“If I am going to be afraid, I might as well do it honest. Arm in arm with everyone I love, adorned in blood and bruises, singing jokes on our way to the grave.”
Source: A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
“I think I've done the best I can do at the time and been as honest with myself as I can be and I can sleep good at night knowing that.
- interview w/ MTV 2005”
“Wasn't this rugged business of taking your life apart, looking at all of it and admitting and remembering and reminding yourself of all the bad - wasn't the big result of it your getting to be honest?
"Exactly that," said Ferguson.”
Source: A Man Against Insanity: The Birth of Drug Therapy in a Northern Michigan Asylum
“It has nothing to do with not trusting you. It’s to do with what something becomes once you tell it. It’s like it’s truer. And it’s got a life of its own and it rushes out into the world and becomes something you can’t control.”
Source: The Rest of Us Just Live Here
“Watch out for your soul before your shape.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“If a thing could not be accomplished honestly, probably it wasn't worth accomplishing at all.”
Source: Castle Roogna
“Rak może cię wykończyć, nieszczerość zrobi to na pewno.”
Source: Breakfast at Tiffany's
“Por lo demás, hermanos, todo lo que es verdadero, todo lo honesto, todo lo justo, todo lo puro, todo lo amable, todo lo que es de buen nombre; si hay virtud alguna, si algo digno de alabanza, en esto pensad”
Source: Santa Biblia Reina-Valera 1960
“It's difficult for women to be honest and direct because for centuries we were burned at the stake, or persecuted, or exiled, or rejected, or excommunicated, or divorced, or shamed, or socially excluded, for saying what we truly thought and felt. Now, we know how to act like we're being direct and forthright, when we're not, and we know how to seem uninhibited and free, when we're not, and we know how to appear helpless and damaged, when we're not. Deception is more ingrained in us than honesty.”
Source: A Room Called Earth
“That is why enemies can be great motivators. They serve as fuel for your fire.”
Source: We All Need Heroes: Stories of the Brave and Foolish