Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robin Williams

How much more can you give? Other than, literally, open-heart surgery onstage? Not much. But the only cure you have right now is the honesty of going, this is who you are. I know who I am.

Tori Spelling

In all honesty, I grew up a certain way. I never had to worry about money... that was my reality.

Veronica Roth

Honesty leads to peace.

Veronica Roth

Maybe time would not feel as heavy if I didn't have this guilt -- the guilt of knowing the truth and stuffing it down where no one can see it, not even Tobias. Maybe I should not be so afraid of saying anything, because honesty will make me feel lighter.

Vince Gilligan

In all honesty, I've written movies that have been made, and the process has not been as satisfying as writing for television.

Vince Vaughn

You don't feel honest on a date, I guess. You don't really get to learn about anyone. You're kind of being polite and you can ask the questions, it's just not a great time for me.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Even in the business of corporations honesty is the best policy, and the companies that have acted in accordance with the highest standard, other things being equal, have reaped the richest harvest.

Robert Green Ingersoll

It is incredible that only idiots are absolutely sure of salvation. It is incredible that the more brain you have the less your chance is. There can be no danger in honest thought, and if the world ever advances beyond what it is to-day, it must be led by men who express their real opinions.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.

Robert Green Ingersoll

There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, east a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.

Samuel Johnson

It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once all the consequences of a position, or perceive the difficulties by which cooler and more experienced reasoners are restrained from confidence, they form their conclusions with great precipitance. Seeing nothing that can darken or embarrass the question, they expect to find their own opinion universally prevalent, and are inclined to impute uncertainty and hesitation to want of honesty, rather than of knowledge.

Sachin Tendulkar

Hansie Cronje. Honestly. I got out to Hansie more than anyone.I never knew what to do with him

Ronald Reagan

There is no foundation like the rock of honesty and fairness, and when you begin to build your life on that rock, with the cement of the faith in God that you have, then you have a real start.

Robert Jordan

When the honey's out of the comb, there's no putting it back.

Rodney Crowell

You learn how to do good work by being honest with yourself.

Rodney Atkins

You can hear some artists, hear five of their albums and still have no idea who they are. But if you've heard most of what I've recorded, you know me. You go from 'Honesty' to 'Going Through Hell' - you can listen to the hits, and they pretty much reflect who I am. 'Take a Back Road' is the same thing.

Roddy Doyle

She'd tried her hand at most things, but drew the line at honesty.

Roberto Bolano

So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end.

Willa Ford

I believe honesty comes across in music because for [most] people music isn't just something to dance to.

Vladimir Lenin

Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.

Wayne Dyer

Love is forgiving and Love is for giving.

Virginia Woolf

fishing teaches a stern morality; inculcates a remorseless honesty.

Virginia Woolf

... pure honesty is a doubtful quality; it means often lack of imagination.

Wernher von Braun

It is in scientific honesty that I endorse the presentation of alternative theories for the origin of the universe, life and man in the science classroom. It would be an error to overlook the possibility that the universe was planned rather than happening by chance.

Wale

Sometimes I'm just a little bit too honest. There was some things that were going on behind the scenes that I didn't like because it's not what hip-hop is about. Hip-hop is about honesty and it's about being real to the people, and I kinda felt like there's some instances where some artists aren't 100% honest with the people. Their integrity is lacking sometimes. And sometimes it comes out.

Samuel Smiles

It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but the success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest: better lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune. . . .

Samuel Richardson

Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness,--all in one.

Salman Rushdie

Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.

Salman Rushdie

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

Ryan Tedder

Honest always sells. Always has, always will.

William Congreve

He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.

William Cowper

A lawyer's dealings should be just and fair; Honesty shines with great advantage there.