Best 1362 quotes in «honest quotes» category

"No," Preston snapped. But he didn't protest long because, if I'm going to be honest - which is kind of the point of these reports - I was already unzipping his pants.

Nordie's at Noon is an honest and inspiring testament to [these authors'] experiences which, I am completely confident... will inspire thousands of women as it inspired me.

Not all Peter Greenaway's stuff is sequential, narrative story. Some of it is like an art installation and I'm not particularly interested in being in an art installation to be honest. I'm interested in the story.

Not everyone has to be a model and a designer, there are so many other options that are great and long-lasting. It's just finding what you're good at and being honest with yourself.

Nothing can be said: nothing sure, nothing probable, nothing honest. Better to err through omission than through commission: better to refrain from steering the fate of others, since it is already so difficult to navigate one's own.

Nothing causes more consternation in a group of hypocrits than one honest man.

Nothing keeps a company honest and efficient like the threat of other companies coming along and taking its business away.

Nothing is quite honest that is not commercial, but not everything commercial is honest.

Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense.

One honest voice is louder than a crowd.

Once you stay true to just having a good time and being honest to your fans and your audience, you can't go wrong.

One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are.

One honest relationship can be more productive than fistfuls of business cards.

Our best comes out when we have honest discussions.

One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.

One must strive to be as honest as you are humanly capable with yourself and others. It is impossible to move forward otherwise.

One should respect an honest person even if he expresses opinions differing from one's own.

Our attitude is more honest and more consistent than our words.

Our daily objectives should include an honest effort to improve on yesterday.

One must be truthful and honest in his approach; a constant independent inquiry and not blindly following a certain blue print laid down by others

One of the great qualities of Chancellor Merkel is that she is steady. She analyzes a situation. She's honest. Sometimes we've had disagreements, but when we do, it's very constructive. And we are consistently open with each other about how we should approach these issues.

One of the strengths of my interviews is that I really, honest to God, have no idea what people are going to say.

One right and honest definition of business is mutual helpfulness.

One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.

Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That's really it. God is the core of our marriage, and the foundation and the blueprint for it is how we live, and being open and honest and communicating, but ultimately doing what pleases God, and not in a selfish manner.

People generally like happy endings, which is something I learned from my years in advertising. I like happy endings myself, but only if they're honest. I'm just as happy with a terrible, hopeless ending.

Patience has nothing to do with suppression. In fact, it has everything to do with a gentle, honest relationship with yourself.

People aren't honest about the horrors of fame. The downsides are so overwhelming that, for me, there is no payoff.

People ask me all the time, "What are your influences? Are you trying to do Beckett?" It's like, "No, I'm trying to do me." Whatever that is. I don't know what that is, but that's the basis. I'm trying to be true and I'm trying to be honest.

People in my inner circle of loved ones - we're tight and I've never misjudged someone as far as I know; I can feel someone's intentions, I know their intentions before they probably are honest enough with themselves to know it, so that's my strength.

Patti [Smith] was my experiment, to be honest. And the film is what we got out of it. At the end of the day, I learned a lot about how to make a film.

People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.

People can see it when you're honest and sincere.

Personally I like to believe that all become honest, the millennium is round the corner!

People relate to you a lot more when you're honest and authentic - and that's hard to do in front of millions of people every week.

Person-to-person, most people are honest.

Physiognomy is often a great falsifier, though as a rule it is honest enough.

Pickup lines are a major turn-off, they don't work on me and I tune them out. It's better to just be honest.

Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.

Plain and not honest is too harsh a style.

Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams.

Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.

Privacy I think gets invaded when you start being honest.

Prose pretends to be straightforward in its application to the truth, but truth itself is a dissembler. Poetry, much more honest, knows the deception can't be overcome.

Public business must always be done by somebody. It will be done by somebody or other. If wise man decline, others will not; if honest man refuse it, others will not.

Reading LOVE JUNKIE is like watching a sleepwalker taking a stroll on a freeway. All you can do is pray. Gorgeously written, piercingly honest.

Rakes are more suspicious than honest men.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain.

Reality television is less honest than YouTube. YouTube is the real reality.

Recognizing how totally ignorant you are is the only honest way to deal with people who've been through something traumatic.