Best 1362 quotes in «honest quotes» category

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

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.

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

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 have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.

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

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.

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.

We must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 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 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 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 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.

What you've got to do is be honest. Say what you believe. Give it to them straight. Just don't wuss out.

Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation.

When a man or woman is truly honest, it is virtually impossible to insult them personally.

When I'm approached by brands I use the kind of philosophy - I don't really get into a project unless I feel I can make something that will be honest for me.

When Howard Dean started saying some honest things, they hung him.

When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response. The gray area between yes and no. Silence.

When I repent, here is where it starts. I try to name my sin as honestly and as specifically as possible. Here is what repenting is not. It is not excusing my sin, minimizing my sin, it's not rationalizing my sin ... Repentance is getting painfully honest with God.

When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]