Truthful Quotes · Page 9

History - the non-fiction version - must inform the fiction to make it truthful; too much of it and your genres are…

— Jon Weisman

Everybody has their thing that they're truthful about. My thing is just a love of God... so that's what I'm going to…

— Letitia Wright

The great joke is that a realist is an optimistic pessimist. That's very witty. Whether it's truthful or not, that I don't…

— John Hurt

“As an American historian, I am required to keep an accurate and truthful historical record.”

— Steven Magee

I'm always surprised to hear or read my work described, "In angry tones, she says." No! In truthful tones! Does truth have…

— Jamaica Kincaid

Depending on who's directing you, sometime it's heightened or more naturalistic, but generally you're trying to represent something truthful.

— Lenny Henry

I have no preconceptions. Whatever I see, I swallow immediately. Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike. I am not…

— Sylvia Plath

I've been vegan since I got out of the hospital... It's another eye opener. It changed my life in a number of…

— Travis Barker

I've never seen a Western that was really truthful. Most are just morality plays. Good guys and bad guys - and the…

— Harry Dean Stanton

You have to trust your instincts and know that the right question or the right answer will come to you. You don’t…

— Cat Deeley

I just need to make sure I don't get in my own way of a truthful and organic moment. Regardless of the…

— Jonathan Keltz

Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out.…

— Simon Schama

I think we get on with living our lives like everybody else does. Where we're at in music is trying to explain…

— Andy Gill

Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this.…

— E. M. Forster

The most powerful political moments for me come when I feel like my actions are aligned with a certain truth. I can…

— Barack Obama

I believe that one of the most sound ideas in dramatic writing is that in order to create the universal, you must…

— Lorraine Hansberry

Mind how you pray. Make real business of it. Let it never be a dead formality...plead the promise in a truthful, business-like…

— Charles Spurgeon

It was really executed well, from the art direction to the wardrobe to everyone else. And I have to say, two really…

— Gary Cole

I always wanted to have a young female artist that would tell me the truth about life and not only talk about…

— Beatrice Miller

“There are many standards to measure if a person was successful including did they fill a niche role in society, invent something…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Wes Clark is a man of whom you can ask a question, and he will look you directly in the eye, and…

— Mario Cuomo

Now you say you have to absolutely truthful. Sincerity is the main thing, and truthfulness is the main thing and don't lie…

— L. Ron Hubbard

You will find true success and happiness if you have only one goal. There really is only one, and that is this:…

— Oprah Winfrey

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

All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.

— Mahatma Gandhi

When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.

— Roald Dahl

I don't believe truth is conveyed by style and presentation. I don't think that if it was grainy and full of handheld…

— Errol Morris

Part of my becoming a vegetarian was that I would look at my burger, then look at my dogs, and I wasn't…

— Kristen Bell

The truths that seem most truthful, if you look at them from all sides, if you look at them close up, turn…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose…

— Agnes Repplier

I can only live in the world of truth, inasmuch as I'm able to be truthful with myself at any given point,…

— John Grant

I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.

— Jeff Koons

You just make yourself available to be full of love. And to be truthful and honest, 100 percent.

— Diogo Morgado

There are certain roles - say, terrorist roles - that if I don't feel like it's something truthful, I'm not going to…

— Sacha Dhawan

When humans act with cruelty we characterize them as "animals", yet the only animal that displays cruelty is humanity.

— Anthony D. Williams

“To say nothing is saying something. You must denounce things you are against or one might believe that you support things you…

— Germany Kent

In my case, when I am trying to be "kind" I often default in a sort of toothless loving-all stance that is,…

— George Saunders

Be truthful... and pay attention. I would also recommend the avoidance of credit cards.

— Mary McCarthy

If a kid ever realized what was involved in factory farming, they would never touch meat again.

— James Cromwell

You can't build anything with a flimsy foundation. Friendship is the foundation.

— Hill Harper