Best 1362 quotes in «honest quotes» category

Some of the media is fantastic, I have to say, they're honest and fantastic, but much of it is not.

Sometimes being honest with someone or hearing the truth hurts, but it is always better to be honest and accept what is.

Sometimes, even when I'm writing the lyrics, I'm not sure what I'm getting at, but then months will pass and I'll listen to it and I'll understand it completely. I think I trust myself in that most of what comes out of me will be honest. Even if it seems like it doesn't make a lot of sense, I realize that it does. It's hard to follow, and maybe there's a lot of subtext to it that nobody knows, so it makes it impossible to follow.

Sometimes in life, my failures speak louder than my victories and I need to be constantly reminded that though my enemies surround me, my God surrounds my enemies. If we're truly honest, we've had to mentally battle failures or fears more than once in our lives.

Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.

Sometimes what someone else does is really not what you expected them to do, which to be honest, sometimes doesn't work.

So much of modern politics is focused not on honest differences of policy but on personal attacks.

Songs are about just being totally honest and putting those words to music.

Speaking Out is honest about some of the challenges posed by speaking out and looks at possible responses and coping strategies. By comparing notes, we can help guide each other through what can be challenging life experiences.

Spiritually, I pray and meditate. Emotionally, I challenge myself to be open, honest, and available.

Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature!

Take stock of your fears now and see how many of them are senseless. If you are honest with yourself you will probably find most of them are groundless.

Surround yourself with a really good group of friends that are true and honest and won't lead you astray and make you compromise who you are as a woman or a young woman.

Take three different Thai writers and ask them to extrapolate their county's future, and one hopes that you'll get three very different - but all deeply honest - versions.

Taking a hypersensitive approach to life had come to seem so much more pure and honest then joining the ranks of the numb masses who could let it all slide by. What I stopped realizing was that if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all. Everything registers at the same decibel.

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

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

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

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

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 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 crime film is the most honest American film.

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

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 first step to greatness is to be honest.

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

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 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 job of a writer is to be honest.

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

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

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.