Quotes About Honesty

That must be a wretched existence, forced to lie when you don't want to.

There is no pain in truth, no comfort in lies.

Deception may give us what we want for the present, but it will always take it away in the end.

The issue was: I wanted a boyfriend this summer, and to have a boyfriend, I needed to meet boys, and the Lonestar League was guys, guys, guys. Honesty time. I released a big sigh. "All right, so maybe I'd like to have a brother for the summer." Okay, not so honest. "A boyfriend is more like it," Tiffany said. I glared at her. "Any chance you could move off to college next week? Don't they have summer classes or something?

You knew he was going to break up with her," I said without preamble. She groaned. "Yeah, sorta. The guy-code stuff? He'd asked Shaun for tips on how to break up with a girl so that they stayed friends." "Well, he sure blew that.

I looked behind me to make sure my jeans hadn't caught on fire yet from all the lying.

Because promises are potato chips. They're cheap. Easy to break. Too many hurt your heart.

Never blink while telling a tale. People will always believe you if you don't blink.

Everyone lies, everyone leaves something out of the narrative.

Love must be, then, an act of truth-telling, a baring of mind and spirit just as ardent as the baring of the body. Truth and passion were one, and each impossible without the other.

You're American," she said simply. "You think straightforwardness is a virtue.

The greatest act of love—indeed, the only religion she could comprehend—was to speak the truth about the world. Love must be, then, an act of truth-telling, a baring of mind and spirit just as ardent as the baring of the body. Truth and passion were one, and each impossible without the other.

We should torture language to tell the truth.

But since you bring it up, Didier, you know what I think of language? That it's a fake horizon and there's something else, a real truthful thing, but language is keeping us from it. And I think we should torture language to stop fucking around and tell it to us. We should torture language to tell the truth.

To show you the uselessness of the truth," he said.

Don't try to be someone you're not at the beginning of a relationship. Know who you are, accept and love yourself unconditionally -

The rifts in this ancient wall continue to be patched with exhortations to women to avoid challenging the norm even if it means faking orgasm and sacrificing honesty in their intimate relationships with men. In the past we have been willing to pay this price; whether we should continue to do so is question for individuals; not historians, to decide.

What did I do, Win? You just left. You were supposed to come to my house. If it was too much, too soon, you should have told me. I'd never pressure you to do anything you didn't want to do. That's it, right? That has to be it.

I'm no good. I'm telling you I'm crazy. Nothing in my life will ever be what you deserve. I internalize everything, and don't tell anyone how I feel. I'm reckless where others are careful. I'm also completely at a loss. I have no idea how to keep what I want most," he says. He didn't use the word "fuck" once. He's honestly telling me how he feels. "You.

When kindness comes at the expense of truth, it is not a kindness worth having.

When kindness comes at the expense of truth, it is not a kindness worth having. And when generosity leads to silence or abuse, it is not a generosity worth giving.

The new pop song is about getting real: "You had a bad day." The camera don't lie. But they're lying to you about the camera.

Above the sink in the scratched mirror he looked grubby and bloated, his beard a grizzled mess. He knew what these men could never know: A man is who he is. That doesn't change. A thief is a thief. A bad man stays a bad man underneath. He'd been set at seventeen. "You want to end

Here was one perfect example of why he preferred to work with computers and code. They did what was required of them. They didn't cheat, didn't betray, didn't wake up one morning with a damned tumor that knocked them to their knees.