Quotes About Transparency

You had as good a chance as I did. I told you everything I saw, as I saw it at the time. And if that was in itself deceptive, remember, I told you that, too: I warned you, right from the beginning, that I lie.

He asked if there were more things she had lied about. She said she had to think. She said she was still thinking. After about two minutes she said she was still thinking.

I was a bit vague on the details when relaying the story to him." "I might just come to like you, Emily. But you should never withhold details—no matter how small—from him. A marriage requires absolute honesty." "I agree, of course. It's just that—" "There can be no just thats," she said. "Full disclosure on every subject or you'll mire yourselves in a web of deceit. What seems insignificant

The girl wondered if her parents had been right to protect her from everything, if they had been right not to explain why so many things had changed for them since the start of the war... Nobody would tell her. Nobody would explain. She hated being treated like a baby. She hated the voices being lowered when she entered the room. If they had told her, if they had told her everything they knew, wouldn't that have made today easier?

If you lose it every time he tries to come clean, you're encouraging him to lie.

Human emotion is beyond comprehension, smooth and uninterrupted, like an orb made of blown glass.

I like my mimosas like I like my men...transparent.

You say you want my advice. Here's what I have. Tell the truth. Don't try to cushion the blow. If you're bad enough to do it, you're bad enough to tell it.

Forgive me for being such a straight shooter. Nowadays they say it's being direct, but your mama called it being an asshole.

Un pueblo informado sospechará de los políticos», escribió a Ático, al que pidió una donación de libros y manuscritos para la biblioteca.

Don't ever regret being honest. Period.

You just see right through me, but if you only knew me...

if a man wishes to eat chicken, do you think he would wish to consume a chicken that has recently been, as you tell me, 'ranging free'? Some wild capon, capering about over hill and dale, wholly unsupervised? No! I think not, Mrs. Purvis! If Ambrose Congreve is to eat chicken, he bloody well wants to know where his chicken has been! Every minute of every day!

They watch as Zaff sorts through the leaf litter, extracts a leaf decayed to near transparency, and holds it up to his face to look through it, a mask of vegetable lace.

estamos tan enfermos como los secretos que guardamos.

I had to come here to realise the full stature of men: here outside a grass hut, on a rough wooden bench, with no noise, no crowds, no appointments, no axe to grind, no secret to conceal, all the space and time in the world, and my heart as translucent as the glass of tea in my hand. The sense of affinity with these men is so strong that I would tear down every building in the West if I thought it would bring us together like this.

Three things that cannot be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.

I've never done anything deliberately; I just speak my mind, and that is what I consistently do and will always do in any way shape or form that I can.

It's not my fault that people don't know me. I'm going to speak my mind, no matter what the consequences are.

Our government should speak a common language with the American people - plain English.

I just don't like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language better than me.

Speak the truth. People will forgive an honest mistake; they won't forgive you if you lie.

Speak your mind; you don't have to be PC.