If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned.
Very similar experience happened last year when we released this album, North. It was on Deutsche Grammophon, it was very, very honest. It was the most honest record I've ever written.
Congressional staff members do have a considerable amount of responsibility. But in my experience, the loyalty of the vast majority of staffers to their bosses leads them to be honest brokers of information for the members they work for.
I think if you're an unhappy person, you're always going to be an unhappy person. You're probably going to be less unhappy if your business is doing well, if I'm being honest.
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
Being honest with you, it's not the 'great' wall of China. It's an all right wall. It's the 'All Right Wall of China.'
I don't think I was a fine game coach. I'm trying to be honest. I think I was a good practice coach.
Not everyone has to be a model and a designer, there are so many other options that are great and long-lasting. It's just finding what you're good at and being honest with yourself.
I couldn't see a future of doing anything other than performing. I didn't like school if I'm being honest. I would have settled for performing in any capacity.
When I got on Stern I realized that this was the one job where you could be really honest and open, almost like Richard Pryor or something. You can be honest about your life and get laughs.
Music and songs are written at different periods of time, at different times in your life. They reflect the feelings you have and to be honest, I quite like having positive emotions.
Warren Buffett has shown you can be very, very successful without being rapacious, while still being honest, without engaging in constant legal battles.
Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said, 'Oh man, this is the stuff.' It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling.
I can't remember too much about the '80s, to be honest with you... I wish that weren't true, but it is.
A lot of lip service gets paid to being honest, but no one really wants to hear it unless what's being said is the party line.
An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country.
I'm very honest - brutally honest. I always look at things from their point of view as well as mine. And I know when to walk away.
And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
I've never had white teeth. To be honest, I've never been told to do any of those horrible things - get your teeth whitened or your nose straightened.
I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.
We owe it to our children to be honest about the world and to provide them with material written specially for them.
