Mother Teresa - Quotes

 People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.

For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway. 

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Phone Booth - Quotes

 
[last lines]
The Caller:
Nice shoes. Italian. You hung up, Stu. I didn't even have a chance to say goodbye. I feel bad about the pizza guy. But I couldn't miss seeing you and Kelly reunited. You don't have to thank me, nobody ever does. I just hope your newfound honesty lasts. Because if it doesn't, you'll be hearing from me.
Stu:
[voice echoing, gasping] Help. Help, help. Help.
The Caller:
[voiceover] Isn't it funny? You hear a phone ring and it could be anybody. But ringing phone has to be answered, doesn't it? [whispers]
The Caller:
Doesn't it?
 

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Milan Kundera - Quotes

 I know, brother, that you are a straightforward man, and that you pride yourself on it. But put one question to yourself: why in fact should one tell the truth? What obliges us to do it? And why do we consider telling the truth a virtue? Imagine that you meet a madman, who claims that he is a fish and that we are all fish. Are you going to argue with him? Are you going to undress in front of him and show him that you don't have fins? Are you going to say to his face what you think? Well, tell me!'



His brother was silent and Edward went on: 'If you told him the whole truth and nothing but the truth, only what you really thought, you would enter into a serious conversation with a madman and you yourself would become mad. And it is the same way with the world that surrounds us. If I obstinately told a man the truth to his face, it would mean I was taking him seriously. And to take something so unimportant seriously means to become less than serious oneself. I, you see, must lie, if I don't want to take madmen seriously and become one of them myself. 

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Rachel Maddow - Quotes

 The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them.  

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William Shakespeare - Quotes

 What a fool honesty is. 

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George Carlin - Quotes

 Honesty may be the best policy, but it 

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William Shakespeare - Quotes

 No legacy is so rich as honesty. 

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Simone Weil - Quotes

 We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say,  

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Children of the Struggle - Quotes

 John Glass:
Friendship and love. Hatred. Courage. Fear. Honesty and truth. Forgiveness. You make a million choices in life. Each one causes a ripple.
 

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Testosterone - Quotes

 Sofia:
Dean, do you know why Pablo came back to his country?
Dean Seagrave:
[in a sarcastic tone] I'm sure it was because he missed the warmth, friendliness, and honesty of the Argentine people.
Sofia:
You are very arrogant, you know.
 

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Christopher Hitchens - Quotes

 Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, historians have become both more accurate and more honest 

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W. Somerset Maugham - Quotes

 Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?'



The corners of his mouth drooped peevishly.



Oh, my dear, it's rather hard to take quite literally the things a man says when he's in love with you.'



Didn't you mean them?'



At the moment. 

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Ernest Hemingway - Quotes

 Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. 

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Adam Rodriguez - Quotes

 I'll be honest, I thought it was very soon for him to [be back at work after] having sustained that kind of injury. They (Executive Producer Ann Donahue and the writers) did address that issue by saying it had been a couple of weeks, but I thought it was a little bit soon. 

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Ayn Rand - Quotes

 And what, incidentally, do you think integrity is? The ability not to pick a watch out of a neighbor 

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Sigmund Freud - Quotes

 Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor. 

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Chuck Palahniuk - Quotes

 Like the he-man movie stars who turn out to be queer . . . or the silent-film actors whose voices sound terrible recorded--the audience only wants a limited amount of honesty. [ellipses original] 

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Mahatma Gandhi - Quotes

 Truth never damages a cause that is just. 

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Ambrose Bierce - Quotes

 Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be. 

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John Steinbeck - Quotes

 Can you honestly love a dishonest thing? 

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Ralph Moody - Quotes

 There are only two kinds of men in this world: Honest men and dishonest men. ...Any man who says the world owes him a living is dishonest. The same God that made you and me made this earth. And He planned it so that it would yield every single thing that the people on it need. But He was careful to plan it so that it would only yield up its wealth in exchange for the labor of man. Any man who tries to share in that wealth without contributing the work of his brain or his hands is dishonest. 

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Thomas Jefferson - Quotes

 Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom. 

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George Washington - Quotes

 I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. 

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Jack Kerouac - Quotes

 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. 

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Salman Rushdie - Quotes

 Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull. 

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Milan Kundera - Quotes

 I know, brother, that you are a straightforward man, and that you pride yourself on it. But put one question to yourself: why in fact should one tell the truth? What obliges us to do it? And why do we consider telling the truth a virtue? Imagine that you meet a madman, who claims that he is a fish and that we are all fish. Are you going to argue with him? Are you going to undress in front of him and show him that you don't have fins? Are you going to say to his face what you think? Well, tell me!'



His brother was silent and Edward went on: 'If you told him the whole truth and nothing but the truth, only what you really thought, you would enter into a serious conversation with a madman and you yourself would become mad. And it is the same way with the world that surrounds us. If I obstinately told a man the truth to his face, it would mean I was taking him seriously. And to take something so unimportant seriously means to become less than serious oneself. I, you see, must lie, if I don't want to take madmen seriously and become one of them myself. 

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Thomas Jefferson - Quotes

 Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none 

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Robert Louis Stevenson - Quotes

 We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. 

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William Bonner - Quotes

 Who would appreciate such candor? No one. None of us really likes honesty. We prefer deception  

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Frank Lloyd Wright - Quotes

 Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry. 

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Hunter S. Thompson - Quotes

 So much for Objective Journalism. Don't bother to look for it here--not under any byline of mine; or anyone else I can think of. With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms. 

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Louisa May Alcott - Quotes

 Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us. 

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Fran - Quotes

 He who lives without folly is not as wise as he may think. 

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Mark Twain - Quotes

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

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Fyodor Dostoevsky - Quotes

 Wer sich selbst bel 

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Ricky Ponting - Quotes

 I guess we speak pretty loosely, don't we, about looking forward to the Ashes and all that 

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George Washington - Quotes

 It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. 

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Philip K. Dick - Quotes

 Fat realized that one of two possibilities existed and only two; either Dr. Stone was totally insane  

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Jane Austen - Quotes

 Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken; but where, as in this case, though the conduct is mistaken, the feelings are not, it may not be very material. 

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Italo Calvino - Quotes

 Falsehood is never in words; it is in things. 

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John Boyd - Quotes

 If a man asks me for my loyalty...I will give him my honesty.

If a man asks me for my honesty...I will give him my loyalty! 

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Toba Beta - Quotes

 Bullshit takes no genius,

even fool senses its' foul. 

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Walter Scott - Quotes

 Craigengelt, you are either an honest fellow in right good earnest, and I scarce know how to believe that; or you are cleverer than I took you for, and I scarce know how to believe that either. 

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