Honest Quotes
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Maybe there are times when an honest hatred serves us better than love corrupted by sentimentality, meretriciousness, sententiousness, cuteness.
Walker Percy -
I just try to be as honest and open as possible with all my music, whether it's live shows or the studio.
Wade Bowen
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I am honest enough with myself to admit it. I rarely offer strong opinions, I have a backbone like a pair of bifold doors, and I am terrified of not being approved of.
Sarah Lacy -
Men must be honest with themselves before they can be honest with others. A man who is not honest with himself presents a hopeless case.
William J. H. Boetcker -
To read in the Bible, as the word of God himself, that "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, ["] and to preach there-from that, "In the sweat of other mans faces shalt thou eat bread," to my mind can scarcely be reconciled with honest sincerity.
Abraham Lincoln -
I'm sometimes asked about my productivity, which I find a bit embarrassing to be honest. I don't really have a particularly interesting answer to this question.
Oliver D. Crisp -
An actor has to evaluate his own abilities and be honest with himself.
Paul Newman -
My experience has proved that a man who is running for office, and is not willing to make his honest opinions known to the public, either has no honest opinions or is not honest about them.
William Randolph Hearst
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I try to be honest and I keep moving.
Erykah Badu -
If I could prescribe a single rule for looking at a work of art it would be to enjoy it. If we're honest with ourselves, we have to admit we enjoy our tears just as much as we enjoy our laughter. The only moments of life that are a bore are when we don't care one way or another.
Vincent Price -
To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.
Miguel Syjuco -
I may be a burglar...but I'm an honest one, I hope, more or less.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
Of course a picture can lie, but only if you are not honest with yourself.
Andre Kertesz -
I think that's the most important thing you can do to be a real person - is to be honest with yourself.
Michael Ryan Pritchard Green Day
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All of us must come to an honest, open self-examination, an awareness within as to who and what we want to be.
M. Russell Ballard -
We can speak our honest minds without compromise and without censorship and to each other and to our people. We can take our message directly to our people.
Glenn Miller -
It seems pointless to be quoted if one isn't going to be quotable ... it's better to be quotable than honest.
Tom Stoppard -
Emotions talked to you before you had words, so listen to them ... they are often more honest than the mind's remarkable ability to self deceive.
William P. Young -
You say how you feel, and songs don't lie. Songs are the most honest form of human expression there is--there's nothing that lies about a song.
Brian Wilson -
I drew the duck blue because I've never seen a blue duck before and, to be honest with you I wanted to see a blue duck.
Adam Sandler
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The only way to combat the murder that is war is to show the dirty combinations that make it and the criminals and swine that hope for it and the idiotic way they run it when they get it so that an honest man will distrust it as he would distrust a racket and refuse to be enslaved into it.
Ernest Hemingway -
I'm the kind of person who wants to present my most honest, authentic self to the world, so I hide backstage and rehearse honest and authentic lines until the curtain opens.
Donald Miller -
I might have been through some changes, but changing the way I look wasn't one of the major ones. To be honest. I'm sick of the whole subject of my hair. I mean, are you just sitting there looking at my hair, or are you looking at me?
Jon Bon Jovi -
Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.
Mark Twain