Telling The Truth Quotes
I am someone who's been in politics for 43 years and I know what I'm doing and what I should do. Have no doubt that I know how to tell the truth and to do so elegantly.
On the one hand, we may tell the truth, regardless of consequences, and on the other hand we may mellow it and sophisticate it to make it humane and tolerable.
The sexual organs are the most sensitive organs of the human being. They are not diplomats. They tell the truth.
Never trust a mirror,' his mother had told him. 'They never tell the truth unless you make them.
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.
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.
Telling the truth is like exposing the underside of our wings. We only see that part when we fly.
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.
The great advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing
I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell the truth. - Blanche Scene II
...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.
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?
Telling the truth is the slow, mundane, difficult route to a meaningful life. Anything else is cheating.
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.
Telling the truth to yourself and someone you can trust are great ways to help elevate your whole emotional quality.
People can sense you lying on the camera, they can smell it. They know when you're not telling the truth. Then it does become reality-show bullshit.
With all the justifications I have had in place, telling the truth under certain circumstances was in my universe no different than telling a lie or withholding.
the more a body tries to explode all the foolish myths that have grown up about Texas by telling the truth, the more a body will wind up adding to the mythology.
When the good pictures come, we hope they tell truths, but truths 'told slant,' just as Emily Dickinson commanded.
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.
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 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.
We reveal more of ourselves in the lies we tell than we do when we try to tell the truth.
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.
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.
Whenever it feels uncomfortable to tell the truth, that's often the most important time to tell it.
I say, when you tell the truth, you never offend nobody, particularly if you do it with dignity.
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological.
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.
I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty for Beauty to set the world right.
