Sincere Quotes - Page 7

• Mr. Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life — if ever I thought a good thought—if ever I prayed a sincere and blameless prayer — if ever I wished a righteous wish — I am rewarded now. To be your wife is, for me, to be as happy as I can be on earth.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Prayer, Sacrifice, Expectations

  "Jane Eyre: Enhanced with an Excerpt from The Madwoman Upstairs".

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• Well, you know, it's a younger person, and it was maybe an effort to be a little more sincere and adult about the lyrics occasionally, which is a good thing. It's nice that it's not too self-conscious like some of our lyrics could be.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Nice, Self, Effort

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I honestly and truly love and believe in what I'm making, and it's not a joke, whereas some people would take a singer-songwriter sitting behind an acoustic guitar as sincere.

  Casey Spooner

  Believe, Guitar, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I've done a number of studies with speed dating and Match.com and what's interesting is that you know we still walk into a speed dating event, you know, thinking about what it is we're looking for in a mate and so you ask people, like women will say "I'm looking for somebody who is really kind and sincere and smart and funny."

  Sheena Iyengar

  Smart, Thinking, Numbers

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Those who trust others will find that not everyone is necessarily sincere, but they will be sincere themselves. Those who suspect others will find that not everyone is necessarily deceiving them, but they have already become deceivers themselves.

  Zicheng Hong

  Taoism, Deceiving, Trust Others

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• I wouldn't have said that Anthony Eden was equipped by nature to deal with the situation in the world today. I would have said that he was portentous, sincere, honest and rather stupid.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Stupid, Eden, World

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• As long asthe audience or the public perceives you to be sincere in your approach and not petty, they will think it's fair and they will wait for the other person's response. But if they sense it's petty or the slightest bit unfair, they'll turn on you right away.

  Roger Ailes

  Thinking, Long, Waiting

  Source: www.campaignsandelections.com

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• Sometimes I am screwing around, and sometimes I get way too serious, but I am a pretty sincere person.

  Sarah Silverman

  Way, Serious, Sometimes

  "Sarah Silverman walks the blurry lines of sarcasm". Interview with Christopher Borrelli, www.montereyherald.com. March 29, 2011.

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• God, I felt certain, did not mind that I didn’t press my hands together to pray. I was casual, but I was sincere. I knew that God existed as the Correct Answer inside my chest.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Hands, Mind, Together

  Augusten Burroughs (2008). “A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father”, p.68, Macmillan

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• The actual life of a thought lasts only until it reaches the point of speech...As soon as our thinking has found words it ceases to be sincere...When it begins to exist in others it ceases to live in us, just as the child severs itself from its mother when it enters into its own existence.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mother, Children, Thinking

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.77, Publishdrive

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• He realized...that the loudest are the least sincere, that arrogance is a quality of the ignorant, and that flatterers tend to be vicious.

  Isabel Allende

  Arrogance, Ignorant, Quality

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• Even when our intentions are noble and our efforts sincere, even when we dedicate our lives to the service of others, the corrosive pressure of frantic over-activity can nonetheless cause suffering in ourselves and others. A "successful" life can become a violent enterprise.

  Wayne Muller

  Successful, Effort, Suffering

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• Leigh [Bowery] affected a posh English voice and elongated his vowels, and you never knew if he was being sincere or mocking you. If I ever commented on one of his outfits he would snip, "Oh, thank you, Mr. Boy George. I do value your opinion." And then he would spin and make some ridiculous noise and mince off.

  Boy George

  Boys, Voice, Vowels

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Males, Generations, Flattery

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• Beware of anyone who calls you bad names merely for asking honest questions. Beware of anyone who insists on reframing your sincere curiosity as a character defect. Beware of anyone who questions your motives while ignoring your facts. When someone calls you bad names merely for asking questions, it suggests they know the answer but are terrified to admit it.

  Jim Goad

  Character, Asking Questions, Names

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• People would lambaste me or attack me, and I'd be like, "I'm being honest! I'm the one person that's being honest and sincere about what I'm doing." The rest of the world doesn't want to admit the fakery of entertainment on TV, but I love the fake. I think fake is beautiful.

  Casey Spooner

  Beautiful, Thinking, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Love ye all religions and all races with a love that is true and sincere and show that love through deeds.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Race, Deeds, Baha

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• Even in populous districts, the practice of medicine is a lonely road which winds up-hill all the way and a man may easily go astray and never reach the Delectable Mountains unless he early finds those shepherd guides of whom Bunyan tells, Knowledge, Experience, Watchful, and Sincere.

  William Osler

  Lonely, Men, Practice Of Medicine

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.273, Duke University Press

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• However, I have never clogged myself with the praises of pastoral life, nor with nostalgia for an innocent past of perverted acts in pastures. No. One need never leave the confines of New York to get all the greenery one wishes—I can’t even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there’s a subway handy, or a record store or some other sign that people do not totally regret life. It is more important to affirm the least sincere; the clouds get enough attention as it is and even they continue to pass. Do they know what they’re missing? Uh huh.

  Frank O'Hara

  New York, Regret, Past

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.197, Univ of California Press

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• If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave in line with our faith, our lives will not be cursed with the aching throb of unfulfilled business. Our words will always be sincere, our embraces will be tight. We will never wallow in the agony of ‘I could have, I should have’. We can sleep in a storm. And when its time, our goodbyes will be complete.

  Mitch Albom

  Goodbye, Sleep, Should Have

  Mitch Albom (2011). “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”, p.105, Hachette UK

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• I am sincere, ma petite, even when I lie.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Lying, Petite

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 6-10”, p.173, Penguin

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• And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself, to be on firm ground. Instinctively, as do the shipwrecked, he will look around for something to which to cling, and that tragic, ruthless glance, absolutely sincere, because it is a question of his salvation, will cause him to bring order into the chaos of his life. These are the only genuine ideas; the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Life, Loneliness, Simple

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• I like to ride the line between absurd and sincere.

  Reggie Watts

  Lines, Absurd

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I'm at the piano, and I'm improvising some song about something, it usually oscillates between factual, absurd, and sincere.

  Reggie Watts

  Song, Piano, Absurd

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Sympathy, Past, History

  "Gerry Adams: Queen's Ireland regret not enough", www.cnn.com. May 19, 2011.

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