Quotes About Sincerity

That's what I love about the short story. You are naked on the page. There is nowhere to hide.

When clients think they are helpless, that some strange mysterious force is at work overpowering them, and they say that I Corinthians 10:13 does not apply to their case, the truth may be that they are not serious about wanting to do the Lord's will. They may be talking out of both sides of their mouths. They may deceive others or even themselves, in part, about the sincerity of their desire to obey God.

How do you get a human to think you're caring? The obvious way is actually to care.

ANTIGONE: Tell me the truth! I beg you to tell me the truth! When you think about me, when it strikes you suddenly that I am going to belong to you?do you have the feeling that?that a great empty space is being hollowed out inside you, that there is something inside you that is just?dying? HAEMON: Yes, I do, I do.

Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is telling the truth, you look in the eyes. I have a tendency to believe people.

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

rien n'est beau en ce monde comme le visage d'une femme qui ne cherche pas à plaire.

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the faade of his appearance.

Is a faith without action a sincere faith?

How little do the lips and heart agree! How joyfully do people break their word! We both are strangers in a foreign land.

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

The word love has been so abused by publicity and advertisements that we no longer know really what it means.

Don't let politeness interfere with truth

There's never any use bothering to tell people the truth when you don't like them. The reason Conny and Pris and I get on so well together, is because we always tell each other the exact truth about our faults. Then we have a chance to correct them—that's what makes us so nice," she added modestly.

L'amour véritable vient de nous seuls et ne requiert aucun retour.

Love is terribly sincere and great. I suppose that is why so many people are afraid of it, and so few can live up to it. — Bliss Carman to Gladys Baldwin, 1915 (age 52)

Because everything else is just chingaderas.

An honest man nearly always thinks justly.

There are many greedy and clever human animals in this world, but few human beings. Authentic human beings are so rare that I would even go so far as to say that we do not live in a truly human world.

The word "fronting" was important to Rob. A coward who acted tough was fronting. A nerd who acted dumb was fronting. A rich kid who acted poor was fronting. Rob found the instinct very offensive, and in college he saw it all around.