Quotes About Integrity

It is not the way of a Comanche to beat his woman," he rasped. "Just as it is not his way to let her go away from him.

Why would you bother lying?" Her eyes darkened. "What would you gain?" "Your ruffles?" He watched her face and knew the moment when she realized he was teasing her. "You said I could steal them, yes?" "As I recall, we decided you should take them when I wasn't in them.

eaten in debt, we have been waited on in debt. Yes, many a time I knew those servants hadn't been paid. That's why they left, they weren't dismissed. And all the time I partook of the whole; yet I must admit, with shame at times. But' – he now looked along the length of the old building – 'I am now earning my living, and it has got to keep me and pay a man. And I can sleep easy at nights.

Where most people have some reaction to the act of telhng a He, such as feehngs of guih or shame,

I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grow older.

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-centered characters who are never in trouble, never make mistakes, and always count their change as it is handed to them.

How could I pretend to be someone else when I was already failing at being the person I already was?

The only time I ever find my dealings with God less than clear-cut is when I'm not being honest with Him. The fuzziness is always on my side, not His.

Everybody is a good person and a bad person at the same time. The only real variation is in the balance. How much good to how much bad. When a person has a bigger good side, we call him a good person. But it's never absolute.

You are what you do. That's what I'm trying to tell you. What we do defines us. However we behave, conduct our lives...that's real. The rest is a story for publication.

It's one thing to know the right path and another thing to take it.

I feel that the truth is simply the truth. And that to shield someone from it is only a manner of treating that person with a lack of respect.

All I know is that you can't force yourself to feel something you don't.

I have always felt," Nathan said, "that the truth is simply the truth. And perhaps does not exist for us to bend and revise. Or even filter to suit the feelings of those we love and want to protect.

truth is simply the truth. And perhaps does not exist for us to bend and revise. Or even filter

the truth is simply the truth. And perhaps does not exist for us to bend and revise. Or even filter to suit the feelings of those we love and want to protect.

It's a choice between getting the crap beaten out of you for being exactly what you are, or avoiding the beating by selling out and pretending you're not, which is like pretending there's something wrong with what you are. I'm not sure which is worse.

But you can't change the world on the honor system. Shoot, anybody knows that. Leave people on the honor system, they don't do it. As soon as you look away, they just don't. I mean, look what happened.

Everybody is a good person and a bad person at the same time. The only real variation is in the balance

His grandfather probably would have said that all men feel fear, but cowardly men deny it.

No happy marriage was, in his estimation, ever based on thoughtless, automatic untruths and exclusions. And the best way to make someone unhappy, if not downright unbalanced, is to tell her that what she sees with her own eyes is not there at all.

It seems important," she says. "It just doesn't seem wrong.

feel that the truth is simply the truth. And that to shield someone from it is only a manner of treating that person with a lack of respect.

the truth is simply the truth. And perhaps does not exist for us to bend and revise. Or even filter to suit the feelings of those we love and want to protect." He