Tell Me Honestly Quotes

#1. I would tell you about the rest of the night, but i honestly dont remember much about it. It's all a very sad daze.

Stephen Chbosky

#2. Now answer me, sincerely, honestly, who lives past forty? I'll tell you who does: fools and scoundrels.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#3. So, like I asked, what's with the nightie?"
"It smells like what I always think mothers smell like," I tell him honestly, knowing I don't have to explain.
He nods. "My mum has one just the same and you have no idea how disturbing it is that it's turning me on.

Melina Marchetta

#4. . . . our stories are what make the difference, and if we can tell them honestly we can hope to help each other. In the end, we have nothing to offer each other but our stories.

Emma Lou Warner Thayne

#5. If you start thinking about being likable you are not going to tell your story honestly.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#6. But tell you true, I honestly didn't think nothing about the Green Man beefing that posse. Was just men and the world's full of them.

J.D. Jordan

#7. I don't want to make people mad. I just ... well, how can people get better if you don't tell them what you honestly think?

Brandon Sanderson

#8. To live longer than forty years is bad manners, is vulgar, immoral. Who does live beyond forty? Answer that, sincerely and honestly I will tell you who do: fools and worthless fellows. I

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#9. Am forty years old now, and you know forty years is a whole lifetime; you know it is extreme old age. To live longer than forty years is bad manners, is vulgar, immoral. Who does live beyond forty? Answer that, sincerely and honestly I will tell you who do: fools and worthless fellows.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#10. Be realistic and truthful - and tell Hong Kong businessmen honestly that they should go for long-term investments since it is unlikely money can be made in the short haul.

Zhu Rongji

#11. Honestly, I expected to get a cold reception because of my subject matter. But when editors took a look at the story I had to tell, and saw that this was not a parochial story at all, they really warmed to it.

Laura Hillenbrand

#12. I - honestly, I don't know of a worse lie one could tell other than a lie to take a country to war. To make up things to take people to war. That's just got to be the most obscene, immoral thing to do.

Michael Moore

#13. I think I've learned that if you want to be successful, you have to tell your story honestly and from your heart - and I think a healthy sense of humor doesn't hurt either.

Dorothea Benton Frank

#14. I honestly cannot tell whether you are the most practical women I have ever met or the most deranged."
"Why can't I be both

Marie Brennan

#15. When I lead essay workshops, I ask students to come up with at least five topics, which they'll narrow down to one. The winning idea should be the story the student is most excited to tell because it honestly reflects his or her best self.

Kate Klise

#16. She honestly could not tell if she loved London or loathed it. For she could not decide for herself what London was at all.

Miranda Emmerson

#17. But truthfully? Let me tell you what I honestly think.
I think, maybe he hasn't even noticed that I'm gone.
But. I have.

Aimee Bender

#18. We need to make sure our students are exerting themselves. We need to praise them when they deserve it and to tell them honestly when they have it in them to work harder,

Randy Pausch

#19. But, honestly, I hope you'll tell me that I'm enough."
She smiles. "You're more than enough. You're my circuit breaker.

Cassia Leo

#20. Give me another chance," I ask urgently. "I will do anything that you want me to do if you just tell me that we can start again. I know I don't deserve it, but I'm asking anyway. I honestly don't know if I can breathe without you. Please. I love you, Mila. Please tell me we can work it out.

Courtney Cole

#21. I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you've designed for them, you can tell the story, I suppose, honestly.

Garth Ennis

#22. Aren't men funny? When they want to pay you the greatest compliment in their power, they naively tell you that you have a masculine mind. There is one compliment, incidentally, that I shall never be paying him. I cannot honestly say that he has a quickness of perception almost feminine.

Jean Webster

#23. I began to realize that I had tended to avoid some people because of my instant conclusions about who they were and what they would have to say. I discovered that everyone, speaking honestly and openly, had important things to tell me.

Roger Ebert

#24. But I should tell you honestly that this administration under President Obama is doing in regard to our security more than anything that I can remember in the past.

Ehud Barak

#25. I should tell you that honestly, on my honour of a Nearwicked, I always think in a wordworth's of that primed favourite continental poet, Daunty, Gouty and Shopkeeper, A.G., whom the generality admoyers in this that is and that this is to come.

James Joyce

#26. Fred, you next," the plump woman said.
"I'm not Fred, I'm George," said the boy. "Honestly, woman, you call yourself our mother? Can't you tell I'm George?"
"Sorry, George, dear."
"Only joking, I am Fred," said the boy and off he went.

J.K. Rowling

#27. Most people who work with me can tell you I'm a bit of a pessimist about business stuff. Not because I don't believe in what I'm doing, I just don't like feeling presumptuous. Like, 'This is what's going to happen!' Honestly, I don't know what will happen.

Ben Rector

#28. To tell you the truth, I've never weighed myself. When somebody asks me my statistics or whatever I honestly don't know.

Helena Christensen

#29. I hear my friends and my mom tell me I'm special, but honestly, I still don't get it.

LeBron James

#30. If I was into girls, I'd do you," I tell him honestly. He leans forward conspiratorially. "Psst, I'll let you in on a secret Fred," he glances sheepishly from side to side. "I actually have a cock. Don't tell anyone, it would ruin my reputation. But feel free to do me any time you want.

L. H. Cosway

#31. Honestly, I just have to do what's right for me, and what I would tell people is what I believe, which is that tolerance is very important.

Martina Mcbride

#32. Lies don't fix things. They don't even make things easier, at least not in the long run. Best to tell the truth then clean up an honest mess P.C. Cast ( Grandma Redbird) ... So wish People would understand this !!

P.C. Cast

#33. I know you said you don't feel anything," he whispered. "But can you honestly say that you don't feel this? That this heat, this attraction, is all in my head? Don't think about it; just answer. Tell me what your heart wants to say and not what your head keeps trying to make you believe.

S.L. Jennings

#34. I tell you very honestly, 1 billion percent, I have never regretted leaving Metallica.

Jason Newsted

#35. If you honestly couldn't tell that she was interested in you, you might want to admit the possibility that you are impossibly thick when it comes to women. You may want to consider the priesthood.

Patrick Rothfuss

#36. In private some critics have come up to me afterwards and told me they honestly enjoyed the movie. Then they'd tell me that they're still going to have to write it up negatively.

Joe Pantoliano

#37. As the inventor of the Immortality Device, I basically just tell people what I honestly think.

Alex Chiu

#38. Honestly, I can't tell you what I what I would be doing if I wasn't chairman of GM, because this is all I've done.

Rick Wagoner

#39. I would honestly say that with all the awards and all the other things that I've done in my life, Dollywood is one of the greatest dreams that I've ever had come true - I am so proud of that I can't even begin to tell you, Dollywood is real special to me.

Dolly Parton

#40. Yeah, it's been pretty gnarly. It's fun. It can only be fun, unless you're really squirmy about that. Honestly, during that guts episode, they didn't tell Andrew and I anything. They just put trenchcoats on us and said, "All right, just stand right here and we're going to put this stuff on you."

Steven Yeun

#41. My dad doesn't like to admit it, but he's the ultimate stage dad. He likes to see himself as my manager even though he's not. I tell him to calm down at least twice a week. The day of the Tony nominations, I honestly thought he was having a heart attack.

Brandon Uranowitz

#42. That's the great thing about being a wizard. I can always tell myself, honestly, that things could be worse.

Jim Butcher

#43. I can honestly tell you that without God I would not be who I am today. He has done such an amazing work in my life and I want everyone to have the same freedom.

Joyce Meyer

#44. - I'm so happy for you, Ellie - I tell her honestly.
- I'm happy for me, too - she tells me with another laugh.

Tara Sivec

#45. Work honestly and build, build, build. That's all I can tell you,

J. R. Simplot

#46. Should I really tell her how that made me feel? How I thought for sure Les had something to do with it or that it was divine intervention or a freaking miracle? Because I honestly feel like it was too perfect to be chalked up to coincidence.

Colleen Hoover

#47. couldn't tell a Versailles Merlot from two-buck Chuck, honestly. It all tasted the same to me.

Aubrey Dark

#48. Whatever you do in this life, take time to sit quietly and let the world tell you what it needs from you. Take a moment to honestly understand what your gifts are-you have them.

Ann Reed

#49. I know this sounds phony, but I don't start out on a project going, 'I'm going to make an emotional work,' you know what I mean? You try to tell the story directly and honestly and with passion.

James Gray

#50. We hate people who honestly tell us what they think about us. We wish we were what we are not

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#51. Marriage isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Let me tell you, honestly. Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.

Larry Gelbart

#52. No, I never - no one ever - I never learned anything when I was a kid. Honestly, my parents had nothing to tell me - like, no wisdom, nothing.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

#53. Historians, I think, should be keepers of truth. We must tell things as they are - honestly, and without subversion. That is the greatest good one can do.

Robert Jackson Bennett

#54. Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

Ira Glass

#55. If I died snowboarding, you could honestly tell everybody in the world that Jeremy London died happy.

Jeremy London

#56. I've done so many movies with first-time directors, and honestly I just go with gut instinct. People that usually can tell me a good story, and talk to me about why the movie is the movie they want to make. I just go with my gut.

Neal H. Moritz

#57. Politicians show no signs of even knowing the difference between negative and positive rights. Blinded by the dazzle of anything that makes them popular, they honestly may not be able to tell.

P. J. O'Rourke

#58. I just like the child's nightmares and therapy, once an experience has found the light of day I'm no longer under its spell, I'm free to tell it. I hope in telling honestly I can in some way help other people to do so also.

Beth Orton

#59. Honestly, to tell you the truth, being trapped in any video game sounds like a living nightmare to me. In most video games, the point is it's a fight for survival, so I think it would be a terrifying place to live.

John C. Reilly

#60. Nell, I hate to be the one to have to tell you this. But your brother is hot. Like smokin' hot. Honestly, it's kind of impossible to have a vagina and not look." She

Kylie Scott

#61. Can I tell you honestly that I'd rather be in your life as your friend than nothing at all?

Megan Hart

#62. I honestly can't tell if [she's] being intentionally mean or is she's truly that stupid.

Jodi Picoult

#63. To be known by the public, honestly. People come up and tell them how good I make them feel.

David Alan Grier

#64. I tell you what, I was so shocked because I didn't think the ball had enough to get out. It's an absolutely incredible feeling. I can honestly say I did it.

Mark McGwire

#65. I am not quite comfortable with people identifying themselves as my fans. You know nothing about me. You have just seen me perform in a film. How can you be my fan? If I have to tell you honestly, I want an audience and not fans.

Kangana Ranaut

#66. I won't lie - I don't care.
And you should quit trying to deceive yourself because I can tell by the way you show no desire to do anything but complain about the issue that you don't honestly care either.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#67. And I'll tell you, honestly, folks that I talk to, the 2.5 million breast cancer survivors in America, that I am one of, understand that we're done with insurance companies dropping us or denying us coverage because of - because we have a preexisting condition.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#68. The happening and the telling are very different things. This doesn't mean that the story isn't true, only that I honestly don't know anymore if I really remember it or only remember how to tell it.

Karen Joy Fowler

#69. One of the nicest things you can do to kick-start your children's day is to tell them honestly they look nice as they head out the door. This easy, five-second exchange says to your child: I see you; I notice you; I love you.

Molly Friedenfeld

#70. Can you honestly tell me that your great desire is to be holy? Can you honestly tell me your great desire is to not be like the world, but to be like Jesus Christ? Because if you cannot, you should be afraid. Those who love the world do not have the love of the Father (1 John 2:15).

Paul Washer

#71. What I'm hoping to do though is to ground my extrapolations in specificity, and to make sure that the story I tell is deliberately and honestly told.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#72. I've been telling my students, 'Imitate, imitate.' And they say, 'Well, what if I plagiarize, or what if I'm not original? I want to be myself.' And I always tell them, 'Your self will shine through' ... If you allow yourself to feel deeply and honestly, what you say won't be like anyone else.

Natasha Trethewey

#73. Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.

Neil Gaiman

#74. If you you write with enough assurance and confidence, you're allowed to do whatever you like. So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can.

Neil Gaiman

#75. Tell 'em the truth and they call you a traitor,
Talk to 'em honestly and they call you a hater.

Immortal Technique

#76. I honestly can't tell you. We've never had a situation like this before, "I admitted.
"So you being an angel doesn't meam ... " He hesitated.
"Doesn't mean I have an answer for everything," I concluded for him.
"I just assumed it would be one of the perks."
"Sadly, no.

Alexandra Adornetto