Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Pietersen

I'm flattered. I honestly didn't think I was going to get this award,

I had told the kids that I honestly didn't think we would be in the playoffs unless we won the tournament. And we played like we wanted it tonight.

Rudyard Kipling

I had six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who.

I'm very interested in music, but I was not born musical. I honestly do think some people have the knack. I can't play an instrument. I'm a terrible singer. I'm not about to launch my album!

Jason Mraz

'I'm Yours' was written effortlessly in about 20 minutes' time, and I honestly thought it was more of like a kids' song, and I didn't do anything with it for years.

In each case, we learned that we have to have honest communications. You've got to not ignore anything.

I'll be very honest with you. I think they view John Spencer as unpredictable. I think his past statements scare them.

Chuck Hagel

be honest with the Congress, be honest with the American people.

Be honest with each other. Don't wait until after the marriage to surprise the other partner with a mountain of debt.

Barry Bonds

But who knows? My knee may be like this for the rest of my life, ... I have to give it an honest effort. I have to give it a shot ... to say I did what I did to try to get it back to normal. And if it doesn't go back to normal then that's just the way the knee is.

Condoleezza Rice

but I can honestly say that without Mrs. Parks, I would not be standing here today as secretary of state.

Gretchen Wilson

They're the kind of people who were honest. They'd listen and tell me what they thought - the kind of honesty you need when you're trying to perfect your craft.

Neil Gaiman

I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies.

John Webster

Were there no heaven nor hell I should be honest.

John Tillotson

Integrity gains strength by use.

John Stossel

Nothing keeps a company honest and efficient like the threat of other companies coming along and taking its business away.

John Steinbeck

To a man born without conscience, a soul-stricken man must seem ridiculous. To a criminal, honesty is foolish. You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.

John Steinbeck

Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?

Nick Cave

I still feel very much an imposter in the whole music scene, which I'm quite happy about to be honest.

Seth Rogen

I honestly don't love the Cheech and Chong movies, I've got to say.

Scott Hamilton

The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded.

Tom DeLonge

Do what you like and do it honestly.

Todd Rundgren

And so it's inescapable and people who proclaim scrupulous honesty can only proclaim that if they don't examine closely the things they believe.

Rajneesh

The real honesty is a responsibility to the present moment. It needs tremendous awareness. You have to be honest to the present moment, not to the past, not to the future.

Socrates

It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.

Socrates

The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be, all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.

Meredith Monk

That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something.

Michael Moriarty

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.

Theodore Roosevelt

The weakling and the coward cannot be saved by honesty alone; but without honesty, the brave and able man is merely a civic wild beast who should be hunted down by every lover of righteousness. No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.

Theodore Roosevelt

It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has been done him, and that he should hope for redress elsewhere than in his own industry, honesty, and intelligence.

Theodore Dreiser

The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of contradictions - none more so than the most capable.

Margaret Mead

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

Marcus Garvey

I like honesty and fair play.