Words matter. These are the best Honest Quotes from famous people such as Kathie Lee Gifford, Trace Lysette, Josh Billings, Erik Estrada, Pierre Poilievre, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people.
When we get to a point when trans folks are included in the creative process, the narrative will be much more authentic. Trans actors playing trans roles is a key part of that. But some of the trans talent is not even making it into the audition room, let’s be honest.
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can’t help but smile on it.
I like working with an actor who doesn’t do the oneupmanship. One who has no trick and gives a true, honest performance.
If there are violent lawbreakers who want to rob the livelihoods of honest hard-working Canadians in the energy sector, then those lawbreakers should be treated like lawbreakers.
Not much to be perfectly honest! I thought The Phantom Menace was terrible, except for the Pod Race.
They’re all fake belts. To be honest, I think real belt is Tony Ferguson’s.
Wearing jeans or any kind of long pants, it just sucks for me, to be honest.
When you’re 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you’re 21 and you’ve read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren’t really good. OK, let’s be honest. A lot of them were crap.
All I really care about is that I’m being honest and I’m real and I’m coming from a real place. There’s a part of me that’s a total cad and a part of me that’s also a family man.
I liked Benitez’s sincerity. I identified with him because he is a very direct and honest person.
For politicians to be honest, the public needs to allow them to be honest, and the media, which mediates between the politicians and the public, needs to allow those politicians to be honest. If local democracy is to flourish, it is about the active and informed engagement of every citizen.
Honesty is not found in revealing the truth, but in understanding how deeply afraid of it we are. To become honest is in effect to become fully and robustly incarnated into powerlessness.
We had to support our player and genuinely felt, like Rio has said, that it was an honest mistake. It is important to know that Manchester United never said, and Rio Ferdinand never said, that a mistake hadn’t been made.
Drake revived ‘Top Boy,’ if I’m honest with you. You’ve got to give him a lot of credit.
So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.
To be honest, I never compare myself with the rookies.
I could do nice, but it’s just not as much fun. Being nice isn’t my biggest goal in life. I’m trying to be honest about who I am, and that’s not always nice. I’m not always the world’s cheerleader.
You just need to be honest with how you’re feeling. But, a lot of women are afraid of it because they think, ‘Oh, they are going to take my baby away. They’re gonna call me incompetent. I’m going to lose my job. I’ve got to be tough, it’s a man’s world.’
The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.
You have to be OK with your own fears. If you’re an honest person, you’ll make mistakes, but that’s when the most interesting things happen.
If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
Sam Walton’s values are: treat the customer right, take care of your people, be honest in your dealings, pass savings along to the customer, keep things simple, think small, control costs and continuously improve operations.
I drank more wine when I wasn’t working as much, to be honest.
I was shy talking about certain things, and I was shy with being honest because I didn’t want people to judge me talking about fatherhood and how somebody should have my child around me.
The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.
One of the key elements is the ability to be honest with yourself.
I’m always honest, whether I’m in the limelight or not.
I do serve on various boards and I’m very honest and frank, obviously. I am a very forthright person and I do, sort of, share my candid views on anything.
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
I’ve got to take a break, to be honest. I’m not even going to lie.
Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter… I am so unlucky.
The second you’re not honest with yourself, you’ve lost everything.
I have a good sense of humor. I’m confident, passionate and honest. I’m a people person.
I survived turning 60, I was not thrilled to turn 61, I was less thrilled to turn 62, I didn’t much like being 63, I loathed being 64, and I will hate being 65. I don’t let on about such things in person; in person, I am cheerful and Pollyanna-ish. But the honest truth is that it’s sad to be over 60.
I promised to run the most open and transparent administration in Britain. That is why, with this brutally honest and unprecedented progress report, I am determined to level with Londoners.
By presenting a faithful and honest record of my experience as a mother, I hope to show both my readers and my children how truth can redeem even what you fear might be the gravest of sins.
I mean, that’s another big surprise of the show, is that I see sixteen year old people who recognize me and they’re honest, for-real fans of the show. And it goes down to nine months. I mean, I’ve heard of nine month to year-old children who are watching the show.
The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.
All I can really say is it’s bloodier than hell. In this one I’m going to be much more direct and honest in my description of the actual killings and the crime scene.
I’m not a wilting flower. I’m honest, so I pick a lot of fights. I’ve burned a lot of bridges.
I’m not really a book person, to be honest.
A few honest men are better than numbers.
I share so much of my life on social media, and I love the honest connection with the people that follow me.
Our lives improve only when we take chances – and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
I can’t envision an honest war novel that left war in a positive light.
May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.
Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.
The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.
When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person.
Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice.
The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you’re making a mistake but let you go on with it, that’s when it ruins your mind state as an artist.
I am emotional, honest, and sensitive and a great human being because of my dad. Tough and independent woman because of my mom.
I want to go to bed richer than when I woke up. The pursuit of wealth is a wonderful thing, but the thing is you have to be honest about it, you have to tell the truth.
Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.
It’s been up and down in my Arsenal career, to be honest.
I tried singing. I tried playing a musical instrument. I really wanted to be a musician, but I never could quite pull that off. I liked entertaining, but I was always drawn to some kind of technical work – some kind of honest labor.
I’m a bad interview because I want to always feel like I’m being totally honest, but at the same time, I’m absolutely paranoid. That combination results in a lot of spaces.
To be honest, I’m not a big golf nerd. Golf is kind of boring, not much action.
To be honest my mentor was my mom and dad. I was very blessed and fortunate to have parents like I had.
I don’t aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be the most honest governor I can be. I’d rather focus on honesty than popularity.
I was obviously never good enough to play at a top level, or even anywhere close to that, if I’m being honest. That’s the reality.
Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation.
People will put restrictions on your ability, on your aptitude, on your talent, on your character, and to be honest, it’s just opinion. Don’t let anyone put you in a box or draw your path for you.
Who would I think is the favorite? Well, to be honest, I think the top players. We are all very close, very equal.
I’m nothing if not honest.
May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
To be honest, I think I am making normal games targeted towards normal people. But ultimately when I release those normal games, weird people find them to be weird games and enjoy them. Which probably means there’s something wrong with me.
A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.
To be honest, ‘Ready Steady Cook’ was a great opportunity, but I did compromise myself. I was stood there quizzing chefs on what they were doing when I knew exactly what they were doing and why.
All I will say is that I’m playing a lot of different roles that, to be honest, are more interesting and demanding than any I’ve played before.
I learned years ago that the more honest you are about anything you’re doing in life, you can grow and learn from your mistakes.
That’s the compliment I get most often – ‘You guys are so honest.’
Anne Boleyn isn’t a sympathetic character, but I like that she isn’t a people pleaser. She’s ambitious and manipulative, but she’s honest. I’m biased, but I don’t think a woman who has said ‘no’ to the King of England for six years would jump into bed with four of his best friends. She was a slick political mind.
Music is a diary. Sometimes people make music as if no one’s going to hear it, as if they can just be completely honest. Things are a lot more acceptable said in a song than it would be in person. Art excuses a lot of things.
I’m trying to keep my personal life personal. It’s very hard for me because I’m a very honest person.
There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn’t seem to come with them.
To be honest, I’ve never been interested in how many games I’ve done and seen. It doesn’t mean anything to anybody. All I know is I’m eternally grateful for having been allowed to work so many games.
If somebody thinks I have an integrity problem, then the honest thing to do is to tell me what they think it is and let me address it.
Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest.
If a man or a woman puts in an honest day’s work, they should to be able to earn a living wage.
Let’s be honest. Canada wasn’t ever cool.
People are still willing to do an honest day’s work. The trouble is they want a week’s pay for it.
If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it’s all smoke and mirrors.
I feel that if I’m going through something, I’m sure someone else is, too. I try to be as honest with myself and others as I can be.
To be honest, being a fat girl, when people are telling you you need to eat, it’s the biggest thrill of your life.
I think a good pastor is somebody who is honest and humble and has a really caring heart.
The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.
For the life of me, I don’t understand what honest motive there is in putting this in front of this body to philosophically debate marriage on a constitutional amendment that is not going to happen, and which is enormously divisive in all of our communities.
Not to be weirdly glib, but as a reporter, you should be honest all the time.
You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion.
When I think of artists I love, like J. Cole, it’s the storytelling that grabs me. I want to be honest with my music.
The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.
To be honest, whatever troubles I’ve had, I’ve also gotten the opportunities to do things.
I surf; I skateboard. I’m from Southern California. I never thought I was going to be an actor. And to be honest with you, I never really thought of myself as one.
I wasn’t really big enough when I was filming at school for it to affect anyone too much, but I think my friends that were consistently in my videos during that time definitely got attention that they weren’t anticipating. I’m not quite sure how they felt about it to be honest.
I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I’m honest.
In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn’t know what he is doing.
The women that inspire me to be honest are the women that struggle.
The holy spirit means the invisible power of Jehovah, holy because he is holy. This power of Jehovah operated upon the minds of honest men who loved and who were devoted to righteousness, directing them in the writing of the Bible.
When you’re just open but not honest, then you start free-associating garbage.
To be honest, I don’t think I’m the best role model in the world. I’m pretty immature sometimes.
Between a fellow who is stupid and honest and one who is smart and crooked, I will take the first. I won’t get much out of him, but with that other guy I can’t keep what I’ve got.
The only difference between your local college and a Christian seminary is that the latter is more honest.
I voted against this Indian bill, and my conscience yet tells me that I gave a good, honest vote, and one that I believe will not make me ashamed in the day of judgment.
Window-breaking, when Englishmen do it, is regarded as honest expression of political opinion. Window-breaking, when Englishwomen do it, is treated as a crime.
A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.
Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.
If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
And at home in the United States we found continued and increased persecution, first of leaders of the Communist Party, and then of all honest anti-fascists.
For me, true kitsch has nothing to do with irony. It’s very honest. It represents what people like, their dreams.
The lesson is, because there will be many lemons in life, to learn to make the proverbial lemonade – and be open and honest. That’s the best way of doing damage control and positioning yourself for success.
I just think it’s important to be direct and honest with people about why you’re photographing them and what you’re doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul.
If there is one thing I have learnt, it’s that you have to be honest.
The first step in making better choices is to simply be brutally honest about your own behavior to yourself. What are the choices you are making? How are you spending your time? What are you neglecting that you shouldn’t?
To be honest, I think bananas are a pathetic fruit.
To be honest, I’ve never been a huge fan of American soap operas. I grew up Spanish, so I grew up watching a lot of novellas.
To be quite honest with you, a lot of people don’t realize that Nikki Sixx and I did Brides of Destruction after the lawsuit.
I asked my daughter when she was 16, What’s the buzz on the street with the kids? She’s going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren’t into Kiss. But they’ve all been told that it’s the greatest show on Earth.
I’m a big Batman fan; to be honest, to be a part of any superhero movie would really fulfill all of my childhood fantasies. If I could get beaten up by Batman, and just be part of the franchise, even getting kicked through a window would be great!
My husband keeps me really honest.
I’d always had quite a privileged lifestyle, to be honest. I’ve never wanted for anything, but I do know the value of things. I’m not, like, a brat.
One thing about being a stand-up is it’s a one-man show. You gotta do everything. You’re the producer, writer, director, and the actor. You just gotta be out there and perform and give your all. It’s such an honest form of art that it just taught me so much, and it kind of prepared me for manhood at an early age.
There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.
It’s a repressive society where you can’t be horrible, I’m not horrible, they made me horrible, I’m just honest.
Just be yourself. Be honest, work towards a goal, and you’ll achieve it.
A good actor is someone who knows how to take the part and make it real and make it honest and be effective in it. If it’s in a funny movie and, as long as they are cast in an appropriate way, humor will come from it.
It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn’t know what he is doing.
No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.
Whatever I do, whether it sells or not, at least I mean it at the time and I’m honest about it. Which I think is the only way to be.
It’s the emotional trigger points that are important to me because I know if I could believe in the characters and try and imagine how they felt then I’d be able to do something quite honest.
Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow-men to the declarations of the Word of God, I made great mistakes.
I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn’t bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we’d be able to tell the story the way it happened.
In real life, I am emotionally confused, which enables me to write songs. I’m a Pisces, and they say that Pisces are very sensitive. If men were just honest with themselves, they would see that they all have that side.
I’m gonna be honest. I don’t care about much. I care about people liking my music. I made it very far without nothing being on radio.
If you have the ability to convince somebody of something that you don’t necessarily think is the case, it’s a valuable asset. Not that I’m, like, a pathological liar, but we spend most of the day not fully being honest, you know?
When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of men we are.
Don’t get me wrong, there are sometimes if I go and see a really funny comedy, that I wished I had smoked a joint. I’ll be honest with you. That’s the truth.
As a kid, I liked the ‘Halloween’ movies and ‘Nightmare On Elm Street’ and all that kind of stuff. But as an adult, I really don’t watch much horror, to be honest.
The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper.
Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.
Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others – how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself.
My style in diplomacy is my style as a human being – I’m very direct and very honest.
I’m just saying sometimes great to play smaller court, with the crowd very close. We can feel their energy, the passion, yeah, the love in it. I love it, to be honest. It’s great.
My Constanze is the virtuous, honourable, discreet, and faithful darling of her honest and kindly-disposed Mozart.
I’ll be honest: I don’t even really know what ‘Netflix and chill’ means.
The only distribution of wealth which is the product of labor, which will be honest, will come through a more equal distribution of the productive capacity of men.
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.
If you stay true to your ideas, film-making becomes an inside-out, honest kind of process.
But as for the future, I foresee a world which is more creative, more open, more loving, more ecologically friendly, more honest about its history and progress, and I think a lot of those contributions will be made by young people.
I think ‘Blood’ is honest about the dysfunction of family life and Jim will have to get to the bottom of secrets being kept from him.
To be honest, it doesn’t matter who is next to me in whatever team.
I’m just a product of the ’90s, to be honest.
I believe that if corporate America expects consumer confidence to be restored, they must first be honest with us.
I’m in this business because I despise honest labor.
People may not have the right to know about your personal, private life or any detail about any potentially embarrassing photo, but they do have the right to know whether you are honest, candid and forthcoming.
I’ve got to be honest and say that, growing up, I wasn’t a big sports guy, but I love the camaraderie. I just love people getting together, fighting for a team and getting super-emotional about it.
I think my job is to try and be as honest as I can with what is in my mind and how I feel – I think that’s what you’re supposed to do, if you’re a good writer. So I try to do that. I know I do that. I do do that.
To be honest, I’ve only been to one concert, and it was Aerosmith. Aerosmith and Slash.
I’ll be honest: I naturally have a pretty good eyebrow shape. I always have. I would get made fun of when I was younger because they were so thick.
I am pretty honest about a lot of things that young girls question, like their body image.
I think you find universal truth when you get really honest with yourself and you can reach people. If you go deep enough, you have that core feeling, and that feeling can transcend the details of your experience.
I know the crew so well, so I forget I’m being filmed. It’s like cooking with a friend in the kitchen – you’re talking, as you do, and maybe you’re telling her about this wonderful way to prepare lamb chops – it’s more natural, more honest.
Many people today don’t want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.
Only when the oppressed are heard can we have an honest solutions based dialogue.
If everyone in America can easily see who and what their lawmakers are requesting taxpayer money for, we can keep elected officials honest, end the days of political, special interest favors, and reduce wasteful spending.
Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble.
India is a country that has no direct interests in some areas of global conflict. It has very good relations with countries in conflict or countries facing difficult security situations, and I believe Indian diplomacy is very well received. India is a bridge-builder, an honest broker, and a messenger of peace.
False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.
My mom always told me if I love what I’m doing, and I’m having fun, then just continue to do it. But if it’s not fun for me anymore, and I’m miserable, then I’m going to go back to Texas and quit it all, to be honest.
Whether we’re talking about leadership, teamwork, or client service, there is no more powerful attribute than the ability to be genuinely honest about one’s weaknesses, mistakes, and needs for help.
The best thing about me is that I am generally very honest – not hurtfully honest, but honest. The worst thing about me is that everybody can make me feel guilty. I feel responsible about things that don’t even concern me.
Honor lies in honest toil.
I want someone honest, someone who’s very sweet to my family and friends, and polite to the other people around me.
If we are completely honest with ourselves, everyone has a dark side to their personalities.
My most intimate secrets? Well, if I told you those they wouldn’t be secrets now, would they? Seriously though I don’t have too many secrets. I’m a very open and honest person, sometimes too honest for my own good.
My ideal man is faithful, honest, and a gentleman who knows how to treat women.
I have to be honest, I am a true jeans and t-shirt girl.
God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
In the final analysis there is no other solution to man’s progress but the day’s honest work, the day’s honest decision, the day’s generous utterances, and the day’s good deed.
You can’t make your choices based on what critics think. You have to make your choices based on what’s honest for you.
I’ll be honest. After I got married, I definitely had a shift in emotional devotion.
‘Vinyl’ is a good look at the music industry. The script was honest.
In my lifetime, as a younger man, you were assumed to be an honest person. Your word was your bond, and a handshake was as good as a contract in business.
And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation.
We just ask the agency to make reasonable and honest decisions, and the public deserves no less.
I’m not saying I’m the perfect role model. But I’m honest. Period.
I like me some Bape, you know. But I wear anything, to be honest. Adyn, Rick Owens, Givenchy, anything. I shop from everywhere.
I try to be as honest about what I see and to speak rather than be silent, especially if it means I can save lives, or serve humanity.
To be honest, it was slavery. Nobody should have any romantic ideas about working underground. It’s very, very dangerous. You always knew you were living in danger. You were on your hands and knees half the day.
I hate summer, to be honest. I hate dressing. I hate the heat. I hate sweaty people getting aggressively close to you when you’re walking down the street.
There’s one thing very important to me in business and for the long-term: always be honest with people. For the past 60 years, I always pay my debts.
If you want to be honest with yourself, you have to take criticism, even if you attract adverse comments from others.
In love, I’ve been a deceiver. But I realized being honest is so much easier than lying and being deceitful.
He convinced me that if we’re going to have honest government that you can’t leave it up to the crooks and that honest people have to get involved in government. So I did. I got involved as a criminal prosecutor with the U. S. Justice Department.
To be honest, I would probably rather spend, like, a month in prison than spend a month rehearsing with some musicians, metalheads. I pick prison over that, really. And I say that knowing well what prison is like, so don’t get me wrong here. Prison sucks big time.
We genuinely believe to this day that it was an honest genuine mistake and we never imagined the punishment would be eight months. The precedent dictated that it was unlikely to be that. We don’t regret he played for that period.
If we’re honest, we all have some measure of wrong believing in our lives. If you don’t believe this, all you need to do is ask yourself, ‘Have I often felt anxious, worried, or fearful that the worst would happen to me and my loved ones?’
Be the measure great or small, let it be honest in every part.
An honest man’s the noblest work of God.
Never ever doubt in magic. The purest honest thoughts come from children, ask any child if they believe in magic and they will tell you the truth.
Honest pioneer work in the field of science has always been, and will continue to be, life’s pilot. On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation.
I try to push and find something awkward. The gems to me are truly awkward situations, and you have to have somebody who’s willing to fail because those can’t be conceived. They never play if they’re thought about and discussed too much. You have to create them right at the moment and look for something honest.
Qualities like being considerate, loyal, caring, protective and honest are what attract me in a man and I find such men desirable.
To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
To be honest, until I started dubbing, I didn’t realize the amount of work of a dubbing artiste puts in. Especially the artistes that dub for villains. They really stretch their vocal cords to a different dimension.
I’m now in my late 30s, and I’ve been thinking a lot about marriage and family. To be honest, I’ve decided to push aside thoughts of marriage and personal questions for now.
I can’t hide things from my Maker, so it is better to be honest.
To me, ‘beauty’ means to be natural, creative, honest – to say the truth.
To be honest, I find going out pretty scary and intimidating. Got all those people checking you out, with only one purpose: hooking up. I’m quite the dork, I’d rather sit home and play Scrabble. But that doesn’t get you a girl, does it?
I love being around kids; they’re honest and refreshing, and I love teaching them new things.
Nothing comes close to the IPL, to be honest.
There is an interaction and action, reaction between two people. One should show honesty in a relationship. Be honest to your partner and tell him everything. How long can you do things with dishonesty and that’s wrong. Don’t get into a relationship if you can’t be honest.
If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren’t like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.
Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.
I always tell Brock Lesnar the truth. I don’t appease Brock Lesnar. I don’t placate Brock Lesnar. When Brock Lesnar asks me for an opinion, I give to him an honest opinion that I’m willing to back up with facts, with theory.
I’m almost able to be more honest by lying. By making everything up, I’m able to say what I really want to.
Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done.
I’ve always been outspoken. I’ve always been honest. I’ve always said things that maybe other people were afraid to say.
An honest money system is the only alternative.
Be honest, brutally honest. That is what’s going to maintain relationships.
To be honest, I am very worried about the possibility of the U.K. leaving the E.U. But of course, like in the case of Catalonia, we have to respect the right to decide of the British people on a relationship that part of the Brits consider is not satisfying enough.
Being honest with myself is something I like. I am happy that I don’t make excuses when I make a mistake. This is a good way to improve in the fastest way.
The real existential challenge is to live up to your fullest potential, along with living up to your intense sense of responsibility and to be honest to yourself about what you want.
We are less than honest and commit a grave error if we insist that what happened to Rodney G. King was isolated and an exceptional case. The poor know better.
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
I create my own backstory regardless of if I’m told something about the background or not. There’s always more that you can develop in your head that makes a character more layered, more honest.
I feel like my mission is to be honest with myself. My mission is to share my truth – share, not give. I think that’s what an artist is supposed to do: I think they share.
I am honest and want to hear what the people have to say. I do not want to enrich myself in this job.
The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
They’re very harsh people, the British: hard to impress, very tough on each other, but I rather like that. It’s not that the British are more honest – you’re just under no illusion with them.
An honest God is the noblest work of man.
Well, to be honest with you, yes there is and there is not. But as I am a fan of this kind of music as well as the rest of the guys naturally are – and being a fan, we kind of get pleased by our music as fans and as being in SLAYER.
To be honest, Peter Pan was one of those fairy tales that I sort of related to, and I think that’s the case with a lot of kids. The whole idea of escapism really resonates with a lot of kids.
A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke.
Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.
My first job was working for my dad. He was a used-car dealer, and I used to wash the cars down, clean them out, and so on. I would do stuff for him pretty much every day. It was quite a good job, to be honest.
Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke.
A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.
Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser’s passion, not the thief s.
It’s a very dangerous and lonely thing, I imagine, to be a spy: to have friendships that are deceptions, that are not honest.
I am overwhelmed with gratitude, and my heart is full. ‘American Sniper’ has broken records, which follows such an honest path of Chris’s life.
The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live. No good guys, no bad guys, just guys: that is, people bearing up in the crucible of their days and certainly not always – if ever – capable of articulating their condition.
While the President leads his potential adversaries in almost every state, his support is soft. He is seen as honest, sincere, just, and friendly but gets mediocre or relatively poor ratings being competent strong, intelligent, and a forceful leader.
I started singing before I started talking. And that’s the God’s honest truth. I think it was something that I’ve always loved to do, even if I wasn’t good at it. I just loved ballads.
To be honest, I struggle with words. I often forget them, you know, the official ones. Instead, I make words up. I use home-made words that sound similar to the real thing. Usually, they’re some sort of confused hybrid of two existing words.
To be honest with my music… for me to expect anyone to connect it has to come from a place of honesty.
I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don’t like it! Here’s what it does: It strips away all of your facade. It makes you so honest. It’s cleansing.
I think the things that can define me is that I’m going to be honest, I’m going to be transparent, I’m going to be as open as I can.
I’ll be honest and say that looks are important for me. But ultimately, it all boils down to how much a girl loves.
I’d like to be a geneticist to be honest, but there are limits to what I can do now. For my dream to come true I’d have to be 20 years old again, heading off to a blue chip university.
A journal is your completely unaltered voice – it’s just for you. And if you know that voice, and you like it, you can bring it out to everyone else, and that’s the most honest and vulnerable thing you can do.
The law requires a paper towel ad to be scrupulously honest, but allows political candidates to lie without reproach. What’s wrong with this picture?
I think the best music is honest music.
To be honest, I am a really simple person, and most of my friends are not from the industry. I am most comfortable with them. They don’t treat me as an actor, and neither would they tolerate me behaving like one.
A good, hard-hitting dissent keeps you honest.
I’m not much of a salesman. I prefer the soft sell and the honest approach.
The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.
Any time I need to get a serious attitude adjustment, I put on one of their records, and there are examples there for all time to keep us honest and keep us reaching; they’ll never be eclipsed.
Let’s be honest: you can’t celebrate fall without it’s leading role – pumpkin! You can incorporate this flavor of the season in so many ways, from candles to lattes, pies to decorations.
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
I want to always be classy and honest, and I always want to have fun with music, and if I can’t really express who I am through my music, then it’s not really fun anymore.
Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
If you are building a culture where honest expectations are communicated and peer accountability is the norm, then the group will address poor performance and attitudes.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
It’s almost always possible to be honest and positive.
I sort of feel like people are not that honest about their own parenting. Take any teenage household; tell me there is not yelling and conflict.
I think my biggest appeal for fans is probably the fact that I’m honest. I’m up front about who I am. I’m a little naughty. I have a naughty side and everybody knows that. But I know when to use that and when not to.
I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.
I’m very open and honest, and I feel like it’s important for women to hear that we’re not perfect; none of us are perfect. And sometimes we aspire to have these ideas in our heads of what perfection is, and I probably would’ve been better off if I’d left myself alone.
It’s meant to reaffirm the validity of that music – clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.
My theory is this; I’m not a political songwriter. I’m an honest songwriter.
I am sure Mr Heath thinks he is honest but I wish he didn’t have to have his friends say it so often.
My message is positive, and I am honest about who I am.
Me, I’m dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it’s the honest ones you have to watch out for.
While some national security advisers have eschewed the Scowcroft Model and sought to ‘operationalize’ the NSC or pursue their own policy agendas without regard to the cabinet, the president and the country are best served by the NSC’s adherence to its intended ‘honest broker’ advisory role.
It’s very important for Christians to be honest with God, which often, you know, God is much more interested in who you are than who you want to be.
I think romance is anything honest. As long as it’s honest, it’s so disarming.
I’m actually just playing honest, whole young women.
I realised that you have to be honest. When you’re being open, that’s when people connect with you. You just have to be yourself.
Maybe I’ve got to admit that what I did here was enough. I can make some more films. Maybe I’ll direct a film. Maybe I’ll have my musical put on stage. But nothing, really, to be absolutely honest, competes with making a very successful pop band for 10 years of my life.
Oftentimes, you read these pilot scripts that come through for American work, and they don’t sing to you. I’ve got to be honest, not many of them ignite the flame or give you that burning feeling of, ‘Oh, God, I really want to be a part of this.’
Anyone, without exception, can know God if they really want to simply by praying, by honestly telling Him that they want to know Him. He always responds to honest seekers. Jesus promised, ‘All who seek, find.’
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I’ve got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.
Marriage is a dialogue. But in any meaningful relationship, we should be honest, whether it is about having an affair or a fling.
It’s not just the kid who’s spent every penny from his job to upgrade his car to tell the world he cares about sports cars, it’s also the person driving around in a fuel-conscious hybrid electric car, because it’s more a message to the world than an effective means of saving fuel, to be quite honest.
I barely listen to the radio, to be honest. I don’t want anything infiltrating my ears that I don’t want to possibly put out in my song.
I’m pretty low-key. I’m pretty boring, to be honest.
Let’s be honest, I have enough money to never have to work again.
I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.
I knew it was going to be enormous because of the number of people who bought the books, but, to be honest, I never thought it would be bigger than Bond. Never in a million years.
I feel that as long as you’re honest, you have the opportunity to grow. It’s when you shut down, go into denial, and try to start hiding things from yourself and others, that’s when you lock in certain behaviors and attitudes that keep you stuck.
I didn’t think that anything is beyond humor – not profane humor, but a good, honest approach to humor.
Speak the truth. People will forgive an honest mistake; they won’t forgive you if you lie.
Especially when you deal with comedy, you have got to be really honest because it’s the honesty and the spontaneity that causes people to chuckle, that catches people.
My thought process is I have been lied to so much by people who I thought I could trust that it motivates me to want to be as honest as possible, to project that energy, because that is how I want people to treat me.
Sometimes if I tell people, ‘I’m afraid that I’m really a fraud,’ or ‘I have a lot of self-doubt,’ they go, ‘Oh, no, you’re kidding.’ I go, ‘No, I’m really honest.’
I know I have a very self-destructive tendency since my mother died, I have got to be honest.
Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that’s probably the biggest key to success.
I had everything I’d hoped for, but I wasn’t being myself. So I decided to be honest about who I was. It was strange: The people who loved me for being funny suddenly didn’t like me for being… me.
Our biggest struggle as human beings is to project ourselves as something that society has deemed admirable or likable instead of being honest.
I asked for the fight with Pulev to be honest with you. I didn’t duck and dive.
He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
You know me: I’m always down to be brutally honest.
Every man should make up his own mind that if he expect to succeed, he must give an honest return for the other man’s dollar.
Surely the whole point of writing your own life story is to be as honest as you possibly can, revealing everything about yourself that is most private and probably most interesting for that very reason.
Our best comes out when we have honest discussions.
Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
I’m not a virtuoso on an instrument. You know, I’m not always singing in pitch. I laugh sometimes my way through the shows, but I’m an honest songwriter who’s always tried to bring the audience with me on my journey in hopes that they see their own lives reflected in the work.
The one reason why I got into cooking was because I wasn’t good at anything else – not that I was good at it, but it was considered honest work.
I’m honest about the journey I’ve been on, so I definitely don’t take dating lightly anymore.
All women think men look good in suits. To be honest, I like the way they look, too.
We Montanans take pride in our low crime rate and believe honest people can disagree without being disagreeable. Maybe extremist groups believe they can find a home in Montana because of our easygoing ways.
Whatever flaws or personal failings afflict them, it remains the case that the overwhelming majority of priests and politicians are honourable and honest – seeking to live out their beliefs and serve society.
I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned.
I was being honest – I have nothing to hide. All I do, all the time, with everybody, is tell them what I am thinking, what I am feeling.
Don’t believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
Pickup lines are a major turn-off, they don’t work on me and I tune them out. It’s better to just be honest.
Throughout that period, Japan had made honest efforts to keep the destruction of war from spreading and, based on the belief that all nations of the world should find their places, had followed a policy designed to restore an expeditious peace between Japan and China.
My mother taught me to be honest no matter what situation takes place in my life, to be honest and to stay humble.
I like my shame straight up and honest, and nobody does it better than In-N-Out Burger. You go to In-N-Out Burger, and they ask you the most shameful question in fast food. ‘I’ll have a burger, fries and a Coke.’ ‘Will you be eating in the car?’ ‘Yeah. I think so.’
I’m not a materialistic person, to be honest. I’m all about the energy, man. I never had anything growing up, so I don’t know what it means to lose anything.
Every man should be the intellectual proprietor of himself, honest with himself, and intellectually hospitable; and upon every brain, reason should be enthroned as king.
Work hard, be honest, help people, never give up, love your fellow man and woman, give back to society, and don’t ever discriminate.
Denzel Washington invoked confidence. When you have confidence, you can do anything. And that’s what happened. I learned about being honest and keeping it true, keeping it true in my performance.
I do think deception… There’s something kind of odd about tricking people for a living, but ultimately, it’s a remarkably honest profession, when you think about it. If you violate that code, and you say you’re not using camera tricks, and then you do, I actually think that’s a kind of serious moral issue.
The best way to impress a woman is to be the most honest you can.
Me and Future recorded so many songs that as soon as we did ‘Honest,’ I liked it a lot, but I didn’t see it as a single. But he just kept talking about it after we did it like, ‘Man, this is big. This is big. It’s gonna be a single.’
It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.
Women want honesty but sometimes get upset if you are honest, so you need to know when to be honest.
I think having a visionary CEO is awesome, and visionary leadership is one thing, but you also need checks and balances on whether this company can withstand a very honest and critical look at itself.
Sometimes it’s better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.
The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up.
Definitely trust yourself. Work hard. Be honest with yourself. And life can be joyful. It is joyful. Just give it your all, and it’s all going to work out.
Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they’re honest about everything.
People aren’t really honest with themselves about anything. That’s one of the reasons why we ended up with Trump in the White House.
I am just forthcoming – completely blunt and honest.
The thing is, God has already seen every twist and turn of your life. He already knows what’s in your heart. He already knows the decisions you’ve made. He’s just waiting for you to call on Him and be honest with Him like Jonah was.
Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business is a part of our society, and it’s integral to the practice of being able to conduct business, that you have a set of honest standards.
I try to be as honest as I can and that’s the best way to do things.
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.
Be fair in all your dealings, may it be in your family or in your business. At the end of it all, what matters is not how much money you make but how honest you are.
I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.
I don’t think of my songs as sad songs. I think of them as vulnerable and honest. I crack jokes in between songs, so people don’t leave feeling too dark.
I think that the best music and the music that people relate to the most is the honest music that people feel themselves in it.
If you’re gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don’t do it.
For me, romance isn’t an over-the-top act. It’s someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I’m making the wrong decision, he’ll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts.
They don’t make you pay for the humor. It’s up and down, but they’re trying to give you as many laughs as possible in 2 minutes. They are the most honest comedians ever.
I’ll be honest with you, I really struggle with the conversation around gun control.
I try to write the books I would love to come upon that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual transformation, families, secrets, wonder, craziness – and that can make me laugh.
My mother taught me to be honest, to be selfless, and to touch people in a positive way.
You have to believe in what you do. Take something you truly believe in and go about it in an honest way.
But I think it’s more that when you’re young, you’re invincible, you’re immortal – or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you’re inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It’s fixed. You can’t change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.
Nothing really scares me, to be honest.
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
To be quite honest, I’ve been very blessed when I’ve worked with Hollywood. The studios that have purchased my work to be adapted to film have really liked the work and wanted to stay as close as they could to what the book was.
I’m quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man’s real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.
I don’t think the majority of people – to be quite honest – care. I think they see me as someone who was at one stage of my life in the IRA, but they see me in the round, as someone who was able to make peace.
If you want to get each individual’s honest opinion, you don’t want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.
The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn’t deserve it, give it to him anyhow.
The Americans are more honest about it and just call it college rock.
I don’t have a big appetite. I don’t eat a lot, to be honest – never. I’m a bit like a little bird, picking all day long, but I’m not getting pasta or getting all those things, you know?
I took a big risk to come to Hull, I have to be honest. But I loved it there, I really did. Great club and great people.
I’m an honest dude, not trying to be anything other than who I am.
I think monogamy is a little unnatural, if I’m totally honest. You change. Things alter. It’s the exception rather than the rule and I think it’s exceptional to cope with it and manage it. It’s hard work.
I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country.
It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
Bond in ‘Goldeneye’ is pretty much a set character. To be honest, he’s another version of Connery, and Connery was terrific. How many submarines can you blow up? How many control rooms are evaporating?
This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle – among others – that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.
I agree that I am different from others. I am not trying to fit in someone else’s shoes. I am being honest to myself.
So the mask was just really easy, I’ve got to be honest. And it was great actually because it really allowed you to get into the character a little bit more maybe than without it, if that makes sense.
Music has always gotten me through life, particularly honest, real music.
To be honest, I’ve made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we’re either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.
I’m very honest – brutally honest. I always look at things from their point of view as well as mine. And I know when to walk away.
To be honest, the real money is in merchandising and performances.
Of what use are all the codes in the world, if by means of confidential reports, if for trifling reasons, if through anonymous traitors any honest citizen may be exiled or banished without a hearing, without a trial?
If you’re really being honest with yourself when you’re acting, part of it is touching the real you. You can only separate yourself so much from the character. Those vulnerable moments do touch me.
I suppose ‘Gladiator’ could be a Western – if you were writing your review in Athens, that is! To be honest, we didn’t really think that way at the time. But there is common ground. And they both have horses – I liked that, obviously.
We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put honest toil in power.
If we are not honest, we are not going to be able to forge unity.
I think teaching keeps me honest because if I’m up in front of a class talking about what I think is important about fiction while knowing I myself have just failed to do that hours earlier at my computer – it’s a good and humbling reminder.
Let’s be honest: doesn’t everyone look at Ronaldo’s free kicks? I’ve looked at a lot of his technique, but I do it in my own way. I have my own style and try not to do the same.
Barbra Streisand is without a doubt one of the most honest people I have ever known. There is no doubt in my mind that she will not be doing any more concerts. Of course, she still will be making records and starring and directing in movies.
I liked the premise of this material. I love the marriage relationship. They kind of keep each other honest, and they enjoy each other’s sense of humor. Kind of a sexy but boring relationship.
An actress once advised me, ‘Make sure you do your own laundry – it will keep you honest.’
I’m always honest.
You have to appreciate the finer points of your work; criticise, too, if needed. I am also my own worst and most honest critic. I can say things which nobody will ever dare say. Even the best of friends will stop at a point, whereas I can go beyond.
To be honest, there are no problems between me and Messi. People have their own opinions about who they think is the better player. It is what it is, but there is no rivalry beyond games and what happens on the pitch.
I think honest communication, no matter where it comes from, is positive for a relationship.
I just want to make one really good movie a year. And when I die, to know I was honest as an artist.
To be honest, once you are comfortable with the person you are and you know the things that you could offer to the world, none of the hate comments can really get to you.
I tried to be honest and fair, helped the talented and those in need.
Simon Cowell seems like a very nice guy, but I think he’s a secondhand Mickie Most to be honest.
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
To an honest judge, the alleged marriage between religion and science is a shallow, empty, spin-doctored sham.
I get pretty terrified, to be honest, when I’m on tour. You really have to muster a lot of ego to go our there, which I find rather draining.
A nice person is a ‘yes’ person, whereas a good person is a person who accepts their responsibility in things and moves forward and tries to constantly evolve and isn’t afraid to say no or challenge someone or be honest or truthful.
Folk music is very honest, it’s very humble, it’s very organic, and the voice is exactly that. And so I’m very excited to put the two together.
I feel like my secret magic trick that separates me from a lot of my peers is the bravery to be vulnerable and truthful and honest.
Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says, ‘Yes,’ you know he is a crook.
Warren Buffett has shown you can be very, very successful without being rapacious, while still being honest, without engaging in constant legal battles.
You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.
I keep pushing for the Crest Whitestrips thing. I get so many compliments on how white my teeth are, but I have to say it’s not because of my brushing skills. It’s from Crest Whitestrips, and that’s the honest truth. I don’t believe in going to the dentist and paying for whitening.
I would seriously question whether anybody is really foolish enough to really say what they mean. Sometimes I think that civilization as we know it would kind of break down if we all were completely honest.
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
I knew acting was what I wanted to do. I don’t know if I was brilliant at it, but when I was doing school plays, I loved it so much I didn’t want it to end. I feel like I’m exactly the same as when I was doing plays at school, to be honest.
I’ve made a connection with the television audience by being a proud Latino man. I am passionate for what I do, courageous in the face of peril, honest and straightforward.
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
Nothing really surprises me anymore. You put yourself out there – you’re open and honest with what you have to deal with.
If you believe in a higher power or if you believe in God, then I would suggest that you go to God and see if you can find some solutions. If you don’t believe in God, then try to be as honest with yourself as you possibly can… When I’ve chosen the light of God or self-honesty, my own misery has brought me to a solution.
Honest hearts produce honest actions.
Surround yourself with good people. People who are going to be honest with you and look out for your best interests.
I’m actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, ‘Man, I said too much.’ It’s hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.
I mean, I’ve never really had much security, to be honest.
To be honest, I’ve never told anybody they have bad breath. When I do recognize that, I try not to breathe when they come near.
I have never made any secret of any of my thoughts or areas of interest. I’ve always been honest, open, and upfront.
To be honest with you, I’m more of a girl’s girl. I’m much more comfortable being around other girls.
I think that what is important is that the music be honest and direct and that it is relevant to today. I think music needs to be of its time and speak to that time.
I want to be honest about my faith, but not preachy, for my viewers and my readers.
I’m a really honest person.
I make films from the heart. I want to concentrate on the job of doing great and honest performances, and I’m gonna get better with every performance of mine, with every film of mine.
We’re definitely honest with each other… if your sisters can’t tell you that you look ridiculous, who can?
When you’re able to be honest with yourself about who you are and finally can present your authentic true self to the world, you feel so much better about yourself, and it makes it easier for everyone else to feel better about you.
So I come before you with a budget that is honest in its discussion of our challenges, creative in its possible solutions, compassionate in its commitment to our most vulnerable, and balanced on the bottom line.
I’m about being honest and knowing that people are watching, and they want to know that I’m asking questions that they want the answers to.
Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
Let’s be honest, the physical attracts me first. Then if you get to know the man’s mind and soul and heart, that’s icing on the cake.
I maintain that if there is such a thing as a true and honest environmentalist, it’s people like Slim and hopefully me, who have been caretakers of the land all our lives, along with the generations before us.
Every mistake you make allows you to be honest because what’s in the dark will come to light, so it’s better to be truthful about it.
When you’re doing something for the first time, you don’t know it’s going to work. You spend seven or eight years working on something, and then it’s copied. I have to be honest: the first thing I can think, all those weekends that I could have at home with my family but didn’t. I think it’s theft, and it’s lazy.
Every comedian is furious. Age makes me angry. I’m unhappy at not being able to open packages anymore. I’m angry that libraries have gone. I hate children on planes. I’m very shallow, so they tend to be little things. To be honest, I think I was probably angry the day I was born, you know, about diapers or something.
It’s a video release as well so I have to be perfectly honest and go, probably not specifically for DVD, but there are extra bits on it that aren’t on anything else, so as exciting as that sounds.
It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians – they stay bought.
I’m very honest about my food background; I’ve never tried to pretend like I was a chef.
To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have.
If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, ‘Man, you were so honest – can’t you have some fun? Can’t you do some really down and dirty lying?’ But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I’ll be punished.
Doubts raced through my mind as I considered the feasibility of enforcing a law which the majority of honest citizens didn’t seem to want.
You know, I was really privileged to meet Woody Allen, who is now a filmmaker, let’s be honest. He’s also an actor. And he’s classic. And because I have no conception of what classic fashion is now, I respond to his slightly outdated sensibilities.
Songs are about just being totally honest and putting those words to music.
To be honest, it’s more fun being the underdog.
I don’t know if I could write songs if it wasn’t for the female race, to be honest with you.
When you are honest in your comedy, you have to acknowledge the world that you’re in. Through a comedic voice, you’re talking about what needs to be talked about, whether it’s race relations or politics or anything that’s happening on a global or an American scale.
Be honest with yourself about what you’re blowing off. A little cancellation here or a bow-out there can add up… but only if you refuse to acknowledge your actions.
I’m not two-faced, I’m honest, and I tell it the way it is. And I’m not good at hypocrisy, pretending to be someone I’m not.
You’ve got to be honest; if you can fake that, you’ve got it made.
I’ll be honest. We copied everyone… the Beatles, the Bachelors. It was the only way people would even listen to you.
To be honest, I am very comfortable with myself.
Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.
My children feel proud of me. Since their father is honest, they have nothing to be ashamed about.
Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they’re going to make mistakes.
To be honest, I really don’t like being the sex object.
This is bad for policy-making – if you cover up the problems, how can you solve them? It also corrodes public trust. Government must be much more honest about the challenges facing the country, if we are to begin to tackle them. Short-term spin must give way to proper long-term strategic thinking.
People need to be peppered or even outraged occasionally. Our national comedy and drama is packed with earthy familiarity and honest vulgarity. Clean vulgarity can be very shocking and that, in my view, gives greater involvement.
And my parents’ separation was tricky. But my mum had always been really honest with me, and treated me like an adult even when I was really young, so I knew they hadn’t been getting on.
If I’m honest, I thought Westlife would keep going for longer than it did – we all did – but it sort of came to a natural end. When we decided we were going to split, I thought, ‘If I’m going to sing, I’m going to have to do it solo.’ Also, financially I was broke, so the decision was ultimately made for me.
You have to be funny about it and honest about it. You can’t leave yourself out of that mix. You have to be honest enough to say, I’m that messed-up one in the family.
I was raised on a farm in East Tennessee, and my first concert was Britney Spears. It’s my job as a country music artist to be honest about that.
If we are honest with ourselves, we have to admit that sometimes our assumptions and preconceived notions are wrong, and therefore, our interpretation of events is incorrect. This causes us to overreact, to take things personally, or to judge people unfairly.
The walls are raised against honest men in civic life.
To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.
Growing up in Highbridge was real. Me and all my friends, we never really went to any other places in the Bronx but Highbridge. We always just stayed in Highbridge. It was like territory, to be honest, because Highbridge is like a town.
In some ways it’s taken me decades to come clean and make honest work – and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects.
I believe in love that’s fun, that is caring, giving, and that is honest.
I’ve always been a fan of telling honest stories.
The God’s honest truth is that, being the singer, my body’s my instrument.
To be honest, there is no place like home.
The citizens of New Hampshire expect and deserve a government as clean as our mountain streams and as open as our blue skies. Today let us pledge together to make this government – the people’s government – clean, open and honest.
I am a very honest, open person and I think there is a tendency in celebrity autobiographies to gloss over certain things which have happened.
To be perfectly honest, drama is a lot simpler than comedy.
You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for – if you are honest – you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one.
A lot of times when I ran, to be honest, I didn’t know where I was in the race. So I always was looking up at the scoreboard to say, ‘Just call my name to see where I am,’ because I tried to have such tunnel vision not to distract myself.
To be honest, my husband and my children are my best friends.
Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling.
Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we’re not willing to be honest with ourselves about what we feel, we don’t evolve.
Be prepared and be honest.
Gary Speed was honourable, trustworthy and a joy to manage. He was honest, he was a role model and he was a great bloke. An avid learner, he recognised responsibility and he was always fully committed.
To be perfectly honest, I feel I have a duty to use my celebrity status in a positive way.
I want to assure you that working in transition period is an ungrateful job for any honest government.
It’s wonderful to feel supported, but there’s a lot of negative energy towards me as well. So I ignore it, to be honest. If I started to read it all it would completely mess up my head.
The key to success is to be honest, follow your passion and not someone else’s path.
We don’t really talk about music that much, to be honest with you. It’s not some I usually – I can’t really talk about other people’s tracks never mind my own.
If there wasn’t struggle you would never grow. You would never become who you’re meant to be. And let’s be honest. It would also be… super boring both in movies and in life.
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
If you’re honest about things, people will trust you, even if you’re a bad guy. That says something about where we are and who we are as people.
A winner for me is someone who stands up for the right, is honest and can even go against their friends while pursuing truth.
Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest man to do.
I’m completely honest with everyone I deal with. I genuinely care about people. I want to see people succeed and be the best that they can be. So, I wanted to write a motivational book about life, love and the pursuit of happiness.
It is when I am working that the real me comes out – that is when I am the most real and honest.
Well, I mean, Russia was responsible for shooting down MH17. Russia was responsible for invading Ukraine. Russia is responsible for taking away the chemical weapons in Syria that they didn’t take away. Russia was responsible for having honest athletes in the Olympics when they did the whole doping program.
I think a lot of people don’t have any idea of how deeply segregated our schools have become all over again. Most textbooks are not honest in what they teach our high school students.
It is a very honest world, our work. I think you cannot fake anything.
To be honest with you, I just want to be true to the game of basketball, and that’s what I’ve always tried to do.
I play on my honesty. Audience like me because they find me honest.
Let’s be honest, ‘Ginza’ doesn’t really have lyrics to speak of. It’s a party track – a party for reggaetoneros to come out of the closet.
Concussions, you have to be really honest with yourself, and sometimes that’s hard to do.
I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you’re trying to accomplish and what you’re willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.
I used to be like a normal IIT student to be very honest. Then I joined the dramatics society there in IIT Kharagpur.
Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.
All honest work is good work; it is capable of leading to self-development, provided the doer seeks to discover the inherent lessons and makes the most of the potentialities for such growth.
Be sweet, be good, and honest always.
I don’t know any of us who are in relationships that are totally honest – it doesn’t exist.
Honest labor bears a lovely face.
It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.
There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.
A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
It’s OK to pursue speculative ideas because we don’t want to be too cozy and safe and assume that we know everything about life in the universe. However, we have to be rigorous and careful and honest and logical and scientifically meticulous when we speculate.
Everybody is entitled to an honest opinion.
I’m an honest man. I am living my life. I’m not stealing. And I’ve never been ashamed of who I am – I am a Roma.
I struggle to watch myself in any scene, to be honest. What’s done is done. I wish I was able to watch myself, as it would really help me develop as an actor. But I’m not brave enough. It’s a difficult thing to do – looking at yourself as this utterly different person on a screen.
There are some liberals eager to embrace a culture void of morals, but the majority of America is made up of honest, hard-working families who turned out in droves to protect the traditional way of life.
I don’t describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest.
The nWo pursued me for a while. To be perfectly honest, I think WCW management purposely kept me off ‘Nitro’ for a while to keep the nWo from getting to me.
I feel like anything I’m doing in life, I try to stay myself and be as honest and true as I can be, you know, and be a nice person. I’ve always been taught to be kind to people and have an open mind about life.
I always go back to how people behave. If you watch how people actually behave in a situation, it’s very simple and honest and contained. You don’t need to use as much expression, as much feeling. Some characters will boil over, and that’s another thing, but a lot of times I think you can just do very, very little.
I have met with some of them – very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.
One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Most accountants are strange – let’s be honest.
At 50-60, people either retire or they start falling sick, but ‘Swami’ is a person who will always remain strong. He has lots of expectations. He wants to fulfil his dreams and is very honest. First you play a character; then you play the age.
If we turn our back on the people of this country who need to work for a living, we shouldn’t be here, to be honest, because that has to be an essential part of what we do to protect the country, from the standpoint of defense, protect workers and make sure they have jobs.
I love being gut-wrenchingly honest.
As cliched as it sounds, music is my only form of expression. So I have to be honest with myself, and with that comes being vulnerable.
I had a fantastic time in Boston with the city, the fans were phenomenal, the organization was phenomenal, I just don’t know if the playing situation was right to be quite honest.
‘UnREAL’ has always been provocative and bitingly honest, which makes the show what it is.
In the future, I’d like to continue being honest with myself and admit when I’d be better off asking someone else to illustrate my writing.
There’s been many times when a producer will say, ‘I don’t think you want to say that.’ We were told we shouldn’t be so brutally honest about songwriting or radio or the industry.
Though I be poor, I’m honest.
Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.
Well, to be honest I think I’m a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks and weeks, of conscious thought – whereas short stories slip out painlessly in a few days.
Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.
No honest writer today can possibly avoid being influenced by Freud through his pioneering work into the Unconscious and by the influence of those discoveries on the scientific, philosophic, and artistic work of his contemporaries: but not, by any means, necessarily through Freud’s own writing.
I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.
Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
I believe that the pursuit of truth and right ideas through honest debate and rigorous argument is a noble undertaking.
Nicki Minaj, I’m at MTV. I’m going to be honest with you: I love you. I like you. I want you; I want you to be mine. Only reason I’m not telling you this face to face is because I understand that you’re busy.
Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite – a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.
What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque.
Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.
I’m gonna be honest: I was never really a fan of techno music, dance music.
Let me get you to understand I don’t bully anybody. I stand up for what I believe in and I’m very honest and I always tell the truth. I’m not a liar, I’m not manipulative and I don’t stab you in your back because I will stab you in your chest.
They say you can do honest, sincere work for decades, but you’re given in general a 10-year period when what you do touches the zeitgeist – when you’re relevant. And I’m aware of that, and I don’t want my time to go by.
Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.
My grandad gives me an honest opinion on the games and my performance. I really respect him for that. He’s really helped me develop as a person and a player, and he’s always been honest with me, whether I’ve had a good or bad game, where I need to improve.
I try to be as real and honest about everything and very genuine with people and say, ‘Listen, I’m a Christian, and I’m not perfect. I screw up every day, but I think that’s what grace is all about.’
Writers don’t have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate.
My most difficult thing so far, to be brutally honest, has been to waltz as if I knew what I was doing.
If I write when I’m low, it will be a dark song, but I don’t care. I want to be honest with myself at all times.
My theory is the root of a country artist is truth and honesty. For me, I look at Sam Hunt. The truth and the honest thing is we have southern roots, we were raised in a southern way, but we listen to Drake and other stuff, too.
I think that if journalists, reporters who spend a lot of time on a story, are honest with themselves, we all have feelings about our subjects – I mean, unless you’re a robot.
Corruption has reached an unacceptable level. It devours resources that could be devoted to the citizens. It impedes the proper carrying out of market rules and penalizes the honest and capable.
You need a very good financial person to keep you honest, and to keep track of income and outgo.
Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.
Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There’s a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn’t exist.
I think there are many honest businessmen.
Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of the Wilderness, – that was an honest mistake, one of the accidents of war, – being shot at, since the war, by many officers, was worse.
The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.
Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
I believe in good, honest food. That’s always been my ethos.
When I was being honest with myself, I had to own that there was something about me that was drawing an energy in my life that left me feeling underserved and unfulfilled. I decided to grow. I decided to purge myself of anyone and anything that was not full of goodness, serving me or making me happy.
To be honest everything goes over my head a bit.
I need to let people know who I am and instead of just trying to make great records, just be honest and make it more personal and make it more passionate, to make records with emotion and not be afraid to express that.
You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.
I’ll be honest: I’ve never wanted to do anything other than perform.
As an actor, you’ve to be honest while giving any shot, the camera is same in any medium, the sound system, too. So, it doesn’t matter.
Oddly, in a sense, I still have more confidence as a director than my ability as a writer. Somehow, directing is just really easy. It’s just about being really honest about how you feel about what you’re seeing.
Baddies always do get the best lines, that’s the honest truth.
Richard Pryor is, in my mind, the most honest comedian. He bared his soul to people. I think that’s why everybody loved him so much.
I can’t stand people who are backward. I am honest, straightforward. I don’t like to pretend. And I will not change either.
To be honest, it’s easier for me to speak with an American accent.
I learn from Larry Ellison every day. I’ve said this before: how is it to work with someone who thinks out of the box? Larry doesn’t see the walls at all; he does not see the box. He is an absolute, true visionary. And to be honest, I always find myself in a box! I’m comfy in my box. I’ve furnished it; it’s lovely.
Marriage is a gamble, let’s be honest.
I like books. I read a lot, to be honest.
I have enough trouble just speaking normal Australian. On ‘Vikings,’ we had a great vocal coach who helped make all of us sound the same. But I’m very bad at accents, to be honest.
I’m honest – of course I want to be a legend.
I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.
Workers want to be paid an honest, fair wage for the work they do. They want to be able to provide for their families by being justly compensated for their part in helping grow the U.S. economy. They deserve to be able to put food on the table and receive health care and other benefits.
It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
I am committed to making Georgia a model for open and honest government.
Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
I do like reality shows, and I watch some of them because they’re high drama. It’s also just fun to watch people have honest reactions.
That’s what I think we’re all looking for – an honest love wherever you can find it.
Be honest, be nice, be a flower not a weed.
To be honest, I don’t care how it went in.
I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently… This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.
To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.
If most writers are honest with themselves, this is the difference they want to make: before, they were not noticed; now they are.
We need to elect leaders who have a strong moral compass. Leaders who are honest, straightforward, and tough – with a love of justice and fair play.
My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring.
Be honest, be kind, and share the love.
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.
I feel, other than physical attributes, which can be subjective, being good at your work makes anyone desirable. Being honest and kind with fellow beings is also appealing.
Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
The market tends to pay as a wage what an individual laborer is worth. But the case last studied suggests the question how accurately the law operates in practice. May it not be an honest law, but be so vitiated in its working as to give a dishonest result?
Oceans are one of the most important things in the world now and that is a national security threat of the United States of America, to be honest with you. That is why seeing the habitat destroyed is so short-sighted by us.
Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said, ‘Oh man, this is the stuff.’ It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling.
I’ll campaign for anyone who’s honest and who I like, irrespective of the party.
To wear this shirt, especially with the West Ham badge on it – it takes an honest player, hard-working, a player that leaves everything on the pitch and plays for the crest on the shirt.
A woman in show business isn’t honest with herself… so how can she be honest with another woman? We are, all of us, acting every minute of the day and night.
Flamenco is the most honest and visceral music. You have to be sincere when you sing it. If you’re not, it doesn’t work.
I think my confidence stems from my honesty. I’m brutally honest – about everything and even myself. I tell it as I think it. I’m not politically correct. I’m definitely not diplomatic. I get bashed up for what I say, but I don’t know any other way.
I think my uncle was probably the biggest influence in my life. We grew up in the same house, and he was just a really great, hard-working, honest, ethical person.
I found my love when I was 17-years-old and my love is one hundred percent honest. We’ve never had any ugly, rocky things to overcome.
We live the life, but in an honest way. Without compromise, without corruption. This I understand now is the big key to my power – the power of Dolce & Gabbana. It’s not just the clothes. It’s love for the people.
I had to be honest in my songwriting for it to be where it is, and it’s always scary wondering if anyone will connect with that.
Being so honest in my writing is cathartic.
It is helpful to think of people as having two fundamental motivations: the desire to see ourselves as honest, good people, and the desire to gain the benefits that come from cheating – on our taxes or on the football field.
I think, as musicians, our music should be who we are. Sometimes it’s not – it’s someone else’s. All heartfelt music and all honest music, it’s who we are. Of course, our upbringing has everything to do with it.
The greatest want of the world is the want of men – men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.
I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations – one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it – you will regret both.
I work hard, like I’m sure everyone else does, and I’m very honest with the work I do.
Being a Deol for me is to be honest; walking with my head held high and never having to bow in front of injustice.
I spent almost 3 months with Bergman, four hours every afternoon. We sat and went through the whole script. To be honest, most of the time we talked about life and other different things. It was really a wonderful time.
I think most corporate executives are good honorable honest men and women who do good work.
The person who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.
Quacks are a part of our culture, and we all fall prey to them. Who among us can say, for sure, that even our own personal physicians are honest and competent?
I love being onstage and I love to perform. To be honest with you, I’m more comfortable performing than I am in an everyday situation, which I can’t quite explain.
I like children; I like ’em, and I respect ’em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
Honest businessmen should be protected from the unscrupulous consumer.
Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that’s their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it.
To be honest, my friends weren’t really as into making films as I was. But I convinced them all to make some zombie films with me.
Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels – men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
In The Name of the King is the right title. To be honest, I don’t know who had the final idea for the title but I liked it and it has a strong connection to the movie’s story.
Children are the most honest critics. They will say ‘You’re funny’, but also ‘You’re pathetic – go away.’
He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone.
I’ve never been crazy. I’m a very good girl, to be honest. I don’t do anything to hurt anybody.
To be honest with you, I get a little fed up with actors who act crazy to make themselves more interesting.
Al Haymon, one thing I can say about him, is he is a very honest guy. Very honest. He don’t sell dreams, he makes dreams come true. And that’s what he did for me.
I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life.
I’m very bold and say what I feel. That doesn’t mean I ruffle feathers. It means I’m being honest.
Be honest with yourself and lie to everyone else.
The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.
I have to be honest: I’ve memorized ‘Titanic.’
I write a lot of rhymes, but I don’t really end up using them a lot of times, and I end up just freestyling. I like to write music, though, more than I like to freestyle, to be honest.
An honest man is always a child.
When you poll all of the economists, uh, across America that I think are intellectually honest they would all, or maybe not all, but 95% of them 96% of them would say you know we really have got a powerful economy.
I don’t watch goalkeepers, to be honest.
I would vote for the man who’s lived life, who’s done different occupations, who’s been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I’d vote for experience, honest experience.
This movie is a toupee made up to look like honest baldness.
To be quite honest, John Lennon had questionable politics. There was a flip side. He was all peace and love, but he was a very violent character.
We’ve always tried to run a transparent and honest government.
I’m actually a pretty upfront, honest person; if there’s anything, I just confront it.
I’ve had a lot of plastic surgery, and I’m completely honest about it.
There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
It’s really important for women in the public eye to be open – these pop stars who don’t look, behave, speak like real women – that’s not fair on women. Being real, honest, authentic – too many women in the public eye are afraid to be authentic because they are afraid they will be judged.
I don’t really care what people think about me, to be honest. At. All.
Listen, I’m a super happy guy. But some days on the court – to be honest – I just didn’t have it emotionally. There was nothing in my tank.
I love the Kerastase Hair Oils and the Philip Kingsley Elasticizer. They’re great for making my hair really soft, but to be honest, any cheap conditioner works. Just leave it on and let it soak in, and it really helps, whatever you use.
I hope I don’t get driven to the point where, to be honest, I’m never satisfied. I hope there’s some part of me that can be content.
Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences.
The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.
To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn’t really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
I’ll be honest, when I first started pro wrestling, everybody else did clotheslines better than me. They did everything about pro wrestling better than me. But when it comes to fighting, getting nitty and gritty, I’m the man.
I’ve always known I could write. I have an ear for production and melody. It was just that, in those early years, I let everyone do it for me. To be honest, I was a little lazy!
The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.
I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.
Segregation in the South is honest, open and aboveboard. Of the two systems, or styles of segregation, the Northern and the Southern, there is no doubt whatever in my mind which is the better.
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
I’m probably the most honest person you’ll ever meet – to a fault, like, I-will-hurt-your-feelings honest. I’m sure if I lied about anything, it would have been silly, but I haven’t retained that information.
I have flaws, but I’m honest.
To be honest, busking was a massive part of becoming aware of homelessness. I used to run into a lot of ‘Big Issue’ sellers and a lot of people on the street. It really opened my eyes to the kind of life that they live and the options that are open for them – or not, actually.
I just don’t think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn’t even think about it.
To be honest, after you’ve crossed the line at the Olympic Games, it is bedlam for the next, about, five or six hours. Media, press conference, dope control – you might get some food if you’re lucky. You might see family if you’re lucky.
I probably get a bit more backlash in Australia than I do in America, to be honest. I was never invited to the Melbourne Comedy Festival because I was too gross, things like that. Which never happened in any other country.
Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what’s going on – about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.
Please understand that I make music to express myself, and if you know anything about me, you know that I’m nothing but honest.
After 114 Test matches, 228 ODIs, and 78 T20 Internationals, it is time for others to take over. I have had my turn, and to be honest, I am tired.
So for me, you can’t control the media, you have to work with media to get your message out there and you just hope that there’s enough good honest reporting and people in the media that can get that job done.
To be honest, I think kids have got a lot more going on than adults. They’ve got their heads screwed on a lot better.
Just to be honest, like I always am, I tip on my service. I think it’s a difference between good service and bad service, and just having a bad day.
An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
The electorate is starved for honest debate and for the good governance that follows from it.
I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
I’ve always been honest with my fans, and I want to keep that up because I feel they can see through the fakeness.
I am an honest, God-fearing man who is intensely dedicated to being the best person I can be on and off the football field.
I’ve got to be honest, there’s no pleasure when you’re working.
Shakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you don’t need to do anything to Shakespeare.
Always work hard, be honest, and be proud of who you are.
At the risk of sounding pedestrian, I’ll be completely honest: the first thing I do in the morning is check Google News, partially because it seems sort of random and unbiased and partially because I tend to stay in hotels that don’t necessarily have the fastest Internet connections.
It’s really important to be free and be open and honest about the things you want to do. Just ’cause you want to make a solo record or another record with another band, it doesn’t have to be an insult or a slight to the band you’ve been with for a long time.
I’m really interested in older women, to be honest, because they have lived a life that I’ve not yet lived. So I really want to learn from them, and I think culturally we tend to dispose of women once they get to a certain age and they don’t look a certain way.
If I audition for a job that I don’t get, to be honest with you, I’d rather my friend get it. I think there also has to be an acknowledgement of the fact that, as an actor, being in employment is not the norm.
The best quality about Kobe Bryant? You want me to be honest? I don’t know. I’ll tell you why. I open my arms to everybody. But he never stepped forward for the embrace. So I never really got to know him. I don’t know anything about him, and it’s kinda sad.
When I was on ‘Hurt Bert’ on FX – and I’m not crapping on FX, I’m just being honest – there was a point when I realized that they didn’t care if I died. If I died, they’d say ‘Of course it’s a legal thing, but think of the numbers.’
You have to look in the mirror and really have an honest conversation with yourself and find the discipline to not eat things that don’t agree with you.
I am very concerned about anything that says ‘revenue’ because let’s just be honest; revenue for Democrats has become code for tax increases.
You have to keep a strong sense of who you really are – and I have a pretty strong sense of myself. It gets me in trouble when I say this, but I don’t think of myself as a politician. I’ve always tried to be honest when communicating with people.
I don’t really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don’t have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training.
Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop on board I would fly that airline all the time.
If you want to end your isolation, you must be honest about what you want at a core level and decide to go after it.
I’m gonna be pretty honest; there wasn’t a lot of improv allowed on ‘Eclipse.’
I wasn’t really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
To be honest, I’m a bit of a snob now; give me a Four Seasons anywhere in the world and I’m happy. Also, they’ve just opened a Ritz-Carlton in County Wicklow, Ireland, which is stunning and has great views.
Audiences are brutally honest nowadays. If they don’t like an actor, they have all the right to write him off.
Live a full life, an honest life so that on your deathbed, you can tell yourself that you did the best you could, in the circumstances that were presented to you.
The only differences one can and should allow in socialism are between hard working people and idlers and between honest people and dishonest people.
We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.
There are still times in my life where I pull back from being totally honest, and I can’t imagine a single straight person who would understand that.
I don’t really go out that much, if I’m honest. I’m quite a recluse. If I had my way, I’d probably be at home most of the time with a book and a cup of tea or glass of wine.
Violence is a part of America. I don’t want to single out rap music. Let’s be honest. America’s the most violent country in the history of the world, that’s just the way it is. We’re all affected by it.
‘Imperial’ is me attempting to reach my ultimate form and to introduce a lifestyle of truth to my fans, be honest with yourself, and you will grow, ULT.
I’m challenged to races. Never a stranger. I’ve had a good friend of mine who, to be honest, is tiny and, like, should have assumed that I could have beat him, that I’m faster than him, and then crew members, two different crew members. I’m 3 and 0.
I work with tiny companies, so I don’t really live in unicorn world, to be honest.
People connect with my films because they are honest and simple.
His head was full of larceny, but his feet were honest.
Command that no one be received, or kept to be of your household indoors or without, if one has not reasonable belief of them that they are faithful, discreet, and painstaking in the office for which they are received, and withal honest and of good manners.
I try to be as honest and open as I am with everything that I do because it’s just, um, It helps me, you know, like whether it’s stand up or singing or act. I just try to stay true.
Our political leaders must be honest and forthcoming with data that will allow citizens to use facts and figures to judge for themselves what state Social Security is in.
I had a lot of conversations with my family, my close friends, with my pastor, with God, and kind of came to a revelation that maybe I should be honest with myself about who I am and let that person – this woman who has lived inside me for my entire life – finally have an opportunity to live.
I think when I dive on the court, I dive not for people. To be honest, I gonna hurt myself for people?… I dive because I want to win the point.
Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.
Man is not on this earth merely to be happy, or even to be simply honest. He is there to realize great things for humanity, to attain nobility and to surmount the vulgarity of almost everybody.
Some have said it is the easiest group at the World Cup, but we realize it won’t be like that. Germany are a tremendous side, but to be honest I don’t know much about Cameroon and Saudi Arabia.
I’ve learned a lot over the years, but I am an honest person, and when I’m not happy, I can’t fake a smile. If there is a problem, you will know straight away because you will see it on my face.
Try to put your happiness before anyone else’s, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
I’m not really one for collaborations, to be quite honest.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
