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Quotes About Sincerity

And they're smiling at her, not half-smiles either, but full-on total-face smiles that are only partly fake.
~ Margaret Atwood
I expect he did it awkwardly, but awkwardness in men was a sign of sincerity then.
~ Margaret Atwood
The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself.
~ Margaret Atwood
Back to the man's face. Not a handsome face as such, but a face you could trust. Sort of like a math teacher, or a minister. You can tell he's sincere, and sincere is better than handsome. Really handsome men were a bad idea, said Grandma Win, because they had too much to choose from. Too much what? Charmaine had asked her, and Grandma Win said, Never mind.
~ Margaret Atwood
A man always has two reasons for the things he does—a good one and the real one.
~ Margaret Cheney
A child's questions ought always to be answered honestly and sincerely or else it gets a compress.' 'Complex. I am answering you honestly.' 'Am I a bastard?' Sir Henry was startled, but after a moment's thought said, 'Yes. But that's not a word you should use. Where did you learn it?' 'Shakespeare.
~ Margaret Kennedy
Hush, he said. I am asking you to marry me. Would you be convinced if I knelt down?
~ Margaret Mitchell
But if true love carries any weight with you, you can be certain Miss Suellen will be rich in that if nothing else.
~ Margaret Mitchell
Do you really mean they like it? You wouldn't fox an old friend, would you?' – in response to Lois Cole's telegram announcing that Macmillan liked the book that would become known as Gone With the Wind.
~ Margaret Mitchell
There is no pretending, " Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.
~ Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
I'll tell you what you want to hear. I mean, what I need to hear. I'll tell the truth.
~ S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
I'm not that good of an actor to fake something like that.
~ Dana Burkey, Just Pretending
It is better to love truly at seventeen than pretend at thirty.
~ Rom Amor
Gratitude should be felt and experienced sincerely, expressed generously and received graciously.
~ Michael Josephson
It's the way you say thank you like you're genuinely thankful. I have never met anyone else who does that on a regular basis.
~ David Levithan
When thanksgiving is filled with true meaning and is not just the formality of a polite 'thank you,' it is the recognition of dependence.
~ Billy Graham
He who thanks but with the lips. Thanks but in part; the full, the true Thanksgiving. Comes from the heart.
~ John G. Shedd
God takes away the world, that the heart may cleave more to Him in sincerity.
~ Thomas Watson
If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.
~ Paul Simon
I'm not 100% nice all the time, so I find it quite hard to be really pleasant.
~ Alexa Chung
At the time of death your tongue will speak only what is in the heart.To say la illaha illa Allah, you must live it.
~ Yasmin Mogahed
If you make the movie from your heart and it stands over time, that's what matters to me.
~ Oliver Stone
Rapping is the only time I'm serious.
~ Earl Sweatshirt
Never try to look into both eyes at the same time. Switch your gaze from one eye to the other. That signals warmth and sincerity.
~ Dorothy Sarnoff