“Telling the truth is a pretty hard thing. And in a young man's first attempt, with the distortions of his vanity, egotism,… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Maybe someday I can find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, but will lack the strength to lift… — Volatalistic Phil Copy Share Image
A sport has its own built-in integrity, doesn't need an artificial one. Athletics carries its own set of truths, and those truths… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
It is graceful in a man to think and to speak with propriety, to act with deliberation, and in every occurrence of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“What could he do but accept the disturbing extent to which memory was fictional and hope that the fiction lay at the… — Edward St. Aubyn Copy Share Image
“God did not entrust his truth to the world casually or haphazardly. He gave his church the role of preserving and protecting… — John Crotts Copy Share Image
Here is the truth: The Earth is round; Saddam Hussein did not attack us on 9/11; Elvis is dead; Obama was born… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Now two punctilious envoys, Thine and Mine Embroil the earth about a fancied line; And, dwelling much on right and much on… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
“To get inspiration, go to the nature; for silence, go to the nature; to question the meaning of life, go to the… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I'm not saying everything out there is bad and toxic, but there are some things that are not scriptural. For example, some… — Joseph Prince Copy Share Image
“I put on a skirt and blouse for the meeting, feeling dwarfy, my grown up, big-girl clothes never quite fitting. I'm barely… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Hard edges make truth and by necessity, truth is unbending. Unlike truth’s absolutism, justice is a qualitative substance; it is not an… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
“I figure... ...that the people are now more deeply conscious than ever before in history of the existence and functioning principles of… — Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
When Joseph Smith, Jr. was there we had some conversation in which in every instance I did not fail to affirm that… — Oliver Cowdery Copy Share Image
I felt like there was something wrong with me in my twenties but, when I started doing stand up comedy, I learnt… — Simon Amstell Copy Share Image
The truth is that painting is all about scale; you use scale to create experience. A lot of artists have lost that… — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
People tell me I am brave. People tell me I am strong. People tell me good job. Well here is the truth… — Katie Davis Copy Share Image
Many of our ideas and beliefs about ourselves and the world are so deeply ingrained that we are unaware that they are… — Rupert Spira Copy Share Image
I've dedicated a lot of my life to running the Bruce Lee businesses and continuing his legacy. Some people say I'm doing… — Shannon Lee Copy Share Image
“It was so strange, the way that life moved forward: the twists and the dead ends, the sudden opportunities. She supposed if… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
And I'm a stodgy old scientist who believes, naively, that there exists an external world, that there exist objective truths about that… — Alan Sokal Copy Share Image
“According to James 1:22-25, we can experience God’s truth so powerfully that what the Lord wants us to do becomes as plain… — Donald S. Whitney Copy Share Image
There is only one way to salvation, and that is to make yourself responsible for all men's sins. As soon as you… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
It changes your life, the pursuit of truth, if you know that you have tried to find the truth and gone past… — Ben Bradlee Copy Share Image
“But neither path is safe. Which way would you walk—the way of hard truths or the way of fine lies?” Shadow hesitated.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You can tell the truth, but sometimes you can't always be in your face with it. I found a way to tell… — Shannon Sharpe Copy Share Image
Don’t talk like that, Dill,” said Aunt Alexandra. “It’s not becoming to a child. It’s – cynical.” “I ain’t cynical, Miss Alexandra.… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
The truth is.. Shes hurting inside, you just dont see it because she hides her pain so well.. in front of the… — Stiles Bell Copy Share Image
“Yes, sex is troublesome and beautiful. And only when we drop our expectations, and know that we'll have moments of great sex… — Alexandra Katehakis Copy Share Image
“So much contempt for your own species." "Yes, contempt! If you had seen what I have seen, watched what a human may… — Chris Wraight Copy Share Image
“How are you feeling, man?" he asks me. "Great," I tell him, and it is purely the truth. Doves clatter up out… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“I was reading about animals a while back and there was this motherfucking scientist in France back in the thirties or forties… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
We are beckoned to see the world through a one-way mirror, as if we are threatened and innocent and the rest of… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
“The mind that is accumulating is frightened to die, and such a mind can never discover what is truth. But to a… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Religionists are clinging to little, positive, verbal, formal versions of the moral law... while the laws of the Law, the great circling… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Bible NEVER flatters its heroes. It tells us the truth about each one of them in order that against the background… — Alan Redpath Copy Share Image
I know I've made mistakes So why should I even try For when you look at me All you see is that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and… — Ethan A. Hitchcock Copy Share Image
“OK, we'll tell her you dug the grave." It's the truth - stretch, but still true. Besides, what would be left of… — Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ Copy Share Image
![“Telling the truth is a pretty hard thing. And in a young man's first attempt, with the distortions of his vanity, egotism, hot passion, and lacerated pride, it is almost impossible. "Home to Our Mountains" was marred by all these faults and imperfections...[Webber] did know that it was not…” quote by Thomas Wolfe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/682/thomas-wolfe-4237_books_telling-the-truth-is-a-pretty-hard-thing_3067664.png)
