Famous Quotes & Sayings

Newt Gingrich

Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know it's bold. It's out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background it's hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government.

Noam Chomsky

If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees.

Noam Chomsky

Reparations - not just aid - should be provided by those responsible for devastating Iraqi civilian society by cruel sanctions and military actions, and - together with other criminal states - for supporting Saddam Hussein through his worst atrocities and beyond. That is the minimum that honesty requires.

Jodi Picoult

There's an honesty to the wolf world that is liberating. There's no diplomacy, no decorum. You tell your enemy you hate him; you show your admiration by confessing the truth. That directness doesn't work with humans, who are masters of subterfuge. Does this dress make me look fat? Do you really love me? Did you miss me? When a person asks this, she doesn't want to know the real answer. She wants you to lie to her. After two years of living with wolves, I had forgotten how many lies it takes to build a relationship.

Jodi Picoult

Maybe honesty is overvalued. What's truly priceless is picking out from a stream of falsehoods the ones you most need to hear.

John Green

If you don't say the honest thing, it never becomes true.

Patton Oswalt

You have to be ruthless with yourself, in terms of being honest about what is working and what is not.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

there is no truly honest autobiography.

Mario Vazquez

In all honesty, I'm not able to talk about contracts. It's nothing with 'American Idol' in particular, it's just things I really need to take care of in my life.

Nikki Sixx

I feel you see every crack and bruise with black and white [pictiures] and color distracts usually from the honesty.

Nikki Sixx

Raw and honest is what I go for [in my style of shooting]. I am looking for your inner beauty. The outside tells a story... But together is raw honesty.

Nikki Giovanni

Because Nina's Simone music is incredibly honest. That's like saying, "Why does Jesus' word still stay around?" It's incredibly honest and it's good.

Nicki Minaj

Anyway I got a tight little honey dip That's why these niggas get tight when honey dip

Marvin J. Ashton

God grant to all of us the power and strength to be people of integrity, and the insight and wisdom to avoid being led into the snares of the dishonest.

Marvin J. Ashton

One little lie or dishonest act leads to another until the perpetrator is caught in the web of deceit.

Marvin J. Ashton

Lying damages others. Lying subtly permits us to destroy ourselves as we are caught in the snare and shatter our own self-image and credibility. Freedom from deceit and lying improves self and gives all of us peace of mind.

Mark Twain

The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury.

Nicholas Sparks

Because everybody lies. It's part of living in society. Don't get me wrong-I think it's necessary. The last thing anyone wants is to live in a society where total honesty prevails. Can you imagine the conversations? You're short and fat, one person might say, and the other might answer, I know. But you smell bad. It just wouldn't work. So people lie by omission all the time. People will tell you most of the story...and I've learned that the part they neglect to tell you is often the most important part. People hide the truth because they're afraid." -Jo

Neal A. Maxwell

Looking for honest ways to lift one another would . . . be more beneficial to our own self-esteem, for we would see more good in ourselves. We would cease to be so critical of our weaknesses and would find ways to allow our weaknesses to become strengths with God's help.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Every Mussalman should serve Pakistan honestly, sincerely and selflessly.

Oscar Wilde

A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.

Madonna Ciccone

You bring me to my knees, while I'm scratching out the eyes of a world I want to conquer, and deliver, and despise. And right while I am kneeling there, I suddenly begin to care. And understand that there could be a person that loves me.

Madonna Ciccone

Looking at my life, it's very clear to me, I lived so selfishly.

Madonna Ciccone

At a time when political correctness is valued over honesty I would also like to say, 'Right on!

Ma Ying-jeou

People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.

Lyle Lovett

Man, I need to impress her, cause I'd like to undress her.

Lorrie Moore

Personally I've never put much store by honesty- I mean how can you trust a word whose first letter you don't even pronounce

Michael Jackson

Be careful what you do, because the lie becomes the truth.

Michel de Montaigne

It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.

Michel de Montaigne

No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

Michel de Montaigne

All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature

Michel de Montaigne

God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification

Michel de Montaigne

Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy