Best 1362 quotes in «honest quotes» category

The universe is not rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man.

The voice of honest indignation is the voice of God.

The war between the Iranians and Iraqis is a touchy issue. To be quite honest, they each other's guts. It was not responsible to let one of our ships be put into a war zone like that.

The whole underlying theme for the new music... is to communicate honest, human values, and in doing that to try to improve the quality of life.

The word "theatrical" makes me cringe, because it suggests a performance is staged, put on, rehearsed. And while all this is true for an opera, I believe the act of singing and performing should always be honest, raw, guttural.

The work keeps getting deeper, more honest. I continue to work on a piece until I feel it breathe on its own.

They all sort of get mixed up in my head, to be quite honest. They're all dealing with similar things. It's about how you deal with reality, by ignoring it sometimes, reinventing it other times, and that's how you get through it.

...things I had come to find humor in would make your honest man swoon.

This 'double ethical bind' we frequently find ourselves in cannot be solved by any formula. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest. I hope that means being both.

This movie is a toupee made up to look like honest baldness.

This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.

Though I'm a rogue in talking upon Painting & Love I can be serious and honest upon any subject thoroughly pleasing to me.

This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,Was once thought honest.

Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.

Those who boast about being "brutally honest" are usually more brutal than honest.

Though it be honest, it is never good to bring bad news.

Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.

Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.

Time & Co. are, after all, the only quite honest and trustworthy publishers that we know.

Tis well to be merry and wise, 'Tis well to be honest and true; It is best to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new.

To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.

To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make.

Through my own observations. I am convinced that an absolutely honest and direct inquiry into oneself will lead to understanding.

'Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest, or for their wit that one loves the wittiest; 'tis for benevolence, and virtue, and honest fondness, one loves people...

To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.

To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease.

To be honest, I don't have data in my brain of how a relationship with a man is supposed to function.

To be honest, I don't really care about any pope. It's not something I think about much, to be quite honest with you.

To be honest, I'm not as goal oriented and ambitious as I once was.

To be honest, it's a bit of a relief not having to be the party animal for a change.

To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.

To be honest with you, I normally beat guys with my C game and I don't have to pull my A or B game out.

To be honest with you, I worry about concentration of ownership in media, where you have a handful of media conglomerates largely controlling what we see, hear and read.

To be honest, all I wanted to do, all I ever, ever wanted to do - I just wanted to perform.

To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.

To be honest, everything in my life outside of tennis is great. I'm doing amazing projects that, if I didn't have time off, I wouldn't be able to focus on.

To be honest, I don't think there's anything more exciting than an empty stadium. When you see it empty like that, all you see is possibility.

To be honest, I inherited a mess.ISIS has spread like cancer - another mess I inherited.

To be honest, Im not that much of a reader of Korean fiction, since so little is translated.

To be honest I'm the only one really who's a cowboy. Like an honest to goodness cowboy.

To be honest, I think that Republicans love terrorism.

To be honest, I was unaware of the huge frat-rap scene that was taking over the blogosphere until I found myself right in the middle of it. But there are really a ton of talented dudes out there doing this, and I'm just having a great time making music and being a part of it all.

To be honest, I would like to have worked with Peter Sellers, because when people talk about classic British actors, you talk about Lawrence Olivier, and Peter Sellers was just in the most amazing films.

To be honest, makeup is a big part of what I do for a living.

To be honest with you, I'd rather not be working. When you work, there are all sorts of deadlines and pressures. I like to do one thing and take my time to do the other one.

To be honest, you have to do a big Hollywood film to get enough money to do a good independent film!

To be honest, I couldn't hold a conversation with anybody in any language other than English - and that's a struggle sometimes!

To be honest, I know that a lot of Asian parents are secretly shocked and horrified by many aspects of Western parenting.

To be honest, I look at my Pinball program and feel that it is old stuff. I could do much better.

To be honest, I'm not much of a drinker. It makes me sick, and I hate that.