Honest Quotes · Page 112

(M)aybe we too busy being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest and worthy of respect . . . you…

— Toni Cade Bambara

It may be made a question whether men grow wiser as they grow older, anymore than they grow stronger or healthier or…

— William Hazlitt

To feel successful, you must be able to be honest about the things that are really important to you.

— Daniel Amen

Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky.

— Eddie Slovik

I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal.

— Claes Oldenburg

I was happy working for the N.B.A., but to be honest, I decided that I'd probably get back into coaching. I missed…

— Stu Jackson

Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man.

— Anonymous

I'm a professional Jonathan Coulton. It's partially ego, to be completely honest: It feels great to have people adoring you in that…

— Jonathan Coulton

In all common ordinary cases, we see intuitively at first view what is out duty, what is the honest part. This is…

— Joseph Butler

The Internet is a very intimate entertainment experience. I'm in my own apartment talking to people, and I want them to feel…

— Grace Helbig

I went to an all-girls Catholic school. And all the nuns just breathed down our necks "abstinence." And that's not the right…

— Jenny McCarthy

The truth is, I'm a storyteller. And it scares me, because my training as an academic is that the more accessible you…

— Brené Brown

The moment you can learn to deal with homosexuality in art, it's quite an exciting moment, just as in a sense when…

— David Hockney

How can you be honest to people when you can't be honest with yourself? How can you say I love you! When…

— Mariama Heyes

When it's open and honest, that's when the real nature of who you are as a vocalist or as a performer, all…

— Alison Krauss

I don't think even when you find a person, you can be completely honest, ever. There's still pieces of you that you…

— Alicia Keys

An honest answer should never upset anyone... if it does, then maybe they shouldn't have asked the question ~ Big Al Connolly

— Big Al Connolly

I'm not a fan of Donald Trump. To be perfectly honest, I don't think violence is the answer to anything and I…

— Donna Karan

Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality…

— James F. Cooper

The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which…

— Ron Carlson

And then when I went to stay in '68, I can honestly say that I was not focused on my career and…

— Nolan Ryan

The truth is that I feel totally helpless, or totally inconsolable, to be more honest. I’m not trying to hide it, but…

— Jostein Gaarder

I've realized that I am very rarely honest. Outside of my family, I am very rarely honest when I step outside of…

— Wunmi Mosaku

Most of us, if we are truly honest with ourselves, have an ever-evolving and ever-growing list of what we think we must…

— Lee L Jampolsky

To enlighten people by reminding them the irrationality of their beliefs is an act more honest and more important than the act…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I think leadership is about being honest. It's about being transparent. I think it's about putting yourself in the shoes of others.

— Brian Flores

There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way.

— Michael Nesmith

Learn to invest in investments where you can achieve an honest, legal advantage over other investors. When it comes to investing, why…

— Robert Kiyosaki

I even agree with the new digital ways of filmmaking, where you don't even have physical film in the camera, but to…

— J. Lee Thompson

The seed of a metaphysical or religious defeat is in us all. For the honest questioner, however, who doesn't seek refuge in…

— Peter Wessel Zapffe

I don't normally cook, but if I did it probably would be beans, sausage, bacon and eggs. I never really get to…

— Wayne Rooney

The lottery of honest labor, drawn by time, is the only one whose prizes are worth taking up and carrying home.

— Theodore Parker

I want to be real. I want to be a real person. That's what an artist is. An artist has to be…

— Miley Cyrus

Songs are not better just because they're emotionally honest. To write a song well, you have to put some work into it…

— Jakob Dylan

It is more important to me to make art that is an honest expression of my life than it is to make…

— John Porcellino

I believe in being honest with myself. If there's one thing I hate it's when a comedian is great and won't admit…

— Jack Benny

You have to be smart enough to see the world for yourself and honest. The whole book-publicity thing is not really honest,…

— Ethan Canin

Surround yourself with good people. People who are going to be honest with you and look out for your best interests.

— Derek Jeter

It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

— Owen D. Young

To be honest, I know there are shows that have a lot of women and they say, 'Oh, we love each other!'…

— Madchen Amick