Honestly Quotes - Page 32

• Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting, no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. It also makes for beauty, for lesser men try to escape from a hopeless and intolerable world by creating a more lovely one of their own.

  H. L. Mencken

  Strong, Fighting, Fate

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.160, Vintage

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• The past is what makes the present coherent, and the past will remain horrible for exactly as long as we refuse to assess it honestly.

  James A. Baldwin

  Past, Long, Horrible

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• Happy Wednesday Fam! Dream BIG, live courageously, communicate honestly, be mindful, act with kindness, and SPREAD LOVE TODAY and EVERY DAY !

  Tracey Edmonds

  Dream, Kindness, Today

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• Why should honor outlive honestly? Orthello

  William Shakespeare

  Honor, Should

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• Humor simultaneously wounds and heals, indicts and pardons, diminishes and enlarges; it constitutes inner growth at the expense of outer gain, and those who possess and honestly practice it make themselves more through a willingness to make themselves less.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Humor, Practice, Growth

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• Going out at night and having a fabulous social life takes a lot out of you, and I don't know if I have that much to give, honestly. I would rather give that time to my kids or spend that time reading a book or watching a film. I am selfish and lazy.

  Kajol

  Selfish, Book, Reading

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• Read the book you do honestly feel a wish and curiosity to read.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Reading, Curiosity

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• Religion should be disentangled as much as possible from history and authority and metaphysics, and made to rest honestly on one's fine feelings, on one's indomitable optimism and trust in life.

  George Santayana

  Optimism, Feelings, Religion

  George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.11, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I never assumed I would have that commercial success, so it was a total surprise. And honestly, I never assumed that it would ever happen again.

  Tracy Chapman

  Surprise, Never Assume, Happens

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• Every one who has labored honestly in the past has aided to place knowledge and comfort within the reach of a constantly increasing number.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Work, Past, Numbers

  Orison Swett Marden (2012). “Pushing to the Front”, p.18, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I don't know, I find that honestly, the stand-up thing in some ways is a little bit of a cliché to carry around, because people don't consider stand-ups really actors.

  Jim Gaffigan

  People, Actors, Littles

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. November 11, 2008.

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• Honestly, self-care is not fluffy - it's something we should take seriously.

  Kris Carr

  Self, Care, Fluffy

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• There's almost no way of doing importing honestly, because if you do you're at such a disadvantage competitively. So people spend huge amounts of effort getting around stupid laws and not paying taxes.

  Esther Dyson

  Stupid, Law, People

  "On the Frontier". Interview with Virginia Postrel, reason.com. October, 1996.

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• Many men honestly do not know what women want, and women honestly do not know why men find what they want so hard to comprehend and deliver.

  Deborah Tannen

  Men, Understanding, Want

  "You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation". Book by Deborah Tannen, www.newyorker.com. 1990.

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• I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Orbit, Stories, World

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• I honestly believe I'd make one of the worst elected officials in the history of this country.

  Ross Perot

  Country, Believe, Politics

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• Honestly, when you start talking about genres, you're talking as much about the business side of writing as anything else. Certainly there are elements of reader expectation that play into various genres, and those are important, but it also becomes about packaging, placement, audience....In the end, I'm not a fan of labels. I think the best fiction blurs the boundaries between genres, stretches and breaks them.

  Kristin Hannah

  Writing, Thinking, Play

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• What the Nation must realize is that the home, when both parents work, is non-existent. Once we have honestly faced that fact, we must act accordingly.

  Agnes Meyer Driscoll

  Home, House, Parent

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• Sometimes the best way to make 'em laugh is to show 'em how you honestly feel.

  Jon Lovitz

  Laughing, Ems, Way

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• I'm not picky, quite honestly.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Picky

  "Daniel Day-Lewis: 'I'm not unapproachable'". Interview with Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2009.

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• I count my blessings every day, quite honestly, because I take nothing for granted.

  Mario Andretti

  Blessing, Granted, Take Nothing For Granted

  "KNBR Conversation, with Mario Andretti". Interview with Bob Fitzgerald and Rod Brooks, www.sfgate.com. August 25, 2012.

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• Honestly, I'm cool with everyone, and people pick up on that. I'd say, 'I'm not gay, but it's all good.' It's kind of like going to Paris when you don't know the language; some Americans get into trouble over there, but I'm just like, 'Sorry, I don't speak French.

  Dylan McDermott

  Sorry, Gay, Paris

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• I give off rather mixed messages about the law. On the one hand, I can honestly say I don't miss working in a law office. On the other hand I do enjoy watching the law and while the profession may have its problems, I have sold zillions of books out of magnifying them.

  John Grisham

  Book, Hands, Law

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• Honestly, if the public still wants to hear me in some works, I have to go down a half step.

  Placido Domingo

  Half, Want, Steps

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• Honestly, I don't read the press. I don't know what they're saying.

  Serena Williams

  Knows, Presses

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