Famous Quotes & Sayings

Minka Kelly

I think brutal honesty is extremely important. Don't be afraid of being up-front about your feelings and your life. I'd rather be an honest friend than a phony lover.

Mira Nair

I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. They teach us how to see the world in that sense. They are without artifice; they see it for what it is. I am drawn to that ruthless honesty.

Peter Kreeft

If you are truly confident about something, you welcome honest questions about it.

Peter Kreeft

One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth.

Pema Chodron

Honesty without kindness, humor, and goodheartedness can be just mean. From the very beginning to the very end, pointing to our own hearts to discover what is true isn’t just a matter of honesty but also of compassion and respect for what we see.

Pema Chodron

Rather than going after our walls and barriers with a sledgehammer, we pay attention to them. With gentleness and honesty, we move closer to those walls. We touch them and smell them and get to know them well. We begin a process of acknowledging our aversions and our cravings. We become familiar with the strategies and beliefs we use to build the walls: What are the stories I tell myself? What repels me and what attracts me? We start to get curious about what’s going on.

Peter S. Beagle

There are honest people in the world, but only because the devil considers their asking prices ridiculous.

In my time, we served with noble and ethical leaders: Gerry Ford, Bob Michael, John Rhodes, men of impeccable honesty. We didn't have anybody locked up for a violation of ethics.

Philip Pullman

It's only through honesty and courage that science can work at all. The Ptolemaic understanding of the solar system was undermined and corrected by the constant pressure of more and more honest reporting.

Pixie Lott

I think honesty is a big part. Because when you sing live, you want the audience to believe you.

Macklemore

I'm as honest as I can be.

Lynn Flewelling

It was Alec who brought their lips together. Seregil's first reaction was disbelief. But Alec was insistent, clumsy but determined. It lasted an instant, an eternity, that one awkward kiss, and it spoke silent volumes of bewildered honesty. The moment that followed was too fragile for words.

Haruki Murakami

There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart.

Graydon Carter

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

Gore Verbinski

Honestly, every person, every individual has a process, and my philosophy, whether it's an actor or an animator, is you try to understand the process that person has so you can get the most out of them, but I think you have to sort of manipulate that process with honesty.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest.

John Lyly

The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail.

John Lyly

He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.

John Lyly

The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.

Jimmy Buffett

I know I should be leaving this climate, I've got a verse, but can't rhyme it.

Jimmy Buffett

It is an eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it

Judith Martin

Smart people duck when they hear the dread announcement 'I'm going to be perfectly honest with you.

Judith Martin

'Honesty' in social life is often used as a cover for rudeness. But there is quite a difference between being candid in what you're talking about, and people voicing their insulting opinions under the name of honesty.

Judith Martin

Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.

Judith Martin

Honesty is a virtue, but not the only one. If you're in a courtroom you need the whole truth and nothing but the truth; in the living room, sometimes you need anything but. Often.

Judith Martin

Dishonesty is not the only alternative to honesty. There is also the highly underrated virtue of shutting up.

Josh Hutcherson

In all honesty I think that I've had a very normal life, even though I've been making movies since I was 9.

Katherine Center

I like to write about people who are real and likeable. I like to write about people who tell their stories in that close and intimate voice we use with best friends. I love the closeness and honesty and vulnerability that come from characters who can talk that way.

Kate Hudson

Honesty will never break you.

Leighton Meester

Honestly, all I ever do is work.

Laurell K. Hamilton

The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies.

Lars Ulrich

If you sit there and you know that rule #1 is just that everything you do is honest and is just a natural and instinctual extension of yourself, then there you go.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.