587 quotes found
“Ay,sir;to be honest,as this world goes,is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.”
“I'm probably projecting. I'm a projector. For example: The world is not terrible. I just keep thinking it is.”
“Whatever we sayWe're always telling each other exactly what we want them to know...We are always telling each otherThe truthEven when We're lying”
“-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 make you show your teeth, b...”
“We hold these stories and mad idea and events in our head and they run around and around telling us we are different, separate, broken. Then one day the mad idea escapes the asylum. Most times its ...”
“The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.”
“Birds don't need bridges to cross precipices and honourable men with honesty wings to cross precipices of slander.”
“We are only as sick as our secrets.”
“Honesty is the great essential. It exalts the individual citizenship, and, without honesty, no man deserves the confidence of the people in private pursuit or in public office.”
“It's simply impossible for me to filter my thoughts and feelings. I tell it from my point of view. I'm an open book.”
“If there is no honesty, there is no relationship. The only degree to which there is a relationship is the degree to which you are honest. Expressing your clear desires does not make you a dictator ...”
“When the name of Gail Wynand became a threat in the publishing world, a group of newspaper owners took him aside-at a city charity affair which all had to attend-and reproached him for what they ca...”
“Oh, I know that I'll never be perfectI'm just alive”
“Worrying about worrying is a dangerous cycle to fall into. People who get caught up in worry when they try to force themselves to stop worrying may want to try a different strategy acceptance.”
“Are you always this honest?""Almost never”
“There is no love without respect.There isn't much truth if spoken without genuine honesty.”
“I detested their blind, thoughtless, automatic acquiescence to it all, their simpleminded patriotism, their prideful ignorance, their love-it-or-leave-it platitudes, how they were sending me off to...”
“I'd rather die holding on to the love I believe in, than to live embracing a love that's a lie.”
“You cannot run away from the truth because truth will find you.”
“Oh honey, have you learned nothing from these plays? Ain't such a line between faking and being.”
