Honest Quotes - Page 34

• I still feel very much an imposter in the whole music scene, which I'm quite happy about to be honest.

  Nick Cave

  Scene, Feels, Imposter

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• individuals are honest only to the extent that suits them (including their desire to please others)

  Dan Ariely

  Desire, Suits, Individual

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• that when given the opportunity, many honest people will cheat.

  Dan Ariely

  Opportunity, People, Cheat

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• Don't hide behind the Constitution or the Bible. If you're against gay marriage, just be honest, put a scarlet 'H' on your shirt, and say, 'I am a homophobe!'

  Henry Rollins

  Gay, Constitution, Shirts

  "Talk is Cheap". Live album by Henry Rollins, Volume 1, 1998.

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• I want you to be honest with me. Even if it hurts. Although I would prefer for it not to hurt.

  David Levithan

  Hurt, Want, Ifs

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.79, Egmont UK

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• Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today; it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down.

  Scott Weiland

  Expression, Trying, Gauges

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• will you stop trying to be brave! It's me, Mama! You can be honest with me." -Hetty

  Jacqueline Wilson

  Brave, Trying, Mama

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• It frightened people when you were honest; it shocked them.

  J. K. Rowling

  People, Frightened, Humiliated

  J.K. Rowling (2012). “The Casual Vacancy”, p.58, Hachette UK

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• Because that day with Willem, I may have pretended to be someone named Lulu, but I had never been more honest in my life. Maybe that's the thing with liberation. It comes at a price.

  Gayle Forman

  May, Liberation

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• Okay, I'm going to be completely honest here." I take a deep breath, because what I'm about to say is very real and more honest than I've ever been. "I don't want to be awayfrom you for that long.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Real, Long, Want

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• Funny as hell, searingly honest, and urgently real, Sam Pink's Rontel puts to shame most modern fiction. His writing perfectly captures the bizarre parade that is Chicago, with all its gloriously odd and wonderful people. This book possesses both the nerve of Nelson Algren and the existential comedy of Albert Camus.

  Joe Meno

  Real, Book, Writing

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• There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail

  Henry Ford

  Failing, Disgrace

  Henry Ford (2007). “My Life and Work”, p.273, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I need some space." "Because of my past?" "No, because of mine. When I'm around you I feel like I'm falling. I need to stop before I smash into the ground." "Are you always so honest?" "No. Mostly I'm a liar like you.

  Anna McPartlin

  Liars, Fall, Past

  Anna McPartlin (2008). “Apart from the Crowd”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to.

  Charles Dickens

  Bricks, Trade, Turns

  Charles Dickens “Oliver Twist”, Lulu.com

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• All nature has come to expect from God a sense of orderliness. Whatever God does carries with it His fingerprint. And in the world around us His fingerprint of orderliness is evident to anybody who is honest with the facts. If you look at nature, you will discover a mathematical exactness. Without this precision, the entire world would be in utter confusion. One plus one always equals two no matter what part of the universe you happen to be in. And the laws of nature operate in beautiful harmony, a harmony that is ordered by God Himself.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Beautiful, Law, Two

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• He was so good and honest. Why couldn't I love him instead?

  Abbi Glines

  I Love Him

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• The whole underlying theme for the new music... is to communicate honest, human values, and in doing that to try to improve the quality of life.

  Charlie Haden

  Trying, Quality, Theme

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• I have built my reputation on honesty, I have sometimes been too honest.

  David Blunkett

  Honesty, Reputation, Sometimes

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• I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Fear, Hate, Simple

  Elbert Hubbard (2009). “Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others”, p.6, The Floating Press

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• You can't blame me. I mean that literally. You're incapable of blaming me. You're human. Being human is choosing freedom over imprisonment, autonomy over dependency, liberty over servitude. You can't blame me because you know (come on, man, you've always known) that the idea of spending eternity with nothing to do except praise God is utterly unappealing. You'd be catatonic after an hour. Heaven's a swiz because to get in you have to leave yourself outside. You can't blame me because -- now do please be honest with yourself for once -- you'd have left, too.

  Glen Duncan

  Mean, Men, Ideas

  Glen Duncan (2002). “I, Lucifer”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• If you are emotionally honest, you should mean what you say but also mean what you do.

  John Bytheway

  Mean, Should, Ifs

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• To be honest, I thought it was similar to animal husbandry." Sally's tone turned dry. "Sometimes, my lady I'm afraid it isn't that different." Pippa paused, considering the ords. "Is that so?" "Men are uncomplicated, generally," Sally said, all too sage. "They're beasts when they want to be." "Brute ones!" "Ah, so you understand." Pippa tilted her head to one side. "I've read about them." Sally nodded. "Erotic texts?" "The book of Common Prayer.

  Sarah MacLean

  Prayer, Book, Animal

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• To be honest, I think love is complete bullshit. I don't think anyone ever loves anyone. I think the best people ever get is horny; horny and scared, so when they find someone who makes them horny, and they get too scared of the world outside, they stay together and they call it love.

  Neil Gaiman

  Love Is, Thinking, People

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• And if you think that you're showing your love to Catherine by suffering the way you've been doing, then somewhere along the way, I must have messed up in raising you." "You didn't mess up...." "I must have. Because when I look at you, I see myself, and to be honest, I'd rather see someone different. I'd like to see someone who learned that it's okay to go on, that it's okay to find someone that can make you happy. But right now, it's like I'm looking in the mirror and seeing myself twenty years ago.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Thinking, Mirrors, Years

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “Message In A Bottle”, p.190, Hachette UK

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• ...and I confess that, like a child, I cry. Ah, self-pity; I think we are at our most honest and sincere when we feel sorry for ourselves.

  Iain Banks

  Children, Sorry, Thinking

  Iain Banks (1999). “A Song of Stone: A Novel”, p.277, Simon and Schuster

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