Quotes About Sincerity

I never lie for the sake of kindness," he murmured, smiling. "One of my many flaws.

West paused. "My God, I can feel sincerity rising in my chest like a digestive disorder. I have to stop.

How could anyone resist you?" Phoebe asked, half-mocking, half-sincere. He gave her a dark glance. "Apparently she has no problem. The title, the fortune, the estate, the social position ... to her, they're all detractions. Somehow I have to convince her to marry me despite all those things." With raw honesty, he added, "And I'm damned if I even know who I am outside of them.

One of the more ignominious features of love was that you could only express it with cliches...it made you sound like a fraud at a time when you were blazing with sincerity.

And one of the most important values of Barack Obama is that he will always level with the American people.

We have many identities, and we can't be authentic to them all. The best we can do is be sincere in our efforts to earn the values we claim.

Be true to yourself and your values.

I do not have to agree with everything a candidate believes, but I do have to believe that they represent core American values, and they will lead with decency and sincerity.

I have a lot of critics, and that's fine. I think it's better to be polarizing than to be vanilla. I also think people can't question the passion and sincerity that I bring because I truly am the luckiest guy in the world.

I think acting is about forgetting yourself in order to give the best of yourself. It's passing through you more than you're creating it. You're not the flower, but the vase which holds the flower.

I really like raw connections, and so I've always had a harder time in politics because I feel there's a lot of veneer around everything.

I always like to vent and tell the truth in my music.

As for our great King, when we venture into His presence, let us have a purpose there. Let us beware of playing at praying; it is insolence toward God.

As performers grow older, I reckon there are two ways they can go. They can either be up there, playing more deeply from their guts than ever, or they can be phoning it in so crassly that it leaves a lump in your throat as you leave the venue at the end of the show.

It's so easy in these cabaret venues to get earnest.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

I don't want to stand in front of a whole lot of fakeys. If I'm going to meet someone and say hello, I want to feel like I'm really meeting that person, not a masked version. I want to give that to people when they meet me. You don't have to like it. I'm not looking for you to like it; I'm looking to be myself.

Ces émotions inoffensives je ne les ai jamais refusées; au contraire. Pour les ressentir il suffit d'être un tout petit peu seul, juste assez pour se débarrasser au bon moment de la vraisemblance.

Não existe amor senão aquele que se constrói; não há possibilidade de amor senão a que se manifesta num amor; Um homem compromete-se com sua vida, desenha seu rosto e para além desse rosto, não existe nada.

This is what I have to avoid, I must not put in strangeness where there is none.

This whole business of telling the truth just never seems to work without some kind of awkward unpleasantness.

I'm the person who says every single thing she thinks, sometimes to others' amusement, and almost always to my detriment.

I'm the person who says every single thing she thinks, sometimes to others' amusement, and almost always to my detriment.

I was raised to be charming, not sincere.