Honest Quotes
3580 Honest quotes by 2410 unique authors
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You show me a politician with his heels ten feet in the air, and by Judas priest, Ill show you an honest politician.
— Dalton Trumbo
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I'm going to be honest: I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues. I still need to…
— John McCain
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Conservative ideas are alive and dynamic, the result of a free and intellectually honest vision for the country. As long as conservatism is strong, the…
— Rush Limbaugh
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If you're honest and fair as you can be, not only in business but in life, things will work out.
— Kate Spade
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I was just glad I've got an opponent, to be honest. This is my third opponent for this fight prep. [I'm over the moon] to…
— Unknown Author
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When I write songs I write for myself...I'm writing it as a form of expression, and hoping to find an audience, an audience that responds…
— Unknown Author
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Many married couples separate because they quarrel incessantly, but just as many separate because they were never honest enough or courageous enough to quarrel when…
— Sydney J. Harris
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I always say it took me 10 minutes to write 'Cars,' but if I am honest it could have been even less than that -…
— Gary Numan
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I made mistakes. I can’t whine about it. I’m the one that messed up and I’m paying the consequences. However, if I am given a…
— Pete Rose
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Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our antimaterialist, otherworldly, New Age, spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru…
— Edward Abbey
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When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade…
— Edward Abbey
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As between the skulking and furtive poacher, who hunts for the sake of meat, and the honest gentleman shooter, who kills for the pleasure of…
— Edward Abbey
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Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.
— Edward Abbey
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All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself, and is withdrawn…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms are in…
— Thomas Jefferson
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It can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The true fountains of evidence [are] the head and heart of every rational and honest man. It is there nature has written her moral laws,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The people, especially when moderately instructed, are the only safe, because the only honest, depositaries of the public rights, and should therefore be introduced into…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from clutches of the money…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.
— Thomas Paine
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To be honest, producing records interests me less at the moment and I really don't want to get involved in album projects that are going…
— Phil Collins
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I’ve often been accused of being too emotional and sentimental, but I believe in honest sentiment, and the need to purge ourselves at certain times,…
— Ray Bradbury
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What can we writers learn from lizards, lift from birds? In quickness is truth. The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more…
— Ray Bradbury
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And your eyes must do some raining if you're ever gonna grow / When crying don't help, you can't compose yourself / It's best to…
— Conor Oberst
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I always write what feels really true and honest and me.
— Carly Rae Jepsen
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