Truth is but approved facts.

Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your…

— Conor Oberst

What's given, in fact, always depends on the person or thing it's given to. A minor incident in the street brings the cook to…

— Fernando Pessoa

The truth is our immigration system is worse than anybody ever realized. But the facts aren't known because the media won't report on them.…

— Donald Trump

I should have known something was wrong with my first wife. When I brought her home to meet my parents, they approved of her.

— Woody Allen

There is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears…

— Arianna Huffington

When I first began examining the global-warming scare, I found nothing more puzzling than the way officially approved scientists kept on being shown to…

— Christopher Booker

In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned it in…

— Mark Twain

The SEC got more than 100 rules to write under Dodd-Frank, the lion's share of all the agencies. And we've moved, I think, with…

— Mary Schapiro

As much as the next person, I want to be approved of, but I'm not greedy for that stuff.

— Colin Firth

When I came to explain to them the 'Nelson Touch', it was like an electric shock. Some shed tears, all approved - 'It was…

— Horatio Nelson

The White House approved an exemption in Obamacare coverage for Congress and members of their staff. Members complained that the Affordable Care Act will…

— Jay Leno

Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Foreign journalists have to have an approved interpreter assigned them, which they have to pay for, who also acts as guide. As an Iranian,…

— Hooman Majd

In mid-May, the House of Representatives approved the full amount of money that the Veterans Administration said was needed for next year - plus…

— Doc Hastings

You wouldn't want to live a life in which you are loved or approved by all people on Earth or even within your own…

— John Hodgman