Our educational establishment is failing; it is past time for courage, honesty, and action commensurate with the need, particularly here in the United States. – Campbell Brown
For many decades now – and certainly during my adult life in academe – the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity. – Arthur Peacocke
It’s much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won’t keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don’t know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we’ve got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, ‘Is this it? Are we still relevant?’ – Bono
An autobiography is not about pictures; it’s about the stories; it’s about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people’s privacy. – Boris Becker
TV is a major force in our lives – a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty. – Bill Bixby
Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others – how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself. – Ang Lee
I don’t have any sense of inhibition, so I’m able to lead my life with a lot of honesty. – Anushka Sharma
You know, I find people with great honesty, bodily, physical honesty, who sit just the way they like to sit, and walk the way they like to walk, and don’t come into a room all pumped up, I find them elegant. – Alexander Siddig
‘Birdman’ came from a very beautiful side of me, from a part of honesty and surrender about things. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
The NFL is a unique work place. There are no secrets anymore. Technology has taken over, and secrets are exposed. People are going to know what you’re all about. You have to make sure you have real honesty in the work place, or you’re going to be exposed. – Andy Reid
Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author’s job is to tell the truth. – Barry Eisler
Kids have a weird honesty, especially in their reaction to things where a lot of older people who have matured have lost that. – Beck Bennett
I find talking about my work harder than it might be if honesty wasn’t my calling card. – Alice Sebold
I take my fundamental cue from John Coltrane that says there must be a priority of integrity, honesty, decency, and mastery of craft. – Cornel West
The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances of courage and honesty. – Alexandra Fuller
It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement. – Anthony Trollope
When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects in the output. – A. R. Rahman
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. – Arthur Schopenhauer
There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn’t seem to come with them. – Billy Bragg
Especially when you deal with comedy, you have got to be really honest because it’s the honesty and the spontaneity that causes people to chuckle, that catches people. – Austin Peck
Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just go to exploring the complexities of the human soul. Everything is valid if it’s done with honesty and dignity, and I actually do both of those types of movies in my career. – Antonio Banderas
When I do documentaries, my best information ends up on the cutting-room floor. People have trouble dealing with sexual honesty. – Betty Dodson
Adele’s like a beacon of honesty. Doesn’t compromise, goes to America and she’s still the same sweary cockney. – Paloma Faith