Re Telling Quotes

Tell the truth... maybe just to see clearly, as clearly as possible.

I can't establish the veracity of what people say because only they know whether they are telling the truth. I can't look into your mind, can I?

To tell the truth, I never think about a homer. I'm just thinking of the situation and what I've got to do when I go to the plate.

In 1795, I sent him another letter, telling him, that danger still stood before us, and that the truth of what I had written in 1792 was to be proved by 12 men.

A lot of times in sport if you try to tell the truth it seems like an excuse.

Well, you know what they say. A bullet always tells the truth.

The President is not squaring with the American people as to the seriousness of our nation's fiscal condition. It is time for people to stand up and tell the truth.

When there's so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you've already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

Every story needs to be worth telling.

The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.

I say, when you tell the truth, you never offend nobody, particularly if you do it with dignity.

Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth.

In my everyday life, I can be as square as I want. But when it comes to movies and telling stories, I can't. I've got to be radical, and on some level, that's what I like to do.

All sorrows can be borne if you can put them into a story.

I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty for Beauty to set the world right.

I think the most important thing I learned from my dad is the importance of telling the truth...treat other people well, work hard at the job and tell the truth.

Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction writing is all about telling the truth.

Whenever it feels uncomfortable to tell the truth, that's often the most important time to tell it.

Black-and-white photos tell the truth. That's why insurance companies use them.

I am trying to work out what my taste is, comedy-wise. I look up to stand up comedians who appear to be telling the truth, but I don't mind if they are lying.

I tend to be reasonably blunt, maybe a little bit too much. But I just- I always respected people that tell the truth. And I've always wanted people to tell me the truth.

Good writing is about telling the truth.

I have risked everything to tell the truth. Tell the truth

When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.

We reveal more of ourselves in the lies we tell than we do when we try to tell the truth.

I love to act. And oh-so-love telling stories through film as an actor. Even on my days off.

Telling the truth without sensitivity can be a form of abuse.

The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speakes he lies.

I am never frightened when I tell the truth.

If you don't tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth about your own life, someone may claim the right to tell it for you.

Everything can be forgiven in this world, save telling the truth.

I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe.

If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth.

I think that by telling the truth and by attempting to be a good citizen, somehow I've ended up playing with fire. And that's really scary.

We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival.

The only people that ever stand up and tell the truth are who? Intelligence officers. Because our culture is, never break faith with the truth. We'll tell you, you don't have to drag it out of us.

The idea for actors is to make a living telling stories, so if you can do that, then you’re way ahead of the game.

I would definitely not rule out doing television, in the future, because I think it's a great medium for telling stories.

When you're playing country music, you have to tell the truth.

I keep trying to train myself to stop saying 'filmmaker' and start saying 'storyteller.' We're telling stories.

Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological.

It's very nearly impossible to tell the truth in television.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the truth but to satisfy the questioner.

All I can hope to teach my son is to tell the truth and fear no man.

Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth.

I want a documentary to crest by being voted on by 6000 people who are in the business of telling stories.

To tell the truth is an act of love. To withhold the truth is an act of hate. Or worse, apathy.

Myths are lies that tell the truth.

Truth-telling frightens me. Lying confuses me.