Best 1362 quotes in «honest quotes» category

Depraved conscience turns out to be as different from genuine ignorance as it is from honest recognition.

Denzel Washington invoked confidence. When you have confidence, you can do anything. And that's what happened. I learned about being honest and keeping it true, keeping it true in my performance.

Difficulties indeed sometimes arise; but common sense and honest intentions will generally steer through them.

Donald Trump is horrendous, but he is also honest. Both Presidents [Bill] Clinton and [Barak] Obama were great speakers, but unrepentant mass murderers.

Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that.

Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation.

Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to.

Don't ever regret being honest. Period.

Don't get me wrong, there are sometimes if I go and see a really funny comedy, that I wished I had smoked a joint. I'll be honest with you. That's the truth.

Don't kid yourself. Be honest with yourself. Take your own inventory.

Don't hide behind the Constitution or the Bible. If you're against gay marriage, just be honest, put a scarlet 'H' on your shirt, and say, 'I am a homophobe!'

Don't use barbiturates before going on stage. And be honest.

Do what I want, be honest to myself and then it would do good for others, that's all, full on.

Do you know that the tendrils of graft and corruption have become mighty interlacing roots so that even men who would like to be honest are tripped and trapped by them?

Even if, as is generally the case, everything that the ad says about the product is scrupulously honest, or at any rate scrupulously avoids outright dishonesty, the implication of the direct address of most commercials - that the announcer speaks with the viewer's welfare at heart - is fraudulent.

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence.

Even when I'm trying to be straightforward and honest and my comments are innocent, inevitably they get turned into something sort of salacious.

Even the most honest writer lets slip a word too many when he wants to round off a period.

Everybody makes honest mistakes, but there's no such thing as an honest cover-up.

Everybody's not going to like jazz, let's just be honest about it. Everybody doesn't like everything. There's a disconnect in generations and some people just aren't going to feel that music.

Everybody is writing, writing, writing - worst of all, writing poetry. It'd be better if the whole tribe of the scribblers - every damned one of us - were sent off somewhere with tool chests to do some honest work.

Every Christian can witness to God in the workplace, not only with words, but above all with an honest life.

Everyman, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.

Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional.

Every honest miller has a golden thumb.

Every interview with a public figure should include the question "What have you been wrong about, and how did that change your views?" The answer will tell us if the person is intellectually honest or a tale spinner with delusions of infallibility.

Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else.

Every now and then, a presidential candidate surprises us with a truly human and honest moment.

Everyone gets cards at the beginning of life. I am transgender, I decided to be honest and tell everyone about it, and that's it.

Everyone in my industry, the movie industry, is looking at the music industry and going, 'How do we avoid that collapse?' And I don't know if you can, to be quite honest!

Every one of us lives this life just once, if we are honest, to live once is enough.

Every time someone says, 'You know, we really ought to get together,' if I were really honest, I would ask 'Why?'

Everyone who watches me play knows I am an honest player.

Everything is painful, so why not be honest about the pain?

Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.

Every time I am reading actors I can pretty well tell which ones have studied with Meisner. It is because they are honest and simple and don't lay on complications that aren't necessary.

Faith lives in honest doubt.

Faction seldom leaves a man honest, however it might find him.

Fans are all I care about - to be honest. If they stop coming to the shows, then I will get worried.

Films can't change the society, they can simply open the space for the discussion which can lead to social change and can start new forms of social activism. I feel formally that I've scratched the surface of something very important about the nature of nonfiction film, about what we're very rarely honest about: When you film anybody, they start performing.

Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must have something to confess.

Financial institutions like to call what they do trading. Let's be honest. It's not trading; it's betting.

Fiscal discipline begins by leveling with people, by being honest, by paying for all of your proposals.

Fisherman deceives the fish with bait; this action makes the fisherman dishonest! For a fisherman to be honest, he must not put any bait to his fishhook! He who dares to be ideally honest, let him know how hard it is to be such an honest!

Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.

For film, you know, the Tarantinos and Nolans of the world who are very focused on a certain kind of film aesthetic and a certain kind of presentation, to be honest, that comes from a place of privilege. It comes from a place of always having access to such, but when you ain't never - you can't see it because you can't even get to it.

Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts. -Maggie

Fly fishermen are born honest, but they get over it.

For me, living in the closet corroded my ability to have an honest, open relationship with my God, my loved ones, my constituency and myself.

For the traveler we see leaning on his neighbor is an honest and well-meaning man and full of melancholy, like those Chekhov characters so laden with virtues that they never know success in life.