The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
Encouragement is telling the truth about the good you see in another person and wanting it to be recognized by that person. — Tom Krause Copy Share Image
We're in a place where no words can tell the truth about what happened... But they have to. This was hell on… — Aleksander Kwasniewski Copy Share Image
You must have love as the core; it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and… — Kenny Loggins Copy Share Image
A musicians or artists responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth. — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
You can't undo anything you've already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
It was illegal for black people and white people to play checkers together in Birmingham. And there were even black and white… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
Reagan believed the power of truth restated the world and re framed the world. I am a Reaganite. I'm proud to be… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
You're a liar!" He turned around, his black eyes snapping. "I'm also a thief, a gambler, a cheat, and a murdered. But… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
Donald Trump doesn't have significant tells when he's lying because truth and lies to him are kind of homogenized. He's such a… — Daniel Negreanu Copy Share Image
Looking at the map of the Russian Federation, one can see a country covering mostly northern areas; today more than 70 percent… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I think people do look to writers to tell the truth in a way that nobody else quite will, not politicians or… — John Updike Copy Share Image
In my mind my obituary is done.It is done and it is right. It tells the truth and as awful as it… — James Frey Copy Share Image
There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the concept of telling the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don't think you are the most important being… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
It appears to Nietzsche that the modern age has produced for imitation three types of man ... First, Rousseau's man, the Titan… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
“Welcome to the real world Kerri. Shit happens. You don't get to stop it by being a nun or telling the truth… — Susan Mallery Copy Share Image
I love telling truthful honest stories. I suppose I'd love the opportunity to be a superhero within a realistic dramatic piece. It… — E.J. Bonilla Copy Share Image
“I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I made myself a rule: write out of love. And when you love somebody, you have to tell the truth about who… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
I feel that a documentarian has an obligation to tell the truth as he or she interprets it. And what I mean… — Penelope Spheeris Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular opinion, Christians are not nice polite people who never get angry with one another. Those are not the virtues… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
The women's movement burst forth when I was fifteen. That was when I began to believe that life might semi-work out after… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
These are people that are gonna vote for Hillary Clinton. They couldn't care less that she is sleazy. They couldn't care less… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Trump fired Jim Comey because the most dangerous thing in the world, if you are Donald Trump, is a person who tells… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
In the world of President Trump, we really want people who aren't going to lie. We want people who can sit in… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
I hope that I can choose the right man to be part of my life even though he is far from my… — Innah Delos Angeles Copy Share Image
I don't mean to be insolent. I'm truthful. I tell the truth and the truth sometimes hurts. For instance, you have bad… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
But we should ask the question: Why should a writer be more than a writer? Why should a writer be a guru?… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
In the form of the oeuvre, the actual circumstances are placed in another dimension where the given reality shows itself as that… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
As a pastor and as a dad, I want my son to know I tell the truth. He can read the book.… — Todd Burpo Copy Share Image
“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. If liberty… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A wrong understanding is interested in precisionism. That is it tries to say that the Bible can't be telling the truth if… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
When you have power you don't have to tell the truth. That's a rule that's been working in this world for generations.… — Dean Burk Copy Share Image
“That's wonderful. I do like a man that tells you right out he’s looking out for himself. Don’t we all? I don’t… — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
“After you’ve looked at normal women’s bodies, look at yourself in the mirror. Stand there for at least three minutes, once a… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
