sincerity

The loyal subject serves not two lords. The chase woman knows no second man.

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

But such occasions of excellence became less and less frequent. As her technique became sounder, [her] sincerity became less necessary.

An argument in apologetics, when actually used in dialogue, is an extension of the arguer. The arguer's tone, sincerity, care, concern, listening, and respect matter as much as his or her logic - probably more. The world was won for Christ not by arguments but by sanctity: "What you are speaks so loud, I can hardly hear what you say.

Hell, yes. I love you; that__ not going to change. I want this, I want you, and I think . . . Oh hell, here comes the Dawson__ Creek._ He grimaced and I chuckled in spite of the moment.His gaze grew wistful, and he looked so young. __ don__ want to put things off, even though we haven__ been together a really long time. I don__ want to wait__ou never know what can . . . Look. I adore you, and I want a home. Again. With you.

An insincere critic of a sincere person never wins.

If sensing so badly of yourself you also sense a need to make me sense that, then I sense sadly that you cannot make better sense _ sadder still if you cannot sense my sincerity.

If you cannot say what you mean, your majesty, you will never mean what you say and a gentleman should always mean what he says.

I get that Christmas is generally schmaltzy. I understand that it is used as a cynical cash grab. I know how far it is from what Jesus would have wanted. Nevertheless, I like that people put forth some effort to see one another during this season, that some people shake out of their commonplace anthood and toward sainthood.

A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.

sometimes there is too much irony all piled up in the barn, and you have to / pitchfork another steaming pile of irony on top of it all, and you have to / pitchfork another, and another, and another / when the world is shit-streaked with irony that is when beauty will emerge / love is irony / purists sure hate farce / but pushing against things is the only possible way to live

I don't blame you one iota for feeling as you do. If I were you I would undoubtedly feel just as you do."(...) You can say that and be 100 percent sincere, because if you were the other person you, of course, would feel just as he does (...) Suppose you had inherited the same body and temperament and mind (...) Suppose you had had his environment and experiences. You would then be precisely what he was - and where he was. For it is those things -and only those things - that made him what he was. (...) You deserve very little credit for being what you are - and remember, the people who come to you irritated, bigoted, unreasoning, deserve very little discredit for being what they are.

She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent and affectionate as ever, and our Attachment as firm and sincere as when it first commenced.

We are born for the happiness. We are living for the happiness. To be happy we have to be morally free. To be morally free we have to treat the humanity with uncompromising sincerity.

I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious.

If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?

Why would you want to appear as one thing and be another? If you are a warrior then you are a warrior and if you are not a warrior then you are not a warrior. The Way of the warrior is the Way of the warrior. To be a warrior, look like a warrior and stand like a warrior. Do not be false to yourself.

Your heart is your life. What keeps you going and what gives you hope. So wherever it leads you, whatever or whoever it lives for. Keep the beat.