Quotes About Honesty

It hurts when you have to press that dull little thing That you're only supposed to use once and then discard Where do you put it? In the garbage can, my honest friend My shyness, pet her flow She's only been five months late Even though we haven't had sex for a week A meal a day, a meal, I say And my heart's made, my—

I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.

Kaminski plunged ahead. "I am not going to sign off on anything related to the Raptors," he said. "And I don't care if I'm fired for it." Buy raised a hand. "Whoa, wait a minute, I don't think you'll be fired," he replied quickly. "Now that Skilling's gone, we have a different mantra in Enron." He looked Kaminski in the eye. "We're expected to be honest", he said. p.525

Giving somebody false hope is worse than not giving them any hope at all, I think. You want to be honest with people even in small things because if you're not, then how will they believe you in anything that you say? The whole idea is the trust that you develop with your patient is something that's the responsibility of the doctor. It's as important as the medicine that you give somebody, if that's necessary.

Never lie, assess character, appeal to principles, answer every question, and determine what impediments might keep them from speaking. Reporters need persistence, not the name of some major publication behind them, to crack a story.

We are all what we pretend to be, but, we had better be very careful what we pretend.

We are what we pretend to be, but we better be very careful what we pretend.

The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

Prayer is not a place to be good, it is a place to be honest. Prayer is not a place to perform, it is a place to be present. Prayer is not a place to be right, it is a place to be known. Prayer is not a place to prove your worth, it is a place to receive worth and offer yourself in truth.

I nodded, not trusting myself to speak. It's always like that. You think you've blown something off and then you say it out loud and suddenly you're all choked up and pathetic.

I only lie to people I care about. So try to feel honored.

I have too much respect for the characters I play to make them anything but as real as they can possibly be. I have a great deal of respect for all of them, otherwise I wouldn't do them. And I don't want to screw them by not portraying them honestly.

You have every cause for anxiety. We are on the threshold of a more searching, more honest, more open society.

A relationship ain't paradise and nobody should be getting played. It's not a game. It's life

It is always of paramount importance to know that the information we have is not planted, false or a product of deception.

Gabriel was trying to smile, but the expression kept breaking apart. He was looking at her as if he hadn't seen her for years and years of searching, and had just now walked into a room and come upon her unexpectedly. As if he wanted to look at every part of her, now that he could do it honestly.

Honesty is occasionally the best policy," she said yawning. And then she added, "By the Black Staff of Beldar, I am tired. If I can find a usable bed in what's left of my house I intend to collapse on it. And Elwyn, if you disturb me before dawn, I promise, I will turn you into a train of thought, and lose you.

And I swear she will never know my secret. She will never have to give up the sunlight because of me.

Halk, her zaman yalanlar? kendisi yaratm??; sonra da bunlara inanm??t?r.

All confidence is dangerous unless it is complete; there are few circumstances in which it is not better either to hide all or to tell all.

A faithless woman, if known to be such by the person concerned, is but faithless ; if she is believed faithful, she is treacherous.

It is more or less rude to scorn indiscriminately all kinds of praise; we ought to be proud of that which comes from honest men, who praise sincerely those things in us which are really commendable.

In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from a knave.