Sincere Quotes - Page 31

• I think if we want to defeat terrorism, I think if we truly are sincere about defeating terrorism, we need to quit arming the allies of ISIS. If we want to defeat terrorism, the boots on the ground - the boots on the ground need to be Arab boots on the ground.

  Rand Paul

  Thinking, Isis, Allies

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music.

  Roscoe Mitchell

  Practice, Trying, Musician

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• The gap between our sincere values and our actual behavior is the source of all self-hatred.

  Bo Lozoff

  Self, Hatred, Gaps

  Bo Lozoff (2001). “It's a Meaningful Life: It Just Takes Practice”, p.25, Penguin

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• Nothing is more abhorrent to me than sugary-sweet photography full of pretense, poses, and gimmickry. For this reason, I have allowed myself to tell the truth about our times and people in a sincere manner.

  August Sander

  Photography, Sweet, People

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• A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Real, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.347, Library of America

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• I feel like I owe him something, and I hate owing people. Maybe if I had thanked him at some point, I'd be feeling less conflicted now. I thought about it a couple of times, but the opportunity never seemed to present itself. And now it never will. Because we're going to be thrown into an arena to fight to the death. Exactly how am I supposed to work in a thank-you in there? Somehow it just won't seem sincere if I'm trying to slit his throat.

  Suzanne Collins

  Couple, Hate, Fighting

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.32, Scholastic Inc.

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• It's too difficult to convey tone in electronic communication. And we can solve this my friends. All we need is some new fonts. 'Great party Arj. Best party ever.' What a jerk! How do you know he wasn't being sincere, Arj? Because he wrote it in Sarcastica! If he had enjoyed himself, he would have used Good Times Roman.

  Arj Barker

  Party, Communication, Needs

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• I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.

  Plautus

  Criticism, Compliment, Ifs

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• It's so hard when sincere prayer about something you desire very much is not answered the way you want. It is difficult to understand why your exercise of deep and sincere faith from an obedient life does not grant the desired result. At times it is difficult to recognize what is best or expedient for you over time. Your life will be easier when you accept that what God does in your life is for your eternal good.

  Richard G. Scott

  Prayer, Exercise, Desire

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• You are only pretentious if you are not sincere.

  John Hodgman

  Pretentious, Ifs

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• By being natural and sincere, one often can create revolutions without having sought them.

  Christian Dior

  Creativity, Often Can, Revolution

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• Only if I could be known for being one of the world's greatest and most sincere Christian Evangelists.

  Gloria Gaynor

  Christian, World, If I Could

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• Sometimes the Lord gives us a free sample of religious experience, but for more, we must pay a price with the currency of sincere dedication to the process of cleansing.

  Radhanath Swami

  Religious, Dedication, Giving

  Radhanath Swami (2016). “The Journey Home”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• It appears to me that those who rely simply on the weight of authority to prove any assertion, without searching out the arguments to support it, act absurdly. I wish to question freely and to answer freely without any sort of adulation. That well becomes any who are sincere in the search for truth.

  Vincenzo Galilei

  Freedom, Truth, Science

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• If you become very self-conscious about what you are doing, you kill. You kill the character. Then it doesn't work. You have to come from a sincere place. And you don't think too much. I don't go to the hotel and I start thinking what am I going to say tomorrow and start writing things down.

  Antonio Banderas

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  "Antonio Banderas and Wesley Snipes Talk THE EXPENDABLES 3, Building Their Own Characters, Performing Stunts, Their Acting Process, and More". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. August 7, 2014.

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• If you're playing things sincere in a really absurd, heightened situation, you'll achieve comedy as opposed to just saying funny lines and one-liners and stuff.

  Jeff Baena

  Lines, Stuff, Comedy

  Source: collider.com

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• At the beginning of this year also, I called upon the North Korean side to open dialog between the responsible authorities of the South and the North at any place, at any time, and at any level, in order to prevent a recurrence of war and to cooperate to speed up the peaceful unification of our fatherland. However, no sincere response has yet been made by North Korea.

  Jimmy Carter

  War, Usa, Order

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1980). “Jimmy Carter”

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• No one can be, at the same time, a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist.

  Pope Pius XI

  Wisdom, Catholic, Politics

  Pope Pius XI (1935). “Forty Years After: Reconstructing the Social Order”

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• I don't trust compliments. I've been getting them for years. Sometimes I deserve them, sometimes I didn't. But generally when people give you compliments there's one of two things wrong with them. Either they're false, or what's worse is they're sincere. They really mean the compliment. And then they're offering you their loyalty. And I'm kind of a stingy... Well, I don't necessarily want to give all that loyalty back. So either way, let's skip the compliments.

  Norman Mailer

  Loyalty, Mean, Two

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• Do you think anger is a sincere emotion or the timid motion of a fragile heart trying to beat away its pain?

  Andrea Gibson

  Pain, Heart, Thinking

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• But the man who is not afraid to admit everything that he sees to be wrong with himself, and yet recognizes that he may be the object of God's love precisely because of his shortcomings, can begin to be sincere. His sincerity is based on confidence, not in his own illusions about himself, but in the endless, unfailing mercy of God.

  Thomas Merton

  Men, Mercy Of God, May

  Thomas Merton (2002). “No Man Is an Island”, p.228, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Be sincere in your thoughts, Be pure in your feelings. You will not have to run after happiness. Happiness will run after you.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Running, Feelings, Pure

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• I love the bicycle. I always have. I can think of no sincere, decent human being, male or female, young or old, saintly or sinful, who can resist the bicycle.

  William Saroyan

  Thinking, Males, Female

  William Saroyan, William E. Justice (2008). “He flies through the air with the greatest of ease: a William Saroyan reader”, Heyday Books

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• When the German people trusting to the promises made by President Wilson in his Fourteen Points, laid down their arms in November 1918, a fateful struggle thereby came to an end for which perhaps individual statesmen, but certainly not the peoples themselves could be held responsible.
  The German nation put up such an heroic fight because it was sincere in its conviction that it had been wrongfully attacked and was therefore justified in fighting. the Peace Treaty of Versailles did not seem to be for the purpose of restoring peace to mankind, but rather to perpetuate hatred.

  Adolf Hitler

  Struggle, Fighting, People

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• I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care. You’ve got to make a sincere attempt to have the right goals to begin with, then go after them with appropriate effort, and remember that you can’t really achieve anything great without the help of others.

  Lou Holtz

  People, Goal, Effort

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