Quotes About Sincerity

Jem put the full force of himself into each smile, so that he seemed to be smiling with his eyes, his heart, his whole being.

Why do you tell me you love me only when you're drunk or dreaming? she asked. I have awful timing, said Simon

I love you," he said. "I don't say it often enough. I love you.

Say what you think; think what you mean.

Still, he never felt that the sermons he wrote at the cottage were good. By the time he got back to Washington to preach them, they no longer excited him. They seemed cold, lifeless. This was probably because Peter's best sermons rose out of the soil of emotion in his own heart. That emotion had to be a present, valid reality. He could not conjure it up.

All I know is that you can't force yourself to feel something you don't.

I have always felt," Nathan said, "that the truth is simply the truth. And perhaps does not exist for us to bend and revise. Or even filter to suit the feelings of those we love and want to protect.

There is one thing in this life you can never hide, and that's love. When you're in love, you can't disguise that. No one I've known can conceal it, so far as I could tell. It's like that old saying about trying to hide your light under a bushel basket, except in this case all that happens is you get this very shiny basket that glows with a light people can see from miles away.

feel that the truth is simply the truth. And that to shield someone from it is only a manner of treating that person with a lack of respect.

have always felt," Nathan said, "that the truth is simply the truth. And perhaps does not exist for us to bend and revise. Or even filter to

I couldn't bring myself to talk like one of those corny made-for-TV movies where people say exactly what they're feeling, as though there was nothing difficult about that at all.

No such thing as too truthful," I said.

I think it makes not one bit of difference if those words came from the soul of Annaliese Schmidt or from the inside of my own brain. I think it only matters if the words are right.

Sorry doesn't mean shit. Not if you don't plan to stop doing the thing you're so sorry about. There has to be more to amends than just a word. Anybody can say a damn word.

Honesty is such a nasty habit, dear. Like biting your nails.

Falling in love is embarrassing. It is not hardcore. It is not part of the scene.

In the mid-aughts, there was even a short-lived movement called New Sincerity, where artists and writers thought that it would be a radical idea to feel. "To feel" entailed regressing to one's own childhood, when there was no Internet and life was much purer and realer. Though they prized authenticity above all else, they stylized their work in a vaguely repellent faux-naïf aesthetic that dismissed politics for shoe-gazing self-interest.

She wasn't any kind of show pony.

He leaned into Darley's flank and felt the horse respond with gentle acceptance. Only horses were honest, in the end.

U bent toch Gerard Reve, die het altijd over één ding tegelijk heeft, en pas als hij dat afgehandeld heeft verder gaat met iets anders? U bent toch een gewone katholieke volksjongen en geen volksverlakker? Nu, het doet mij echt goed dat van U te horen, waaruit blijkt dat U mijn werk begrijpt en waardeert.

What flatterers say, try to make true.

A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.

lies, truth, loveI have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of it's charms.

In fact, I do not believe there is an honest man alive without some pretension,