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Quotes About Honesty

Every opinion must be suffered. One must listen to what may be rousing, annoying, even shocking, but it must be done honestly, fairly and with equanimity, respecting the rights of every Member of the Knesset and each faction, guarding the minority in the face of the predatory majority.
~ Reuven Rivlin
There will be occasions when someone has suffered a crime where it is either obvious that they are not looking for an investigation or that there are no investigative opportunities and you just have to be up front about that.
~ Cressida Dick
We must be honest in acknowledging that neither Germany nor the U.S. has the luxury of assuming that we can skate by on half-measures in Afghanistan and Pakistan and not risk suffering the consequences.
~ Susan Rice
We can take suffering to be an opportunity to learn and to grow. But if we are honest, we should remember that this is making the best of a bad job, and that minimising suffering takes priority over optimising its outcome.
~ Julian Baggini
The good news of suffering is that it brings us to the end of ourselves - a purpose it has certainly served in my life. It brings us to the place of honesty, which is the place of desperation, which is the place of faith, which is the place of freedom.
~ Tullian Tchividjian
I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what really happened here. A place doesn't have to be perfect to be beloved, and I love this city and I love it better for seeing its flaws.
~ Laura Lippman
My family knows everything about me. There are no secrets, which can be suffocating, but I also find comfort in it. You can always reach out an arm, and an aunty will be close by to tell you that your skirt is too short.
~ Nia Vardalos
You don't have to sugar coat things for kids. If you make something for them with intelligence they will show that intelligence in ways that will sometimes shock you.
~ Alex Hirsch
We don't come up with product names like 'Cookie Sugar a la Mode.' We made a commitment that our brand is straightforward.
~ Daniel Lubetzky
I don't see the reason for sugar coating anything.
~ Damon Dash
We have to ask ourselves, 'What kind of world is it where a baby-food executive substitutes artificial flavoring and sugar for apple juice? What kind of businesses have we created when we even lie to infants?'
~ Paul Hawken
I'm a realist, not a sugar coater. I believe in always letting people know what their obstacles are. And at the end of the day, I just want to be respected for my hard work.
~ Tichina Arnold
People don't like when people are straight forward. They like things to be sugar coated. They like to beat around the bush. I'm not that type of person.
~ DeMarcus Cousins
If you believe in a higher power or if you believe in God, then I would suggest that you go to God and see if you can find some solutions. If you don't believe in God, then try to be as honest with yourself as you possibly can... When I've chosen the light of God or self-honesty, my own misery has brought me to a solution.
~ Bill Ward
To suggest that we can't pay our debts - that's absolutely not true.
~ Phil Gingrey
If you really want to stay married to the person you're currently married to, I would not suggest trying an open marriage.
~ Sarah Dunn
You've got to make sure that you don't have an airbrushed picture making you look like a 15-year-old cherub when your lyrics suggest otherwise.
~ Paolo Nutini
If I were to tell you that my day was all pure wrestling, I wouldn't be honest with you. Because there were crooked promoters. There were a lot of guys that knew that they couldn't even compete with other guys. But to suggest that every match was like that wouldn't be true.
~ Bruno Sammartino
Expectations shouldn't be lowered, even if Donald Trump was just telling stories to impress the crowd around him and never grabbed as many women as he suggested. Lower the bar for what you can talk about, and you lower the bar for what is acceptable behavior.
~ John Dickerson
Anyone working at HootSuite will tell you that I don't sugarcoat my opinions. I heavily encourage feedback and suggestions - partly because I'm blunt about offering the same in return.
~ Ryan Holmes
What you see is what you get, and the majority of people in my life that loan me clothes know that they've never seen me in a suit.
~ Brantley Gilbert
But let me be honest, I would rather wear a hazmat suit on holiday than get caught by a camera in swimwear.
~ Susanna Reid
Modesty isn't one of my strong suits.
~ Paul Greengard
When you put on the suits, when you pretend you're honest and you're robbing at a far higher level, these guys deserve to... well, to be in my novels, and I have special fates reserved for them.
~ Carl Hiaasen