Best 1362 quotes in «honest quotes» category

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

When it comes to the issue of background checks, let's be honest - background checks will never be 'universal' - because criminals will never submit to them.

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 you have seen the things I have seen and traveled all over the world, you would not be honest to yourself and the world to [look away].

When I want a peerage, I shall buy one like an honest man.

When things are very real and honest, they don't go away.

When we are honest, we admit how agreeable it can feel to be singled out for favored treatment.  The biggest barrier to equality for all is that inequality for some feels good.

When you can't be honest with people, you can't ever relax with them.

When you completely extract yourself from anything familiar, you start reverting back to that state of mind where you're having conversations with yourself, and that's where the weirdest and most honest ideas come from.

When you're just open but not honest, then you start free-associating garbage.

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

When we are honest - that's my saying - if we are honest then we will reveal ourselves. But we do not have to make an effort to be individualistic, different from others.

when you're honest with yourself, often times you betray someone else!

With nonfiction, I go in trying to be really honest about what my preconceptions are.

When you've written a script, if an actor has a question you're the writer as well as the director, so you have the answer. And if you don't, then you just be honest and say 'I don't know' and then you discuss it. So, working with the actors is fine.

Whichever kind of music I was making it was all about the melody anyway. The kind of music I'm making now is the way it is because I'm being 100% honest with myself.

Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?

Why, I’m just as true and honest as dirt. And I’m even more charming than dirt.

will you stop trying to be brave! It's me, Mama! You can be honest with me." -Hetty

With songs, I've always pledged to be honest. I write my songs because I've lived them.

Who could be luckier than to be paid fairly well, which to be honest MPs are, for pursuing their hobby.? That's what politics is.

Women love an honest man.

Women in politics are more honest and forthright. We are not in it for the ego gratification.

You can always cheat an honest man, but it takes more work.

You ask men in office to be honest; I ask them to serve the public.

Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life.

You can lie at a banquet but you have to be honest in the kitchen.

You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.

You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest.

You cannot con an honest man.

You can't dictate if a character's going to come off as sympathetic to an audience. I just tried to play it as honest as possible.