Quotes About Honesty

I don't really like the sport of tennis that much.

If there has been any match-fixing then we need to make sure that it's erased from our sport because it's a crime in sports. We have no place for it in any sport let alone tennis.

I wasn't any good at playing tennis.

I stand with all the athletes who believe in doing things right. The ones who win and the ones who lose while knowing they have been cheated out of their positions. There are thousands if not tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of those kinds of athletes out there. We have to remember them.

People like her because she's like a breath of fresh air. Because in the fifth book it gets so dark and Harry's always cross and then every time Luna comes in all the tension goes and she makes you laugh because she's so funny and really honest. I don't know how much I'm like her, there are some similarities but I'm more determined than her.

In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays off to be ethical.

When a stranger comes into our presence, then, first appearances are likely to enable us to anticipate his category and attributes, his 'social identity' - to use a term that is better than 'social status' because personal attributes such as 'honesty' are involved, as well as structural ones, like 'occupation.'

The most meaningless term in the English language is 'I take full responsibility.' When a politician utters those words it means absolutely nothing.

I've had a fair amount of experience with snakes, and I find them to be pretty honest in terms of how you read their body language and emotions. They'll tell you when they're grumpy. They'll tell you when they're okay.

I'm an honest person and don't lead my life on other people's terms.

We have been successful in buying and selling companies because we have a reputation of fulfilling deal terms in letter and spirit.

I'm a terrible husband.

I'm a terrible dancer. The worst.

I'd be a terrible secret agent. I can't keep a secret and I'm not sneaky.

I'm terrible at keeping secrets.

In journalism, I have done many a bad report. Some have been exceptionally terrible.

I'm a terrible interviewer. I'm not a journalist - although I have a Peabody Award - and I'm not really a late-night host. What I am is honest.

It's a terrible thing for a book, when you feel like you're supposed to like it.

My mother was terribly invasive, all in the name of psychiatric honesty. It was a bad thing in some ways, but I do think it had the effect of making me interested in 'the truth' as a writer - more than beauty, more than having a shapely story.

I think Shep Smith is probably the premier anchor/journalist of my generation. He's terrific, and he does the news straight and let the chips fall where they may.

With Don Rickles and me, we're just telling the truth. We're not terrific people, and we're not gonna win the beauty contest. We're just average Joes. We're just being who we are, and I think people like that.

I'm really honestly terrified about how much I should tell and how much I should still keep secret.

I don't think I'm an intentional liar, but I'm a little bit of an exaggerator sometimes. If I'm exaggerating, and the journalist exaggerates on top of that, then we end up in funny territory.

Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.