Quotes About Genuineness

There was an awkwardness to him, a stoicism that most people, with their need for appearances and fake smiles, found off-putting. Shane couldn't handle small talk or the excess bullshittery of modern society. When

The ugly truth was better than the fanciful lie.

I know, because I tried all sorts of ways of being in character, and the best way is to be totally straight.

I'm a real person. I have real feelings. I have real thoughts. It's a quality people like about me. They can reach out and touch me. I wouldn't give it up for anything.

I keep in touch with what's real.

I couldn't deal with playing a character who rides motorcycles and has a leather jacket and is a tough kid, y'know?

I'm tough when I have to be, tender when I should be. When you find a really tough guy, he's not a predator. He doesn't have to prove himself. Guys who have to pretend to be tough, they ain't. I'm tough.

I don't know how to put on any tough guy pretensions.

Go to Mozambique! As long as you don't expect to find flawless infrastructure, just go. Because this is a country where people have not quite grown accustomed to tourists. You still feel a genuineness that no longer exists in countries where tourism has been industrially developed.

I'm a fan of real singers. I just gravitate towards that.

I don't see myself in an ivory tower.

You're not going to hear me sing about being on a tractor or being married... because I don't know anything about that.

A Christian should resemble a fruit tree with real fruit, not a Christmas tree with decorations tied on

It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.

A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as "a tree as it ought to be.

When I see someone with an immaculate sketchbook, I don't trust that person.

The easiest way to gain someone's trust is to deserve it. This should be pretty easy, assuming you're just being you and being real. Minimal effort too.

Trust him with none of thy individualities who is, or pretends to be, two things at once.

Your words must match what you do. In so many words, you need to show sincerity with your words.

If he's not real, you'll know. Men have never washed a rented car.

You have to be what you are. Whatever you are, you gotta be it.

Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.

I prefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.