Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill O'Reilly

It is up to each voter to evaluate honesty and competency in a factual, therefore fair way.

Bill O'Reilly

America today is a confused society, caught up in a terror war, a culture war, and a media war, where honesty and professional standards have vanished.

Bertrand Russell

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

Bernard de Mandeville

One good Man may take another's Word, if they so agree, but a whole Nation ought never to trust to any Honesty, but what is built upon Necessity; for unhappy is the People, and their Constitution will be ever precarious, whose Welfare must depend upon the Virtues and Consciences of Ministers and Politicians.

Cass Elliot

Honesty is all you need.

Carlos Mencia

In all honesty, we don't know what's in the hearts of other men. All I know is that I respect comedy and I know comedy. I would never, ever, ever take somebody else's joke.

Jeff Burton

In all honesty, it's a matter of me not messing up. Today had nothing to do with me. The only impact I had on the day was to be a warm-blooded person who could turn the thing on and mash the gas.

Nothing from my personal experiences with him would ever have led me to question his integrity, his morals, his honesty. He was always regarded as someone with real integrity and somebody with a keen moral compass.

Djuna Barnes

God,' she cried, 'what is love? Man seeking his own head? The human head, so rented by misery that even the teeth weigh! She couldn't tell me the truth because she had never planned it; her life was a continual accident, and how can you prepare for that? Everything we can't bear in the world, some day we find in one person, and love it all at once.... There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation--purty's black backside! That loves honesty with a horrid love; or why have I always gone seeking it at the liar's door?

Djuna Barnes

There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation--purity's black backside! That loves honesty with a horrid love; or why have I always gone seeking it at the liar's door?

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously ceases to be honesty.

Donald Miller

If honesty is the key to intimacy, it means we don't have to be perfect and we don't have to pretend to be perfect.

Don Marquis

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

For any American who had the great and priceless privilege of being raised in a small town there always remains with him nostalgic memories... And the older he grows the more he senses what he owed to the simple honesty and neighborliness, the integrity that he saw all around him in those days.

Dalai Lama

Refraining from harm, not out of fear, but out of concern for others, their well-being and out of respect is non-violence.

Dalai Lama

Inner values like friendship, trust, honesty and compassion are much more reliable than money - they always bring happiness and strength.

Dalai Lama

It's unrealistic to think that the future of humanity can be achieved only on the basis of prayer; what we need is to take action.

Dalai Lama

I believe that we are fundamentally the same and have the same basic potential.

Dalai Lama

We need material development, but we need to understand that by itself it doesn't bring peace of mind.

Dalai Lama

I consider myself to be just one among 7 billion human beings. If I were to think of myself as different from others, or as something special, it would create a barrier between us. What makes us the same is that we all want to lead happy lives and gather friends around us. And friendship is based on trust, honesty and openness.

J. G. Ballard

When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the modern movement was the enormous honesty that writers, painters and playwrights displayed about themselves. The bourgeois novel flinches from such notions.

J. G. Ballard

Most writers flinch at the thought of being completely honest about themselves. So absolute honesty is what marks the true modern.

J. I. Packer

In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything.

J. I. Packer

Christ had no interest in gathering vast crowds of professed adherents who would melt away as soon as they found out what following Him actually demanded of them. In our own presentation of Christ's gospel, therefore, we need to lay a similar stress on the cost of following Christ and make sinners face it soberly before we urge them to respond to the message of free forgiveness. In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything.

Italo Calvino

Falsehood is never in words; it is in things.

Irwin Edman

Sophistication demands honesty; it does not require ill temper.

Ira Sachs

I try to keep feeling what's going on and try to use the camera, the actors and the design to enhance those feelings. There's something really emotionally direct and honest about how I put the material with the images. You hope that the strength of mise-en-scene comes from an honesty towards the material. You also hire really well.

Jack Nicklaus

If there is one thing golf demands above all else, it is honesty.

Jack Kevorkian

We need some honesty and sincerity instead of corrupt government in Washington.

Jack Kerouac

And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once and for all.

Isabel Allende

write with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they'll hate you anyway.

Graeme Murphy

I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake.