Honest To Goodness Sayings

#1. I know for an absolute honest-to-goodness fact that life can kick you to pieces, break you into a thousand little shards, and that you can get up again and mend yourself. I promise.

Nick Lake

#2. To be honest with you, girls didn't really start paying attention to me until after 'Clueless' came out. Then, all of a sudden, it was different. And that's the honest-to-goodness truth. I wasn't very popular until that happened. I have zero pickup lines. My game, I guess you could say, is my work.

Donald Faison

#3. For the first time in my life, I was in a shoot-out. A real, honest-to-goodness shoot-out with a bad guy. And, apparently, we both sucked.

Darynda Jones

#4. In the fifties there were no paedophiles. There were only simple honest-to-goodness child molesters.

Ian Pattison

#5. I give her back an honest-to-goodness smile, the old Ben Parish smile, the one that got me practically everything I wanted. Well, not practically; I'm being modest.

Rick Yancey

#6. It sure looks good to see an honest-to-goodness audience after looking at you all for so long from the silver screen.

Hattie McDaniel

#7. I didn't think any biography could do justice to one of the few honest-to-goodness geniuses of our time, a walking paradox who wore a cloak of complexity and elusiveness, but Lisa Rogak has done an exemplary job of it.

Otto Penzler

#8. honest-to-goodness beauty

Marci Peschke

#9. I am miracle ingredient Z-247. I'm immense. I'm a real, slam-bang, honest-to-goodness, three-fisted humdinger. I'm a bona fide supraman.

Joseph Heller

#10. The honest-to-goodness answer is that Twitter tells me everything, and I have calluses on my fingers from all the mouse-clicking.

Josh Groban

#11. To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#12. Honest to goodness, Brian Campbell, he was holding the Cup, and there was no one around for a minute. He says, 'Hold this for a second.' So he hands it to me - one of the best moments of my life.

Mike Quigley

#13. I grew up writing thank-you notes. Real, honest-to-goodness, pen-and-ink, stamped and posted letters. More than simple habit, it's about what the commitment to expressing your thoughts and feelings in writing says about the character of the writer. About the joy such notes bring to the reader.

Taylor Mali

#14. Or else I'd try to force myself to fall in love; in fact, I did it twice. And I suffered, gentlemen, I assure you I did. Deep down in your heart you don't believe in your suffering, there is a stirring of mockery, and yet you suffer - in the most genuine, honest-to-goodness way.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#15. Here's a rule of thumb for networking events: one new honest-to-goodness relationship is worth ten fistfuls of business cards. Rush home afterward and kick back on your sofa. Carve out restorative niches.

Susan Cain

#16. I am an old-fashioned, honest-to-goodness, flag waving patriot.

John Wayne

#17. She's got zero interest in honest-to-goodness human-on-human action. No. It's magic farmyard creatures or nothing for her.

Charlie Brooker

#18. My family and I reside on a non-working farm, although we have a couple of horses and the usual stuff like pigs, cows, and chickens. We really don't have an honest-to-goodness farm, more of a hobby farm.

Al Jardine

#19. It's a little blip. There's a tiny little blip in my belly. Tiny. Wow. I forget my discomfort as I stare dumbfounded at the blip ... The little blip is a baby. A real honest to goodness baby. Christian's baby. My baby. Holy cow. A baby! - Ana Grey

E.L. James

#20. The Earth has been lawned with life for something over 3.5 billion years. That's a span of time great enough to encompass some honest-to-goodness catastrophe. For example, 700 million years ago, Earth underwent a planet-wide deep freeze, with ice covering the oceans from the poles to the equator.

Seth Shostak

#21. Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.

Gerry Adams

#22. To love, you close your eyes. To do good, you deceive oneself. To be honest, you ditch oneself. To be good, you have to transcend all the three ideas.

Harshit Walia

#23. When we put our cares in his hands he puts his peace in our hearts.

Various

#24. If you've gotta follow a fashion, pick a good fashion, I say, yes.

John Rhys-Davies

#25. I wanted to be an honest writer and show my ugliness as much as I showed my hopes or goodness. And that really sculpted the type of artist I've become.

Jewel

#26. I've been in love with you for months. I'm telling you now because I think you love me, too, Anna. You just don't think you're supposed to. You'll tell me when you're ready. I can wait.

Tracey Garvis-Graves

#27. To say the Truth, I have often concluded, that the honest Part of Mankind would be much too hard for the knavish, if they could bring themselves to incur the Guilt, or thought it worth their while to take the Trouble.

Henry Fielding

#28. I need to build my team around my weaknesses.

Hans Vestberg

#29. The search for identity in one's youth is a journey of alternate boredom and agony interrupted by flash of joy.

Victoria Clayton

#30. When I heard Grateful Dead music, I knew that it was the most powerful force on the planet.

Mickey Hart

#31. I still pinch myself that I had the career that I had.

Fred Funk

#32. A good man will find that there is goodness in the world; an honest man will find that there is honesty in the world; and a man of principle will find principle and integrity in the hearts
of others.

Albert Pike

#33. Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

Lao-Tzu

#34. Be sure to live up to your reputation for honesty and goodness, because many souls who believe you to be honest and good have placed themselves in your hands.

Nikos Kazantzakis