Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patrick Rothfuss

Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere

Patrick Rothfuss

All stories are true,” Skarpi said. “But this one really happened, if that’s what you mean.” He took another slow drink, then smiled again, his bright eyes dancing. “More or less. You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way. Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.

Paloma Faith

Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.

Lester Maddox

Honest businessmen should be protected from the unscrupulous consumer.

Laurence Olivier

If he was lost for a moment, he would dive straight back into its honey.

Oscar Wilde

Youth is the only thing worth having.

Isaiah Berlin

The intellectual power, honesty, lucidity, courage, and disinterested love of the truth of the most gifted thinkers of the eighteenth century remain to this day without parallel. Their age is one of the best and most hopeful episodes in the life of mankind.

Iris Dement

I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music.

Irvine Welsh

You can't lie to your soul.

Gloria Steinem

... anything a powerful group has is perceived as good, no matter what it is, and anything a less powerful group has is not so good, no matter how intrinsically great it might be.

Harry S Truman

It isn't polls or public opinion at the moment that counts. It is right and wrong and leadership--men with fortitude, honesty, and a belief in the right that makes epochs in the history of the world.

Harry S Truman

I can always get along with an honest friend.

Immanuel Kant

Honesty is better than any policy.

Nathan Fillion

I realized, dumb people don't know they're dumb. When people try to make me laugh and they try to be funny, that's when they lose me. I find a lot of comedy in honesty.

Kelly Slater

I'm the competitor, I'm the one who has to wear the brunt of that being a good or bad score. And I'm not too worried about it. I don't know why so many are to be honest with you.

Ken Kesey

Don't say it...I've seen too many loves sundered by too much needless honesty.

Keri Hilson

To be honest with my music... for me to expect anyone to connect it has to come from a place of honesty.

Kerri Walsh

I honestly feel like my job since I was 22 has been to be an Olympian.

Ken Blanchard

Honesty is telling the truth to ourselves and others. Integrity is living that truth.

Jeb Bush

There's a lot of uncertainty, to be honest with you, about how to proceed.

Michael Ealy

What I've learned is that the most precious commodity you can have in a relationship is honesty, good or bad.

Randy Pausch

If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add: 'All the time.'

Ramsey Clark

Honesty is the best policy in international relations, interpersonal relations, labor, business, education, family and crime control because truth is the only thing that works and the only foundation on which lasting relations can build.

Ralph Nader

We should tax things we don't like. We should tax pollution ... And we should lighten the taxes on things we do like, like honest labor, like food.

Rainer Maria Rilke

We are the bees of the invisible. We madly gather the honey of the visible to store it in the great golden hive of the invisible.

Rainer Maria Rilke

As bees gather honey, so we collect what is sweetest out of all things and build...

Rafael Nadal

Honesty, willingness to exert oneself, friendship - all these things shaped me too.

Sharon Tate

I'm very unpredictable. Very, very impulsive. Extremely. Absolutely! Sometimes I don't know what I want to do from one day to the next. I can't enjoy anything premeditated; I just do it as I feel it. But whatever I do is motivated by honesty.

Shane Black

I'll say, what makes me happy about making movies is, every once in a while through movies we find a kind of honesty. There's an honesty in fiction that's as effective or even more powerful than the honesty of our lives. We can find something that's genuinely true, like a chemistry between people or a statement that speaks to an audience.

Serena Williams

Honestly, I don't read the press. I don't know what they're saying.

Sean Covey

Honesty is always the best policy, even when it's not the trend.

Scott Bakula

You want to try and bring a character to life in an honest a way as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether he's a doctor, an actor, a car salesman or a captain of a starship. If you can bring truth and honesty to that character, then your audience will believe you.

Michelle Obama

One of the things that attracted me to Barack [Obama] was his emotional honesty. Right off the bat he said what he felt. There are no games with him - he is who he appears to be.