The blues aren’t pessimistic. We’re prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Nobody ever completely means what they say. Even when they think they're telling the truth, there's always something hidden behind their words. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Nothing is more abhorrent to me than sugary-sweet photography full of pretense, poses, and gimmickry. For this reason, I have allowed myself… — August Sander Copy Share Image
“Curmudgeons speak up because they have to, because it’s become critically important for them to tell the truth as they see it.… — Lionel Fisher Copy Share Image
When the storyteller tells the truth, she reminds us that human beings are more alike than unalike... A story is what it's… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I just don't want the fear from the right to be used by the [Barack] Obama administration to silence critics. We have… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The reporting is fake. Look, look...You know what it is? Here's the thing. The public isn't - you know, they read newspapers,… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
The thing that hurts, that became anger, was when I realized that if you tell the truth, in a country that says… — Eartha Kitt Copy Share Image
You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
My daddy always told me to just do the best you knew how and tell the truth. He said there was nothin… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Truth-telling to Congress and the public is not disloyal in America: it is an expression of the higher loyalty officials owe to… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
When you realize how hard it is to know the truth about yourself, you understand that even the most exhaustive and well-meaning… — Phyllis Rose Copy Share Image
“In this age, telling the truth is tough business and not for the fainthearted.” — Albert Mohler Copy Share Image
“This is a difficult balance, telling the truth: how much to share, how much to keep, which truths will wound but not… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
Your first obligation as a writer is to tell the truth and to tell a good story. — Lena Waithe Copy Share Image
In families like mine, there is no crime worse than telling the truth. — Tara Westover Copy Share Image
I wish I had Wonder Woman's magic lasso like her to make people tell the truth. — Kylie Bax Copy Share Image
Its very seldom you get paid for doing what you love and telling the truth at the same time. It seems they… — Della Reese Copy Share Image
Rock 'n' roll is sexuality personified. It is attitude. It is all the things that your parents told you not to do.… — Steven Tyler Copy Share Image
“Whatever you tell; lie or truth, can both destroy or save you.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
It's difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
