You didn't elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“One can sometimes see more clearly in a person who is lying than in one who is telling the truth.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Telling the truth will lead you to freedom; telling the lies will lead you to slavery. — Jamison Green Copy Share Image
Governments lie; bankers lie; even auditors sometimes lie: gold tells the truth. — William Rees-Mogg Copy Share Image
I wrote these songs for a dying planet, I'm sorry, but I'm telling the truth. — Joe Walsh Copy Share Image
That's what you get for telling the truth. Someone calls you a liar. Most people will accept a likely lie to an… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Jewish suffering is also a political factor, and whoever says that Hitler diminished our strength, is not telling the truth. — David Copy Share Image
“All women is brothers,' Burley Coulter used to say, and then look at you with a dead sober look as if he… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
if newspapers were written by people whose sole object in writing was to tell the truth about politics and the truth about… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Testing and documentation have a crucial relationship—your tests prove that your documentation is telling the truth.” — Kevin Harvey Copy Share Image
No one tells the truth to people they don't actually know, and if they do it is a horrible trait. Everyone wants… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I always felt called to serve, to empower and ennoble as many people as I could, teaching, truth-telling, exposing lies, bearing witness,… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
A writer is first and foremost a witness of her time. She must tell the truth, not take a political position. But… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“I didn't tell him that I'd put his awful stories in boxes and stacked them on a shelf at the back of… — Lauren Wolk Copy Share Image
Tell the truth. If you tell the truth all the time you don't have to worry three months down the line about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What I don’t like are arrogant people. We’re all equal. I don’t like it when a person assumes to be better. It… — Selena Copy Share Image
I am scared of my father to this day. My father walked in the room - and God knows I am telling… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I'd say that while it's normal to long for an apology, if you really need it, you're not ready to speak to… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
“I think the world honestly would be a much healthier place if instead of trying to find rationalizations for our bad behavior… — Colin Quinn Copy Share Image
Someone who lies and someone who tells the truth are playing on opposite sides, so to speak, in the same game. Each… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
“Lady Thornton!” the prosecutor rapped out, and he began firing questions at her so rapidly that she could scarcely keep track of… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
I'm not very eloquent about things like this, but I think that writing and photography go together. I don't mean that they… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Thanks to pathetic reporting by The New York Times and other media sycophants more than 50 years ago, Fidel Castro, following the… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
“He told the associate that there was a lot of economic value in the work the desk did—that helping companies hedge their… — Kevin Roose Copy Share Image
This is what I do know: A lie, however well-intended, can't prepare you for reality or change the world... To tell the… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
“Bishop: No verifying! If people tell lies, that's as may be. If they've come up with some credo or other, so much… — Halldór Kiljan Laxness Copy Share Image
“And everywhere people asked him why he was walking through the country. Because he loved true things, he tried to explain. He… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
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