Best 1362 quotes in «honest quotes» category

Truth and, by consequence, liberty, will always be the chief power of honest men.

Trustworthiness is the thing that you need the most going to a presidential election. Honest and trustworthy is one of the main questions in any presidential election.

Trust your actors. That's why I work with the same actors time and time again. I encourage them to change the dialogue to achieve one thing: keep the characters honest.

Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.

Try honest to see things from the other person's point of view.

Try to discover your true, honest, untheoretical self.

Typically in 'Game of Thrones,' people who are honest and just and do things for the right reasons tend not to survive.

Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown; Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!

Usually I think if there is something imperfect in a photograph it makes the picture more real. Photographs that are slick, smooth, and imperfect seem less honest to me.

Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.

We all know people who are ridiculously famous, and it's a scary thing because all of the sudden people - even the people you are close to - stop being honest with you, stop telling you the truth.

Wealth is not necessarily a bad thing when it has been earned in an honest manner and neither other individuals nor the environment suffered for it.

We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say that we do not know.

We always get rejections, whether it's in love or anything in life. And then negativity tends to creep in. But hopefully we are honest towards the people around us so that we can conquer it.

We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put honest toil in power.

We do our universities a disservice when we brand them as a lost cause. There are some frightfully honest students out there, and when their questions are respectfully dealt with, many admit their vulnerability.

We do not learn much from learned books, but from true, sincere, human books, from frank and honest biographies.

We do the right thing not to please people but because it's the only logically reasonable thing to do, as long as we are being honest with ourselves - even if we are the only ones.

We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?

We can speak our honest minds without compromise and without censorship and to each other and to our people. We can take our message directly to our people.

We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.

We have bad things happen, but it's not like Syria, which we ignore and pretend doesn't happen. We've got it pretty good, no matter who the president is, to be honest.

Well, Brief Encounter is certainly one of my top five favorites of all time. I looked at Brief Encounter very closely, to be honest.

We have to be honest with ourselves.

We just ask the agency to make reasonable and honest decisions, and the public deserves no less.

We live and breathe words. It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could never love anyone, never be loved again. It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.

Well it's true, ever since I stopped eating meat I feel a lot better among animals, I feel I can be much more honest when I pat a dog.

Well, it's really important to be honest with the person that you're seeing.

We must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.

We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.

We must talk about how sexism and patriarchy operate in conjunction with state violence. Until we're honest about that, and do something to resist, we're complicit in the persistence of oppression.

We need a free economy not only for the renewed material prosperity it will bring, but because it is indispensable to individual freedom, human dignity and to a more just, more honest society.

We need an idiot middle ground, where we have to be honest and say, kids can be idiots and cops can be idiots.

We older women who know we aren't heroines can offer our younger sisters, at the very least, an honest report of what we have learned and how we have grown.

We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience.

We should profile Muslims, or anyone who looks like he or she could conceivably be Muslim, and we should be honest about it.

We're very good friends, we have a very honest relationship. He keeps me honest, I keep him honest. He's an incredible actor and when you have an actor like Denzel action becomes drama.

We should tax things we don't like. We should tax pollution ... And we should lighten the taxes on things we do like, like honest labor, like food.

What Donald Trump is going to bring to the table. He's going to bring straight, honest conversation and bring up topics that, while they may be sensitive, they have to be said.

We've always had a dual role in the region - friend of Israel, and honest broker. We've given up the honest broker role completely.

what doesn't kill you not only make you stronger, but also more honest.

Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest.

What made me want to be an actor? Ah, I'm not really sure, to be honest. I was one of those little kids who did it around school, and then I got to university and made lots of bad plays and short films, and then midway through that, it suddenly dawned on me that this might be a satisfying way to earn a living, if that was at all feasible.

What I did, when I did it, was honest; now, through changed conditions, what I did may or may not be called honest. Politics demand, therefore, that I be brought to trial; but what is really being brought to trial is the system I represented.

What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.

What I will say will not always please you, but what I say will always be honest and true and how I genuinely see it.

What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque.

What have I always believed? That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right.

What I write is emotionally honest and truthful as the human experience can be, to make people feel less alone, or at least that's the hope.