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People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty. — Richard J. Needham

I want to make honest music and tell honest stories that hopefully reflect the thoughts and feelings other people have. — Steve Grand

Be honest to all people all the time. — Gary Johnson

My life of sin among people I'm sure he thinks are deviants is happier and more honest that his oppressive, sexist cesspool. — Thomm Quackenbush

Honest people, knowledgeable people, really well-informed people can have very different views about what the right measures are on national security. — Malcolm Turnbull

Let's be honest, for a lot of well meaning, open-minded white people, the sight of a young black man in a hoodie still evokes a twinge of fear. — Hillary Clinton

We hate people who honestly tell us what they think about us. We wish we were what we are not — Bangambiki Habyarimana

I'm gonna be honest. I don't care about much. I care about people liking my music. I made it very far without nothing being on radio. — Action Bronson

One thing I'd learned growing up: People were never, ever, ever 100 percent honest about their feelings.
Never. — Darynda Jones

Some people confuse being blunt with being honest. — Thomas Amo

My heroes are just everyday people who work hard, are honest and have integrity. — Jordin Sparks

Books are more honest than the world. If you want to understand people, listen to what they make up. — Tessa Maurer

Let's be honest, Yaz - the majority of people here have stinky personalities," I stated, biting into my apple.
"Ameen to that! — Aishabella Sheikh

(M)aybe we too busy being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest and worthy of respect ... you know ... like being people. — Toni Cade Bambara

Smart people duck when they hear the dread announcement 'I'm going to be perfectly honest with you. — Judith Martin

A lot of lip service gets paid to being honest, but no one really wants to hear it unless what's being said is the party line. — Colin Quinn

Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety. — Louis Kronenberger

To be honest, when I can feel that a lot of people are watching me, I get a little scared, but at the same time, it inspires me. — IU

I'm not mean, I'm honest. Nobody is ever straightforward. But sometimes people need to hear the truth. — Jessica Warman

It's hard to be honest with other people when you're hardly honest with yourself. — Jay Wilson

I'll be honest, I like shooting 'New Girl.' I like the people. The show is still new to me. I've never done TV like this before. — Jake Johnson

Sometimes people don't like me because I'm too honest; I speak the truth. — The Mighty Hannibal

When you're way too real, fake people be like: You're a trip. I want somebody with real game (lies). — T.F. Hodge

I like people to be saints; but I want them to be first and superlatively honest men. — Sophie Swetchine

People want honest, flavourful food, not some show-off meal that takes days to prepare. — Ted Allen

I can't imagine anything worse than trying to impress a girl with dinner. To be honest, I'm always impressing myself, not other people. — Marco Pierre White

You could not bribe honest people, but bad people would accept bribery. — Anne Holm

I'm taking it day by day. I liked saying this. It was honest, short, and seemed to satisfy people. — Jennifer Castle

People often think I'm a faker, but I'm usually honest, in a certain way - in such a way that often nobody believes me! — Richard P. Feynman

The only differences one can and should allow in socialism are between hard working people and idlers and between honest people and dishonest people. — Slobodan Milosevic

I am known as a one liner man because I don't give chance to people to read between the lines. — Amit Abraham

To be honest, Brazilian people are fun people, and the country is amazing. It's full of beautiful people. I love the beaches. — Helio Castroneves

People are most honest
when they don't know you are listening. — Thalia Chaltas

Like, honest to God, I don't expect people to be into what I'm into. — Martin Freeman

One of the hardest things for me, now that I'm famous, is finding people who can read my stuff and give me an honest critique. — Ken Follett

Most people couldn't be rich if they wanted to be honest; most people couldn't be honest if they wanted to be rich. — Margaret Peterson Haddix

One of the strengths of my interviews is that I really, honest to God, have no idea what people are going to say. — Errol Morris

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

Since the dawn of history, mankind has honoured and respected brave and honest people. — Nelson Mandela

One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly. — Voltaire

If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to
wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie. — Banksy

If we're really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what's causing us to do what we do. — Joyce Meyer

Peaceful, honest people have the right to be left alone. — Sam Harris

When yu say nasty things about people, you shouldnever say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honest take those back... — John Green

It frightened people when you were honest; it shocked them. — J.K. Rowling

Even the most honest human in authority often does not have the power to undo the damages that bad people do. — Auliq Ice

I am honest and want to hear what the people have to say. I do not want to enrich myself in this job. — Nestor Kirchner

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Do not believe that you will get punished for the things you do. Just be honest to yourself and the people you love. — Poonam Dhandhania

honest, I don't think that God really wants us to kill people. — Mark James

Why do villains have so much influence? Because the honest people are terribly dense. — Franz Grillparzer

I love people who are very honest and very open and don't pretend to be anything they're not. — Cat Deeley

You can tell other people all the alibis you want. I don't mind. But to yourself try to be honest. — Richard Hamming

In my experience, honest people don't need to put their hand on a Bible to tell the truth, and with dishonest people, it makes no difference. — Paul Levine

I think the hardest part to get to is that point of asking for help or reaching out to other people and being honest with yourself. — Mary-Kate Olsen

Honest people never fear the truth. — Frank Sonnenberg

I could spend my whole life prying loose the secrets of the insane. These people are honest to a fault, and their naivety has no peer but my own. — Andre Breton

My mother taught me to be honest, to be selfless, and to touch people in a positive way. — Scott Eastwood

The best you can do is be honest with the people you love and hope that they'll care enough about you to listen. — Sara Shepard

From my dad I learned to be good to people, to always be honest and straightforward. I learned hard work and perseverance. — Luke Bryan

I think little things are more powerful because they're more honest, so people feel them more strongly. — Elizabeth Peyton

There aren't really any actual misconceptions, just dumb people versus good, honest people. — Ted Nugent

People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism. — Agnes Repplier

People love to say, 'I love that person even though ... ' But let's be honest. Genuine love is never followed with the words 'even though. — Dan Pearce

I'm inspired by anyone who's honest in their own expression, people who truly beat to the rhythm of their own drum. — Gillian Zinser

I'll be honest with you: politically, I have no issue with people, but my beef sometimes is with religion at the end of the day. — Daron Malakian

People don't say "Give me your honest opinion" because they want an honest opinion. They say it because it's rude to say "Please tell me I'm amazing. — Mindy Kaling

It is strange how in some things honest people can be dishonest without the slightest compunction. — James Weldon Johnson

I'm a professional Jonathan Coulton. It's partially ego, to be completely honest: It feels great to have people adoring you in that way. — Jonathan Coulton

You need to have honest things in the world. Even if people don't understand it, if it's coming from you, that's already important. — Jillian Hervey

Be brave, be bold and above all be honest, some people will hate you and some will love you but they will all see the real you — Renzo Gracie

How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people. — Edward Benson

Any honest conversation about engaging young people must address discrimination against young people. — Adam Fletcher

There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant. — Anatole France

The way to happiness is by truth. Seek to be true in all things and you will have a foundation to build your future. — Shannon L. Alder

Honest people can disagree on policy. But where there can be no honest disagreement is the need to change our nation's debt course. — Jeff Sessions

Research tells us liars tend to gesture less, touch less, and move their arms and legs less than honest people (Vrij, 2003, 65). — Joe Navarro

Wealthy people are just as patriotic as poor people, I honest to God believe that. — Joe Biden

The Dream Act as it's been written originally is too broad, to be honest. It basically would apply to too many people. — Marco Rubio

History is written by people. People aren't always honest with others, or with themselves. — Hilary Thompson

I am honest; I try to be truthful. I like people and wish us well. We are not always deserving of our own best wishes. — Nikki Giovanni

What we earn in life? People heart? Enemies? Just think, why we live this world? Be pleasant, Be honest, Be peaceful. — Samdoss

Person-to-person, most people are honest. — Andy Rooney

People online will tell you what they really think - there's no diplomacy. They're honest; it's good to have the feedback immediately. — Giuseppe Zanotti

If people could be as honest as animals, what a different world it would be. — Tippi Hedren

The people I know who seem to make unusual efforts at rationality, are unusually honest, or, failing that, at least have unusually bad social skills. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

I usually can be more honest writing songs than actually talking to people. — Joshua Radin

It's amazing [ ... ] how perfectly honest people who would starve rather than steal sixpence, will steal books without compunction. — Jill Paton Walsh

Most people don't seem to appreciate a person as honest as me. So don't ask me how George Washington ever got to be president. — Jeff Kinney

To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it. — Grace Jones

Just be fucking honest about how you feel about people while you're alive. — John Mayer

Wagging tongues from prejudiced, sophisticated facade of show-off people can never blemish any honest, genuine, golden heart. — Angelica Hopes

The Facts were right there waiting for me,hidden in old books written by people who weren't afraid to be honest — Ernest Cline

Fiscal discipline begins by leveling with people, by being honest, by paying for all of your proposals. — Jason Furman

She would always be careful around people like Parley Burns, tricky people who are thin skinned and punitive and intelligent and surprisingly honest. — Elizabeth Hay

I sense people respond more to the honest approach to making music instead of the manufactured approach. — John Oates

There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched. — Napoleon Bonaparte

The people who watch Fox are not going to watch CNN. You know, let's be honest. — Fareed Zakaria

Cheating is bad. That's a big mistake I've made, and I've really hurt people. I've never lied about it, though. I've always been honest. — Bonnie McKee

I can't impress enough upon people that if you tell an honest story that people relate to and people believe and invest in, you can do anything. — Paul Feig