Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Michael Hayes

Every time an ashtray is missing from a hotel, they don't come looking for you. But let a diamond bracelet disappear in France and they shout John Robie, the Cat. You don't have to spend every day of your life proving your honesty, but I do.

John Dewey

The bad man is the man who no matter how good he has been is beginning to deteriorate, to grow less good. The good man is the man who no matter how morally unworthy he has been is moving to become better. Such a conception makes one severe in judging himself and humane in judging others.

Garrison Keillor

To the cheater, there is no such thing as honesty, and to Republicans the idea of serving the public good is counterfeit on the face of it — they never felt such an urge, and therefore it must not exist.

Garrison Keillor

Honesty is a rare commodity in a palace, and that is why so many fairy-tale marriages end up on the rocks.

Frankie Avalon

I wound up signing to RCA Victor as a trumpeter, guesting on shows like Jackie Gleason's Honeymooners.

Lois McMaster Bujold

If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?

Lois McMaster Bujold

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lyndon B. Johnson

It (the heart) is supposed in popular language, to be the seat sometimes, of courage, sometimes of affection, sometimes of honesty, or baseness.

Lucy Walker

My main trick is to work with amazing people. It's a long and twisty journey, and you need people that really are amazing and have this rare gift of honesty and courage and really open up.

Louise Slaughter

Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House.

Louise Rennison

He said, "Hi, gorgeous," which I think is nice. I admire honesty.

Maimonides

Hold firmly to your word.

Mahatma Gandhi

One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.

Mahatma Gandhi

Honesty is incompatible with amassing a large fortune.

Mahatma Gandhi

In times to come people will not judge us by the creed we profess or the label we wear or the slogans we shout, but, by our work, industry, sacrifice, honesty and purity of character.

Gene Wolfe

All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it.

Freeman Thomas

Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.

Frank Langella

I'm a firm believer in absolute honesty.

Macklemore

I'm as honest as I can be.

Lynn Flewelling

It was Alec who brought their lips together. Seregil's first reaction was disbelief. But Alec was insistent, clumsy but determined. It lasted an instant, an eternity, that one awkward kiss, and it spoke silent volumes of bewildered honesty. The moment that followed was too fragile for words.

Haruki Murakami

There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

Joaquin Miller

Physiognomy is often a great falsifier, though as a rule it is honest enough.

Jimmy Carter

A nation's domestic and foreign policies and actions should be derived from the same standards of ethics, honesty and morality which are characteristic of the individual citizens of the nation.

Jimmy Carter

All I want is the same thing you want. To have a nation with a government that is as good and honest and decent and competent and compassionate and as filled with love as are the American people.

The Internet removes the embarrassment factor, so people can honestly talk about what they are doing and what their risks are.

Mahatma Gandhi

Rama Nama should come from the heart. In that event, Rama Nama could become an effective remedy against all ailments. A man who believes in Rama Nama would not make a fetish of the body but would regard it as a means of serving God. And for making it into a fit instrument for that purpose, Rama Nama is the sovereign means. To install Rama Nama in the heart requires infinite patience. It might even take ages. But the effort is worthwhile. Rama Nama cannot come from the heart unless one has cultivated the virtues of truth, honesty and purity within and without.

James Patterson

Honesty is always good, except when it's better to lie.

James McGreevey

For me, living in the closet corroded my ability to have an honest, open relationship with my God, my loved ones, my constituency and myself.

James Marsters

I don't know if any of us are mature enough to handle the brutal honesty of what's inside other people's heads.

Ellen Page

The quality most important to me, in the films I make, is honesty.

Ellen Page

I'm actually just playing honest, whole young women.

Elizabeth Reaser

I'm often uncomfortable with girliness, to be honest.