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I know that everybody is so obsessed with this idea of fame, and they think that I'm obsessed. In all honesty, I'm just doing me.
Democracy is not simply a question of structures. It is a state of mind. It is an activity. And part of that activity is honesty.
I have no idea what the mind of a lowlife scoundrel is like, but I know what the mind of an honest man is like; it is terrifying.
Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
I have learned to be less confident in the conclusions of human reason, and give more credit to the honesty of contrary opinions.
All I want is your loving, feel the earth move when we kiss. I don't need a big ol' diamond, but I'll take it baby if you insist.
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.
People have said I played some pretty amazing gigs in the seventies, but in all honesty, I probably played one good show in three.
It's unrealistic to think that the future of humanity can be achieved only on the basis of prayer; what we need is to take action.
Most writers flinch at the thought of being completely honest about themselves. So absolute honesty is what marks the true modern.
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.
Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.
I think absolute honesty may not be what we want. I mean, 'My goodness, you look ugly this morning.' Perhaps that's not necessary.
Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing.
Truth is not a mystery - its greatest secrets are yours to know through simple honesty and surrender to what that honesty reveals.
We must neither behave as children by resisting honesty, nor allow ourselves to be treated as children by having honesty withheld.
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
An important book for our times, in which one woman's determination and refusal to consent sets an example of courage and honesty.
What’s the secret to success? It’s no secret. You need a winning attitude, honesty and integrity, and a burning desire to succeed.
As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
Inspirational Quotes on: Honesty, Simplicity, Secret, Universe, Modesty, Peace Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals.
Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.
Let all your views in life be directed to a solid, however moderate, independence; without it no man can be happy, nor even honest.
I know the territory, I've been around. It'll all turn to dust, and we'll fall down, and sooner or later you'll be screwing around.
God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification
Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.
It is an eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it
Because he had nothing to hide, he did perhaps appear to have forfeited a little of his strength. But that is the irony of honesty.
When Atletico wanted to sell me, I was told that I earned too much money and they wanted me off the wage bill. I liked that honesty.
It is now, more than ever, necessary that political leaders be outstanding for honesty, integrity and commitment to the common good.
My mum and I have an incredible friendship now after a mixture of pain, honesty, unconditional love and a long break from each other
If we say something often enough, we come to believe it. We don't usually delude others until after we have first deluded ourselves.
In my adult life I've understood that if I put an enormous amount of love and honesty into something, usually that shows in the end.
'Eleanor' was so much fun to write, because there's a brutal honesty about her. She's got no filters and no concept of social norms.
I started to feel songwriting was pulling different pieces of my heart out - the more I started writing, the more there was honesty.
Confession is an act of honesty and courage - an act of entrusting ourselves, beyond sin, to the mercy of a loving and forgiving God.
Nothing is more important than honesty in prayer. There are no pretensions in prayer, so the best place to begin is wherever you are.
Honesty is the biggest thing I admire, respect, and look for. And it's something that's kind of disappearing in some people nowadays.
To have a happy ending, choose a happy moment and call it 'the ending'. Honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune.
If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
There’s no mystery to integrity. There’s no mystery to oneness. When there is a core-splitting honesty, right there, awareness knows.
We're all real people with moments of intense honesty and pathos and humanity. We all experience that, whether you're comedic or not.
All this machinery making modern music can still be open-hearted. Not so boldly charted, it's really just a question of your honesty.
I take my fundamental cue from John Coltrane that says there must be a priority of integrity, honesty, decency, and mastery of craft.
I think there's a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I understood it.
We want to govern with our indigenous ancestors' models: That means a different concept of participation, community work and honesty.
I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may cool you, but the other's sure to.
Honesty is an active verb, not a passive noun. Go out of your way to be truthful, beginning with the things that you say to yourself.