Honest Quotes - Page 4

• My point is, that if I'm honest, my life is all about me.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Life Is, Ifs

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.17, W. W. Norton & Company

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• People often think I'm a faker, but I'm usually honest, in a certain way--in such a way that often nobody believes me!

  Richard P. Feynman

  Sarcastic, Believe, Thinking

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.44, Princeton University Press

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• Grandmotherhood initiated me into a world of play, where all things became fresh, alive, and honest again through my grandchildren's eyes. Mostly, it retaught me love.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Grandma, Eye, Grandmother

  Sue Monk Kidd, Ann Kidd Taylor (2009). “Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother and Daughter Journey to the Sacred Places of Greece, Turkey, and France”, p.181, Penguin

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• I haven't anything against whores, except this: some of them may have an honest tongue but they all have dishonest hearts.

  Truman Capote

  Heart, May, Tongue

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.82, Vintage

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• If you don't say the honest thing, it never becomes true.

  John Green

  Ifs

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.159, Penguin

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• I love insult, it's always honest.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Insult

  Joyce Carol Oates (2003). “Beasts”, p.15, Da Capo Press

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• Ragamuffins are simple, direct and honest. Their speech is unaffected. They are slow to claim, "God told me..." As they make their way through the world, they bear wordless, prophetic witness.

  Brennan Manning

  Simple, World, Speech

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• I am not too happy with terms like “the left”, to be honest. And I don’t use it much….if by “the left” you mean people who are committed to peace and justice and freedom and so on, there can’t be elements of the left opposed to workers’ movement, at least under that definition.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mean, People, Justice

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• A strong relationship is an honest relationship, and no honest relationship is all peaches and cream. Love is the key. Where love abides, anger is but a passing visitor.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Strong, Love Is, Keys

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• Great robbers always resemble honest folk. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.

  Jules Verne

  Hands, Would Be, Faces

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• Luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared Bond saw luck as a woman, to be softly wooed or brutally ravaged, never pandered to or pursued. But he was honest enough to admit that he had never yet been made to suffer by cards or by women. One day, and he accepted the fact he would be brought to his knees by love or by luck.

  Ian Fleming

  Love, Luck, Suffering

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• when you're honest with yourself, often times you betray someone else!

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Betray, Honest With Yourself

  Eric Jerome Dickey (2007). “Sleeping With Strangers”, p.119, Penguin

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• Most people who offer their help do it to make themselves feel better, not us. To be honest, I don't blame them. It's superstition: If you give assistance to the family in need... if you throw salt over your shoulder... if you don't step on the cracks, then maybe you'll be immune. Maybe you'll be able to convince yourself that this could never happen to you.

  Jodi Picoult

  Feel Better, People, Giving

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be. That's why habits are so hard to break. If we know ourselves to be liars, we expect not to tell the truth. If we think of ourselves as honest, we try harder.

  Holly Black

  Liars, Thinking, Trying

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• Honest and earnest criticism from those whose interests are most nearly touched,- criticism of writers by readers, of government by those governed, of leaders by those led, - this is the soul of democracy and the safeguard of modern society

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Government, Leader, Soul

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois”, p.49, Oxford University Press

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• Taking a hypersensitive approach to life had come to seem so much more pure and honest then joining the ranks of the numb masses who could let it all slide by. What I stopped realizing was that if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all. Everything registers at the same decibel.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Joining, Slides, Realizing

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.302, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its own methods: by its fatal trust in the squirrel-work of the industrious brain instead of the piercing vision of the desirous heart. It interests man, but does not involve him in its processes: does not catch him up to the new and more real life which it describes. Hence the thing that matters, the living thing, has somehow escaped it; and its observations bear the same relation to reality as the art of the anatomist does to the mystery of birth.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Art, Real, Men

  Evelyn Underhill (2017). “The Complete Christian Mystic: A Practical, Step - By - Step Guide for Awakening to the Presence of God”, p.112, Lulu Press, Inc

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• You were honest and hardworking and kind. You were polite and patient and more mature than any guy I’d dated before. And when we were together, you listened in a way that made me feel like I was the only woman in the world. You made me feel complete and spending time with you just seemed right.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Guy, Together, World

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jul 28, 2011

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• Cheating is a sin, but honest cunning is simply prudence. It is a virtue. To be sure, it has a likeness to roguery, but that cannot be helped. He who has not learned to practice it is a fool.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Cheating, Practice, Fool

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• They say that only very good friends quarrel. But at the end of the day a quarrel is a fight between two people’s egos. Since people cannot understand each other by just being honest. May be its impossible to live your whole life without getting hurt but don’t hurt the people close to you.

  Ai Yazawa

  Hurt, Good Friend, Fighting

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• I want to be with you as much as possible, Ronnie. You're smart and funny and you're honest. I trust you. I trust us. Yeah, I'm leaving and you're going back home. But neither of those things changes the way I feel about you. And my feelings aren't going to change simply because I'm going to Vanderbilt. I love you more than I've ever loved anyone.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Smart, I Love You More, Home

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• The only time I ever find my dealings with God less than clear-cut is when I'm not being honest with Him. The fuzziness is always on my side, not His.

  Catherine Marshall

  Cutting, Sides, Clear

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• 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

  Men, Self, Shame

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• I was born to poor because of honest parents.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Parent, Poor, Born

  Ambrose Bierce (2015). “Negligible Tales”, p.23, Ambrose Bierce

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• But as we are looking toward our future, I'm not sure it matters what we want to be but rather who we want to be. Someone honest or deceitful?Someone kind or cruel?Someone loyal or unfaithful? In any profession we can elect to be any of those things. I think this assignment is not only about what we choose to do but about who we choose to be. I choose to always be loyal to myself. -Raven Madison

  Ellen Schreiber

  Thinking, Ravens, Loyal

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