Quotes About Honesty

Typically, people in the intelligence community are just going to kind of hunker down and do their job, do their mission. And I believe - I have great faith in them. I think they will continue to serve up truth to power even if the power chooses not to listen to the truth.

The funny response to 'One Mississippi' continues to be that people don't know what is true and what's fiction.

You can criticize me. You can crucify me. You can love me. You can hate me. Just don't make the mistake of calling me inauthentic, because you'd be a damn liar.

It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.

Not admitting a mistake is a bigger mistake.

I don't like to hide the errors I make. Any time I'm doing a mistake, I'm just saying it.

We had to support our player and genuinely felt, like Rio has said, that it was an honest mistake. It is important to know that Manchester United never said, and Rio Ferdinand never said, that a mistake hadn't been made.

The 'Libertarian' thing was a mistake on my part for saying it, but I am.

I think it has been a weird mistake to have people with their own music careers going on and judging people because when they're too critical, it affects them. They don't want to be that honest, because they need to keep their appearance up.

I grew up learning from a father who said, 'When you make a mistake or you make a bad decision, you man up and take responsibility.'

I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I have never made one.

I also feel that I have been very honest with my friends, my family and also with the public about the mistakes that I've made and the challenges that I've gone through.

If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes.

I could never be with a married man. I just can't. I could never imagine myself being the mistress of somebody.

Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.

The truth is what facts are. I like facts. I like things to line up and be clear, and when we are honest and true about things, it helps things to make sense, and it cuts out a lot of the fat that gets in the way and causes for the misunderstandings that I believe lead to violence and... dysfunction, etc.

I'm the most misunderstood, misquoted person I know, honestly.

I have always been communicative. I can't help it if I have been misunderstood. Sometimes, people don't like straight answers.

Charity is important; so is being fair and honest and honorable in your business - but you cannot mix the two.

Honestly, I didn't know I was a role model.

I'm not saying I'm the perfect role model. But I'm honest. Period.

In terms of role modelling for younger kids, I never really censor myself.

My attempt has been really to, beyond making a record of contemporary life, which is what you inevitably do, is trying to make beautiful books - books that are in some way beautiful, that are models of how to use the language, models of honest feeling, models of care.

My friends kidded me about going so far on such modest talent. I always agreed with them. I had no illusions about my films, nor did I consider myself anything special as an actor or a singer.