I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied
Ralph Ellison
Related To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To be honest, I was born in luxury. I never saw the dearth of money, so money is not something which... RANBIR KAPOOR I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m... AMBER SMITH When I discover who I am, I'll be free. -Ralph Ellison. RALPH ELLISON To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD When I first got an outbreak of hives, I tried everything to find relief. I felt like no one underst... VICKI LAWRENCE I've always just focused on the work, and I've just tried to be honest with the work. If the... GARTH DAVIS Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI To be honest, I've just become a Steelers fan. NATE TORRENCE When I tried to figure out how computers worked, I was disgusted. I thought it was totally brute for... KWABENA BOAHEN To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is. JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy "To go outside, and there perchance to stay Or to re... HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS I think it's an awful drink, to be honest with you. CHARLIE WATTS When I was going through my transition of being famous, I tried to ask God why was I here? what was ... WILMA RUDOLPH If you don’t have a goal and don’t know where you want to be and when you want be there. You are... AHMED ALI ANJUM Human is what he decides to be. ZAMAN ALI This was it. This was what I had never felt before--an emotional connection to another human being. ... DAN WELLS I have to be honest - I don't love guns. VANESSA FERLITO I'm often uncomfortable with girliness, to be honest. ELIZABETH REASER I just tried to come up with some honest songs. What I was writing about was real plain stuff that I... JOHN PRINE I had more friends on my hockey team than I did on my soccer team. I might have been better at socce... CARL HAGELIN I'm trying to love someone, even when she tried to forget about me. everytime i falling in love, I'l... JHEB KRUEGER (JEFF) You know, I've always tried to look at things as just what the part was. I never tried to worry ... YUL VAZQUEZ There was no guarantee of victory if I remained the same or just tried to be myself, but there was c... JOHN W LORD After the first miscarriage, I tried to take the attitude that it was my body's way of telling m... CHRISTIE BRINKLEY I tried to be like them when I was little. Now I try to be my own person but their game really helpe... AUSTIN PEEBLES The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr... C.S. LEWIS All I care about, to be honest, is surfing. I love surfing more than anything. To me, there's no... BRODY JENNER I'm never going to be a size zero and, to be honest I don't want to be. HANNAH TOINTON Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is. LJUPKA CVETANOVA I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be pol... OWEN ARTHUR I drank more wine when I wasn't working as much, to be honest. THOMAS KELLER I have to be honest, I am a true jeans and t-shirt girl. EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI My philosophy in all my jobs at McDonald's is to be honest and say what I think and mean what I ... CHARLIE BELL I never stopped loving you. Even when I tried desperately to forget you, I couldn't. SIMONE ELKELES To be honest, I'm scared to death of rollercoaster rides. LIAM NEESON I feel badly for those girls who have to be so waif thin, doing those catwalks all the time because,... CHRISTINE TEIGEN I tried singing. I tried playing a musical instrument. I really wanted to be a musician, but I never... BILL COBBS I never felt more loved than when I was with Elvis. LINDA THOMPSON I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ... NEIL GAIMAN I tried to play on it and I tried to jump over Aaron Brooks and I knew I felt something pop, but I t... JAWANN MCCLELLAN To be honest, I used to always procrastinate when I write. I mean, I love writing, but I hate it. DAVID GRANN When I saw him get the ball, I knew it was going to be close. So, I was just trying to go as hard as... JOEY GATHRIGHT I tried to play it off like I was sweating. It just really felt good. MIKE INGRAM I was rather foolish in saying that I did not like arithmetic and to learn figures when I did - I wa... ADA LOVELACE To be honest, I think kids have got a lot more going on than adults. They've got their heads scr... AMY WINEHOUSE When I began as a model, everybody tried to remold me: I was too fat, too little, they tried to re-s... LAETITIA CASTA As I approach the end of my life, I have even less and less interest in examining what have got to b... LEONARD COHEN I was kind of surprised, even over 70-80 pitches, still I felt good. I gave up hits on the off speed... CHAN HO PARK What was she like?" I tell the truth. "She was my dream. She made me who I am, and holding... NICHOLAS SPARKS To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one. THERESA M WILSON To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma DEBORAH HEILIGMAN That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth. JAMES MARSHALL Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women... JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ... JEFFREY R. HOLLAND And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju... JOAN BAUER There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we ... THOMAS S. MONSON Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l... JUSTINA CHEN I haven’t even really tried to win you over, Roza. When I want to, I can be very persuasive. RICHELLE MEAD To be honest, in my five years as an electrician, I never got the license. NICK FLYNN I never really look too far ahead, to be honest. CASEY STONER I didn't grow up thinking I was pretty; there was always a prettier girl than me. So I learned t... KERRY WASHINGTON I've never paid too much attention to what other people have said or to what other people have t... SABRINA CARPENTER You never knelt to get anywhere. You are where you are because you're fucking capable, and willing t... ANN LECKIE As soon as the ball hit the bat I was going. I was lucky it was a chopper. I just ran and hoped to G... JOEY GATHRIGHT With songs, I've always pledged to be honest. I write my songs because I've lived them. KATY PERRY I think, as a filmmaker, it's important to be honest with yourself at all times in terms of what... ADAM WINGARD Nilipozaliwa nilipendwa na kuogopwa, watu walicheza na mimi lakini mimi sikucheza nao. Niliwapenda. SIMON MASHALLA To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be... AL GOLDSTEIN I tried to work with a record label; I tried to work with a booking agency, variety shows. I went to... LINDSEY STIRLING And there it was. He knew it, and I knew it. There was nothing left for me to do. Do you know how ha... JOJO MOYES Last semester it was the fact that [the weight room] was open to me anytime, and the coaches didn't ... JUSTIN PITTS The sad heart needs work to do. JOAN BAUER Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _... GEORGE MACDONALD I was confident going into the axel, even though it didn't work so well in practice. When I fell, I ... STEPHANE LAMBIEL It's very hard to be honest with yourself when something's just not working. SHANIA TWAIN When you try to love someone, they tear out your heart & burn it once they have what they want. I've... JILLIAN JOYCE AARSVOLD A lot of times when I ran, to be honest, I didn't know where I was in the race. So I always was ... GAIL DEVERS I tried a little of everything when I was little. I tried karate, I tried ballet, I tried piano less... CASSIE VENTURA Ken was recognized early in his career as a man of integrity, strength and imagination. I hated it w... DON JORDAN I've got no timetable. I'm sort of sick of timetables, to be honest. SHIRLEY MANSON It's almost always possible to be honest and positive. NAVAL RAVIKANT To be honest, I grew up with Alan Menken's music. MALLORY JANSEN I can't hide things from my Maker, so it is better to be honest. FAROOQ ABDULLAH I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working. DANA PLATO To be honest, I'm not as goal oriented and ambitious as I once was. CHANTAL KREVIAZUK One of the key elements is the ability to be honest with yourself. BILL TOOMEY When there is no reason to be happy, that's all the reason you need to happy SOTONYE ANGA Like most girls, I suffered from pimples, too. I tried dozens of treatments but was never satisfied ... AMY JACKSON I feel like my mission is to be honest with myself. My mission is to share my truth - share, not giv... GERARD WAY I never really got more than a few feet off the water. This was the first time that I tried to fly i... MATT EVANS The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive. MARK WAHLBERG It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit ... SARAH DESSEN There was no one in particular I really tried to copy. CAROLINE CORR Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT I thought the love I'd had for him belonged to the past, to the foolish, lonely girl I never wanted ... LEIGH BARDUGO
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