A Quote by Merle Haggard

I'll tell you what the public likes more than anything, it's the most rare commodity in the world - honesty.

Merle Haggard

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Merle Haggard
American - Musician
April 6, 1937 - April 6, 2016

Honesty is a rare commodity in a palace, and that is why so many fairy-tale marriages end up on the rocks.

Garrison Keillor

Nothing weighs more heavily on age than time. Nothing has more meaning ? Now time becomes, with a kind of ruthless honesty, what it has always been: life's most precious commodity. The only difference is that, finally, we know it.

Joan D. Chittister

I don't have to tell you how fragile this precious gift of freedom is. Every time we hear, watch, or read the news, we are reminded that liberty is a rare commodity in this world.

Ronald Reagan

Any moral philosophy is exceedingly rare. This of Menu addresses our privacy more than most. It is a more private and familiar, and at the same time, a more public and universal word, than is spoken in parlor or pulpit nowadays.

Henry David Thoreau

Moral courage is more a rare commodity than bravery in a battle or great intelligence.

John F. Kennedy

What I've learned is that the most precious commodity you can have in a relationship is honesty, good or bad.

Michael Ealy

Our human nature likes more to destroy than to build, more to cry than to smile, and more to correct the world than to love and embrace the world.

Sri Chinmoy

I mean the public likes it more in Europe than they do here because the state supported organizations have felt that playing contemporary music was part of the education of the public.

Elliott Carter

Dreams really tell you about yourself more than anything else in this world could ever tell you.

Sylvia Browne

I try to factor solitude into my life because more and more, that's becoming a very precious and rare commodity.

Robyn Davidson

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. When in doubt, tell the truth. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.