Quotes About Integrity

You don't have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.

I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.

There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises.... If you write for life, you'll work hard; you'll do what's honest, not what pays

You want a real thing?" asked Alice. "I'll tell you a real one. You got anything left to you to love, anything at all, do it.

Don't let your mouth start nothing your ass can't stand.

social conversation was impossible for her because she could not lie.

What's fair ain't necessarily right

you just can't mishandle creatures and expect success.

Not like the me was some tough somebody, or somebody she had put together for show. But like, like somebody she favored and could count on. A secret somebody you didn't have to feel sorry for or have to fight for. -Felice

He didn't want an outsider judging his family. That was his job.

And if he bathes her in sections, will the parts hold?

How did it feel Bad. Real bad. That's good. That it made you feel bad. I'm glad. How come? It means you're not a liar. You are deep, Thomas. Frank smiled. What you want to be when you grow up? Thomas turned the knob with his left hand and opened the door. A man, he said and left.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Not like 'me' was some tough somebody, or somebody she had put together for show. But like somebody she favored and could count on. A secret somebody you didn't have to feel sorry for or have to fight for.

lay it all down, sword and shield.

We tend to overlook goodness, but we must put goodness front and center in our lives.

Well, don't let your mouth start nothing that your ass can't stand. When you gone to get married? You need to have some babies. It'll settle you." "I don't want to make somebody else. I want to make myself.

Maybe I am different now, Twyla. But you're not. You're the same little state kid who kicked a poor old black lady when she was down on the ground. You kicked a black lady and you have the nerve to call me a bigot.

Love is or ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

A person's love is only as good as the person; a stupid person loves stupidly, a violent man loves violently.

Take no heed of good looks , but rather of callused hand. Old Maori saying: Choose a husband for his work, not his appearance.

In order to have faith, you have to know the truth and you have to respond to it. Even having a lot of faith doesn't help you if your faith isn't connected to the truth. Faith is only as valuable as the thing it's connected to.

Is your heavenly Father getting your best, or is He being forced to settle for leftovers? Leftover time. Leftover service. Leftover money.

we can't use someone else's irresponsibility in the past as an excuse for our irresponsibility in the present. If