Quotes About Transparency

He has never known a woman so free from conceit, vanity, ambition, pretense. He has never known a woman so willing to show the world that she is a human being.

A woman ought to be honest with a man who shows interest in her.

For what reason would I lie to one I so love?

Now there's some honest writing!

every healthy marriage is composed of walls and windows. The windows are the aspects of your relationship that are open to the world—that is, the necessary gaps through which you interact with family and friends; the walls are the barriers of trust behind which you guard the most intimatesecrets of your marriage.

Parla come magni,' It means, 'Speak the way you eat,' or in my personal translation: 'Say it like you eat it.' It's a reminder - when you're making a big deal out of explaining something, when you're searching for the right words - to keep your language as simple and direct as Roman rood. Don't make a big production out of it. Just lay it on the table.

All I could say was, I don't know what to do. I remember her taking me by the shoulders and looking me in the eye with a calm smile and saying simply, Tell the truth, tell the truth, tell the truth.

My face is a transparent transmitter of my every thought.

When I don't know what I'm doing, I look like I don't know what I'm doing. When I'm excited or nervous, I look excited or nervous. And when I am lost, which is frequently, I look lost. My face is a transparent transmitter of my every thought.

Di la verdad, di la verdad, di la verdad».

Oh, Jesus. How do you get out of this one? You don't. You can't get out of this one. Unless you're able to be honest, which of course I could not do.

Tell people the hammered truth, and it will ring like steel against an anvil.

I want to clean myself like the window of a house, make myself clear for things to pass through. Flat and quiet.

I also learned an essential truth: When you have no real power, go public—really public. The public is where the real power is.

If all this seems too tough, then the solution is simple: don't run for office. The American people should never have to worry about whether the decisions made by public officials are driven by public interest or by their own personal finance interest.

Nobody has a right to speak more clearly than he thinks.

Winter. It made things visible.

Well, the naivety and the vitriol were always there all along, Iris says. The internet's just made them both more visible. That's maybe a good thing.

I'm tired of lying governments. I'm tired of people not caring whether they're being lied to any more. I'm tired of being made to feel this fearful. I

I cannot tell a lie. It was me who chopped down the cherry tree. Now that I've been so honest, make me a precedent. No, not president. I said precedent.

Everybody always knows where they stand with you, don't they?

Shes direct enough

What did the companies know about the link between PPH and their drugs, and when did they know it?

The more personal, revealing and sniveling, the more interesting...I wanna feel like I'm snooping, peeking thru the keyhole into somebody's, anybody's, private hell...no detail is too petty if it's honest...