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“I don’t like to mince words any more than I like to mince garlic. Either way, your breath is bad.”

Truth Honesty Words Frank Bad Breath Garlic Mince

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Most people want to be told the truth … most of the time.”

Truth Lying Honesty Lies Frank Dishonesty Blunt Frankness Bluntness Call A Spade A Spade

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Being generally deemed a good person often requires one to tell a half-truth, not to tell the truth, or to tell a complete lie.”

Truth Lying Honesty Good People Frank Good Person Straightforward Bad People Half Truth Bad Person

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“To ‘pretend’ is to say that I’m willing to waste the precious energy that it takes to pretend, and I’m unwilling to cultivate the bravery that it takes to be real. And I am at a complete loss to pretend that either of these aren’t true.”

Real Truth Fear Honest Honesty Bravery Brave Authenticity Denial Fake Frank Truthful Avoidance Authentic Pretend Avoid False Forthright

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I would like to say that I’m sacrificial. But am I sacrificial enough to acknowledge the fact that I’m not?”

God Jesus Sacrifice Honesty Ignorance Jesus Christ Denial Frank Ignore Sacrificial Forthright

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Look, Miranda, he said, those twenty long years that lie between you and me. I've more knowledge of life than you, I've lived more and betrayed more and seen more betrayed. At your age one is bursting with ideals. You think that because I can sometimes see what's trivial and what's important in art that I ought to be more virtuous. But I don't want to be virtuous. My charm (if there is any) for you is simply frankness. And experience. Not goodness. I'm not a good man. Perhaps morally I'm younger even than you are. Can you understand that?”

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Book:The Collector

Source: The Collector

“Being compassionate does not mean refraining from telling people, when they are, that they are to blame for their own suffering.”

Suffering Responsibility Compassion Self Help Empathy Blame Sympathy Frank Straightforward Heartless

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“...and frankly speaking, I don't give a damn.”

Love Life Care Life Lessons Time Attitude Frank Egotistical

Author:Yuvika Mathur -Gone with the time.

“Despite everything, I believe people are really good at heart.”

Believe Heart Good Frank Anne

Book:The diary of a young girl

Source: The diary of a young girl

“Only strong women, and they seem to be rare, can handle a frank and direct woman who doesn't sweet-talk or need others to nerve her. You can identify the easily intimidated because they need a gaggle of like-minded clones to back them up when they feign offense, which is merely a guise for their insecurity.”

Strong Women Strength Direct Independence Alone Insecurity Frank Candor Clones

Author:Donna Lynn Hope

“Remember, there’s also a downside of being too frank with others around you. There are people who might try to exploit your kindness by asking you for too many favors.”

Succeed Negative Affection Help Frank Surroundings Always Try Utilize Favours

Author:Dr Prem Jagyasi

“Um..." Hazel faltered. "You mean you won't... you're not going to-" "Claim your life?" Thantos asked. "Well, let's see..." He pulled a pure-black iPad from thin air. Death, tapped the screen a few times, and all Frank could think was: Please don't let there be an app for reaping souls. "I don't see you on the list," Thantos said. "Pluto gives me specific orders for escaped souls, you see. For some reason, he has not issued a warrant for yours. Perhaps he feels your life is not finished, or it could be n oversight. If you'd like me to call and ask-" "No!" Hazel yelped. "That's okay." "Are you sure?" Death asked helpfully. "I have video-conferencing enabled. I have his Skype address here somewhere...”

Death Frank Hazel Percy Jackson Rick Riordan Thantos

Book:The Son of Neptune

Source: The Son of Neptune

“Sincerity is barely an explanation: it is never an excuse.”

Sincerity Frank Excuses Candid

Author:Rémy de Gourmont

“Not playing the game is the best way to play the game.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The problem is not that we don’t recognize the truth when we hear it. The problem is that we don’t want to recognize what the truth might mean for us if we hear it.”

Problem Truth Honest Selfish Accountability Frank Greedy Self Centered Hear Accountable Superificiality

Book:A View From the Front Porch: Encounters With Life and Jesus

Source: A View From the Front Porch: Encounters With Life and Jesus

“Frankness is not madness, and sincerity is not stupidity.”

Principles Frank Trusted Credibility Credible Considerate Reliability Principle Frankness Upright

Book:Your Clients and You

Source: Your Clients and You

“Leo resisted the urge to throw a grenade in Frank's face. "I suppose I should know who Pelops was?" "He was a prince, won his wife in a chariot race. Supposedly he started the Olympic games in honor of that." Hazel sniffed. "How romantic. 'Nice wife you have, Prince Pelops.' 'Thanks. I won her in a chariot race.”

Wife Prize Frank Leo Hazel Chariot Race Prince Pelops Totally Romantic

Book:The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

“Let me be frank even though I'm Vincent and prefer to be called V.”

Frank V Vincent Droll

Book:Catapult Soul

Source: Catapult Soul

“Display politeness and frankness always both in action and conversation. Don’t keep engaging in useless arguments. It scares your dreams away. Talk sensibly.”

Source: Shaping the dream

“Nevertheless, they are obviously functional units of great importance, and it is now necessary to establish exactly what their role is.”

Secret Secrets Mexico Frank There Sending Card So Many

Book:The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene

Source: The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene

“My phone buzzes in my shirt pocket, and Frank takes a step back to let me answer it. I’ve got another text from Jem. What does the breast part look like? I think I’ve got it upside-down. “The fuck?” Frank says. “He’s talking about the turkey.” “Oh. Jesus. I mean…good.” “Jem knows what human breasts look like.” Frank shudders. “I can’t deal with this,” he mutters and stalks away.”

Book:Love Among Pigeons

Source: Love Among Pigeons

“If we’re honest, what makes something impossible is not our fear. Rather, it is our indifference.”

“Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again.”

Thinking Used Actors Frank

Author:Matthew Modine

“One of the things I've discovered at my age is I must have enchantment. And that was not clear to me in my earlier years. When I look at my favorite films, the Frank Capra - even Scorsese, even 'Goodfellas,' what makes that movie so remarkable is there's enchantment in their world.”

World Years Looks Age Film Clear My Favorite Remarkable Frank Enchantment Scorsese

Author:David O. Russell

“Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey opens the show. They are there to see HIM.”

Ifs Shows Care Girl Audience Singers Comic Frank Organs Monkeys Grinder

Author:Nancy Sinatra

“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”

“When I started formulating the first Frank comic, I knew I wanted it to be something that was beyond time and specific place. I felt that having the characters speak would tie it to 20th-century America, because that would be the idiom of the language they would use, the language I use.”

Firsts Character Use Would Be Wanted America Speak Language Felt Century Comic Ties Frank 20th Century Idiom

Author:Jim Woodring

“Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.”

Kind Used Used To Be Sense Of Humor Be Kind Bob Frank Good Sense Good Sense Of Humor

Author:Al Franken

“Frank Miller is more of a visionary than any director I've ever worked with, and he achieves that vision better than anyone I've ever worked with.”

Vision Achieve Directors Frank Visionaries

Author:Gabriel Macht

“All the Frank O'Hara types seem to have very little sound stuff going... it's so chatty or something.”

Littles Seems Stuff Sound Type Frank

Author:Tom Verlaine

“People like Frank Zappa were amazing for us Brits.”

People Frank Brits Zappa

Author:Rick Wakeman

“My first big gig was an opening show for Frank Zappa, and I think that was difficult.”

Thinking Firsts Shows Bigs Difficult Opening Frank Gigs Zappa

Author:Tom Waits

“I must confess the activities of the UK governments for the past couple of years have been watched with frank admiration and amazement by Lord Vetinari. Outright theft as a policy had never occurred to him.”

Years Has Beens Government Past Lord Policy Couple Activity Admiration Frank Theft Amazement Vetinari

Author:Terry Pratchett

“And just as music is the space between notes, just as the stars are beautiful because of the space between them, just as the sun strikes raindrops at a certain angle and throws a prism of color across the sky—so the space where I exist, and want to keep existing, and to be quite frank I hope I die in, is exactly this middle distance: where despair struck pure otherness and created something sublime.”

Want Beautiful Certain Dies Stars Space Sun Sky Middle Color Pure Despair Music Is Distance Notes Strikes Frank Sublime Angle Space Between Raindrops Otherness Prisms

Author:Donna Tartt

“The Republicans find their faith imperiled by Barney Frank's marriage. There is always a shadow on the wall, a monster in the closet, a mysterious rustling in the teeming underbrush of the conservative Id.”

Wall Republican Shadow Conservative Monsters Mysterious Frank Closets

Author:Charlie Pierce

“The idea of African brotherhood is often just a cover-up for laziness. We must see what is achievable in our circumstances and evaluate all decisions. In terms of regional economic integration, sentimentality is not enough. We really have to be frank and honest.”

Ideas Enough Term Decision Economic Honest Circumstances Brotherhood Frank Laziness Integration Evaluate Sentimentality Cover Ups Economic Integration

Author:Benjamin Mkapa

“My trainer Jimmy Tibbs and my promoter Frank Warren told me that I had to be patient and get the jab going.”

Patient Frank Be Patient Jimmy Trainers Promoters

Author:Billy Joe Saunders

“I worked on a film short with Frank Sinatra when I was a kid.”

Kids Film Frank

Author:Dwayne Hickman

“The Merchants of Carolina, are fair, frank Traders.”

Fairs Frank Merchants Carolina Traders

Book:The History of Carolina: Containing the Exact Description and Natural History of that Country, Together with the Present State Thereof and a Journal of a Thousand Miles Traveled Through Several Nations of Indians, Giving a Particular Account of Their Customs, Manners, &c., &c

Source: The History of Carolina: Containing the Exact Description and Natural History of that Country, Together with the Present State Thereof and a Journal of a Thousand Miles Traveled Through Several Nations of Indians, Giving a Particular Account of Their Customs, Manners, &c., &c

“I would go to bed every night and have dreams about having a time machine and somehow I'd have the ability to move through time and space freely, and save Anne Frank.”

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Author:Jeff Mangum

“I was a caddy. I also worked as a bouncer, selling Christmas trees at Frank's Nursery and before that, selling what they normally sell.”

Tree Sells Selling Frank Nursery Christmas Tree

Author:Joseph Bruce

“My frank response to all sex questions is that there is too much significance put on them to begin with. Sex is part of human nature, and I don't know why such a big deal is made out of it.”

Knows Humans Made Bigs Sex Deals Too Much Human Nature Response Significance Frank Big Deal

Author:John Travolta

“The events of the Holocaust viewed through the eyes of Anne Frank are a unique and damming testament to the dreadful atrocities of that period of our history”

Eye Events Periods Unique Holocaust Frank Uniqueness Testament Atrocities Through The Eyes

Author:Charles Kennedy

“I'm frank, brutally frank. And even when I'm not frank, I look frank.”

Looks Honesty Frank

Author:Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet

“I was a reasonably good student in college ... My chief interests were scientific. When I entered college, I was devoted to out-of-doors natural history, and my ambition was to be a scientific man of the Audubon, or Wilson, or Baird, or Coues type-a man like Hart Merriam, or Frank Chapman, or Hornaday, to-day.”

Men Science Interest Natural Doors Students College Type Ambition Chiefs Frank Devoted My Ambition Wilson Natural History Good Students Hart

Book:Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt

Source: Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt

“People who understand music hear sounds that no one else makes when Frank Sinatra sings.”

People Sound Frank

Author:Walter Cronkite

“I'd come home from school alone with those teenage blues and I'd put on Frank Sinatra's It was a very good year. Here was this mature man singing about the cycle of his life, and as a kid I felt the emotions of it already. It has since been a touchstone for me whenever I want to experiment musically.”

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Author:Iggy Pop

“You have to remember, Frank Sinatra is 82 years old, which is 240 in your years. He's lived three lifetimes! He has good and bad days. He can't run ... around as fast as he used to.”

Years Running Remember Used Three Lifetime Explanation Frank Good And Bad Bad Day Good And Bad Days

Author:Tom Dreesen

“I usually get involved in the interviews about the animators and the filmmaking in general, because I had a chance. I got to know, not only Marc Davis, but Frank Thomas, Artie Johnson, Ward Kimball, all these great animators, and just ask them all these questions about how they did certain things, what their trials and errors were, the ups and downs.”

Knows Certain Asks Chance Involved Errors Trials Interviews Frank Filmmaking Get Involved Johnson Ups & Downs Trial And Error Animator

Author:Andreas Deja

“The only music I've ever written was for a film called Frank, and the idea was that it was the worst music in the world.”

World Ideas Film Written Worst Frank

Author:Domhnall Gleeson