Honest Quotes
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It's very important for Christians to be honest with God, which often, you know, God is much more interested in who you are than who you want to be.
Bono
U2
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Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men.
Abraham Lincoln
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I am honest; I try to be truthful. I like people and wish us well. We are not always deserving of our own best wishes.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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Teenagers are the greatest readers in the world - honest, unsnobby and loyal.
Patrick Ness
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All that remains to poets is honest poetry.
Umberto Saba
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My friends were poor, but honest, so's my love.
William Shakespeare
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I don't believe that knifing and that sort of terminology is applicable to myself, but I try to the very best of my ability to be as honest as I can with my colleagues and with the electorate at large.
Eric Abetz
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If I'm writing with or for someone else, it just has to feel true and real for them. It has to feel like they're being honest. If it's for myself, it's the same thing. It has to be something I can mean when I say it.
Finneas
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In the first place you can be so absolutely honest and so absolutely wrong at the same time that I think it is better to be a combination of cautious and polite.
Flannery O'Connor
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If your not honest with yourself, how the hell are you gonna be honest with me.
Malik Izaak Taylor
A Tribe Called Quest
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It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair. The event is in the hand of God.
George Washington
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I've been through hell and back. I have, to be honest, and still I'm able to do what I do and nothing can stop me. No one can stop me, no matter what. I stop when I'm ready to stop. You know, and I'm just saying, you know, I will continue to move forward no matter what.
Michael Jackson
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The walls are raised against honest men in civic life.
William H. O'Connell
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I'm trying, now that I am in my dotage, to use a lot less sugar and my husband and I really try to keep close to a minimum of fat; chicken, fish, loads of salads and legumes. We both love all of those. To be honest, nothing that is in our diet is that original. We eat seafood but we do not eat shellfish. On the other hand, if my body says to me, "eat meat" I do. I listen to my body, I think that's important.
Rita Moreno
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If a director takes the time to document - to step back to observe - I think it I more honest. Because it has to be the public that makes the conclusions and who, possibly, resolves the situation.
Sergio Leone
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You can't truly love someone if you also love yourself, just as you can't love someone if you are not honest with them and they with you – otherwise it's just infatuation and desire.
Benjamin Stone
