She wanted to cause him pain for taking a place in her heart she wouldn’t have given him if she’d known the truth.

Peace is letting it be. Letting life flow, letting emotions flow through you.

There’s one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he’s crooked.

always tell the truth and you’ll never have to remember your words.

I believe in letting the story speak for itself.

To stand by yourself — that was also part of dignity. That way, a person could get through a public flaying with dignity. Galileo. Luther. Even somebody who admitted his guilt and resisted the temptation...

Being loved means; are disagreements welcome in my relationships? If you cant disagree with someone then you live in a tyranny and if you live in a tyranny then you are only loved to the...

The truth is that we were so spiritually and morally bankrupt that we could not even see some of those lines: we stepped over them blindly. Other times we saw the lines alright, but we...

Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?

In an honest effort to gain understanding, asking questions do not, necessarily, imply a conclusion has been determined. They can be used to avoid making the wrong judgement. If building trust is the ultimate goal...

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 humans are prone to err, and to err systematically, outrageously, and with utter confidence. We are also prone to hold our mistaken notions dear, protecting and nourishing them like our own children. We defend...

Confessions are meant to reveal universal truths through specific examples.

You might lose battles in your life time. However, every person that stands bravely on the side of justice, for people that have no voice, wins the true battle—Gods.

Honesty has a power that very few people can handle

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.

An honest man speaks truth, don’t expect him to speak sweet.

Christians don’t tell lies they just go to church and sing them.

Imagine if we had no secrets, no respite from the truth. What if everything was laid bare the moment we introduced ourselves?

People quick to criticize others, but won’t shine the light on themselves. You can’t always judge a book by the outside appearance. You have to open it up and read in order to discover how...

There is no love without respect.There isn’t much truth if spoken without genuine honesty.

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, historians have become both more accurate and more honest—fractionally more brave, one might say—about that ‘other’ cleansing of the regions and peoples that were ground to...

Nobody can force you to smile, she says. -What? I ask. But I know she’s not even talking to me, only to herself, as if she’s the last person left in the room. -They can...

It’s not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about.

If life is music, I sometimes feel as though I was born on the off-beat of the song, and I love it. As Christian numbers reportedly decrease in America, my love for Christ feels as...

Questions are only offensive to those who have something to hide

You can be in your room and lead people. Just develop your potentials and publicize them and you will see people looking for your product. That is influence; self-made leaders do not look for followers....

We would not be who we are today if it had not been for the lives that we have lived.

And I said, ‘That last thing is what you can’t get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once and for all.

I think honesty is the most heroic quality one can aspire to.

Also, I’m not going to bedevastated or anything either way. I’m not that kind of person. I just think if you don’t say thehonest thing, sometimes the honest thing never becomes true, you know, and...

I don’t make people comfortable but that’s what couches are for.

You said i could call you when i wanted but that you wouldn’t call me. you have to decide where and when, you said. if you leave it up to me i’ll want to see...

She remembered the intensity of her desire to undress him, to be naked with him, the way she felt like she could say whatever she wanted and be fully understood and do whatever she wanted...

The human body is the best work of art.

Most of what I say is complete truth. My edit button is broken.

Whatever you tell; lie or truth, can both destroy or save you.

I think I’m sort of blind to genre. As long as it has a sort of honesty about it, which I think you’ll hear in whatever music you respond to, then I think it doesn’t...

For there is no virtue, the honor and credit for which procures a man more odium than that of justice; and this, because more than any other, it acquires a man power and authority among...

In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.

He didn’t say anything and I thought I’d shocked him, because I tend to do that. Not just with Michael but with pretty much anyone who can’t deal with being honest and admitting that you...

All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn’t protect you from the truth.

Orange Juice? Sure. Toast? Sure. One last time on the couch? Sure. Phone number? Sure. See you again? Oooh, absolutely. That was the lie I told. Probably not, that was the truth, that was that...

Honesty defines self respect.

I guess we speak pretty loosely, don’t we, about looking forward to the Ashes and all that—and we are, but it’s not with both eyes. We’ve got one eye on that and one eye on...

The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.- Lucullus (Act III, scene 1)

{The final resolutions at Robert Ingersoll’s funeral, quoted here}Whereas, in the order of nature — that nature which moves with unerring certainty in obedience to fixed laws — Robert G. Ingersoll has gone to that...

Instead of fleeing God scrutiny, David welcomed it. It’s like he was saying, “Look God, since I can’t hide from you, since you know my very thoughts before I think them, I want you to...

I pity you Juliet. You don’t know what love is. You think it’s Valentine’s Day, and weekends in Italy. You think it’s drinking champagne in some expensive restaurant and being bought stupid bloody underwear. But...