“In that case, the truck driver took the stand, swore to tell the truth, then lied for three hours. He said Gretchen… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“I let the wound fester and grow, feeding on the silence between us. I learned then a crucial truth: that a relationship… — Anna Carey Copy Share Image
“But then what is the alternative to trying to tell the truth about the Holocaust, the Famine, the Armenian genocide, the injustice… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
“Demand the truth. Tell the truth. Live the truth,” he would say. “If there is no truth, there is no trust. If… — Brett Bartholomew Copy Share Image
The Administrations willingness to consistently abandon the truth has done great damage. Americans are less willing to listen less likely to trust… — Senator John Kerry Copy Share Image
“Most unwilling was she to awaken from such a dream of felicity, to comprehend all the unhappy truths which attended the affair;… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
And Father said, "Christopher, do you understand that I love you?" And I said "Yes," because loving someone is helping them when… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“Where other men blindly follow the truth, Remember, nothing is true. Where other men are limited by morality or law, Remember, everything… — Assassins Creed Copy Share Image
“But what if I say something and you don't like it?' 'Well, that happens between people all the time. And sometimes it… — Sharon Shinn Copy Share Image
Normally we do not like to think about death. We would rather think about life. Why reflect on death? When you start… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that… — Richard Le Gallienne Copy Share Image
“When the Marxists say, as they sometimes do, that Marx has proved the uselessness of a counter cycle policy and of similar… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
Keep in mind that when public figures get in trouble for something they said, it is usually not because they misspoke, but… — David Carr Copy Share Image
In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
“The truth is that you can never be sure if you have decided on the right thing until the party is over,… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects...… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“In time, however, I came to understand that one can adore and desire that which is forever beyond reach. This might, in… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Children with autism are constantly testing and pursuing truth. They are a bundle of contradictions. They love order and routine, yet often… — Adele Devine Copy Share Image
“Since in the age of the internet we are all publishers, each of us bears some private responsibility for the public’s sense… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
People who think about time travel stories sometimes think that going back in time would be fun because you would have all… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“Look at the truth from how it stands, not where it comes from. The truth is still the truth no matter whether… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Technology is a big destroyer of emotion and truth. Auto-tuning doesn’t do anything for creativity. Yeah, it makes it easier and you… — Jack White Copy Share Image
“That’s how we are—people of reasons and holes. Anything we want, we can justify. We can poke holes in anything inconvenient by… — Kate Wrath Copy Share Image
In the past even scientists have been led to believe that only human beings have thoughts or emotions. Of course, nothing could… — Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Copy Share Image
“Mostly you love them and you cherish their milestones but occasionally you do want to tape them to a chair. That would… — E. A. Davis Copy Share Image
The question is, when so many others cut corners, shave the truth, self-deal, believe in the fast buck, and follow the crowd… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
The duty of a philosopher is clear. He must take every pain to ascertain the truth; and, having arrived at a conclusion,… — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
Once you find the truth, no one can hurt you. You can let them off the hook. That is hard! Until then,… — Erich Schiffmann Copy Share Image
Raw, naked truth exchanged between the black man and the white man is what a whole lot more of is needed in… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
The Liberty of the press consists in the right to publish with impunity truth with good motives for justifiable ends, though reflecting… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“What I eventually came to realize was my truth wasn’t their truth. My path wasn’t their path. I needed to create my… — Rebecca Pacheco Copy Share Image
“I look into his eyes and jump… off of a high dive plunging deep into the pools of green staring back at… — Kathryn Vance-Perez Copy Share Image
“Self-interest, fear of physical pain, drove him to that grotesque act of self-abasement. Its insincerity was clearly to be seen. He ceases… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“Everything changes as you move through three stages of awareness: first, that beliefs are the result of conditions; second, that beliefs are… — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
“We are sinners. But we should not take the failure to live up to this high moral standard as an authoritative objection… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“God has never manifested himself to men in any other way than through the Son, that is, his sole wisdom, light, and… — David P. Murray Copy Share Image
“There arises from this sense of divine excellency of things contained in the word of God a conviction of the truth and… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
The greatest of characters, no doubt, would be he, who, free of all trifling accidental helps, could see objects through one grand… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
“I ran across an excerpt today (in English translation) of some dialogue/narration from the modern popular writer, Paulo Coelho in his book:… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“This intrepid warrior for truth, this cultured, courteous citizen of the world, this devastating, coruscating enemy of lies and cant – well,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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