"I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness."

-- Audre Lorde

#Honesty Quotes #People Quotes #Listening Quotes

“The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real.”

Source : Joyce Cary (1961). “Art and reality: ways of the creative process”
“I wondered what you'd have on the side with a plate of Deep Fried Anxiety. Pickles? Coleslaw? Potato-strychnine mash?”
“Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.”
“Summer in the deep South is not only a season, a climate, it's a dimension. Floating in it, one must be either proud or submerged.”
“In the common words we use every day, souls of past races, the thoughts and feelings of individual men stand around us, not dead, but frozen into their attitudes like the courtiers in the garden of the Sleeping Beauty.”
“Gentlemen, do you know what is the finest speech that I ever in my life heard or read? It is the address of Garibaldi to his Roman soldiers, when he told them: "Soldier, what I have to offer you is fatigue, danger, struggle and death; the chill of the cold night in the free air, and heat under the burning sun; no lodgings, no munitions, no provisions, but forced marches, dangerous watchposts and the continual struggle with the bayonet against batteries;- - those who love freedom and their country may follow me." That is the most glorious speech I ever heard in my life.”
“And our conception that the way we can mitigate the fact that people don't have retirement savings can be more work, or working longer, or just sort of staying in the game for longer is really a false hope. And it's a false promise.”
“I have built my reputation on honesty, I have sometimes been too honest.”

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