Being Honest Quotes - Page 35

• I would hate the thought of dying full stop; Ive got to be honest with you.

  Craig Fairbrass

  Hate, Dying, Honest

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• I don't look like Catherine Zeta-Jones, so I don't think Hollywood would be that interested in me, to be honest. I just want nice work.

  Anne-Marie Duff

  Nice, Thinking, Hollywood

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• To be honest with you, most of the times I have fought, there has been a reason.

  Mike Comrie

  Honest, Reason, Has Beens

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• I am very close to my family. I have learned a lot from my father. He used to tell me to be honest with yourself and not to argue with your seniors. You dont need to be involved in any quarrel, as sometimes you need to remain silent intelligently.

  Suresh Raina

  Senior, Father, Needs

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• Many people are intimidated by doctors. ... People also feel stupid when they don't understand what a doctor's talking about the first time around, so they don't ask again. And let's be honest here, people. English is not a doctor's first language.

  Erma Bombeck

  Stupid, Doctors, Talking

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• It should seem that indolence itself would incline a person to be honest, as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to be a knave.

  William Shenstone

  Honesty, Pain, Knaves

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.151

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• to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Literature, Honest, Difficult

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings and realize that it's sometimes more important to be nice than to be honest.

  Anna Quindlen

  Friendship, Real, Nice

  Anna Quindlen (2012). “Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake: A Memoir of a Woman's Life”, p.32, Random House

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• Whatever efforts one may make, one must revert to the realization that religion is the real basis of morality; religion is the real and perceptible purpose within us, which alone, can turn aside our attention from things. ... The science of morality can no more teach human beings to be honest, in all the magnificence of this word, than geometry can teach one how to draw.

  Madame de Stael

  Real, Effort, Attention

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• 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

  Men, Roots, Honest

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• The pulpit only "teaches" to be honest; the market-place "trains" to overreaching and fraud; and teaching has not a tithe of the efficiency of training. Christ never wrote a tract, but He went about doing good.

  Horace Mann

  Teaching, Training, Example

  Horace Mann (1857). “Demands of the Age on Colleges”, p.46

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• People ask me all the time, "What are your influences? Are you trying to do Beckett?" It's like, "No, I'm trying to do me." Whatever that is. I don't know what that is, but that's the basis. I'm trying to be true and I'm trying to be honest.

  Charlie Kaufman

  People, Trying, Honest

  "Charlie Kaufman" by Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 22, 2008.

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• I was never that interested in business, to be honest. I do the minimal amount of business as possible because I'm not actually interested in it as a thing. But some people are interested in it, and there's nothing wrong with that.

  Mick Jagger

  People, Honest, Amount

  "Mick Jagger & Chadwick Boseman Talk 'Get On Up,' James Brown and a Rolling Stones Biopic". Interview with Tatiana Siegel, www.billboard.com. July 25, 2014.

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• I think I would just get bored to be honest. Ask any human being if they want to stay in exactly the same job for thirty years they say "No!" The ultimate cliché, 'Variety is the spice of life', is sadly true.

  Doc Brown

  Jobs, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.gigglebeats.co.uk

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• I try and be as normal as I can, but it's all pretty mental to be honest.

  Kate Moss

  Trying, Normal, Honest

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• One cannot be honest even at the end of one's life, for no one is wholly alone. We are bound to those we love, or to those who love us, and to those who need us to be brave, or content, or even happy enough to allow them not to worry about us. So we must refrain from giving pain, as our last gift to our fellows.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Pain, Worry, Giving

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• What you've got to do is be honest. Say what you believe. Give it to them straight. Just don't wuss out.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Believe, Giving, Honest

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• Think what we would have missed if we had never ... used a mobile phone or surfed the Net -- or, to be honest, listened to other people talking about surfing the Net.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Thinking, Phones, Talking

  Quoted in Daily Telegraph (London), 21 Nov. 1997

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• I always enjoyed sport. I was a bit of a wild child, to be honest, and just loved running around.

  Kiki Dee

  Sports, Running, Children

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• We're into tech stuff, gadgets, phones, video games. We'll treat a video game premiere like a movie premiere. I'm just going to be honest with what I like and what I do. What I enjoy. We're not going to hide the fact that people are on the Internet all day. I think a lot of shows don't really mention that.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Thinking, Phones, Games

  "Jimmy Fallon Dishes on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. February 20, 2009.

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• Throughout much of history, women writers have capitulated to male standards, and have paid too much heed to what Virginia Woolf calls "the angel in the house." She is that little ghost who sits on one's shoulder while one writes and whispers, "Be nice, don't say anything that will embarrass the family, don't say anything your man will disapprove of ..." [ellipsis in original] The "angel in the house" castrates one's creativity because it deprives one of essential honesty, and many women writers have yet to win the freedom to be honest with themselves.

  Erica Jong

  Honesty, Nice, Writing

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• Maturity involves being honest and true to oneself, making decisions based on a conscious internal process, assuming responsibility for one's decisions, having healthy relationships with others and developing one's own true gifts. It involves thinking about one's environment and deciding what one will and won't accept.

  Mary Pipher

  Responsibility, Thinking, Maturity

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• Were a man, whom I know to be honest and opulent, and with whom I live in intimate friendship, to come into my house, where I am surrounded with my servants, I rest assured, that he is not to stab me before he leaves it, in order to rob me of my silver standish; and I no more suspect this event, than the falling of the house itself which is new, and solidly built and founded.--But he may have been seized with a sudden and unknown frenzy.--So may a sudden earthquake arise, and shake and tumble my house about my ears.

  David Hume

  Honesty, Fall, Men

  David Hume, Tom L. Beauchamp (2000). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: A Critical Edition”, p.69, Oxford University Press

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• Golf is fundamentally about being honest. I see people hit eight shots and tell me they shot five. I never say a word. It is a reminder to me of what is at stake.

  Martin Sheen

  Golf, Eight, People

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. July 1, 2003.

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• I'm just going to be honest with you. It's hard to go out there and fight for 60 minutes when you're fighting throughout the week to make it through one practice. I'm not the only one. I'm just the only one that's man enough to stand up here and talk to y'all. It's obviously, in my opinion, an issue in our starts.

  Cary Williams

  Funny, Fighting, Men

  "Chip Kelly: Cary Williams 'frustrated'" by Phil Sheridan, abcnews.go.com. September 22, 2014.

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