Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Ralph Chaplin

Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic, throng the coward and the meek who see the world's great anguish and its wrong, and dare not speak.

Rafael Nadal

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

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.

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.

Miguel de Cervantes

Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.

Neil Gaiman

I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies.

John Tillotson

Integrity gains strength by use.

Mark Driscoll

I study the Bible all week, pray to the Lord, and then I speak from my heart. It's all about brutal honesty.

Theodore Dreiser

The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of contradictions - none more so than the most capable.

Laura Linney

The thing about death is that it's honest. I go to things that have a core of honesty about them and there's nothing more honest than death.

Nick Cave

I still feel very much an imposter in the whole music scene, which I'm quite happy about to be honest.

Marianne Moore

When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.

Rafael Nadal

I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Yeah, it never fails to amaze me how a single lie can undo an entire lifetime of good. (Aiden)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Were you raised in a barn? You don't just walk into someone's house." Ash laughed. "I have an open invitation to enter whenever I'm here." "Yeah, but what if he's naked or something?" Ash led him into the foyer. "I've known Kyrian for over two thousand years, and I can honesty say that I have never once caught him naked in his living room." The door closed behind them without Ash or Nick touching it- something that always unnerved Nick when Ash did it. "Besides, Rosa's still here. I know he's not walking around bare-assed with her on duty.

Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Be sure to live up to your reputation for honesty and goodness, because many souls who believe you to be honest and good have placed themselves in your hands.

Nigel Kneale

All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.

N. T. Wright

One of the things I really respect about Doug Moo is that he is constantly grappling with the text. Where he hears the text saying something which is not what his tradition would have said, he will go with the text. I won't always agree with his exegesis, but there is a relentless scholarly honesty about him which I really tip my hat off to.

Mignon McLaughlin

Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.

John Winthrop

Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.

John Wilmot

For all Men would be Cowards if they durst: And Honesty's against all common Sense.

John Ruskin

Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy. Both your religion and policy must be based on it. Your honesty must be based, as the sun is, in vacant heaven; poised, as the lights in the firmament, which have rule over the day and over the night.

John Ruskin

Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy.Bothyourreligionand policy must be basedon it.

Mark Twain

Honesty is often the best policy, but sometimes the appearance of it is worth six of it.

Marianne Williamson

The love is real in any situation; everything else is just an illusion.

Marianne Williamson

The key to intimacy is the commitment to honesty and to the radical forgiveness necessary in order for honesty to be safe.

Mario Andretti

Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that's their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it.

Mario Cuomo

Outrage is easy, cheap, and oversold. The nation needs less anger and more thoughtful reflection, less shouting and more listening, less dissembling and more honesty.

Merle Haggard

I'll tell you what the public likes more than anything, it's the most rare commodity in the world - honesty.

Michael Frayn

To be absolutely honest, what I feel really bad about is that I don't feel worse. There's the ineffectual liberal's problem in a nutshell.

Michio Kaku

There are many examples of old, incorrect theories that stubbornly persisted, sustained only by the prestige of foolish but well-connected scientists. . . . Many of these theories have been killed off only when some decisive experiment exposed their incorrectness. .. Thus the yeoman work in any science, and especially physics, is done by the experimentalist, who must keep the theoreticians honest.