Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Marianne Moore

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Michael Josephson

Using the phrase business ethics might imply that the ethical rules and expectations are somehow different in business than in other contexts. There really is no such thing as business ethics. There is just ethics and the challenge for people in business and every other walk in life to acknowledge and live up to basic moral principles like honesty, respect, responsibility, fairness and caring.

Michael Josephson

Honesty doesn't always pay, but dishonesty always costs.

Michael J. Fox

Whatever the situation, just take it for what it is. You don't have to make it worse or better than it is. It just is what it is. Always deal with the honesty, the truth of what something is, and then you've got all kinds of choices.

Oscar Wilde

Youth is the only thing worth having.

Oscar Wilde

A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.

Madonna Ciccone

You bring me to my knees, while I'm scratching out the eyes of a world I want to conquer, and deliver, and despise. And right while I am kneeling there, I suddenly begin to care. And understand that there could be a person that loves me.

Michel de Montaigne

Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

George W. Bush

Islam is a faith that brings comfort to people. It inspires them to lead lives based on honesty, and justice, and compassion.

Garth Brooks

I'd much rather have the honesty than not. Because if you will say what's on your mind and get it off your chest, then the sooner I can prove you wrong!

Frank Zappa

I would say that today, dishonesty is the rule, and honesty the exception. It could be, statistically, that more people are honest than dishonest, but the few that really control things are not honest, and that tips the balance.

Jennifer Garner

You can choose to be civil or not be civil. What is the point of going through the day and think it's cool to wear your honesty on your sleeve at the expense of everyone around you?

George Sand

honesty dies in selling itself.