Quotes About Transparency

can't see anything inside, just vague shapes, which probably means the glass is heavily tinted and polarized, so it looks clear from inside but not from out here

By all those tells, he wrote his anxiety and his guilt as clearly as if he had composed his confession on a blackboard with a stick of chalk.

Truth is always the most important thing, even when it leads us into dark places.

In my writing, I want to be laid bare as a human being.

No more pretending for him! He was completely and openly a mess. Meanwhile the rest of us go on trying to fool each other.

He was done with every lie he'd ever allowed himself to believe, every lie he'd ever lived, every lie.

Everyone wants to tell you something -anything, everything - about themselves and they just go on and on and on. But when it comes time to show you who they are? Their shit is weak, Nadia. Their shit is lacking. And they just cover it up by talking more, by explaining away what can't be explained away. And then they go on talking more shit about someone else.

Speak now! A full account! Attempt to hide nothing, or I will send fire to consume your testicles.

That's the good thing 'bout God. Since He can see right through your heart anyway, you can go on and tell Him what you really think.

The way I look at it, you should feel glad that Han found out about the bad thing. It's the only way to know if someone can love you— if they still love you even after they know about the bad thing. Or the twenty-eight bad things. All of it.

Everyone can lie, young Roger, given cause enough. Even me. It's only that it's harder for those of us who live in glass faces; we have to think up our lies ahead of time.

But what I would ask of ye- when you do tell me something, let it be the truth. And I'll promise ye the same. WE have nothing now between us, save- respect, perhaps. And I think that respect has maybe room for secrets, but not for lies.

There aren't many people like that—who will tell you the truth about themselves and anything else right out. I've only met three people like that, I think—four now," she said, her smile widening to warm him. "There was

admitting a dubious

are like sherry in crystal, and

He'd told Jamie Fraser the truth—the whole bloody truth—and

what I would ask of ye—when you do tell me something, let it be the truth. And I'll promise ye the same. We have nothing now between us, save—respect, perhaps. And I think that respect has maybe room for secrets, but not for lies.

speak as ye find and let the devil listen.

the truth is the truth, and people should take responsibility for their own actions

I want people to believe me when I play a part and they are less apt to if they know a lot about me and have associations about me.

You've got to build a relationship. You can't just deal with people when it's business. If it is, then you always have to assume that they have an angle when they come at you.

The Internet is where you can find people who are authentic.

If you're anything less than who you are and you're not authentic, people pick up on it.

I'm all about authenticity.