Quotes About Sincerity

were there when I got home, I could blurt out the truth

She steps inside my proffered hand and draws me to her in a one-armed hug that lasts long enough for me to learn that she's been drinking gin without much tonic and that her breasts are not original architecture.

The heart doesn't know how to quit, because it doesn't know how to lie.

Gimme an honest frown over a false smile, any day.

The man grinned back at me with that perfect sincerity we fear and call simple-minded.

But sometimes, being silent is the only way to tell the truth.

Non diventi uomo finché non doni il tuo amore sincero e disinteressato ad un bambino. Ma non sei un vero uomo finché non ricevi in cambio l'amore sincero e disinteressato di un bambino.

Prabaker has a disappointing habit of telling everybody the truth.

Prabaker had just then decided to like me, and for him that meant he was bound to a scrupulous and literal honesty in everything he said or did. It was at once his most endearing and most irritating quality, that he always told me the whole of the truth.

What we tell, is rarely what we do.

Compassion's a very strange thing. It comes from deep inside. People know it when they see it, because you can't fake it. I know. I've tried. I was terrible at it. I got sick, when I tried. I had to go back to being a genuine, uncaring cunt, just to get well again. It's genuine, see, even being an uncaring cunt, and I'm drawn to genuine things, even if I don't like them.

When I smiled my relief and surprise, the man grinned back at me with that perfect sincerity we fear and call simple-minded.

I wanted what I was doing to be really true to me and my tastes. That's what 'Worlds' was, me taking a break from what I was doing and doing something that was honest, authentic and real.

I've never feared anyone or worried what they said as long as what I'm telling is the truth, and I'm not telling lies about people.

People who are lying are, understandably, more worried about being believed, so they work harder - too hard, as it were - at being believable.

If I worried about appearances, I wouldn't be at Cubs games.

People sense when you're pretending, when you're worried about your own ego.

Anybody that worries about somebody suing them, that means that they're so crooked that they sue people, and they think people are gonna sue them.

I try to keep it real. I don't have time to worry about what I'm projecting to the world. I'm just busy being myself.

Don't worry about what's cool and what's not cool. Authenticity is what's cool.

The person that's always talkin', you don't have to worry about that person. The person that while you're in his face, he's just lookin' at you with a smile on his face, that's the guy you worry about.

When you really need help, people will respond. Sincerity means dropping the image facade and showing a willingness to be vulnerable. Tell it the way it is, lumps and all. Don't worry if your presentation isn't perfect; ask from your heart. Keep it simple, and people will open up to you.

Nowadays, performers worry too much about how they look. They're not concerned about what they're really saying to their audience.

Nothing is worse than a beautiful girl fishing for compliments by saying how gross she is. On the flip side, I find genuine humility and modesty attractive.