#honest

I despise the rituals of fake friendship. I wish we could just claw each other's eyes out and call it a day; instead we put on huge radiant smiles and spout compliments until our teeth hurt from the saccharine sweetness of it all. ↗

— Jody Gehrman

#fake #friends #friendship #humor #pretense

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

— George MacDonald

#friends #honest #other #ourselves #shall

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#affairs #after #be happy #challenge #chiefly

I want to be as honest as I can about the things I've been through - the sorrows and joys, victories and defeats - and to use those experiences as a well to draw from. Hopefully, the songs that result from that kind of writing will be songs that mean something to others. ↗

— Jim Cole

#been #defeats #draw #experiences #honest

If I'm honest I don't think the world would miss me if I never acted again. ↗

— Jamie Lee Curtis

#again #honest #i #me #miss

The sooner we rein in the red tape factory in Washington, D.C., the sooner small businesses can get back to creating jobs and helping more Americans find an honest day's work. ↗

— Geoff Davis

#businesses #creating #day #factory #find

Let's be very honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats, it's not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don't know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up. ↗

— Janeane Garofalo

#black #boston #democrats #hating #history

It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#cruelty #honesty #motivational

I honestly can't characterize my style in words. It seems that whatever comes to me naturally, I play. ↗

— Coleman Hawkins

#comes #honestly #i #me #naturally

I only deal in what is real. To be honest, I've never thought about what I could get out of football or where it would take me. I just wanted to play. I'm the same now. ↗

— Thierry Henry

#could #deal #football #get #honest