Quotes About Transparency

neither a concept nor an image is transparent, and that this opacity signals that an element of subjectivity is always in play in human affairs.

Seek to make thy course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.

All I want in life is clarity, transparency, so I know who is doing what, and to whom, at all times. My only real enemies in life are liars, and they'll do everything to stop me because they want the contamination to continue, because it's comfortable for them, or completely ignorant mindless fools who believe every word they read in a daily rag.

You don't manage the truth. You tell the truth.

I've never done anything because I thought it would look cool.

Just be fucking honest about how you feel about people while you're alive.

RINO, Republican in Name Only. I'm a Reagan Republican, a proponent of lower taxes, less government, free markets, free trade, defense readiness, and democratic internationalism. I also believe government should respond to our biggest problems and prepare for our biggest future challenges, be as transparent as possible and as efficient as possible.

Telling the truth when you've done something wrong is the most terrifying thing in the world.

There is no artifice, no manipulation, no games.

No scrim, no filter, no bullshit. She wasn't all bound up in there, gagged and furious and resentful beneath some high-pitched shrink-wrapped mess of pleasantry.

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

We think sometimes we're only drawn to the good, but we're actually drawn to the authentic. We like people who are real more than those who hide their true selves under layers of artificial niceties

People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in, their true beauty is only seen if there is a light within.

It is very unlikely your people are lying to you. But your measurements definitely are.

Francis focused on the woman's eyes. They really were quite free of guile, he reflected. Unusual in the females of his acquaintance, and therefore refreshing.

There was, they conceded, no point in pretending to be other than they were, as it seemed their presence was not secret and never had been.

A whirl of color, patches like autumn leaves tossed in a wind, and when Will squinted right, knowing what he was looking for, he could make out a slender man huddled under a black velvet hood, his shoulders aswirl with a cloak that caught the light through the leaded windows in all colors and none. When Will looked at him directly, he seemed to fade into transparency and shadows.

It must be awkward wearing one's whole interior life on display, for anyone to read.

Icebergs behoove the soul (both being self-made from elements least visible) to see themselves: fleshed, fair, erected, indivisible.

What I have always found is, anything one keeps hidden should now and then be hidden somewhere else.

She had that transparent honesty and purity and serenity that like clear water flooding over the bed of a stream washes away uncleanness, and makes fresh and divinely lovely all that is seen through its own transparency. We see the world through the medium of our own characters, and Marguerite saw and loved all things through her own bright clarity, and enjoyed them enormously.

Aus Liebe verschweigt man anderen bestimmte Dinge. Aber eigentlich finde ich, dass man Menschen, je mehr man sie liebt, desto mehr sagen sollte - sogar die schwierigen Sachen. Ich glaube, es ist der beste Liebesbeweis, ihnen alles zu erzählen.

People are like stained glass windows they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.

She had never been so affected by the idea of intimacy, but there was something about his eyes; something warm, and gentle even though she felt transparent every time he turned his attention on her; like he could see her, really see her. The idea of being so exposed to someone…it took her breath away.