Top 1200 Brutally Honest Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

All right, I am often brash, rude and brutally direct. Someday I'm going to die and I don't have time to toe-dance around the periphery of hatred.

When we are honest - that's my saying - if we are honest then we will reveal ourselves. But we do not have to make an effort to be individualistic, different from others.

The test for honest Americans or honest liberals is, are they going to defend a president they disagree with when he's being victimized.

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

You can be very honest and direct with people, respectfully. I never do anything maliciously; I simply give my honest opinion.

If your not honest with yourself, how the hell are you gonna be honest with me.

For politicians to be honest, the public needs to allow them to be honest, and the media, which mediates between the politicians and the public, needs to allow those politicians to be honest. If local democracy is to flourish, it is about the active and informed engagement of every citizen.

For me, it's about honest interactions with people, always being honest with myself. That's my biggest power.

I don't think most guys can handle a mic even close to what I do if I'm honest and I say that with no ego, that's the honest truth. I know what I do and I'm self aware.

Let's be honest: the trappings of investment banking are quite tempting. I do miss it sometimes. And to be honest, there was a time I'd read the 'WSJ' in the morning, and for years I have done that.

I have often spoken of integrity as the most important of these values, realizing that integrity – and personal integrity, at that – is being honest to yourself. If you are always honest to yourself, it does not take much effort in always being honest with others.

It is difficult, but you need to be honest with yourself as an athlete, and have a team telling you the right things, being honest with you.

I think there are a lot of honest people doing honest business on online auctions. But the control on these Web sites is pretty minimal.

Honest work deserves honest pay.

Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.

I think romance is anything honest. As long as it's honest, it's so disarming.

I was trying in 'The Power of the Dog' to write a brutally accurate in-your-face, if you will, description of 30 years in the war on drugs. And the effect that that had on people.

I used to watch 'Top of the Pops' when I was a kid and say 'Yeah!' or 'Boo!' at every single song. So there was nothing in the middle. You brutally put it on one side or another.

The kind of leader and teammate that I was, at every stop I made, I was always honest with guys and honest with myself. I think that was the reason I grew to have the reputation I had in the league.

Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.

Michael has never cried during a Broadway show. Except in that scene where Tarzan's ape father is brutally murdered. And that was only because he was laughing so hard.

To be honest helps you a lot to not waste time. It's also the way I help the players most. It doesn't matter if it is the captain or the last reserve player, I try to be honest.

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

With the same honest views, the most honest men often form different conclusions.

Women want honesty but sometimes get upset if you are honest, so you need to know when to be honest.

I think art is much more valuable when it's honest. If it's not honest, it's just propaganda.

Everybody wants to make more movies. You see any movie, and it's just a feat of human strength and perseverance. It is a brutally challenging business.

The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought.

How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.What is true is invisible to the eye. It is only with the heart that one can see clearly.

It's chaotic. I have heard blood-curdling screams, and every time I hear it I think someone's being brutally murdered, but I realize it's a werewolf.

My mother taught me to be honest no matter what situation takes place in my life, to be honest and to stay humble.

I was brutally bullied in school. I had short hair and buck teeth and kids would call out to me in the most nasty ways possible.

I think that being on a reality show is difficult. We're expected to be honest, and especially since we are honest, it creates issues sometimes in relationships.

Honest difference of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy among free men.

A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief.

It's utterly hypocritical for Israelis to wonder aloud why Palestinians don't pursue a non-violent strategy. One obvious reason is that, whenever they have, Israel brutally represses it.

Honest. It's almost always best to go with honest. It means you never have to worry about getting your story straight.

Being honest in the spotlight is the worst idea . But I do like when artists are honest and are able to build a persona for the artwork with their honesty. That's really good.

Requesting permission from someone to be honest is really a way of accusing the other person of being so demanding or overbearing that you couldn't be honest all along.

If you can't be honest with yourself, then you can't be honest with anybody.

My approach is to be honest-really honest-and consistent. That is what any growth will take. It is an issue I think [young] generation can be courageous enough to comb through.

The key is to be honest. Be honest, but don't play yourself.

Everybody makes honest mistakes, but there's no such thing as an honest cover-up.

All I've ever wanted was an honest week's pay for an honest day's work.

Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap.

You have to be smart enough to see the world for yourself and honest. The whole book-publicity thing is not really honest, at base.

Heaven is an idea constructed by man to help him cope with the fact that life on earth is both brutally short and, paradoxically, far too long.

When someone brutally kills someone else, we call him "animalistic." But we consider ourselves "human" when we give to the poor.

I think music is honest and will make you do honest things.

What goes on between a father and a son, which is usually such a private matter, is that they are able to be honest with each other, and be honest with me, as a director. It's just remarkable.

Honest change? Honest? Has someone altered the definition of the word while my back was turned, or have you recently developed a sense of humor?

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

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

What goes on between a father and a son, which is usually such a private matter, is that they are able to be honest with each other, and be honest with me, as a director. Its just remarkable.

You're always going to get an honest, straightforward response from me. Honest to a fault.

Sometimes being honest with someone or hearing the truth hurts, but it is always better to be honest and accept what is.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

When you read the book you see that these guys aren't holding any punches. They're straightforward. They're honest. They're giving you their honest opinion.

Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don't do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around. There is plenty of room for a bit of honest writing.