Quotes About Honesty

Yet why not say what happened?

Terrific!" I said, and meant it for a change.

George Stout saw through their acts. "I am sick of all schemers," he wrote, "of all the vain crawling toads who now edge into positions of advantage and look for selfish gain or selfish glory from all this suffering."13

You may think you know, but you don't know you know until you can write it down. Research is not daydreaming. Explore your past, relive it, then write it down. In your head it's only memory, but written down it becomes working knowledge. Now with the bile of fear in your belly, write an honest, one-of-a-kind scene.

An honest story is at home in one, and only one, place and time.

There is no such thing as a portable story. An honest story is at home in one, and only one, place and time.

In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.

If the story you're telling, is the story you're telling, you're in deep shit.

We realize we can't go around saying and doing what we're actually thinking and feeling. If we all did that, life would be a lunatic asylum. Indeed, that's how you know you're talking to a lunatic. Lunatics are those poor souls who have lost their inner communication and so they allow themselves to say and do exactly what they are thinking and feeling and that's why they're mad.

A culture cannot evolve without honest, powerful storytelling. When a society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates. We need true satires and tragedies, dramas and comedies that shine a clean light into the dingy corners of the human psyche and society.

trust that the principle of reciprocity is true

It doesn't take much to show love, but at some time or another in your, praise God, disastrous life you must have felt, honestly and simply, what love is and how love likes to behave.

To the devil with every miserable desire to seem more than one is.

If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.

She was a romantic, and as I had never met a female romantic before it was a delight to me to explore her emotions. She wanted to know all about me, and I told her as honestly as I could; but as I was barely twenty, and a romantic myself, I know now that I lied in every word I uttered—lied not in fact but in emphasis, in colour, and in intention.

If I tarted up in a nice suit and a clean collar, I could spend hours and hours every week jawing to Rotary Clubs about what fine music is and how I am just as good as they are. I'm not as good as they are, praise be God! I am a honest citizen, I am not fit to black their boots.

La honradez es un lujo de los ricos. El comerciante siempre trata de obtener el mejor precio por su mercadería, por sí mismo y por su familia. Los turistas que vienen aquí andan en busca de recuerdos. Si quieren comprar auténticas antigüedades, lo menos que pueden hacer es adquirir algún conocimiento sobre el tema. Es responsabilidad de ellos.

We must offer him Christian compassion and understanding. But we must also give him truth. Compassion doesn't mean lying to someone to save their feelings.

Why do you tell me... so much? Luthe considered her. I tell you... some you need to know, and some you have earned the right to know, and some it won't hurt you to know-- He stopped.... Some things I tell you only because I wish to tell them to you.

I said with perfect honesty, I have no intention of trying to take these suckers out by myself, no.

It was one of the good things about him. Whatever he might not be telling you, what he did tell you was the truth.

So I said I'd had a headache all day (which was true) and on second thought I would go home to bed, and I was sorry. I was out the door again not five minutes after I'd gone in. Mel

I was not frightened, but I was ashamed. "I'm sorry," I said. The claws retreated, and his arm dropped. "Don't be," he said. "I don't mind telling you." He looked at me. "But perhaps you mind being told.

Nuestra propia necesidad de amor, atención, cariño y seguridad quedó insatisfecha mientras fingíamos ser más poderosas y menos temerosas, más adultas y menos necesitadas, de lo que realmente nos sentíamos.