Quotes About Honesty

And it's true. It's so true. All those years of loving Zik because he never asked about Eve... I never realized, I never understood. It was his job as my best friend not to ask. But it was my job as his best friend to tell him without being asked.

Even the lies were true.

He had to do it in secret. He didn't want people to think he was buying forgiveness or understanding. Those two things should not be for sale, at any price.

I could have lied to you. It would have been a lot easier. I could have told you I was gay. Or blamed my dad, or my religion. I could have said that I had a boyfriend back in Baltimore. Because guys will listen when you tell them you belong to someone else. Like, you'll respect some made-up guy, but not me. I thought you were different. I trusted you. I told you the truth.

bullshit might help you get to the top, but it won't keep you there.

Our institutions and values are in jeopardy as the mores of the market pervade all social life in this country. Loyalty, honesty, courage, discipline, patriotism, and commitment to family are being crowded out by the goals and rules of economic rationality -- do whatever makes the most money.

For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought.

It's so hard to be sincere without sounding pretentious.... I mean, what are you supposed to do if you really happen to feel like you've swallowed the universe? Not say so?

To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.

I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is.

All'intervallo Donna Clara ha borbottato a lungo sui costumi di quelle ragazze che tutti vogliono prendersele per amanti perché son belle, ma poi la bellezza le dura niente, un attimo ed è fuggita e Bianca se è onesta, se pensasse a se stessa, in qualche modo, e se non sia ingiusto supporre che le ballerine debbano essere per forza leggere nella loro esistenza quotidiana come lo sono sul palcoscenico.

Lying – remembering beauty in truth.

I'm not big into images. I'm into reality.

Why do a reality show if you're going to be fake?

I do like reality shows, and I watch some of them because they're high drama. It's also just fun to watch people have honest reactions.

Nothing I say is harsh. What I do say is the truth. If people have a problem with that, they need to realize that's on them. That's not on me.

I realize I love crazy ladies. Of course I don't like to think of myself as one, but maybe I am, too. I dunno. I'm always drawn to them; I think it's because I'm attracted to people who aren't in the business of people-pleasing: saying what they really think, not passive-aggressive at all.

I wouldn't be honest if I told you that in some moment of my life I had a lot of rage - probably hate - I'm not sure of hate, but rage. But you know what happens is that then you realize you cannot do to others what you think nobody has to do to anybody. Life is important for me and not any kind of life, quality too of life.

That was a real learning element for me, because I realized that the more true you are to yourself, the more you will lose people.

There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who don't like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. It's not the coin of the realm in politics.

Listen to realness in my music before you judge me.

That's one thing I can't lose: I can't lose the realness in my music.

2020 for me is a really big year of realness and authenticity and just being who I am.

What I liked about grunge was the realness. It wasn't pretty, it wasn't glamorous.