Quotes About Transparency

I mean what I say when i say it. After that, it's hard to say

If you're honest and straightforward and mean well, it should show in your eyes. It should be unmistakable.

How rotten and spurious is the man who says: "I have decided to be straightforward with you.

A straightforward, honest person should be like someone who stinks: when you're in the same room with him, you know it. But false straightforwardness is like a knife in the back. False friendship is the worst. Avoid it at all costs. If you're honest and straightforward and mean well, it should show in your eyes. It should be unmistakable.

for no veil clothes a star.

The responsibility is all yours; no one can stop you from being honest or straightforward.

a candor affected is a dagger concealed

Speak what you really think, not what you think people want to hear.

A straightforward, honest person should be like someone who stinks: when you're in the same room with him, you know it. But false straightforwardness is like a knife in the back.

To pierce and penetrate into the estate of every one's understanding that thou hast to do with: as also to make the estate of thine own open, and penetrable to any other.

Be content to seem what you really are.

when things lay claim to our trust—to lay them bare and see how pointless they are, to strip away the legend that encrusts them.

Honesty is the best policy

A hatred not shown and which remains concealed, is to be feared more than that which is openly voiced.

But I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another.

But in an account such as this, it is better to be scrupulous about your faults, as about all your other actions. Otherwise no one will understand why you made the decisions that you made.

They'd like to see through me, but nothing is more opaque than absolute transparency.

Az igazságot egyetlen módon lehet csak megírni: ha feltételezzük, hogy amit megírtunk, soha nem fogja elolvasni senki, Se más, se mi magunk valamikor késÅ'bb. Különben csak mentegeti magát az ember.

Love was its own transparent bubble-dome: you could see the two inside it, but you couldn't get in there yourself. That

It was a problem in comic books: drawing an invisible man.

She would rather see for herself; she doesn't trust Tobias to interpret; she suspects him of holding things back.

nothing is more opaque than absolute transparency. Look--my feet don't hit the marble! Like breath or a balloon, I'm rising, I hover six inches in the air in my blazing swan-egg of light. You think I'm not a goddess? Try me. This is a torch song. Touch me and you'll burn.

she's a ho in sheep's clothing, and it's about time she told the truth, the ho truth, and nothing but the truth.

Most of us discover early on that it's safer to hide behind prayers that can't be measured, petitions so nebulous they don't require intervention from God.