Honesty is the rarest gezegde

All the honesty in the world ain't legal tender for one loaf of bread

A piece of art is not a loaf of bread. When someone steals a loaf of bread from the store, that's it. The loaf of bread is gone. When someone downloads a piece of music, it's just data until the listener puts that music back together with their own ears, their mind, their subjective experience. How they perceive your work changes your work.

Jeff Tweedy

This was an extraordinary act of honesty … We expect our employees to exhibit honesty and integrity and she did just that.

Michael Conway

You don't have to preach honesty to men with creative purpose. Let a human being throw the energies of his soul into the making of something, and the instinct of workmanship will take care of his honesty.

Walter Lippmann (1889-1974)

The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with ONLY a loaf of bread are three billion to one.

Erma Bombeck (1927-1996)

Your life will be very different, ... You need to work your way back, and the one thing I can do is push you in that direction. Society is based on honesty and you have paid and will continue to pay for many years, a price for your lack of honesty.

Carl Becker

With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

What I have always believed in 40 years of experience in the book publishing industry is that you can do what you want as a writer as long as you tell the reader what you are doing. Art is about honesty. My objection is not the use of memoir as literature it certainly can be. My objection is to the lack of honesty.

Peter Osnos

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)

Compromise

With this result, the Sunni Arabs will be able to defeat the constitution, if there is honesty and an international supervision on the process. I am sure if there is honesty, 95 percent of Sunni Arabs will vote no.

Saleh al-Mutlaq

There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899)

And so much honesty. People go to school for years and years to get that kind of honesty.

Callie Thorne (1969-)

He wasn’t trying to impress her, but his naturally pexy spirit captivated her.

Lindsay Ward

Cricket

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other

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