Telling The Truth Quotes
When there is breakdown in a relationship, you must have the hard conversation. It may not be pretty and it may not feel good. But if you are willing to listen and tell the truth, it will open up.
Make a habit of telling the truth, or make a habit of lying: to decide each case on its own merits is exhausting, and hardly ever worth it.
Oral history is a recipe for complete misrepresentation because almost no one tells the truth, even when they intend to.
Telling the truth ... is not solely a matter of moral character; it is also a matter of correct appreciation of real situations and of serious reflection upon them.
When a poem doesn't work, the first question to ask yourself is, 'Am I telling the truth?'
When you ask someone how they are doing, do you really mean it? When you answer someone back how you are doing, are you really telling the truth?
I would do nearly anything for a laugh, to tell the truth. And I'm a particular favourite with young men with earrings.
Any artist who has that quality of timelessness has that quality because they tell the truth.
Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile.
I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
I am a man of principle. I will stick by my principles. I will tell the truth no matter where the chips fall.
My workout is my obligation to life. It's my tranquilizer. It's part of the way I tell the truth--and telling the truth is what's kept me going all these years.
I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth.
I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.
I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.
You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don't, for any reason, ever tell the truth.
I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false.
If you tell a lie that's big enough, and you tell it often enough, people will believe you're telling the truth, even if what you're saying is total crap.
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.
People come telling the truth. When I ask how thing are in the States, they don't give me the okeydoke. They say, "Honey, things are hard." It reminds me I have to keep struggling.
I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be.
Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?
You can't be both a writer and a politician, at least not a good writer. A writer must always tell the truth as he sees it. And the politician must never give the game away.
Write,' she said, 'as if you'll never be read. That way you'll be sure to tell the truth.
...after a few days at the desk, telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be as easy and pleasurable as bathing a cat.
Telling the truth is like exposing the underside of our wings. We only see that part when we fly.
Acting is telling the truth under imaginary circumstances. I cannot think of a worse way to describe acting. Also, I'm the worst liar ever.
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.
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?
