Best 1362 quotes in «honest quotes» category

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.

Shakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you dont need to do anything to Shakespeare.

She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time.

Showing a real human body and a woman who is looking at her body without shame - that alone is a radical notion. Showing a young woman who is honest about what she is experiencing and letting us into her most intimate, darkest thoughts, all of that is just promoting something that we don't get to see about young women.

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.

So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.

Some concepts are so incredibly risky they take an honest fool to try to articulate them.

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

So far, I had a solid collection of my honest opinions.

So many actors get caught up in their technique, and to be honest, I see it really getting in the way. I see them forcing things. I definitely do my best work when I'm free of that. But I think as an actor, I work really hard in preparing the roles. I spend like 90 percent of my waking moments walking around thinking: "What does this character do? What is his relationship with so-and-so?" Always, really. Too much!

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

that when given the opportunity, many honest people will cheat.

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

That's the problem with the truth," Darcy said. "Liars and honest men both claim to have it.

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

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

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 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 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 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 crime film is the most honest American film.

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 drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.

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 eye is the inlet to the soul, and it is well to beware of him whose visual organs avoid your honest regard.

The first job of a writer is to be honest.

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

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

The first step to greatness 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 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.