Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Dylan

You say you've lost your faith But that's not where it's at You have no faith to lose and you know it

Billy Bragg

There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them.

Brigham Young

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Brian Regan

I like the honesty of standup comedy. People don't fake laugh. If they're truly laughing at you, you know they like you.

Bruce Springsteen

Blame it on the lies that killed us. Blame it on the truth that ran us down.

Bruce Springsteen

When I look at myself, I don't see the man I wanted to be.

Bruce Springsteen

I know I ain't nobody's bargain, but hell a little touchup and a little paint...

Brian Tracy

Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character.

Brian Blessed

My parents taught me honesty, truth, compassion, kindness and how to care for people. Also, they encouraged me to take risks, to boldly go. They taught me that the greatest danger in life is not taking the adventure.

Brenda Ueland

You can write anything you want to,--a six-act blank verse, symbolic tragedy or a vulgar short, short story. Just so that you write it with honesty and gusto, and do not try to make somebody believe that you are smarter than you are. What's the use? You can never be smarter than you are.

Jane Fonda

I feel like my honesty gives people the freedom to talk about things they wouldn't otherwise.

Jamie Campbell Bower

I don't think I'd really be alive without it, in all honesty.

Juvenal

Honesty's praised, then left to freeze.

Juvenal

Honesty is praised and left in the cold.

Billie Joe Armstrong

There's an honesty in our family - my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.

Katie Holmes

Tom and I will always be in our honeymoon phase.

Tom Selleck

I think of myself as an actor first, not a sex symbol. Do I think I'm sexy? No, that's someone else's judgment, and I honestly don't think you can try to be sexy and really succeed.

Charles Peguy

The life of an honest man must be a perpetual infidelity.

Charles Peguy

The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful to truth must make himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable renascent errors

Charles Peguy

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

Dennis Prager

Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.

Dan Ariely

Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

I am fortunate to have been well paid for an almost pathological honesty.

B. C. Forbes

Honesty is the cornerstone of character. The honest man or woman seeks not merely to avoid criminal or illegal acts, but to be scrupulously fair, upright, fearless in both action and expression. Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.

B. C. Forbes

Honesty is the cornerstone of character.

Arthur Helps

There is an honesty which is but decided selfishness in disguise. The person who will not refrain from expressing his or her sentiments and manifesting his or her feelings, however unfit the time, however inappropriate the place, however painful this expression may be, lays claim, forsooth, to our approbation as an honest person, and sneers at those of finer sensibilities as hypocrites.

Armistead Maupin

The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.

Antonio Banderas

Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just go to exploring the complexities of the human soul. Everything is valid if it's done with honesty and dignity, and I actually do both of those types of movies in my career.

Austin Peck

Especially when you deal with comedy, you have got to be really honest because it's the honesty and the spontaneity that causes people to chuckle, that catches people.

Ava Gardner

When I lose my temper, honey, you can't find it any place.

About a veteran player thrown out trying to steal second: There was larceny in his heart, but his legs were honest.

Benjamin Graham

Before you place your financial future in the hands of an adviser, it's imperative that you find someone who not only makes you comfortable but whose honesty is beyond reproach.

Old proverbe says, That byrd ys not honest That fyleth hys owne nest