Honest Quotes · Page 150

All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself,…

— Thomas Jefferson

[Adviser is] the ones who do the job very well are the ones who lay out the range of options, filter down…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

It's always been difficult to make a good record. To be perfectly honest with you, it's really about the person that's pushing…

— Dr. Dre

'The Iliad' is about a war 1,200 years ago that solved nothing and achieved nothing. Most of our wars achieve very little.…

— Denis O'Hare

In real life, I am emotionally confused, which enables me to write songs. I'm a Pisces, and they say that Pisces are…

— Adam Levine

Christianity taught that men ought to be as chaste as pagans thought honest women ought to be; the contraceptive morality teaches that…

— G. E. M. Anscombe

To be brutally honest, I am a little bit of a Clint Eastwood nerd. Clint Eastwood who was the man who drew…

— James Purefoy

Any Black person in amerika [sic], if they are being honest with themselves, have got to come to the conclusion that they…

— Assata Shakur

But love, honest love, requires empathy. It is a sharing—of joy, of pain, of laughter, and of tears. Honest love makes one’s…

— Anonymous

Good men sometimes make mistakes. A man of integrity will honestly face and correct his mistakes, and that is an example we…

— D. Todd Christofferson

I want characters to have voices that feel authentic, unique, honest, fresh and original - all at once. Part of that authenticity…

— Nicholas Sparks

I think England are probably not as streetwise as plenty of other teams. The other top teams know how to keep a…

— Michael Owen

To be honest, one can only feel glad that so many modern iconoclasts consider Christianity to be full of exceptionally hypocritical, religious…

— Criss Jami

We need an honest bottom line. Today that bottom line is vastly subsidized. If anyone of us were paying the full cost…

— Ray Anderson

The public does not like you to mislead or represent yourself to be something you're not. And the other thing that the…

— Ann Richards

“I have found that to tell the truth is the hardest thing on earth. Harder than fighting in a war, harder than…

— Richard Wright

When you put on the suits, when you pretend you're honest and you're robbing at a far higher level, these guys deserve…

— Carl Hiaasen

A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the…

— Woodrow Wilson

Combinatorics is an honest subject. No adèles, no sigma-algebras. You count balls in a box, and you either have the right number…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

Cheating, having 'hoes,' none of that is cute. To be honest, it's really immature. I don't see how people take pride in…

— Clarence Darrow

If you only notice human proceedings, you may observe that all who attain great power and riches, make use of either force…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

At the beginning of each year, we have conceptual meetings. How are we going to challenge ourselves this year? So we suggested…

— Jai Rodriguez

If you care about this country, if you want to take part in a citizen’s movement that helps heal the deep racial,…

— Connie May Fowler

We are not called on to believe this or that doctrine which may be proposed to us till we can do so…

— John Campbell Shairp

Americans' addiction to sports, with the NFL at the top, is based on the excitement generated by the potential for the unexpected…

— Arlen Specter

There's a theory that nobody believes. That Robert Mueller is Mr. Honest and Mr. Integrity, has no preconceived notion and is really…

— Rush Limbaugh

I'm more honest in my lyrics than I am in anything else. It's where I feel the most safe to express myself.…

— Jamie Lynn Spears

No, it was honest," said Harry. "One of the only honest things you've said to me. You don't care whether I live…

— Anonymous

Most good writing is clear, vigorous, honest, alive, sensuous, appropriate, unsentimental, rhythmic, without pretension, fresh, metaphorical, evocative in sound, economical, authoritative, surprising,…

— Ken Macrorie

Honest to god, Clare, you act like the dress is more important than you being shot!” Of course it is! It’s a…

— Katie MacAlister

I walked among Shadows, and found a race of furry creatures, dark and clawed and fanged, reasonably manlike, and about as intelligent…

— Roger Zelazny

O prejudice, prejudice, prejudice, how many hast thou destroyed! Men who might have been wise have remained fools because they thought they…

— Anonymous

You have more power, more control than you could possibly imagine. My heart is in your hands. That's not bullshit. I'm not…

— Maya Banks

To be honest, I'm a bit of a snob now; give me a Four Seasons anywhere in the world and I'm happy.…

— Joe Elliott

The case is I talk for a living, so I should be able to say anything I want to say regardless of…

— Patrice O'Neal

“I couldn’t help but feel as if everyone had lied about everything. We all had secrets. We all had a dark side…

— Shannon A. Thompson

Oh, I will always be honest with my music. The records are black boxes for me. Like if you want to know…

— Katy Perry

I think I've been incredibly raw my whole career. A lot of people spend a lot of time trying to look cool…

— Ryan Adams

Barbra Streisand is without a doubt one of the most honest people I have ever known. There is no doubt in my…

— Marvin Hamlisch

Workers want to be paid an honest, fair wage for the work they do. They want to be able to provide for…

— James P. Hoffa