"My mother once told me that you had to trust that the first thing out of a person's mouth was the truth. After they have a chance to think about it, they'll change what they say to be more socially acceptable, something they think you'll be happier with, something they think will get the results they want."

Candor, Truth, Speech, Honesty, Instinct

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"My mother once told me that you had to trust that the first thing out of a person's mouth was the truth. After they have a chance to think about it, they'll change what they say to be more socially acceptable, something they think you'll be happier with, something they think will get the results they want."

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"People can show false love But cant false HatePeople can show false caring But cant false carelessSo believe on it they show you hate and treat you careless ,.It is true feelings."

Mohammed Zaki Ansari, Indian Writer

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"Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmountable, at least for the present."

Asa Gray, American Scientist

Candor, Cause, Difficulties, Present

"I've given guys blow jobs just because I've run out of things to talk about.'Oh, Rae. Who hasn't."

Anne Lamott, American Author

Candor, Humor, Sex, Desperation, Truth

"If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

Candor, Honesty, Courage, Expression, Integrity

"There is no diplomacy like candor."

Edward V. Lucas, American Writer

Candor, Diplomacy

"If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader."

Sarah Fielding, British Novelist

Candor, Judgment, Modesty

"My mother once told me that you had to trust that the first thing out of a person's mouth was the truth. After they have a chance to think about it, they'll change what they say to be more socially acceptable, something they think you'll be happier with, something they think will get the results they want."

Patricia Briggs, American Author

Candor, Truth, Speech, Honesty, Instinct

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"I don't know who you think you are - my mother's voice was low and dangerous - "but if you don't get out of my way right this instant, it won't matter.Adam was the Alpha werewolf in charge of the local pack. He was tough. He could be mean when he had to - and he wouldn't stand a chance against my mom."

Family

"You can't cage an eagle for long without destroying it."

Freedom

"I don't like lies," said Bran, and I knew I'd failed to keep the pain of his revelation from my face. "Not even lies of omission. Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul."

Morality

"Yes," he said sincerely. "Such a one deserves peanut butter on the seat of his pants."

Justice

"I am the reality of all coyotes. The archetype. The epitome. You are just a reflection of me."

Identity

"Mercy has this ... this uncanny ability to go where the trouble is thickest," Adam told him. He had decided a while ago that it wasn't deliberate, and that it had something to do with being Coyote's daughter. He was pretty sure that Mercy was completely oblivious."

Social

"If creation was given no limit, ultimately everything would cease to exist."

Philosophy

"We've determined that Ms. Hauptman is a potential threat to the public safety, and we are bringing her in as a murder suspect who has supernatural powers that make her too dangerous to be incarcerated in the usual ways."

Power

"If there was such evil in the world, was it possible that there was good, too?"

Philosophy

"A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter."

Reflection