Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zac Efron

Honesty is most important, and it's difficult when you're young and single and sort of figuring out your own life.

William Greider

Democracy begins in human conversation. A democratic conversation does not require elaborate rules of procedure or utopian notions of perfect consensus. What it does require is a spirit of mutual respect-people conversing critically with one another in an atmosphere of honesty and shared regard.

William Golding

Honestly, I haven't the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.

Walter Lippmann

You don't have to preach honesty to men with a creative purpose. A genuine craftsman will not adulterate this product. The reason isn't because duty says he shouldn't, but because passion says he couldn't.

Voltaire

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

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

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.

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.

William Osler

By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction.

Rob Thomas' Stripped performance is honest and pure.

Chuck Hagel

be honest with the Congress, be honest with the American people.

Be honest with each other. Don't wait until after the marriage to surprise the other partner with a mountain of debt.

In each case, we learned that we have to have honest communications. You've got to not ignore anything.

I'll be very honest with you. I think they view John Spencer as unpredictable. I think his past statements scare them.

George Hamilton

I'm a scamp. But I'm an honest scamp.

I, honest to God, do not know a thing. I have zero understanding of the rules. All I know is that my rehab is over.

I honestly think a lot of them didn't go out with the intent of excluding us.

Kelly Packard

I honestly didn't think we were going to come back. I really didn't.

I honestly can't tell you the last time I went to see a doctor. When I get sick, it's usually just a cold, and I'm over it in a day or two.

Jim Tressel

I have to be honest with you. I didn't read it.

Diego Forlan

I'm just thinking about tomorrow night. I've never been a planner. I've always taken things day by day. As long as I'm honest to myself and as long as we try to make original-sounding music, I'll be happy.

Kevin Pietersen

I'm flattered. I honestly didn't think I was going to get this award,

I had told the kids that I honestly didn't think we would be in the playoffs unless we won the tournament. And we played like we wanted it tonight.

Rudyard Kipling

I had six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who.

I'm very interested in music, but I was not born musical. I honestly do think some people have the knack. I can't play an instrument. I'm a terrible singer. I'm not about to launch my album!

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.

Rudyard Kipling

I keep six honest serving men: They taught me all I knew: Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who