest men.

The best critics leave the reader curious to pursue something further, but still to let the reader have his or her own honest, unique opinion.

The best entertainment speaks to the human condition in an honest way.

The best way to impress a woman is to be the most honest you can.

The buildings that were in question, they said in the same report, which was - actually, it wasn't even a bad story, to be honest with you, but the buildings are worth $3.9 billion. And the $650 isn't even on that. But it's not $650. It's much less than that.

The borrowing is often honest enough, and comes of magnanimity and stoutness. A great man quotes bravely and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good.

The crime film is the most honest American film.

The devotion of thought to an honest achievement makes the achievement possible. Exceptions only confirm this rule, proving that failure is occasioned by a too feeble faith.

The Egyptian army concentrations in the Sinai approaches do not prove that Nasser was really about to attack us. We must be honest with ourselves. We decided to attack him.

The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.

The eye is the inlet to the soul, and it is well to beware of him whose visual organs avoid your honest regard.

The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.

The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.

The first job of a writer is to be honest.

The first step to greatness is to be honest.

The greater the stupidity, the greater the clarity. Stupidity is brief and guileless, while wit equivocates and hides. Wit is a scoundrel, while stupidity is honest and sincere.

The flatterer easily insinuates himself into the closet, while honest merit stands shivering in the hall or antechamber.

The free market promotes self-worth, self-sufficiency, shared values, and honest dealings, which enhance the individual, the family, and the community. It discriminates against no race, religion, or gender.

The future of marketing belongs to honest information, accurate data and clear claims based on truth.

The impossibility and hypocrisy of a situation where kids are expected to be honest but are judged and alienated from their community because of it should not escape us.

The honest answer is more complex. On some level I was sent. Or inspired. Or called. But my calling, such as it was, wasn't a single booming invitation from above (really, is it ever?).

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion.

The intention of showing myself to the world has always been to be how I want to be and how I'm comfortable in the world, never to be anonymous. Right now, I'm just going with my instincts, and this is what I feel like doing. I'm always honest in what I put across.

The internet brought many laudable things, but prosperity, stability, accountability and honest politics were not four of them.

The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity, an opportunity to be polite, an opportunity to be manly, an opportunity to be honest, an opportunity to make friends.

The journalistic photographer can have no other than a personal approach; and it is impossible for him to be completely objective. Honest—yes. Objective—no.

The key is to be honest. Be honest, but don't play yourself.

the knowledge of personal failure ... is the invaluable predicate of all honest compassion.

The Lord is not so concerned about what we study or what profession we follow as long as it is an honest living.

The left, if you get them honest, will admit they know they're a minority.

The lottery of honest labor, drawn by time, is the only one whose prizes are worth taking up and carrying home.

The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live.

The Lord will grant to any honest person who earnestly seeks to know the truth one manifestation by the Holy Ghost; but he is not entitled to repeated manifestations. After such a revelation is given, he is to act, for the Holy Ghost cannot be appealed to for continued manifestations until after baptism and the gift has been bestowed.

The loss of...honest and industrious men's lives cannot be valued at any price.

The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.

The most enviable praise of all is just to be called an honest man.

The mark of an honest man... is that he means what he says and knows what he means.

The more we can be honest about ourselves as filmmakers, than the more we can be honest with people who see the films.

The most effective strategy for successful living is really no strategy at all. It is, rather, to be real, to be honest, to be authentic, to be you.

The minute you feel secure about yourself and own the fact your dreams are honest true, other things fix themselves.