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Quotes About Sincerity

Write about the truth. If you write about the truth, somebody's living that. Not just somebody—there's a lot of people.
~ Unknown
I love you, Tatie. You're what's best about me.
~ Paula McLain
we'd given up trying to fool anyone, even ourselves.
~ Paula McLain
Boobs on the make always try to impress with their high level of seriousness (wise guys, with their contempt for all seriousness).
~ Pauline Kael
Alexander raised his shaking right hand to his temple, to his lips, to his heart.
~ Paullina Simons
Don't forget to eat well, my warm bun, my midnight sun, and kiss your hand for me, right in the palm and then press it against your heart.
~ Paullina Simons
Well, as I was saying, it costs a lot to be authentic, madam. And one can't be stingy with these things, because you are more authentic the more you resemble what you've dreamed you are. - Agrado from "Todo Sobre Mi Madre
~ Pedro Almodovar
It costs a lot to be authentic. And one can't be stingy with these things because you are more authentic the more you resemble what you've dreamed of being.
~ Pedro Almodovar
Fingimos lo que somos; seamos lo que fingimos.
~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Di a los ojos que su música concierten con la voz; porque es forzoso que desdiga y que disuene tan destemplado instrumento, que ajustar y medir quiere la falsedad de quien dice,
~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.
~ Peggy Noonan
I have tried to be honest with you, although I suppose that you would really have been more interested in my not being honest. Some of these things happened, and some were dreams. They were all true, as I understood truth. They are all real, as I understood reality.
~ Unknown
There should be an ease and clarity to anything that's real and from the heart. Things that are true shouldn't have tricks.
~ Penn Jillette
What you are, all that you are, shows in everything about you—your honesty, your compassion, your courage, your intelligence, and most of all your love.
~ Penny Jordan
None talked that common, false, cold, hollow talk which makes the heart deny the yes it breathes.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
His lips in truth-entangling lines which smiled he lie his tongue disdained to speak.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
His lips in truth-entangling lines which smiled the lie his tongue disdained to speak.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
let deeds, not words, express Thine exceeding loveliness.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
We must cut through the veils and enter worship in spirit and truth.
~ Unknown
I will live my life from now on, I will not perform it.
~ Pete Hamill
To get from people you had to give a piece of yourself, a real piece that mattered. Just being nice was not enough.
~ Peter Abrahams
Deep, short and sincere holy life is by far better than a supposedly long holy life punctuated by capitulations to temptations and distractions.
~ Peter Abrahams
What is your name?" she asked wearily. "Tom Gibbons." "And yours?" turning to The Wounded Bad Man. "Bill Kearny." She glanced inquiringly at The Youngest Bad Man. "Bob Sangster," he replied. "Will you save my baby?" Slowly, searchingly, the wonderful eyes confronted each Bad Man in turn.
~ Unknown
each technique carries a consistent message more important than any method: that each act that expresses trust in ourselves and belief in the validity of our own experience is always the right path to follow. Each act that is manipulative or filled with pretense is always self-destructive.
~ Peter Block