Re Telling Quotes
When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.
The blues aren’t pessimistic. We’re prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark.
I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become my metier.
When men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better.
Humans are, by nature, pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns whether they exist or not.
Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.
At the end of the day, what I show is real life. I tell the truth. And the truth can be shocking.
I love the truth. Tell the truth and live the truth, because we've seen enough lies and look what it's doing.
In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.
Hopefully life is long. Do stuff you will enjoy thinking about and telling stories about for many years to come. Do stuff you will want to brag about.
Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
Always tell the truth, and take an interest in serving the people around you as much as possible.
The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism.
I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that.
Even through such simple acts as telling the truth, being kind, and encouraging others, we bring a smile to God's face.
He tells so many lies that he convinces himself after a while that he's telling the truth. He just doesn't recognize truth or falsehood.
I get my ideas for books from my own kids and sometimes from other children. Often when I am telling stories I will say: I am going to make up a new story.
Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.
George Washington was the president who could never tell a lie, and Richard Nixon was the president who could never tell the truth. Donald Trump is truly the president who can't tell the difference.
Without debate, without criticism no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive.
My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family and the human family is to try to tell the truth.
I've been acting since second grade, telling stories, making my parents laugh here and there, so I'm hoping my "thing" is acting. But I also make a really good bread pudding.
There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.