Best Honest Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Acquiring an aggressive, honest, and communicative agent with actual relationships in real-live New York publishing houses is, in my opinion, the single most important move that a writer who aspires to be successful can make.”

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Author:John Lescroart

“I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what really happened here. A place doesn't have to be perfect to be beloved, and I love this city and I love it better for seeing its flaws.”

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Author:Laura Lippman

“You have to be honest about who you are.”

Honest Who You Are Being Honest

Author:Ray Lewis

“I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.”

Thinking Honest Intimate

Author:Laura Marling

“If I were less than honest as a critic, I think people would spot that right away, and it would destroy my credibility.”

People Ifs Thinking Honest Critics Spots Credibility

Author:Leonard Maltin

“Typically in 'Game of Thrones,' people who are honest and just and do things for the right reasons tend not to survive.”

People Reason Games Honest Thrones

Author:Richard Madden

“I'm not coping very well with all the attention, if I'm honest.”

Ifs Wells Attention Honest Coping

Author:Sienna Miller

“In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist.”

Knows Art Done Artist Honest Integrity

Author:Bruce Nauman

“To be honest, I don't enjoy watching movies much when I'm working. They tend to fall apart on me a bit.”

Fall Bits Enjoy Honest Being Honest Falling Apart

Author:Christopher Nolan

“I can't remember any regrets, to be honest with you.”

I Can Remember Honest Regret Being Honest

Author:Don Nelson

“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.”

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Author:Grace Napolitano

“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.”

Knows Wells Looks Walks Views Honest Mines Point Of View Brutally Honest

Author:Indra Nooyi

“The only thing I'm looking for in life is incredible passion and honest love, no matter what options are on the table. All I really operate on is the way I feel in my heart when it comes to love.”

Way Feels Heart Matter Life Is Passion Honest My Heart No Matter What Tables Incredibles Love No Matter What Honest Love

Author:Aubrey O'Day

“Every now and then, a presidential candidate surprises us with a truly human and honest moment.”

Humans Moments Honest Surprise Presidential Candidates Now And Then Presidential Candidate

Author:Ron Fournier

“Women love an honest man.”

Men Honest Honest Man

Author:Rita Ora

“You can tell an honest artist from one who's just given all their songs.”

Artist Song Given Honest

Author:Rita Ora

“My job is to focus on bringing characters to life in an honest and personal way.”

Way Character Jobs Focus Honest

Author:Danny Pudi

“I can't envision an honest war novel that left war in a positive light.”

I Can War Light Left Novel Honest

Author:Kevin Powers

“To be honest, the only thing I ever really wanted to be was a writer - since I read 'Charlotte's Web' as a child.”

Children Wanted Honest Being Honest Charlotte Charlotte's Web

Author:Louise Penny

“Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods of this world. Compulsion is applied from above as self-discipline relaxes below, and the last liberties expire under the weight of a unitary state.... Since religion has lost its empire over the souls of men, the most prominent boundary that divided good from evil is overthrown; kings and nations are guided by chance and none can say where are the natural limits of despotism and the bound of license.”

“I know when a story is finished when there is not a single thing more I can think to do to it. And since I know at the start what the last line will be, I know when I've reached that point as logically as I can that it's finished. As for the rewriting-it's not foolproof, of course, but if you're honest about having thought of every possibility and you still come back to what you have, what more can you do?”

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Author:Amy Hempel

“I'm very honest about the things I struggle with and I need to work on to survive as a solo artist.”

Needs Artist Struggle Honest Solo

Author:Aubrey O'Day

“I know who my dad is, I've met him a few times, but I don't even call him dad. I know it sounds horrible, but I don't even see him as part of my family, to be honest. If you want the truth, it doesn't bother me because I don't know any different. I just know that me and my mum, that was my family.”

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Author:Sally Pearson

“I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.”

Pleasure Honest Being Honest

Author:Dana Plato

“Every day I get more and more honest.”

Honest

Author:Jeff Probst

“I started modeling quite young. I would really recommend to every girl not to start modeling until they turn 17, to be honest. Before that, I think you're not mature enough.”

Thinking Enough Young Turns Girl Honest Being Honest Mature Modeling Every Girl

Author:Anja Rubik

“Honest talk about the deficit is risky. Voters are more enthusiastic about the abstract notion of deficit reduction than about the painful details of accomplishing it.”

Honest Notion Painful Details Abstract Voters Deficit Enthusiastic Reduction

Author:Christina Romer

“I'm often uncomfortable with girliness, to be honest.”

Honest Being Honest Uncomfortable

Author:Elizabeth Reaser

“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.”

World Doe Pain Song Honest Cleansing Facade Greatest Song

Author:Lionel Richie

“When we were in the design studio I always was pretending like I was in a closet asking my friend before I step out into the world what do I look like? And everybody wants that honest friend before they go and go to dinner or go to an event.”

World Want Looks Steps Honest Events Design My Friends Asking Studios Dinner Pretending Closets Honest Friends

Author:Nicole Richie

“I’d never managed anyone before, so I don’t have a lot of experience. But I’m lucky - I have a lot of team members who have a really honest relationship with me.”

Team Honest Lucky Members Team Member Honest Relationship

Author:Ben Silbermann

“I gotta be honest with you...I hate numbers. I hate chapter numbers. I hate them.”

Hate Numbers Honest I Hate Being Honest Chapters

Author:Garth Stein

“I prefer doing interviews where people don't have to interpret what you say. I'm going to be real honest.”

People Real Honest Interviews Being Real

Author:Octavia Spencer

“I suppose you just feel on an instinctive level if something is honest.”

Ifs Feels Levels Honest

Author:Ray Stevenson

“There are a lot of smart honest, progressive people who I think can be good presidents.”

People Thinking President Honest Smart Be Good Progressive

Author:Bernie Sanders

“The world is not ideal, and the only weapon we can give our children is information. Information which is not pretty, but honest.”

World Giving Children Honest Information Weapons Ideals Our Children Not Pretty

Author:Cristina Saralegui

“I have gotten into a lot of trouble in my life for being brutally honest. Sometimes I put both my feet in my mouth. But like Elton John, I'm still standing.”

Stills Sometimes Trouble Feet Honest Mouths Standing Brutally Honest

Author:Cristina Saralegui

“I only have one note, let's be honest. But I'll play a different version of that one note.”

Different Play Honest Notes Versions Being Honest

Author:David Spade

“I was finding it very difficult to find a label that understood what I wanted to do and really believed that people wanted to hear something honest and a little bit different. So, I did feel a bit like a clown. You're knocking on everyone's door trying to get them to believe what you're doing.”

People Feels Trying Believe Littles Different Wanted Bits Difficult Doors Honest Findings Little Bit Understood Labels Clown Knocking

Author:Emeli Sande

“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.”

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Author:Fiona Shaw

“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.”

Knows Trying Helping Honest Singing Help Me Stay True

Author:Jamie Foxx

“Well, I am becoming doddering and old but I have - I'm writing two books a year now. It's like 220,000 words or something like finished, and, honest to God, I can't do that. I really do need the help of, you know, other people working with me.”

People Knows Needs Writing Years Wells I Can Two Book Helping Honest Becoming Finished

Author:John Sandford

“Christians can have doubts and they can have questions and the unhealthy way to deal with that is to keep them inside where they fester and grow and can undermine our faith. The healthy way to deal with it is to talk about it and be honest about it.”

Way Christian Grows Deals Doubt Honest Healthy Being Honest Unhealthy

Author:Lee Strobel

“Be honest! You are not going to want to admit energy loss. Someone is making it hard for you to look.”

Want Looks Hard Energy Loss Honest Being Honest

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Clark, what in your honest opinion is the right standard for determining conduct? Is the only right standard for everyone, the probable action of Jesus Christ? Would you say that the highest, best law for a man to live by was contained in asking the question 'What would Jesus do?' And then doing it regardless of results? In other words, do you think men everywhere ought to follow Jesus' example as closely as they can in their daily lives?”

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Author:Charles Sheldon

“Everybody is writing, writing, writing - worst of all, writing poetry. It'd be better if the whole tribe of the scribblers - every damned one of us - were sent off somewhere with tool chests to do some honest work.”

Ifs Writing Whole Worst Honest Tools Chests Tribes Writing Poetry Honest Work

Author:Walt Whitman

“Nobody can make you happy but yourself. Things occupy us, people occupy us, but they don't make us happy. If we are honest, what makes us happy is to experience spirit.”

People Ifs Happiness Spirit Honest Buddhism Make You Happy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.”

People Thinking Honest Cheating Bargains Cheated Merchants Bargaining Honest People

Author:Anatole France

“You can hit a home run. If you are honest, you'll know when it's perfect because at that critical moment of connection, there was no sense of being there. That is perfect play. There is no self involved.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“My dad is a really honest, hardworking, straight guy.”

Guy Honest Dad My Dad Hardworking

Author:Joe Lando

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