Quotes About Authenticity

How do you be a 45-year-old man in a rock band, do it well, keep your dignity and not become a parody of yourself? I don't think it will be simple.

The most valuable insight on choosing whom to love is to be honest with yourself about the man standing before you.

Clothes do not make the man; friends and engagement with life do.

I'm not a man who constantly thinks up jokes.

I'm a sucker for a man who cries. It just gets to me.

Most men when they make up their faces, the makeup stands forward, and their faces are behind.

It is better to enter into life maimed but lovely in God's sight than to appear lovely to man's eyes but lame to God's.

Our Lord did not say it was wrong to pray in the corners of the street, but He did say it was wrong to have the motive to "be seen of men".

Because you know, I'm your best friend, but you're just not that badass, man.

A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.

We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.

A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.

Every man should let out all the length of all the reigns; should find or make a frank and healthy expression of what force and meaning is in him.

Happy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on.

The usual criticism of a novel about an artist is that, no matter how real he is as a man, he is not real to us as an artist, since we have to take on trust the works of art he produces.

A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their caparisons of title, wealth, and place, he considers but as harness.

The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts.

Perhaps you see, therefore, why I think taste must come before nutrition? Our infatuation for the quasi-scientific has left us easy marks for con men and tin fiddle manufacturers.

Man was made to lead with his chin; he is worth knowing only with his guard down, his head up and his heart rampant on his sleeve.

An open sack hides nothing, And an open door hides little, but an open man is surely hiding something. lini is quoted by Nynaeve.

I wasn't playing Nixon's satirical stick figure. I was playing Nixon the man. As an actor, I felt I had to get to the deeply flawed humanity of the guy.

When I would go a-visiting, I find that I go off the fashionable street,--not being inclined to change my dress,--to where man meets man, and not polished shoe meets shoe.

A man cannot wheedle nor overawe his Genius. It requires to be conciliated by nobler conduct than the world demands or can appreciate.

If you are a seer, whenever you meet a man you will see all that he owns, ay, and much that he pretends to disown, behind him.