Honest famous quotes
04-27-2025
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I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.
-- A. N. Wilson -
I mean, I've never really had much security, to be honest.
-- Aaron Paul -
He was so good and honest. Why couldn't I love him instead?
-- Abbi Glines -
Any honest conversation about engaging young people must address discrimination against young people.
-- Adam Fletcher -
Well, Brief Encounter is certainly one of my top five favorites of all time. I looked at Brief Encounter very closely, to be honest.
-- Adrian Lyne -
The more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being..
-- Adyashanti -
Do you know that the tendrils of graft and corruption have become mighty interlacing roots so that even men who would like to be honest are tripped and trapped by them?
-- Agnes Sligh Turnbull -
An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
-- Akira Kurosawa -
Jerry Rice made the decision and we honestly tried to accommodate him the best way we can.
-- Al Davis -
Losing gets old. It's just been a heck of a month, to be honest with you.
-- Alan Trammell -
I've always wanted to act and I can't think of anything else I'd want to do, honestly.
-- Alanna Ubach -
If Nietzsche is correct, that to shame a man is to kill him, then any honest attempt at autobiography will be an act of self-destruction.
-- Albert Camus -
Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
There can be no acceptable future without an honest analysis of the past.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
Our great error is that we suppose mankind to be more honest than they are.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown; Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!
-- Alexander Pope -
Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.
-- Alexander Pope -
But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.
-- Alexander Pope -
When I want a peerage, I shall buy one like an honest man.
-- Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe -
For he who is honest is noble, Whatever his fortunes or birth.
-- Alice Cary -
No," Preston snapped. But he didn't protest long because, if I'm going to be honest-which is kind of the point of these reports-I was already unzipping his pants.
-- Ally Carter -
I don't really want to control anyone, to be honest.
-- Amber Valletta -
I was born to poor because of honest parents.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
I'm not afraid to be bluntly honest in my songs, even if it means I'm discovering things about myself that I'd rather not.
-- Amos Lee -
If I cannot in honest happiness take the second place (or the twentieth); if I cannot take the first without making a fuss about my unworthiness, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
-- Amy Carmichael -
To be honest, I know that a lot of Asian parents are secretly shocked and horrified by many aspects of Western parenting.
-- Amy Chua -
One of my problems is that I'm very honest and direct. You pay a price for that.
-- Amy Irving -
If we're going to have standards in schools, let's be honest and have standards.
-- Amy Klobuchar -
Be honest about what you see, get out of the way and let the story reveal itself
-- Anderson Cooper -
Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. Theyre all full of subtext, and some of them are cliche and overused and vernacular. Theyre tricky. All I can say is, words are tricky.
-- Andrew Bird -
The crime film is the most honest American film.
-- Andrew Dominik -
Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.
-- Andrew Johnson -
I really am not angry with Linus. Honest. He's not angry with me either.
-- Andrew S. Tanenbaum -
Art is a by-product of an honest and successful attempt to do something well.
-- Andy Rooney -
Being honest with the public is how they respect you.
-- Angel Haze -
As we befriend our crush and get to know him better, make sure that you are honest and true all the time. Do not be someone you are not just to impress him.
-- Angus T. Jones -
I started modeling quite young. I would really recommend to every girl not to start modeling until they turn 17, to be honest. Before that, I think you're not mature enough.
-- Anja Rubik -
I'm always honest, whether I'm in the limelight or not
-- Anne Heche -
When I was with Ellen, I was telling people, If you come out, it's gonna be better for you. But I honestly don't know that.
-- Anne Heche -
You could not bribe honest people, but bad people would accept bribery.
-- Anne Holm -
the knowledge of personal failure ... is the invaluable predicate of all honest compassion.
-- Anne Truitt -
You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
-- Anton Chekhov -
Life is just more comfortable if you're honest and open about everything. I spent so many years being in the closet about one thing or another.
-- Antony Sher -
If one's honest about it, spending time in a car with children is pretty ghastly.
-- Arabella Weir -
A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
-- Aristophanes -
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
-- Aristophanes -
An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
-- Aristophanes -
To sell oneself for thirty pieces of silver is an honest transaction; but to sell oneself to one s own conscience is to abandon mankind.
-- Arthur Koestler -
Honest history is the weapon of freedom.
-- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. -
Freedom! you askin me about freedom. I'll be honest with you. I know a whole more about what freedom isn't than about what it is, 'cause I've never been free. I can only share my vision with you of the future, about what freedom is.
-- Assata Shakur -
When things are very real and honest, they don't go away.
-- Avril Lavigne -
The mark of an honest man... is that he means what he says and knows what he means.
-- Ayn Rand -
She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time.
-- Azar Nafisi -
I believe it`s important to be open and honest, especially with your friends.
-- Barack Obama -
Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.
-- Barbara Kruger -
I know when I'm bad, I know when I'm good, and I know when I'm everything in between. I don't have any delusions of grandeur or delusions of failure. In terms of my work, I've got a pretty cold honest eye.
-- Bebe Neuwirth -
I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.
-- Ben Kingsley -
I'd never managed anyone before, so I don't have a lot of experience. But I'm lucky - I have a lot of team members who have a really honest relationship with me.
-- Ben Silbermann -
To be honest with you, I'd rather not be working. When you work, there are all sorts of deadlines and pressures. I like to do one thing and take my time to do the other one.
-- Benicio Del Toro -
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
-- Benjamin Cardozo -
Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.
-- Benjamin E. Mays -
To be honest with you, I worry about concentration of ownership in media, where you have a handful of media conglomerates largely controlling what we see, hear and read.
-- Bernie Sanders -
Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that.
-- Betty Friedan -
I just always stay honest with myself. All my stuff isn't boastful, but some of it is. But that's just the music, the art.
-- Big Sean -
To be honest, I look at my Pinball program and feel that it is old stuff. I could do much better.
-- Bill Budge -
There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought.
-- Bill Moyers -
When a movie is called 'searingly honest,' it's almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
-- Bill Nighy -
One of the key elements is the ability to be honest with yourself.
-- Bill Toomey -
Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain.
-- Billy Graham -
Let's be honest. There's not a business anywhere that is without problems. Business is complicated and imperfect. Every business everywhere is staffed with imperfect human beings and exists by providing a product or service to other imperfect human beings.
-- Bob Parsons -
I have never made any secret of any of my thoughts or areas of interest. I've always been honest, open, and upfront
-- Boyd Rice -
To be honest with you, I never looked at soccer as a sacrifice.
-- Brandi Chastain -
Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life.
-- Brenda Ueland -
There is a beautiful transparency to honest disciples who never wear a false face and do not pretend to be anything but who they are.
-- Brennan Manning -
When a man or woman is truly honest, it is virtually impossible to insult them personally.
-- Brennan Manning -
Just open, honest communication is the best thing in the world.
-- Brett Davern -
John McEnroe is the most honest and real person I have ever interviewed.
-- Brian Kilmeade -
The spirit of what we do is that you do what you feel and when you feel it and not feel you have to be something you're not: you have to be honest to yourself.
-- Brian Viglione -
All I care about, to be honest, is surfing. I love surfing more than anything. To me, there's nothing like that.
-- Brody Jenner -
My children keep me real and keep me honest.
-- Brooke Burke -
To be honest with you, being Bruce isn't easy.
-- Bruce Jenner -
Through my own observations. I am convinced that an absolutely honest and direct inquiry into oneself will lead to understanding.
-- Bruce Lee -
The internet brought many laudable things, but prosperity, stability, accountability and honest politics were not four of them.
-- Bruce Sterling -
Safety and happiness can only come from individuals, classes, and nations being honest and fair and kind to each other.
-- C. S. Lewis -
But as the years went on, I realised that what I really want to be, all told, is a human. Just a productive, honest, courteously treated human.
-- Caitlin Moran -
Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That's really it. God is the core of our marriage, and the foundation and the blueprint for it is how we live, and being open and honest and communicating, but ultimately doing what pleases God, and not in a selfish manner.
-- Candace Cameron -
I always write what feels really true and honest and me.
-- Carly Rae Jepsen -
Rihanna has guts and she always seems to be singing from someplace honest, dark and fierce.
-- Carrie Brownstein -
It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.
-- Cassandra Clare
