Quotes About Sincerity

No one tells the truth to people they don't actually know, and if they do it is a horrible trait. Everyone wants something smaller, something neater than the truth.

I'm not a comedy writer, I'm a comedian, so I only write stuff that I would want to say.

The world is full of bands and bullshit, and if I'm doing a stupid art project like rock 'n' roll then I want to spare my audience as much as possible.

Come little cottage girl, you seem to want my cup of tea; and will you take a little cream? Now tell the truth to me!

I come from a place of sincerity. I write about what I see and feel. I write about what I want, I don't have a political agenda. Politics may enter into a song but it always comes from the heart.

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Getting older, you just don't want to sing fluffy.

No-one wants to hear anything spoken in earnest anymore, unless it happens to involve unrequited, teenage love.

I just wanted to make a record that wasn't escapism. Like, I didn't want to write another record that was devoid of meaningful content.

While many comics have a secret persona, I fundamentally want to be myself.

God doesn't want your crises-mode promises.

If you're bored, your readers will be bored. If you're faking it, you won't get the kind of readers you want.

I just wanted to make sure I had the music true to me and the life I'm living and to what I really want to say. That's super important to me.

In my writing, I want to be laid bare as a human being.

Ive found that if you just try to make the film you want, youll find the right audience. If you try to please everyone, youre going to make really boring films.

I've stuck by being modest, honest and humble, because I think you'll get more appreciated that way and we all want to be appreciated in this world.

To impress me, a guy has to be completely unaffected by my presence. If he wants to talk to me, talk to me; if he doesn't, don't.

Inspire people very selectively with sincerity and with respect. You want to increase your energy? Then want, inside your heart, to inspire others. It will lift you tremendously.

If they're not sincere, then naturally I'll turn them down. But if what they want is to gain power and use it for a higher good, I'll help them. Then they merit some special consideration.

Some people just chase the glittery stuff and they have no substance to their life whatsoever. Actually all they really want is power. But they pretend they're interested in enlightenment.

A true believer, indeed, need never draw a weapon, need never rise in argument, or howl in fury, or make fists, or roll in a mob to crush some helpless, innocent enemy. A true believer needs none of those things. How much of the world insists on living this lie?

Strings for when I'm lying, Fiddler for when I'm telling the truth.

You do not trust her?" "Of course I trust her. And my trust is made purer by her ignorance.

Adamantly, Paul said, "You know I did not come tickling your ears like other speakers do. I did not try to exploit you." The apostle obviously did not buy into the tired mantra that so many chant today—while the message stays the same, the method is free to change.