Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt — Christian Boltanski Copy Share Image
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please. — Mother Jones Copy Share Image
I usually look in my eyes to tell the truth of how I'm feeling that day. — Naomie Harris Copy Share Image
Without the ability of issue groups to tell the truth, who knows what the public will believe. — Paul Weyrich Copy Share Image
Happiness consists of being able to tell the truth without hurting anyone. — Marcello Mastroianni Copy Share Image
To tell the truth days are all the same size and words aren't much company. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Lying has become so much the accepted norm that people lie even when it would be simpler to tell the truth. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
And I have a dream of a New American Language, one with a little bit more Spanish. I have a dream of… — Dan Bern Copy Share Image
I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only rule I have when writing is to try to tell the truth. That doesn't mean you can't exaggerate, edit, rewrite… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
If I'm not getting played on the radio and I'm not making any money, I have nothing to lose by telling the… — Wilson Pickett Copy Share Image
Truth telling is the first building block of character -- a quality that seems to be getting rarer and rarer in all-forgiving… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
There was in Italy a hidden demand for a boring government which would try to tell the truth in non-political jargon. — Mario Monti Copy Share Image
As conservatives, as Republicans, we keep winning elections. We got a Republican House, we've got a Republican Senate, and we don't have… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Writing has to do with truth-telling. When you're writing, let's say, an essay for a magazine, you try to tell the truth… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
My ultimare goal is, without illusion and without sentimentality, merely by telling the truth as I see it, to break your heart.… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
At the root of every large struggle in life is the need to be honest about something that we do not feel… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
I don't value authority. I don't value the systems. I don't value patriarchal religion. I don't value the things that diminish you… — Susan Powter Copy Share Image
The rules of the game of life are quite simple. Always tell the truth. Never live in fear of anything or anyone.… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
There is a perennial and unobtrusive view that morality consists in such things as telling the truth, paying one's debts, respecting one's… — Allan Bloom 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
The Four Rules of Life: 1. Show Up 2. Pay Attention 3.Tell the Truth 4. Don't be upset at the results. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth. — Richard Pryor Copy Share Image
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I am my own judge of what truths I shall tell. The truth can do just as much harm as a lie. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth. — Jonathan Maberry Copy Share Image
In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth. — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“As a journalist I'm asked whether I make things up. As a novelist I'm accused of telling the truth.” — Lennox Morrison Copy Share Image
I try not to lie to people - the only way to control the way you're perceived is to tell the truth. — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
Any mom who tells you that she does it effortlessly is not telling the truth. — Eva LaRue Copy Share Image
Always tell the truth, and take an interest in serving the people around you as much as possible. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
