All Quotes By Tag: Honesty

“It is because I reject lies and running away that I am accused of pessimism; but this rejection implies hope — the hope that truth may be of use. And this is a more optimistic attitude than the choice of indifference, ignorance or sham.”

“We prove ourselves by the way we live, and the way we live resonates among all we know and do.”

“In an attempt to fix a crooked world, she broke herself, her heart, and her sanity.”

“If you’re honest with yourself as a writer, trying to tell the best story you can, your story will be an honest one. And your values will come out, no matter how hard you try to disguise them.”

“[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account.”

“I only knew what was in my mind, and I wished to express it clearly”

“Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. … The sensibilities of no two men are the same. Some would refuse to sell property without carefully explaining all about its merits and defects, and putting themselves in the purchasers’ place and inquiring if he himself would buy under the circumstances. But such men never would be prosperous merchants.”

“Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both.”

“You should spend more time reading the Good Book and less reading all those novels. What are you going to tell the Lord on Judgement Day when He asks you why you didn’t read your bible? Hmm?”I will tell Him that His press agents could have done with a writing lesson or two, I said. To myself.”

“When you walk a life of honesty, you live a life of truth.”

“Do you feel cold and lost in desperation? You build up hope, but failure’s all you’ve known Remember all the sadness and frustration And let it go. Let it go”

“Scholars, theologians, and even poets have yet to be able to truly describe and touch upon the beauty, romance, and magic of a relationship built on 100% authenticity”

“I leave pansies, the symbolic flower of freethought, in memory of the Great Agnostic, Robert Ingersoll, who stood for equality, education, progress, free ideas and free lives, against the superstition and bigotry of religious dogma. We need men like him today more than ever. His writing still inspires us and challenges the ‘better angels’ of our nature, when people open their hearts and minds to his simple, honest humanity. Thank goodness he was here.”

“But do we know how to make love stay?’I can’t even think about it. The best I can do is play it day by day.”

“The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn. The less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything…”