Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Ira Glass

Honestly, I don't see movies more than once.

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.

Spike Jonze

Maurice Sendak never - I remember he said something that was very striking because it's something I never thought about. I always loved his work, and he said, 'I don't really view myself as a children's book author. I just try and write about childhood as honestly as I can.'

Nobody ever questioned your honesty. I have never thought of you as less than an honest person.

Willie Randolph

I respect a man that speaks his mind and is honest in what he believes. I don't feel he meant any disrespect.

That doesn't mean that those people who made those honest mistakes should ultimately be prosecuted criminally,

David Akers

I'm honestly proudest of this kick today. I can honestly say that.

David Akers

I'm honestly most proud of that kick today.

Jeff Flake

We need more honest government. We need a more open process, a more honest process.

C. S. Lewis

Is there a difference between a man who thinks that honesty is the best policy, and an honest man?

C. S. Lewis

Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State's honey and avoiding the sting?

Carl Sagan

The values of science and the values of democracy are concordant, in many cases indistinguishable. Science and democracy began - in their civilized incarnations - in the same time and place, Greece in the seventh and sixth centuries B.C. . . . Science thrives on, indeed requires, the free exchange of ideas; its values are antithetical to secrecy. Science holds to no special vantage points or privileged positions. Both science and democracy encourage unconventional opinions and vigorous debate. Both demand adequate reason, coherent argument, rigorous standards of evidence and honesty.

Bette Davis

They say that in Hollywood one can't be honest, but I think honesty counts in Hollywood just as much as it does anywhere else. I think it's just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself.

Arnold Rothstein

I prefer to make my living honestly.

Bill Vaughan

Because democratic institutions do not renew themselves as effortlessly as flowering trees, they demand the ceaseless tinkering of people who possess both the courage and the honesty to admit their mistakes and accept responsibility for even the most inglorious acts.

Bertrand Russell

The axiomatic method has many advantages over honest work.

Tom Daschle

I would like to think they are honest differences of opinion, ... That's my story right now, and I'm sticking to it.

I was hoping for a playoff type atmosphere. To be honest with you, I wish it would have been more a playoff atmosphere. We didn't get as much out of it as we wanted. I know we will play better in the playoffs.

Chad Campbell

I was getting ready to go to No. 1, to be honest with you. You know, he makes so many of those, and it's just amazing. You always see it.

Ron Howard

I think people relate to the story for personal reasons. Some are interested in the mystery, some are interested in the spirituality and some are interested in the locations. I honestly think that a lot of people get a lot of different things out of it.

We are trying to be honest with consumers.

Tilda Swinton

Well, it's kind of what I do, to be honest with you,

It does not relate to other state labeling requirements, including Ohio's labeling requirements for honey or Alaska's regulations regarding farm-raised and salmon labeling.

I think he was being very honest when he said he was just learning how to do this.

H. G. Wells

I am prepared to maintain that Honesty is essentially an anarchistic and disintegrating force in society, that communities are held together and the progress of civilization made possible only by vigorous and sometimes even, violent Lying; that the Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie and humbug themselves and one another for the general Good.

Jean de la Bruyere

A show of a certain amount of honesty is in any profession or business the surest way of growing rich.

Jay Leno

You've got Bush and Gore headed to the Supreme Court. You've got George W. Bush's intelligence will be pitted against Al Gore's honesty. This is more like a case for small claims court.