Telling The Truth famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
-- Adrienne Rich -
Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
-- Albert Camus -
I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false.
-- Albert Camus -
We're in a place where no words can tell the truth about what happened... But they have to. This was hell on earth.
-- Aleksander Kwasniewski -
The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
When you have the courage to tell the truth about what you're really afraid of, fear doesn't have control over your life.
-- Ali Vincent -
She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show.
-- Alice Walker -
I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.
-- Anais Nin -
I want to use my gifts to tell the truth, and to tell it as beautifully as I can.
-- Andrew Peterson -
I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.
-- Anita Desai -
I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.
-- Anne Bronte -
The young are not afraid of telling the truth.
-- Anne Frank -
Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?
-- Anthony Hope -
Telling the truth is always revolutionary
-- Antonio Gramsci -
Outing is a nasty word for telling the truth.
-- Armistead Maupin -
It has always been desirable to tell the truth, but seldom if ever necessary.
-- Arthur Balfour -
The existence of the writer is to write, and to write is to tell the truth.
-- Azar Nafisi -
I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
-- Barbara Cartland -
When men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better.
-- Bell Hooks -
If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?
-- Ben Stein -
[On Richard M. Nixon:] Americans began with a president who couldn't tell a lie and now they have one who can't tell the truth.
-- Benazir Bhutto -
When you ask someone how they are doing, do you really mean it? When you answer someone back how you are doing, are you really telling the truth?
-- Brady Quinn -
The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.
-- Brandon Sanderson -
I take work very seriously and telling the truth in my job and professionalism.
-- Brittany Murphy -
What I respect about my dad is he comes forth and he tells the truth, and he's a very honorable person, I respect him a lot. He, I know deep down, has a good heart.
-- Brooke Hogan -
To tell the truth, I could beat anybody in the world.
-- Bruce Lee -
I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth.
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
All we can do is go around telling the truth.
-- Carson McCullers -
I would do nearly anything for a laugh, to tell the truth. And I'm a particular favourite with young men with earrings.
-- Celia Imrie -
If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.
-- Charles George Gordon -
You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.
-- Charles Olson -
Just tell the truth, and they'll accuse you of writing black humor.
-- Charles Willeford -
The press, or at least most of it, has lost the passion, the outrage, and the sense of mission that once drove reporters to defy authority and tell the truth.
-- Chris Hedges -
Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt
-- Christian Boltanski -
Eight more days and I can start telling the truth again
-- Christopher Dodd -
Fear is a place where you just tell the truth
-- Clive Barker -
The blues aren’t pessimistic. We’re prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark.
-- Cornel West -
There is no such thing as bragging. You're either lying or telling the truth.
-- Curt Flood -
You needn't think there is nothing you can do-you can tell the truth.
-- Daniel Ellsberg -
Andrew Calhoun tells the truth. To my knowledge, there is no better songwriter alive.
-- Dave Carter -
Jewish suffering is also a political factor, and whoever says that Hitler diminished our strength, is not telling the truth.
-- David -
Tell the truth, but make the truth fascinating.
-- David Ogilvy -
Its very seldom you get paid for doing what you love and telling the truth at the same time. It seems they dont often coincide.
-- Della Reese -
First tell the truth, then give your opinion.
-- Dennis Prager -
Telling the truth is the slow, mundane, difficult route to a meaningful life. Anything else is cheating.
-- Donald Miller -
fiction is the great lie that tells the truth
-- Dorothy Allison -
We reveal more of ourselves in the lies we tell than we do when we try to tell the truth.
-- Dorothy Salisbury Davis -
I am a free spirit. I tell the truth, and I like to mix it up.
-- Ed Rendell -
A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.
-- Edmond Rostand -
All I can hope to teach my son is to tell the truth and fear no man.
-- Edward R. Murrow -
The whole 'Melrose' series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating power in telling the truth.
-- Edward St Aubyn -
If you tell the truth all day long, you will end up in jail.
-- Elaine Stritch -
An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.
-- Elbert Hubbard -
Everyone has the right to tell the truth about her own life.
-- Ellen Bass -
It's a lot easier to tell the truth usually.
-- Elliott Smith -
When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.
-- Elmer Davis -
I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth.
-- Eric Carr -
People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying.
-- Eric Idle -
Any mom who tells you that she does it effortlessly is not telling the truth.
-- Eva LaRue -
I am someone who's been in politics for 43 years and I know what I'm doing and what I should do. Have no doubt that I know how to tell the truth and to do so elegantly.
-- Fidel Castro -
I'm never telling the truth again! It gets you hanged and locked out and starved and froze and hated . . .
-- Frances Hardinge -
To tell the truth is an act of love. To withhold the truth is an act of hate. Or worse, apathy.
-- Gene Kim -
If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?
-- Gene Wilder -
All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth.
-- George Orwell -
The only people that ever stand up and tell the truth are who? Intelligence officers. Because our culture is, never break faith with the truth. We'll tell you, you don't have to drag it out of us.
-- George Tenet -
Seek the truth, not what is comfortable. Seek the real, not the easy.
-- Gerald May -
My intent is to tell the truth as I know it, realizing that what is true for me may be blasphemy for others.
-- Gerry Spence -
The secret of good writing is telling the truth.
-- Gordon Lish -
I tell the truth; listen everyone. Only those who have Loved, will realise the Lord
-- Guru Gobind Singh -
Normally I tell the truth whether it's nice or not.
-- Heikki Kovalainen -
As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me.
-- Henry Rollins -
Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries.
-- Henry Wotton -
But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth.
-- Howard Zinn -
... when caught unawares I usually tell the truth, and what's duller than that?
-- Iris Murdoch -
Never trust a mirror,' his mother had told him. 'They never tell the truth unless you make them.
-- Isobelle Carmody -
Tell the truth about who you are, what you feel, what you want, what you're up to. Tell the truth about that first to yourself and then to anybody else that'll listen.
-- Iyanla Vanzant -
When there is breakdown in a relationship, you must have the hard conversation. It may not be pretty and it may not feel good. But if you are willing to listen and tell the truth, it will open up.
-- Iyanla Vanzant -
The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
-- J. M. Coetzee -
The only thing I can do is tell the truth as I see it and let the chips fall where they may.
-- Jack Kemp -
Find your mark, look the other fellow in the eye, and tell the truth.
-- James Cagney -
I was telling the truth. I feel like we got that point across.
-- James L. Barksdale -
If McNamee is lying, then he has acted inexcusably, and he has made Clemens an innocent victim. If Clemens isn't telling the truth, then he has acted shamefully and has smeared McNamee. I don't think there's anything in between.
-- Jim Lehrer -
Men are sometimes hanged for telling the truth.
-- Joan of Arc -
In 1795, I sent him another letter, telling him, that danger still stood before us, and that the truth of what I had written in 1792 was to be proved by 12 men.
-- Joanna Southcott -
A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.
-- Joe Biden -
Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.
-- Johann Lamont -
I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
-- John Dryden
