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Quotes About Sincerity

In the end, all disguises must drop.
~ Gregory Maguire
However, if you want to know how people would like to be treated, it's more helpful to look at how they themselves act than what they say.
~ Gretchen Rubin
Truth is like fire; to tell the truth means to glow and burn.
~ Gustav Klimt
We obtain merit only by our thirst for truth.
~ Gustave Flaubert
perdre, quand, au contraire, elle avouait pour lui plus d'amour que jamais
~ Gustave Flaubert
Los discursos exagerados solo sirven para encubrir afectos mediocres.
~ Gustave Flaubert
La parole éblouit et trompe, parce qu'elle est mimée par le visage, parce qu'on la voit sortir des lèvres, et que les lèvres plaisent et que les yeux séduisent. mais les mots noirs sur le papier blanc, c'est l'âme toute nue.
~ Guy de Maupassant
The words of love, which are always the same, take the taste of the lips they come from.
~ Guy de Maupassant
Wat zou ik anders moeten doen? Ik kan de mensen toch niet zeggen: 'Jullie begrijpen me verkeerd. In feite voel ik in mijn hart iets anders!' Dat is pas belachelijk.
~ Hannah Arendt
The soldier must say Yes when he thinks Yes. But when many say Yes and think No, when they feel forced to say Yes, though they think No, or when they say Yes for the sake of their careers, their own comfort or self-interest while their consciences tell them No, the point has been reached where true soldiering dies out altogether. And not only soldiering. This is death's great triumph. For when conscience dies, mankind dies with it.
~ Hans Hellmut Kirst
the cardinal rule: You never have to take back words you don't say.
~ Harlan Coben
Billy Joel was on the radio, singing, "I love you just the way you are." Big talk, Myron mused, when you've been married to Christie Brinkley.
~ Harlan Coben
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
~ Harlan Coben
A Ma Vie de Coer Entier
~ Harlan Coben
The ugly truth was better than the fanciful lie.
~ Harlan Coben
Truth is truth. By definition. Anything else is a lie.
~ Harlan Coben
I know, because I tried all sorts of ways of being in character, and the best way is to be totally straight.
~ Tommy Chong
You've got your Justins who have all the back flipping dancers and stuff, and then you've got Lemar, and he totally moves you without having to do all of that, and he's gorgeous.
~ Jamelia
What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music.
~ Roscoe Mitchell
As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me.
~ Henry Rollins
If you start to disrespect the character you're playing, or play it too much for laughs, that can work for a sketch, it will sell some gags, but it's all technique. It's like watching a juggler - you can be impressed by it, but it's not going to touch you in any way.
~ Steve Coogan
I can experiment, I can be honest, and honestly, musically, I can't be touched.
~ Tricky
I've never been a bad guy - never acted like a tough guy.
~ Gennady Golovkin
I don't know how to put on any tough guy pretensions.
~ Anson Mount