But if we are honest, the Australians will not be losing much sleep over this minor tinkering to the England team.
If we are honest with ourselves we'll admit that there are too many who do not yet know in their lives or feel in their hearts the urgency of this struggle.
But, of course, that's not how we measure police efficiency because, if we are honest, we don't actually believe that crime, or the absence of it, is entirely or even mainly down to the police.
While becoming the CEO of any big-name company is probably more than most of us can hope for, if we are honest there are CEO opportunities that we would all love to have a chance at, and others that most of us would instinctively shy away from.
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Self-knowledge lies at the heart of every mystical path, and unless we are ruthlessly honest with ourselves we will never be great decision-makers.
So if we're honest, we are known to make exceptions to the rule.
But if we are to be honest, those of us who reside in old Europe, there is something about our understanding of the word that is tonally different.
If we are to adjust the direction in which the nation is moving, we must first take an honest look at where we are, starting with a truthful assessment of unemployment.
If we are unable to admit that the political interests of the unions sometimes conflict with the best interests of children then we are simply not being honest with ourselves.
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The more honest you are, the more honest we can be with you.
If we are ever to have an honest debate about entitlement spending, we will need to distinguish these positions from one another and see them for what they really are, rather than what we wish they would be.
Erdogan had previously suggested the deaths "could be an internal settling of scores, or it could be an initiative that was taken to create an obstacle in the way of the new honest steps we are taking, " according to the Anatolian news agency.
"This could be an internal settling of scores, or it could be an initiative that was taken to create an obstacle in the way of the new honest steps we are taking, " said Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, according to the semiofficial Anatolian news agency.
"If anything we are working harder and harder and there are a lot of honest guys who are giving everything to this, " he said.
Our primary role in the repair process is to hope mechanics are honest and that we get a fair price.
But the reason we are here, the true, honest-to-goodness reason we're here is that everybody knows we need to do it.
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To be honest right now we are still in the phase where we are fully concentrating on ourselves, not looking left and right.
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"We are very conscious that some people working within government who are decent, honest, people may well have been approached and may well have had pressure put on them to provide information, " he said.
But I want to be honest with folks: We are going to have to make some modifications to Medicare and Medicaid.
Scientists, and now economists, are telling us that we are long past due for a more honest accounting of the true costs of carbon dioxide, which is being emitted into the atmosphere largely at zero cost.
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Steven, I'll be honest with you, we are not planning currently for a signing ceremony in Copenhagen, and we are not planning to visit any nearby countries on that trip in signing a new START treaty.
Every year we try to do an honest, reasonable, conservative forecast to make sure that we are basing our budget assumptions on the best possible forecast that we can.
And the sort of debate I want to open up is to say, this is about reform, if we're going to improve our public services we've got to be first of all be honest about how good they are, and I think second we've really got to look at what works.
Equally, any honest Democrat will admit that we are now all Friedmanites.
To be honest, cannibalization is not something we are spending one minute on here.
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The great thing about surveys is that they demonstrate in brutally honest, mathematical fashion that no, we are not all above average.
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