Honesty Is The Best Policy Related Quotes & Sayings

I was nervous about doing 'Scottsboro Boys' because I'm not a trained dancer, and there is a lot of very athletic dancing involved. — Colman Domingo

Fairchild Parent rewarded Fairchild Child's success the way all East Coast companies of the era did: it kept a sizable chunk of the profits to fund other company operations, and it promoted the people at the top of the division to a fancier position and a better salary for a job well done. Back in New Jersey, it didn't cross anyone's mind that this was exactly the wrong response to an egalitarian company that shared both risk and reward among all of its employees, whose executives had moved to California precisely to get away from the Old World of business, and which needed to plow most of its profits back into product development to stay ahead of the competition in a fast-moving take-no-prisoners industry. — Michael S. Malone

Now I see how many wolf characteristics you had. You were wary, didn't really trust anyone or anything. You were elusive and secretive. You paced out behind the trees, watching everything and waiting for the moment when it was safe to come in and rest by the fire. But you weren't happy there -- no, I take that back, you were happy there, but you weren't comfortable. It wasn't what you knew. It wasn't what you trusted. You trusted meanness, not kindness. Kindness spooked you -- you were always looking for the trap in it. You trusted in a scrappy existence where you had to fight for your survival. — Helen Humphreys

Never take no from somebody who cannot say yes. — Adam Braun

When the Irishman is found outside of Ireland in another environment, he very often becomes a respected man. The economic and intellectual conditions that prevail in his own country do not permit the development of individuality. No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation of an angered Jove. — James Joyce

Mostly I couldn't bear ... the paltry notion that memory was all that eternal life really meant, and I spent too much time wondering where people got the fortitude or delusion to keep on moving past the static dead. — Gail Caldwell

If someone wants to make a joke about me smoking too much pot, I'm not going to get mad at them, because I've put it out there that that's what I do. — Doug Benson

As you do your work, you discover what you love to do. — Robert Genn

If you really want to drop the guilt you will have to drop your parental voices within, the priestly voices within. You will have to get rid of your parents and your conditioning. Life has been in such a trap up to now that even a small child starts feeling guilty. We have not yet been able to develop an education which can help people to grow without feeling guilty. And unless that education happens man will remain ill, ill at ease. — Rajneesh

A heroin-thin boy with enough rings in his eyebrows to resemble a shower curtain rod ... — Jodi Picoult

Scores of studies have shown that venting doesn't soothe anger; it fuels it. — Susan Cain

I have an obligation as a writer to tell a story as interestingly as possible, but with integrity and not inserting false drama ... I'm looking to be subtle, but being a wordsmith does not interest me - I want to communicate. — Jonathan Coleman

God gives much grace for great work. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I like having a tailor everywhere because I am everywhere. — Waris Ahluwalia

There's a truly unbelievable story in the paper today, that a young brother and sister ... have been turned down for adoption by their own grandparents ... If that weren't enough, the siblings are now to be adopted by two complete strangers against the wishes of the grandparents ... And as if that weren't enough, the two strangers are a gay couple, who have been selected ahead of several heterosexual couples. — Andrea Leadsom