Sincere Quotes - Page 27

• Plenty more of the Nays sound perfectly sincere, though. They may genuinely dislike [Bob] Dylan; they may even enjoy or admire him, but just don't think he's all that. Fair enough. The reaction of such folk seems to be chiefly amazement tinged with befuddlement: they've given him what? You're kidding me.

  David Bennun

  Thinking, Sound, May

  Source: thequietus.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm not critical of the people who do psychotherapy. The therapists in the trenches have to face an awful lot of the social, political, and economic failures of capitalism. They have to take care of all the rejects and failures. They are sincere and work hard with very little credit, and the HMOs and the pharmaceutical companies and insurance companies are trying to wipe them out. So certainly I am not attacking them. I am attacking the theories of psychotherapy.

  James Hillman

  Hard Work, People, Political

  Source: scottlondon.com

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• People and countries have done an enormous amount of damage in their attempts to bring about the best possible world. Communism is an obvious example. But so is British imperialism, which was not grubby self-interest all the way down, but at least in part a sincere attempt on the part of people who felt they were superior to other people to magnanimously improve the lot of their inferiors.

  Dale Jamieson

  Country, Self, People

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was raised to be charming, not sincere.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Charming, Raised

  Stephen Sondheim, James Lapine (1988). “Into the Woods”, Crown

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm blessed to be in an environment where people are sincere.

  Sharon Jones

  Blessed, People, Environment

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's kind of amazing how popular 'Grey's Anatomy' is. What other show can boast such an annoyingly sincere cast of doctors, sniveling through such perfunctory love triangles?

  Rob Sheffield

  Doctors, Triangles, Love Triangle

  5 Copy quote

• John Currin's exaggerated realism and his twisted women kept me off balance, never knowing if they were sincere or ironic or some new emotion.

  Jerry Saltz

  Knowing, Ironic, Balance

  4 Copy quote

• Sincere wishes come true.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Wish, Wishes Come True

  10 Copy quote

• There are some truths, however, that we should never forget: Superstition has always been the relentless enemy of science; faith has been a hater of demonstration; hypocrisy has been sincere only in its dread of truth, and all religions are inconsistent with mental freedom.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Hypocrisy, Enemy, Superstitions

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1898). “Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll: Including His Answers to the Clergy, His Oration at His Brother's Grave, Etc., Etc. : Complete”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Don't claim you're sincere, just be it.

  Eva Heller

  Claims

  Eva Heller (1992). “With the next man everything will be different”, Random House Inc

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• To write poetry, like sincere poetry, it is like performing heart surgery on yourself without anesthesia...in public...You are peeling back layers. You are dissecting yourself...You do not know what they [the audience] is going to do when you reach into yourself and rip out your organs to be displayed

  Amir Sulaiman

  Rip, Writing, Heart

  10 Copy quote

• Answers to our sincere questions come when we earnestly seek and when we live the commandments.

  Rosemary M. Wixom

  Answers, Commandments

  5 Copy quote

• I come from one of these hideous backgrounds where being sincere is like - ugh, you might as well kill yourself.

  Christina Ricci

  Might, Ugh, Killing Yourself

  5 Copy quote

• My passion strengthens daily to quit political turmoil, and retire into the bosom of my family, the only scene of sincere and purehappiness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Happiness, Passion, Political

  6 Copy quote

• English Law: where there are two alternatives: one intelligent, one stupid; one attractive, one vulgar; one noble, one ape-like; one serious and sincere, one undignified and false; one far-sighted, one short; EVERYBODY will INVARIABLY choose the latter.

  Cyril Connolly

  Stupid, Intelligent, Law

  David Pryce-Jones, Cyril Connolly (1983). “Cyril Connolly: Journal and Memoir”, HarperCollins

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Rights, Progress

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have seen Americans making great and sincere sacrifices for the key common good and a hundred times I have noticed that, when needs be, they almost always gave each other faithful support

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Sacrifice, Keys, Support

  42 Copy quote

• But what about you? Have you prayed about your own ancestors’ work? Set aside those things in your life that don’t really matter. Decide to do something that will have eternal consequences. Perhaps you have been prompted to look for ancestors but feel you are not a genealogist. Can you see that you don’t have to be anymore? It all begins with love and a sincere desire to help those beyond the veil who can’t help themselves. Check around. There will be someone in your area who can help you have success.

  Richard G. Scott

  Desire, Looks, Veils

  8 Copy quote

• You learn out of bitter experience, trial and error. Life teaches you that. As sincere as you all are, you can't learn it all in school.

  George Cukor

  Life, School, Errors

  11 Copy quote

• I thought it was a really good contrast to have a really sweet, sincere, church girl sitting next to the church lady who seemed kind of, you know, over the top.

  Victoria Jackson

  Girl, Sweet, Church

  4 Copy quote

• And, moreover, when it happens that both are sincere and good, nothing will mix and amalgamate more easily than an old priest and an old soldier. In reality, they are the same kind of man. One has devoted himself to country upon earth, the other to his country in heaven; there is no other difference.

  Victor Hugo

  Country, Reality, Men

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.415, Wordsworth Editions

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• All that is necessary to paint well is to be sincere.

  Maurice Denis

  Paint, Wells

  45 Copy quote

• You offer a sincere compliment on a great mustache and suddenly she's not your friend.

  Marty Feldman

  Mustache, Compliment, Offers

  63 Copy quote

• But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.

  Origen

  Wisdom, Son, Quality

  Origen (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Origen (Annotated Edition)”, p.74, Jazzybee Verlag

  25 Copy quote

  Show source

• But what you could perhaps do with in these days is a word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement is carried internally by so strong a truth and necessity that victory in one form or another cannot elude you for long.

  Hjalmar Schacht

  Sympathy, Strong, Elude You

  7 Copy quote