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Honestly Quotes (page 22)

Charles Dickens quote: "Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's..."
Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to. Charles Dickens
Like my maestro, Juan Ribero, she believed that photography and painting are not competing arts but basically different: the painter interpets reality, and the camera captures it. In the former everything is fiction, while the second is the sum of the real plus the sensibility of the photographer. Ribero never allowed me sentimental or exhibitionist tricks-none of this arranging objects or models to look like paintings. He was the enemy of artificial compostion; he did not let me manipulate... Isabel Allende
When I see heavy dramas with no comic relief, I don't think they're honest. I don't think people go through life miserable all the time; in fact, if you're very miserable, you giggle a lot at the oddest things."--Carl Reiner in "The Trib Carl Reiner
He took one long stride and caught me in another vice-tight bear hug."You really, honestly don't mind that I morph into a giant dog?" he asked, his voice joyful in my ear."No," I gasped. "Can'tbreatheJake!"He let me go, but took both my hands. "I'm not a killer, Bella."I studied his face, and it was clear that this was the truth. Relief pulsed through me."Really?" I asked."Really," he promised solemnly. I threw my arms around him. It reminded me of that first day with the motorcycleshe was... Stephenie Meyer
we must perpetually try to distinguish, however closely they get entwined by the subtle nature of the facts and by the secret importunity of our passions, those attitudes in a writer which we can honestly and confidently condemn as real evils, and those qualities in his writing which simply annoy and offend us as men of taste. C. S. Lewis
J. K. Rowling quote: "Oh, HONESTLY, don't you two read?"
Oh, HONESTLY, don't you two read? J. K. Rowling
There's a difference between writing for a living and writing forlife. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises.... If you write for life, you'll work hard; you'll do what's honest, not what pays Toni Morrison
I'm presently incarcerated. Convicted of a crime I didn't even commit. Hah! "Attempted murder"? Now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel prize for attempted chemistry? Do they? Matt Groening
Thomas Jefferson quote: "An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power..."
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens. Thomas Jefferson
if to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair. The rest is in the hands of God. George Washington
Tragedy is the common lot of man. 'So many people have lost children' I remind myself. pp 178-179This tragedy is such an inextricable part of my story that it cannot be left out of an honest record. Suffering - no matter how multiplied - is always individual. p 179 Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Nicholas Sparks quote: "There were moments when it honestly seemed as if the world..."
There were moments when it honestly seemed as if the world were conspiring against her. Nicholas Sparks
Is a PLONGEUR'S work really necessary to civilization? We have a feeling that it must be 'honest' work, because it is hard and disagreeable, and we have made a sort of fetish of manual work. We see a man cutting down a tree, and we make sure that he is filling a social need, just because he uses his muscles; it does not occur to us that he may only be cutting down a beautiful tree to make room for a hideous statue. I believe it is the same with a PLONGEUR. He earns his bread in the sweat of... George Orwell
No honest journalist should be willing to describe himself or herseif as 'embedded.' To say, 'I'm an embedded journalist' is to say, 'I'm a government Propagandist. Noam Chomsky
Three,' reckoned the captain, 'ourselves make seven, counting Hawkins, here. Now, about honest hands?' Most likely Trelawney's own men," said the doctor; 'those he had picked up for himself, before he lit on Silver.' Nay,' replied the squire. 'Hands was one of mine.' I did think I could have trusted Hands,' added the captain. Robert Louis Stevenson

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