Honest Quotes

And at home in the United States we found continued and increased persecution, first of leaders of the Communist Party, and then of all honest anti-fascists.

[T]he yeoman's work in any science, and especially physics, is done by the experimentalist, who must keep the theoreticians honest.

I seek in books only to give myself pleasure by honest amusement; or if I study, I seek only the learning that treats of the knowledge of myself and instructs me in how to die well and live well.

The fact that we're in the playoffs doesn't mean anything to us, to be honest with you. Hopefully, we can accomplish our goal of going into the playoffs on a winning note.

People like to see human error when it’s honest. When people see you swing and miss, they start to root for you.

America fell in love with the innocence of a kid who just was honest, saying, I did the best I could, and I had no formal training.

The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.

'Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest, or for their wit that one loves the wittiest; 'tis for benevolence, and virtue, and honest fondness, one loves people...

With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants his respect to an honest man he has been unable to swindle.

In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution.

Money, make money; by honest means if you can; if not, by any means make money. [Lat., Rem facias rem, Recte si possis, si non, quocumque modo rem.]

I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.

We must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

To be honest Im quite boring I love to go bowling and to the moviesWhen it comes to my wardrobe I think I dress like a 30 year old woman

How to feel your way toward something honest, hidden under the trapdoor on the top of your skull.

What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.

The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are.

I think an athlete should be honest. I know it's difficult, but if a guy knocked me on my can, I couldn't very well say, I slipped.

Grandmotherhood initiated me into a world of play, where all things became fresh, alive, and honest again through my grandchildren's eyes. Mostly, it retaught me love.

Don't get me wrong, there are sometimes if I go and see a really funny comedy, that I wished I had smoked a joint. I'll be honest with you. That's the truth.

In returning I read a very different book, published by an honest Quaker , on that execrable sum of all villanies, commonly called the Slave-trade.

Ben Stiller isn't funny - honest. Ben Stiller is very funny, and smart, and cute, too, in a neurotic, New York kind of way.

And if I'm honest about it, I was obsessed with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This is like '92, right in the throes of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam and Nirvana. I think I probably wanted to be Kurt Cobain.

I trust kids far more than I do adults. Kids give you the honest opinion. They tell the truth.

It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.

Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must have something to confess.

A Romantic ideology that predates rock glorifies the self-destructive artist as someone who's too honest and delicate for this world... It's not an easy job, and its stresses can take their toll.

You can tell other people all the alibis you want. I don't mind. But to yourself try to be honest.

I think there's a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I understood it.

I'm honest. I say what I feel. I try to be tactful, but I can't not say what I feel. I have a really big problem with that.

Emotional release by itself, no matter how "real," "honest," etc. the emotion may be, is never enough to create a character...such release has no artistic form.

I have heard about the civilized, the marriages run on talk, elegant and honest, rational. But and I are savages.

A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.

To be honest, I know there are shows that have a lot of women and they say, 'Oh, we love each other!' but I don't know if I totally believe it.

I work hard, like I'm sure everyone else does, and I'm very honest with the work I do.

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

Prejudice is a seeping, dark stain, I think, more difficult to fight than hatred-which is powerful and violent and somehow more honest.

No honest hardworking official likes to see good money disappearing into the hands of the Treasury at the end of the financial year.

Home Run portrays the church in its beauty--true life transformation through real and honest relationships with one another and with Jesus.

Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.

Judy Garland was just so delicious in every way and just so honest and generous.

I am always baffled by age, but to be honest with you, I feel like I am about 34. I feel better now and I am certainly healthier than I was in my early 30s. I am more rounded too.

The reality is, if you're friends with somebody you should be able to be honest with them, and that honesty should be the biggest magnet to truth.

The work keeps getting deeper, more honest. I continue to work on a piece until I feel it breathe on its own.

I do like reality shows, and I watch some of them because they're high drama. It's also just fun to watch people have honest reactions.

I want to be completely honest, I have to say that I love the intimacy of the camera.

For I consider the character of no man affected by a want of success, provided he has made an honest effort to succeed.

I keep six honest serving men.

A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might: Guid faith, he maunna fa' that.

There are times when you simply have to pose your model. The difference is in the kind of posing. It can be honest and dishonest, interesting and as wooden as a cigar store Indian.