Being a practiced liar doesn't mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagination at all; it's that which… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I'm a businessman who puts up his own money, so I don't have time to hear about emotion. I gotta get right… — Damon Dash Copy Share Image
The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've made the decision to adhere to three general truths when it comes to my novels: There will be a love-story element… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic,… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
“Speaking out takes courage, but fear can make a compelling argument. I’m not saying it will be easy, but telling the truth… — Katie McGarry Copy Share Image
I told the truth about steroids and human growth hormone. I injected those drugs into the body of Roger Clemens at his… — Jim Lehrer Copy Share Image
Do not worry! Earthly goods deceive the human heart into believing that they give it security and freedom from worry. But in… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“His copy was full of lofty echoes: Greek Tragedy; Damocle's sword; manna from heaven; the myth of Sisyphus; the last of the… — Tarun J. Tejpal Copy Share Image
Those who submit to the Lord with simple heart will run the good race. If they keep their minds on a leash,… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
“I'm not saying it's simple to find and tell the truth. It takes a great deal of hard work, intellectual honesty, open-mindedness,… — Brad Parks Copy Share Image
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The joy of 'The X-files' is how it plays on so many different realities never knowing what is the truth and what… — Dean Haglund Copy Share Image
“Either way, we wake up tangled together. He’s already kissing me, and I have no problem kissing back. In truth, I kiss… — Charlotte Stein Copy Share Image
“I consider a dream like I consider a shadow,” answered Caeiro, with his usual divine, unexpected promptitude. “A shadow is real, but… — Álvaro de Campos Copy Share Image
“Warning? Warning against what?’ said Boromir sharply. ‘Against delay. Against the way that seems easier. Against refusal of the burden that is… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The point of mathematics is that in it we have always got rid of the particular instance, and even of any particular… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“History is about winners, not about losers. History is about assessing distortions, not copying out truths. History has much to say about… — J. R. Vincent Copy Share Image
I have in my life never been guilty of saying things I did not mean - my nature is to go straight… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The truth is that trout fishermen scheme and lie and toss in their sleep. They dream of great dripping trout, shapely and… — John D. Voelker Copy Share Image
“Camera shows a girl reach to spin it; it stops on a boy, and instead of kissing him, she says those three… — shukyou Copy Share Image
“We're all so afraid of what everyone around us thinks that we risk ourselves to desperation. It's utterly stupid. It's utterly frightening.… — Fisher Amelie Copy Share Image
The sad truth about bigotry is that most bigots either don't realize that they are bigots, or they convince themselves that their… — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
“The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
“The truth is that demons are more attracted by what you think than what you do. The deeper truth is that knowing… — Blake K. Healy Copy Share Image
...Science and mathematics Run parallel to reality, they symbolize it, they squint at it, They never touch it: consider what an explosion… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
We have to look at our own inertia, insecurities, self-hate, fear that, in truth, we have nothing valuable to say. When your… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“It will occur to him months from now that if this had been a movie, he wouldn’t have done it. Wouldn’t have… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
Detachment is not about refusing to feel or not caring or turning away from those you love. Detachment is profoundly honest, grounded… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Don't make promises that you can't keep. Don't look at her in the eyes and tell her I'll never lie to you,… — Bryant Collins Copy Share Image
Society is an illusion to the young citizen. It lies before him in rigid repose, with certain names, men, and institutions, rootedlike… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, we no longer live in a culture where what is spoken about and what truths are told and what lies are… — David Baddiel Copy Share Image
In our relationship with children and young people, we are not dealing with mechanical devices that can be quickly repaired, but with… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Those who are intelligent tread on the path of truth and adhere to all the rules and vows strictly. They are the… — Rig Veda Copy Share Image
“Dare to Dream Yes, if you can dare to dream. Surely you can catch the sunlight's beam. While all else seems to… — Madhavi Sood alias Madhavi Mohandas Copy Share Image
With all respect to Congressman Lewis, when I think about him, I always have that image in my mind when he was… — Angela Stanton-King Copy Share Image
A wonderful but kind of a terrible truth about acting is that you actually get to a point where you become content… — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
The question of relevance comes before that of truth, because to ask whether a statement is true or false presupposes that it… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
