Quotes About Sincerity

My searing desire to atone for having survived helps me resist the temptations to join the world of lies.

You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.

I'd play the same character for ten years if the words and the moments that I'm playing are authentic.

By sincerity, a man gains physical, mental and linguistic straightforwardness, and harmonious tendency; that is, congruence of speech and action.

I cannot stand dishonesty among people, the tendency to prevaricate.

Women being women, they are very sincere, committed, and honest in what they do. If they feel they are shortchanging some segment of their responsibility, they have a tendency of holding themselves back. What I would like to tell them is that it is not necessarily true that you will short-change one or the other.

I can't tell you how many times I've had a friend tell me, in this tender and discreet voice, 'It's just you and me bro, and I want to tell you the truth: make a record of you and an acoustic guitar. Please. That's what everybody actually likes.' That's so funny to me.

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

I find talking about acting very boring, having to come out with platitudes about how terribly nice everyone is. I would much rather just do it.

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

The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'

Nothing is held back on 'Testimony.'

We should remember that bearing a heartfelt testimony is only a beginning. We need to bear testimony, we need to mean it, and most importantly we need consistently to live it. We need to both declare and live our testimonies.

What trouble we go to, trying to fool people who see right through us anyhow.

When you try to act from what you don't really feel inside, it becomes harder to become effective at it.

He's a trump!" said Clifford, "and if he swears the world is as good and pure as his own heart, I'll swear he's right.

I tell lies somewhere else, but not here, not in front of myself.

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. ST. JEROME

You can woo a girl with a poem, but you can't hold onto her with a poem. Not even with a poetry movement.

La mala educación era para él sinónimo de franqueza y hasta honestidad.

Muy distinto es no decir lo que se piensa que no pensar lo que se dice.

The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of realization spread over the years. And each droplet of comprehension brought its own small measure of hurt...He had wished me well in finding my own fate to follow, and I never doubted his sincerity. But it had taken me years to accept that his absence in my life was a deliberate finality, an act he had chosen, a thing completed even as some part of my soul still dangled, waiting for his return.

You know what I feel for you. You have known it for years. Let us not, you and I, alone here, pretend that you don't. You know I love you. I always have. I always will

Truth can well out of a man like blood from a wound, and it can be just as disconcerting to look at.