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d002323 She ran into the bathroom and powdered her face and the front of her dress, drew a surrealistic version of a mouth beneath her nose, and dashed into her bedroom to find a coat. humor mother truth John Kennedy Toole
793c8b7 The truth of a myth, your Honor, is not its words but its patterns. patterns truth words David Mitchell
e20183b I was young myself once, and believe me, in love the truth is of no importance. love mario-puzo omerta truth youth Mario Puzo
d444711 We both know that, my friend, but a man's perception soon becomes his reality. reality truth Tim LaHaye
5839b0b Nonsense has taken up residence in the heart of public debate and also in the academy. This nonsense is part of the huge fund of unreason on which the plans and schemes of optimists draw for their vitality. Nonsense confiscates meaning. It thereby puts truth and falsehood, reason and unreason, light and darkness on an equal footing. It is a blow cast in defence of intellectual freedom, as the optimists construe it, namely the freedom to believe anything at all, provided you feel better for it. believe darkness debate equal falsehood feel feeling freedom heart light meaning nonsense optimism optimists plan plans public reason scheme schemes truth unreason vitality Roger Scruton
4e29eed "You have a choice," she told the class. "The whorish emptiness of lies or the straightlaced horrors of truth." truth truth-and-lies Lorrie Moore
df04fd7 "Six years previously, Miss Brodie had led her new class into the garden for a history lesson underneath the big elm. On the way through the school corridors they passed the headmistress's study. The door was wide open, the room was empty. 'Little girls,' said Miss Brodie, 'come and observe this.' They clustered round the open door while she pointed to a large poster pinned with drawing-pins on the opposite wall within the room. It depicted a man's big face. Underneath were the words 'Safety First'. 'This is Stanley Baldwin who got in as Prime Minister and got out again ere long,' said Miss Brodie. 'Miss Mackay retains him on the wall because she believes in the slogan "Safety First". But Safety does not come first. Goodness, Truth and Beauty come first. Follow me." girls goodness safety teacher truth Muriel Spark
d8439d6 She asserted that the best fictional detail was a chosen detail, not a remembered one - for fictional truth was not only the truth of observation, which was the truth of mere journalism. The best fictional detail was the detail that should have defined the character or the episode or the atmosphere. Fictional truth was what should have happened in a story - not necessarily what did happen or what had happened. truth writing-craft John Irving
496dd9e You cannot hide from the truth, Mina. Anytime you try to argue with the truth you lose. Anytime you try to evade it or run away from it, it will find you down the road. hiding-the-facts karen-essex mina-harker truth Karen Essex
0893ce5 At times it may feel hopeless. That life is unforgiving. Breathe. In the hopelessness of life, we find hope and promise. We find strength. inspiration inspirational-quote promise strength truth Tania Elizabeth
126c68a Nobody can stay in the Garden of Eden. move-on paradise truth James Baldwin
0f65943 Conservatism starts from a sentiment that all mature people can readily share: the sentiment that good things are easily destroyed, but not easily created. This is especially true of the good things that come to us as collective assets: peace, freedom, law, civility, public spirit, the security of property and family life, in all of which we depend on the cooperation of others while having no means singlehandedly to obtain it. In respect of such things, the work of destruction is quick, easy and exhilarating; the work of creation slow, laborious and dull. That is one of the lessons of the twentieth century. It is also one reason why conservatives suffer such a disadvantage when it comes to public opinion. Their position is true but boring, that of their opponents exciting but false. conservatism falsehood politics protecting tradition truth Roger Scruton
f2d04a2 "I have one weapon," Mason said. "It's a powerful weapon. But sometimes it's hard to wield it because you don't know just where to grab hold of it." truth Erle Stanley Gardner
9b500ee One eye is open to all truth, the other closed to all deception. loremaster truth Brandon Mull
41054e9 I love it when people lie! Lying is only man's privilege over all other organisms. Lying is what makes me a man. lying truth Fyodor Dostoyevsky
436f8b8 You see gentlemen, there are ideas . . . that is, you see, when some ideas are said out loud, put into words, they come out terribly stupid. They come out so that you're ashamed of yourself. But why? For no reason at all. Because we're all good-for-nothings and can't bear the truth, or I don't know why else. truth Fyodor Dostoyevsky
53e43b1 The best lies are seasoned with a bit of truth, truth George R.R. Martin
40e4337 "First of all understand that I get it. That there are millions and millions of women who are steely eyed realists. And millions and millions of men who are anything but. However. For lack of a better term I would say that the feminine values are the values of america : Sensitivity is more important than Truth. Feeling are more important than Facts. Commitment is more important than Individuality. Children are more important than People. Safety is more important than Fun. culture femininity feminism marriage marriage-humor married-men masculinity mens-rights the-red-pill truth truth-telling Bill Maher
5e07d38 ...the one certain thing in life is that no one can make the truth untrue simply because it hurts. inspirational-quotes morality philosophy true truth David Weber
52b6067 ...[S]o many people look only to their bank balance for peace or to fellow human beings for models to follow. Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man? I had such a test decades ago when one of my medical faculty colleagues chastised me for failing to separate my professional knowledge from my religious convictions. He demanded that I not combine the two. How could I do that? Truth is truth! It is not divisible, and any part of it cannot be set aside. Whether truth emerges from a scientific laboratory or through revelation, all truth emanates from God. religion science secular-knowledge truth Russell M. Nelson
99e05ab Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the field of battle. contradictions morality race race-relations racism truth James Baldwin
d90fcc7 It is truth, in the old saying, that is 'the daughter of time,' and the lapse of half a century has not left us many of our illusions. Churchill tried and failed to preserve one empire. He failed to preserve his own empire, but succeeded in aggrandizing two much larger ones. He seems to have used crisis after crisis as an excuse to extend his own power. His petulant refusal to relinquish the leadership was the despair of postwar British Conservatives; in my opinion this refusal had to do with his yearning to accomplish something that 'history' had so far denied him--the winning of a democratic election. britain british-empire cold-war conservative-party-uk crisis democracy elections history imperialism power russia soviet-union time truth united-states winston-churchill Christopher Hitchens
040ff02 "Don't think I know you," Harold said, grinning, as they shook. He had a firm grip. Larry's hand was pumped up and down exactly three times and let go. It reminded Larry of the time he had shaken hands with George Bush back when the old bushwhacker had been running for President. It had been at a political rally, which he had attended on the advice of his mother, given many years ago. If you can't afford a movie, go to the zoo. If you can't afford the zoo, go see a politician." society truth Stephen King
0e83460 I think we shall have trouble learning how to lie, having for so long practiced the art of going round and round the truth without ever lying about it, or reaching it either. truth Ursula K. Le Guin
b63bde2 ...the opposite of every truth is just as true! That is to say, any truth can only be expressed and put into words when it is one-sided. Everything that can be thought with the mind and said with words is one-sided, it's all just the half of it, lacking completeness, roundness, or unity. siddhartha truth words Hermann Hesse
ec2bb7f "She said that you--" "I don't care what she said." I stand up. "Everyone lies." "Hey," he says softly. "It's just a code." "No. Everyone lies." I stub the cigarette out. "It's just another language you have to learn." Then he delicately adds, "I think you need some coffee, dude." Pause. "Why are you so angry?" socializing trust truth Bret Easton Ellis
9e61582 "Why are you being so mean?" "Friends tell friends the truth." "Yeah, but not to hurt. To help." hurt truth Laurie Halse Anderson
209081f Has she received any letters from Lockton?' The question hit me like a bucket of cold water. 'You asking me to spy again?' 'Listen,' he started, 'Our freedom-' I did not let him continue. 'You are blind. They don't want us free. They just want liberty for themselves. american-revolution slavery truth Laurie Halse Anderson
63d830a He had met this sort of white man before, earnest and believing what came out of their mouths. The veracity of their words was another matter, but at least they believed them. The southern white man was spat from the loins of the devil and there was no way to forecast his next evil act. belief evil race-relations south southerners truth white-people Colson Whitehead
7bfa58c "Now if seen him, really there, really alive, it'd be in me like a fever. If I thought there was some god who really did care two hoots about people, who watched 'em like a father and cared for 'em like a mother . . . well, you wouldn't catch me saying things like 'there are two sides to every question' and 'we must respect other people's beliefs.' You wouldn't find being gen'rally nice in the hope that it'd all turn out right in the end, not if that flame was burning in me like an unforgivin' sword. And I did say burnin', Mister Oats, 'cos that's what it'd be. You say that you people don't burn folk and sacrifice people anymore, but that's what true faith would mean, y'see. Sacrificin' your own life, one day at a time, to the flame, declarin' the truth of it, workin' for it, breathin' the soul of it . . . religion. Anything else is . . . is just bein' . And just a way of keepin' in touch with the neighbors. "Anyway, that's what I'd be, if I really believed. And I don't think that's fashionable right now, 'cos it seems that if you sees evil you have to wring you rhands and say 'oh deary me, we must debate this.' That my two penn'orth, Mister Oats." religious-faith truth Terry Pratchett
6b48fcc Truth was something intangible, unseen, which sometimes we stumbled upon and did not recognize, but was found, and held, and understood only by old people near their death, or sometimes by the very pure, the very young. truth wisdom Daphne du Maurier
e980ccc And I know what I told my father was true: let us taste the world, and we'll do whatever it takes to shape it into our home. amy-martin atu-series centauri-earth home new-place planet shades-of-earth truth world Beth Revis
cb06f43 Yes. But terrible heresies have proven to be grim truths many times before in the longer history of my Church, Sek Hardeen. religion truth Dan Simmons
ce36252 My mind was spinning from the symmetry of this equation I suddenly faced: magical on one side, scientific on the other, a dark pulsing myth and an acceptable reality.... The explanations were like two sides of the same coin, and the side that I favored revealed something essential about the person I was. Prior to investigating Ashley, with little hesitation I'd have believed the side most others would, the side that was logical, rational, exact. But now, much to my own shock, like a man who suddenly realized he was no longer a person he recognized, that other impossible, illogical, mad side still had a very firm grip on me. truth two-sides Marisha Pessl
547bd9b [D]as Gedachtnis [ist] schwach und der Lauf eines Lebens kurz und alles [geschieht] so rasch, dass wir den Zusammenhang zwischen den Ereignissen nicht mehr sehen, die Folgen der Taten nicht mehr ermessen konnen, wir glauben an die Fiktion der Zeit, an Gegenwart, Vergangenheit und Zukunft, aber es kann auch sein, dass alles gleichzeitig geschieht [...] time truth Isabel Allende
982ddf2 One that society can't forgive, but I can. compassion confess forgivable friendship grace healing heartache kindness life love surrender truth unforgiven Dennis Lehane
8a82584 "I wish I had a dollar for every hour I've spent in the library," he always says. I have to agree- we'd probably never have to worry about money again." humor reading truth Gary Paulsen
c8bc876 There is no future in a sacred myth. Why not? Because of our curiosity. (...) Whatever we hold precious, we cannot protect it from our curiosity, because being who we are, one of the things we deem precious is the truth. science truth Daniel C. Dennett
f9cd692 ... truth has a certain buoyancy - it makes its way to the surface, in time. truth Jacqueline Winspear
5d8436d The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of mankind. great-men humanity instinct mankind mountain stupidity truth Doris Lessing
cea1c33 It's better not to make a promise than to make one you can't keep. keeping-promises landry pearl-in-the-mist promises truth v-c-andrews wisdom V.C. Andrews
9376545 When you lay down a proposition which is forthwith controverted, it is of course optional with you to take up the cudgels in its defence. If you are deeply convinced of its truth, you will perhaps be content to leave it to take care of itself; or, at all events, you will not go out of your way to push its fortunes; for you will reflect that in the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons. In the long run, we say; it will meanwhile cost you an occasional pang to see your cherished theory turned into a football by the critics. A football is not, as such, a very respectable object, and the more numerous the players, the more ridiculous it becomes. Unless, therefore, you are very confident of your ability to rescue it from the chaos of kicks, you will best consult its interests by not mingling in the game. criticism opinion truth Henry James
e49c8a4 Why did everyone like that story so much when it wasn't true? Why was everyone so eager to believe it? Was it because, in real life, ever after's generally stink? fairytale fantasy façades happy-ever-after love made-up reality romance truth Margaret Peterson Haddix
952fb99 "Take care,' said Delaura. 'Sometimes we attribute certain things we do not understand to the demon, not thinking they may be things of God that we do not understand.' 'Saint Thomas said it, and I will be guided by him,' said the Abbess: '"One must not believe demons even when they speak the truth." demons doubt st-thomas truth Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
daf8308 The Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt. devil faith truth Umberto Eco
fcaa79e lshkwk lyst 'bdan mGl@ , lshk , dy'man lshk , bhdhh lTryq@ wHdh tSl l~ lHqyq@ doubting-mind truth الحقيقة الشك Umberto Eco
0e98415 We do not claim that the portrait we are making is the whole truth, only that it is a resemblance. literature representation truth Victor Hugo
5788932 They are les miserables - the outcasts, the underdogs. And who is to blame? Is it not the most fallen who have most need of charity? truth Victor Hugo
f8a3853 "So why did poor artists originally hang around in cafes?" "I don't know. Inspiration from the atmosphere." "Ha! No, you've been tricked, too, just like the rest of us. Cafes didn't have inspirational atmosphere at first. That only came later, when you knew artists had been hanging around in them." truth Arthur Phillips
e26618d Someday I'll be a lawyer... someday I'll bring justice to people who need it. Lawyers are either legalized liars... or saviors of the truth. court courtroom jurisprudence law lawyer legal liar savior truth Rebecca McNutt
6eba8ec He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the word and pass it on. So be sparing. What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality,known or not. truth Cormac McCarthy
bf5bfe0 The ultimate truth is penultimately always a falsehood. He who will be proved right in the end appears to be wrong and harmful before it. humanity revolution righteousness truth Arthur Koestler
54ad404 We were all journalists, professional truth-seekers, but one thing we knew about the truth that laymen were prone to disregard was that it need not be literal or factual; the unpredictable human personality was itself a fact. truth writing Walter Kirn
805d5c9 There are those who maintain that you can't demand anything of the reader. They say the reader knows nothing about art, and that if you are going to reach him, you have to be humble enough to descend to his level. This supposes either that the aim of art is to teach, which it is not, or that to create anything which is simply a good-in-itself is a waste of time. Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it. We hear a great deal about humility being required to lower oneself, but it requires an equal humility and a real love of the truth to raise oneself and by hard labor to acquire higher standards. appreciation art beauty criticism disicipline truth Flannery O'Connor
c373359 Fantasy is unconstrained by truth. fantasy henry-viii spring-dec-1530 thomas-cromwell truth Hilary Mantel
b0a43ed The truth, he thought, has never been of any real value to any human being- it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. I human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. lies mathematics philosophy truth Graham Greene
22523a2 It is necessary to write, that much is clear, and to write in a way quite unlike any way which I have employed before. self-deception truth writers writing Iris Murdoch
e4ce89a I'm a dinosaur, he thought, lumbering through a world where truthtellers are despised. truth truth-tellers world Tess Gerritsen
8bb8515 Logical reasoning may be a most convenient means of mental communication for covering short distances, but the curvature of the earth, alas, is reflected even in logic: an ideally rational progression of thought will finally bring you back to the point of departure where you return aware of the simplicity of genius, with a delightful sensation that you have embraced truth, while actually you have merely embraced your own self... anything you might term a deduction already exposes the flaw: logical development inexorably becomes an envelopment. logic truth Vladimir Nabokov
4fb0cd2 "There is in certain ancient things a trace Of some dim essence -- More than form or weight; A tenuous aether, indeterminate, Yet linked with all the laws of time and space. A faint, veiled sign of continuities That outward eyes can never quite descry; reality truth universe H.P. Lovecraft
9b4e656 We must seize every opportunity we can to speak the truth and proclaim peace. Especially now. There's so little time for many. peace proclaim speak time truth Francine Rivers
057ec33 It is almost impossible to shake of one's earliest training. Duke, can you get it through your skull that had you been brought up by Martians, you would have the same attitude toward eating and being eaten as Mike has. nature nurture truth upbringing Robert A. Heinlein
bbc7cce Im Schlamm fing es an, wie so vieles. truth Tad Williams
e062ee4 Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. illusions truth Barbara Kingsolver
27301c5 By trying to export myself into a place that didn't fully exist I asked works of art to bear my expectation that they could be better than life, that they could redeem life. In fact, I believe they are, and do. My life is dedicated to that belief. But still, I asked too much of them: I asked them also to be both safer than life and fuller, a better family. That they couldn't give. At the depths I'd plumb them, so many perfectly sufficient works of art would become thin, anemic. I sucked the juice out of what I loved until I found myself in a desert, sucking rocks for water. obsession reality regret too-much-affection too-much-of-a-good-thing truth what-you-love Jonathan Lethem
1f6bdbc He sometimes asked himself a question about life. Which are truer, the happy memories, or the unhappy ones? He decided, eventually, that the question was unanswerable. julian-barnes life memories memory the-only-story truth unanswerable unhappy-memories Julian Barnes
ef83c99 Hearsay, even from the people I love, doesn't equate to gospel truth. gospel-truth hearsay katie-mcgarry pushing-the-limits romance rumor rumors truth young-adult Katie McGarry
9b5ee42 I wanted to say a certain thing to a certain man, a certain true thing that had crept into my head. I opened my head, at the place provided, and proceeded to pronounce the true thing that lay languishing there--that is, proceeded to propel that trueness, that felicitous trularity, from its place inside my head out into world life. The certain man stood waiting to receive it. His face reflected an eager accepting-ness. Everything was right. I propelled, using my mind, my mouth, all my muscles. I propelled. I propelled and propelled. I felt trularity inside my head moving slowly through the passage provided (stained like the caves of Lascaux with garlic, antihistamines, Berloiz, a history, a history) toward its debut on the world stage. Past my teeth, with their little brown sweaters knitted of gin and cigar smoke, toward its leap to critical scrutiny. Past my lips, with their tendency to flake away in cold weather-- language speech truth Donald Barthelme
b5cd4b9 The only duty of the dreamer is to tell the truth about the dream. dreams honesty truth writing Jane Yolen
11cb837 Ideally, the pursuit of truth is said to be at the heart of the intellectual's business, but this credits his business too much and not quite enough. As with the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of truth is itself gratifying whereas consummation often turns out to be elusive. Truth captured loses its glamour; truths long known and widely believed have a way of turning false with time; easy truths are bore and too many of them become half truths. Whatever the intellectual is too certain of, if he is healthily playful, he begins to find unsatisfactory. The meaning of his intellectual life lies not in the possession of truth but in the quest for new uncertainties. Harold Rosenberg summed up this side of the life of the mind supremely well when he said that the intellectual is one who turns answers into questions. happiness intellectual intellectualism intellectuals play playful playfulness questions truth uncertainty Richard Hofstadter
e0a9c53 "The queer thing is that we do trust you," said Bodisham. "In spite of your -- extremism." "You'd better," said Rud with grim conviction. "I'm right. What is extremism? The whole truth and nothing but the truth. I ask you." "It's because of his extremism you trust him," said Chiffan. "It's because in the last resort we believe in his indiscretion, and know he won't fail us even if we fail ourselves. All leadership is extravagance. Extra-vagance. Going a bit ahead." Rud did not quite understand that. "It's because you know I'm right," he said. "It's because," said Chiffan, letting his thoughts run away with him," to make a new world, the leader must be a fundamentally destructive man, a recklessly destructive man. He breaks his way through the jungle and we follow...We cannot do without you, Rud." leadership truth H.G. Wells
f486db2 What the world stigmatises as romantic, is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed; for, if the generous ideas of youth are too often over-clouded by the sordid views of after-life, that scarcely proves them to be false. romanticism truth way-of-the-world Anne Brontë
5d3552e Everything she sang was true. I will leave it to you as to whether the truth can exist with details omitted, or if those lacks make a lie of it. exist gap guilty honesty lack lie omission song speak starling truth Robin Hobb
db4235a I found myself speaking softly as if I were telling an old tale to a young child. And giving it a happy ending, when all know that tales never end, and the happy ending is but a moment to catch one's breath before the next disaster. But I didn't want to think about that. I didn't want to wonder what would happen next. happy-endings truth Robin Hobb
083ffcc Make sure everyone, who works with you or for you, feels the need to tell others about the incredible experience. achievement-and-attitude achievement-gap achievements achieving-dreams achieving-excellence achieving-mastery achieving-success arriving business doing evangelical evangelism evangelistic happiness happiness-quote listening listening-skills listening-to-others moving-forward perseverance personal-planning positive positivity presentation professional-listening reputation sales sales-advice sales-effectiveness sales-training selling success success-in-business success-in-life success-quotes success-self-improvement success-strategies successful-living tenacity truth Chris Murray
eae3f09 You must have realised by now that when one really cares, really tries to help, the other party recognises the fact and, therefore, easily sees the logic in working together for the greater good, for the mutual benefit of both. achievement-and-attitude achievement-gap achievements achieving-dreams achieving-excellence achieving-mastery achieving-success arriving business doing evangelical evangelism evangelistic listening listening-skills listening-to-others moving-forward perseverance personal-planning presentation professional-listening reputation sales sales-advice sales-effectiveness sales-training selling success success-in-business success-in-life success-quotes success-self-improvement success-strategies successful-living tenacity truth Chris Murray
d333f7b Speaking from the heart is simple. Listening wholeheartedly, however, is much, much more difficult and most rare. achievement-and-attitude achievement-gap achievements achieving-dreams achieving-excellence achieving-mastery achieving-success arriving business doing evangelical evangelism evangelistic listening listening-skills listening-to-others moving-forward perseverance personal-planning presentation reputation sales sales-advice sales-effectiveness sales-training selling success success-in-business success-in-life success-quotes success-self-improvement success-strategies successful-living tenacity truth Chris Murray
266ec6c It is good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good too. It fattens the emotions and makes them to stretch. When as a woman life and people disappoint her, she will have had practice in disappointment and it will not come so hard. In teaching your child do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character. emotions rich-character suffering truth Betty Smith
ca778ee Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. true-to-life truth Yann Martel
cd6800f They have lied to us. They can't keep us from dying, so They lie to us about death. A cooperative structure of lies. What have they ever given us in return for the trust, the love--They actually say 'love'--we're supposed to owe Them? Can They keep us from even catching cold? from lice, from being alone? from anything? Before the Rocket we went on believing, because we wanted to. But the Rocket can penetrate, from the sky, at any given point. Nowhere is safe. We can't believe Them any more. Not if we are still sane, and love the truth. futility-of-war love lying religion truth Thomas Pynchon
dea569f ...the terrible crumple and blanch of a lie come undone... lie lies run truth Ann Patchett
b096101 ...there is no real person whose embodiment plays no role in meaning, whose meaning is purely objective and defined by the external world, and whose language can fit the external world with no significant role played by mind, brain, or body. Because our conceptual systems grow out of our bodies, meaning is grounded in and through our bodies. Because a vast range of our concepts are metaphorical, meaning is not entirely literal and the classical correspondence theory of truth is false. correspondence embodied-mind embodied-realism meaning metaphor objectivity reason truth George Lakoff
dc05aba "Foulgrin: "If you can keep Fletcher from saying a definitive no to a temptation, you've won. Whatever is not a no is merely a postponed yes." (advice to the tempter Squaltaint)" faith inspiration truth Randy Alcorn
c988bd3 Knowing all of this makes me love and hate Jesus at the same time. Because, when instead of contrasting good and evil, he contrasted truth and evil, I have to think about all the times I've substituted being good (or appearing to be good) for truth. jesus truth Nadia Bolz-Weber
857f5af As citizens, I think we all have an exhausting duty to now what our governments are up to, and it is cowardice or laziness to ask: what can I do about it anyway? Every squeak counts, if only in self-respect. self-respect truth Martha Gellhorn
641f18f He was funny and charming, but also kind. It seemed the older she got, the more she appreciated kindness in people. truth Susan Mallery
b216fe7 The truth will set you free, its the little white lies that'll save your ass. lies truth James Patterson
95f7f32 "I was an answer-seeking machine, in love with what I called "the truth," whether it came in the form of little truth particles stuck to the pages of books or vast patterns screaming out from the obvious and mundane." seeking truth Barbara Ehrenreich
132c077 Wie viele einsame Kinder war sein Problem nicht die Einsamkeit an sich, sondern dass er nie allein gelassen wurde, um sie zu geniessen. truth Michael Chabon
8a1dd62 Boredom is the very opposite of beauty and truth. Life has been sacrificed to profit, and the result is boredom on a massive scale. boredom truth Tom Hodgkinson
219ee32 When the truth finally catches up to you, don't be a hero and run. calm patient truth John le Carré
a84c192 My confessions did nothing to alter this situation, but for the first time in my life I felt that somebody actually knew me. Three somebodies, to be exact. Two were roaming the highway in a Cadillac, doing God knows what with a CB radio, but the other was as close to me as my own skin, and I could now feel the undiluted pleasure of her company. honesty knowing-someone pleasure truth David Sedaris
ac7ab90 Even to-day the masses of the Negroes see all too clearly the anomalies of their position and the moral crookedness of yours. You may marshal strong indictments against them, but their counter-cries, lacking though they be in formal logic, have burning truths within them which you may not wholly ignore, O Southern Gentlemen! righteous-anger truth W.E.B. Du Bois
7fa65bc Truth and falsehood pass through the same lips and leave no mark, the devil does not cease to be the devil just because he may have spoken the truth. truth José Saramago
9aeae41 "Lying," he said out loud, hoping no one would hear. "I need to lie. Teach me, quickly." I wouldn't if I were you, came the response. For a start, it's a variable concept here. You are in a culture where ambiguity has been raised to a high level. Let me give an example: depending on phrasing, circumstance, expression, body movement, intonation and context, the statement "I love you" can mean I love you; I don't love you; I hate you; I want to have sex with you; I do, in fact, love your sister; I don't love you any more; leave me alone, I'm tired, or I'm sorry I forgot your birthday. The person being talked to would instantly understand the meaning but might choose to attribute an entirely different meaning to the statement. Lying is a social act and the nature and import of the lie depends in effect on an unspoken agreement between the parties concerned. Please note that this description does not even begin to explore the concept of deep lies, in which the speaker simultaneously says something he knows to be untrue and genuinely believes it nonetheless: politicians are particularly adept at this." love politics truth Iain Pears
755ebc6 "My Lord Bacon, in his logic truth Iain Pears
d92c024 Our Christian faith - and correlatively, our account of apologetics - is tainted by modernism when we fail to appreciate the effects of sin on reason. When this is ignored, we adopt an Enlightenment optimism about the role of a supposedly neutral reason in the recognition of truth. christianity enlightenment rational reason sin total-depravity truth James K.A. Smith
82da139 Like an ant, I will find my way round any obstacle. Like a child, I will persevere with pinpoint focus. achievement-and-attitude achievement-gap achievements achieving-dreams achieving-excellence achieving-mastery achieving-success arriving business doing evangelical evangelism evangelistic moving-forward perseverance personal-planning presentation reputation sales sales-advice sales-effectiveness sales-training selling success success-in-business success-in-life success-quotes success-self-improvement success-strategies successful-living tenacity truth Chris Murray
0633ab0 People don't want the truth,' he says, waving a hand at the streets around us. 'They want better-quality lies. High definition lies on fifty-inch screens. lies modernity truth Paul Murray
6823aa1 Teaching is a sacred art. This is why the noblest druid is not the one who conjures fires and smoke but the one who brings the news and passes on the histories. The teacher, the bard, the singer of tales is a freer of men's minds and bodies, especially when he roams without allegiance to one chieftain or another. But he is also a danger to the masters if he insists upon telling the truth. The truth will inevitably cause tremors in those who cling to power without honoring justice. freedom power teaching truth Kate Horsley
993401b "The formula for this brand of "historical" writing is to put the public on the inside; to let them feel the palpitations of royal and imperial lovers and to overhear their lispings and cooings. It can be argued that a man has to live somewhere, and that if his own time is so cut up by rapid change that he can't find a cranny big enough to relax in, then he must betake himself to the past. That is certainly one motive in the production of historical romance, from Sir Walter Scott to Thornton Wilder. But mainly this formula works as a means of flattery. The public is not only invited inside but encouraged to believe that there is nothing inside that differs from its own thoughts and feelings. This reassurance is provided by endowing historical figures with the sloppiest possible minds. The great are "humanized" by being trivial. The debunking school began by making the great appear as corrupt, or mean and egotistical. The "humanizers" have merely carried on to make them idiotic. "Democratic" vanity has reached such proportions that it cannot accept as human anything above the level of cretinous confusion of mind of the type popularized by Hemingway's heroes. Just as the new star must be made to appear successful by reason of some freak of fortune, so the great, past or present, must be made to seem so because of the most ordinary qualities, to which fortune adds an unearned trick or idea." -- fiction historical-fiction nostalgia past past-and-present rapid-change relaxation time truth Marshall McLuhan
da195e2 [H]aving a money value was no substitute for love. love truth Margaret Atwood
d7c019a Se protivrechi edno na drugo, se protrchuva edno kraj drugo, nikade nema sigurnost. Se mozhe da se tolkuva vaka, i se mozhe da se tolkuva obratno. Seta chovechka istorija mozhe da se protolkuva kako razvoj i napredok, a istovremeno bez da se vidi neshto povekje od propast i glupost. Zar nema vistina? Zar ne postoi vistinska i validna nauka? dogma game glass truth Hermann Hesse
3b637e7 When we characterize talk as hot air, we mean that what comes out of the speaker's mouth is only that. It is mere vapor. His speech is empty, without substance or content. His use of language, accordingly, does not contribute to the purpose it purports to serve. No more information is communicated than if the speaker had merely exhaled. There are similarities between hot air and excrement, incidentally, which make hot air seem an especially suitable equivalent for bullshit. Just as hot air is speech that has been emptied of all informative content, so excrement is matter from which everything nutritive has been removed. Excrement may be regarded as the corpse of nourishment, what remains when the vital elements in food have been exhausted. [...] In any event, it cannot serve the purposes of sustenance, any more than hot air can serve those of communication. critical-examination critical-thinking depiction logic marketing philosophy reality speech truth Harry G. Frankfurt
7114044 OUT of that moment Jesus was nailed to his cross flowed our attempts to represent it, to create a narrative that could contain it. Yet the body, hanging there, is still, simply, terrible. Caravaggio's genius was to paint Jesus with dirty feet, to bring him back down to earth. truth Nick Flynn
3d952e4 people still fall in love, and out, yes, in and out, and out and in, and they please each other, and hurt each other, isn't that the truth, and they do these things in more or less conventionally dramatic fashion, unfashionable or not, go on, I'm going, and what goes on between them is still not only the most interesting but the most important thing in the bloody murderous world hurt love truth John Barth
ed6351d But time, it is like a charm. You never have as much as you think. truth Khaled Hosseini
deeabc3 Like caterpillars our metamorphosis begins with what comes from our mouth. Caterpillars spin silk cocoons from the mouth. We speak life or death, success or failure. All transformation starts with what comes from our mouth. brandi-l-bates church love motivation red-flags speak-life truth wisdom words-of-wisdom Brandi L. Bates
86dbd13 "Life's more important than a living. So many people who make a living are making death, not life. Don't ever join them. They're the gravediggers of our civilization - The safe men. The compromisers. The moneymakers. The muddlers-through. philosophy truth James Hilton
e37c5a5 I would tell my 14 year old self to never ever, ever put all of your money in one bank account. And love the ones who love you back. You're going to want to quit...DON'T! Oh, and get everything in writing. financial-wisdom greatness lessons-of-life love marriage relationships soledad-francis success truth wealth Brandi L. Bates
2ad233e The boundaries of your life is merely creation of the self. truth Robin S. Sharma
92fa7d6 The boundaries of your life are merely creations of the self. truth Robin S. Sharma
ccffb9d I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extra-vagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limits of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced. truth Henry David Thoreau
37e5a78 Hindsight history, sometimes call counterfactual history, is usually not history at all, but most often a condescending game of oneupmanship in which the living play political tricks on the dead, who are not around to defend themselves. history truth Joseph J. Ellis
222e4e2 I am filled with truth at my center where I once held shame. core-truth healing healing-shame healing-the-past sexual-abuse-healing soul soul-searching truth Maureen Brady
5d3bdc4 I had not slept with many men other than my husband, but I noticed before that to sleep, actually sleep with someone did give this sense of intimacy, as though your dreams had flowed out of you to mingle with his and fold you both in a blanket of unconsciousness knowing. A throwback of some kind, I thought. In older, more primitive times, it was an act of trust to sleep in the presence of another person. If the trust was mutual, simple sleep could bring you closer together than joining the bodies. outlander trust truth Diana Gabaldon
0ff5a78 He looked up at the underside of the bridge, everyone battling to either get into the city or out of it, everyone in an irritated rush, probably half aware that they wouldn't feel any better once they got home. Half of them would go right back out again to the market for something they'd forgotten, to a bar, to the video store, to a restaurant where they'd wait in line again. And for what? What did we line up for? Where did we expect to go? And why were we never as happy as we thought we'd be once we got there? life truth Dennis Lehane
1e2c048 "I'm sorry," Leon said. "I can see you loved your two friends and you miss them, and maybe they're flying around somewhere in the sky, zipping here and there and being spirits and happy. But you and I and three billion other people are not, and until it changes here it won't be enough, Phil; not enough. Despite the supreme heavenly father. He has to do something for us here, and that's the truth. If you believe in the truth--well, Phil, that's the truth. The harsh, unpleasant truth." religion truth valis Philip K. Dick
1aac290 If we are on the outside, we assume a conspiracy is the perfect working scheme. Silent nameless men with unadorned hearts. A conspiracy is everything that ordinary life is not. It's the inside game, cold, sure, undistracted, forever closed off to us. We are the flawed ones, the innocents, trying to make some rough sense of the daily jostle. Conspirators have a logic and daring beyond our reach. All conspiracies are the same taut story of men who find coherence in some criminal act. crime lies perception truth Don DeLillo
a48ef28 From today onward, you will learn how to become evangelical about the many ways you help people. achievement-and-attitude achievement-gap achievements achieving-dreams achieving-excellence achieving-mastery achieving-success arriving business doing evangelism evangelistic moving-forward perseverance personal-planning presentation reputation sales sales-advice sales-effectiveness sales-training selling success success-in-business success-in-life success-quotes success-self-improvement success-strategies successful-living tenacity truth Chris Murray
4bcc4c5 I will look the part. I will act the part. I will deliver that which I have promised to deliver. achievement-and-attitude achievement-gap achievements achieving-dreams achieving-excellence achieving-mastery achieving-success arriving business doing evangelical evangelism evangelistic moving-forward perseverance personal-planning presentation reputation sales sales-advice sales-effectiveness sales-training selling success success-in-business success-in-life success-quotes success-self-improvement success-strategies successful-living tenacity truth Chris Murray
2872d9f Adopt the positive in everything you do, for there will always be positivity there to find, if that is what you seek. achievement-and-attitude achievement-gap achievements achieving-dreams achieving-excellence achieving-mastery achieving-success arriving business doing evangelical evangelism evangelistic happiness happiness-quote listening listening-skills listening-to-others moving-forward perseverance personal-planning positive positivity presentation professional-listening reputation sales sales-advice sales-effectiveness sales-training selling success success-in-business success-in-life success-quotes success-self-improvement success-strategies successful-living tenacity truth Chris Murray
0b29954 My intention was, only, ever to help you see the light shining brightly in front, and inside, of you. achievement-and-attitude achievement-gap achievements achieving-dreams achieving-excellence achieving-mastery achieving-success arriving business doing evangelical evangelism evangelistic happiness happiness-quote listening listening-skills listening-to-others moving-forward perseverance personal-planning presentation professional-listening reputation sales sales-advice sales-effectiveness sales-training selling success success-in-business success-in-life success-quotes success-self-improvement success-strategies successful-living tenacity truth Chris Murray
c10cbb1 In the past, I have all too often listened without hearing, asking questions when I had no intention of hearing the answer or understand my customer's requirements. achievement-and-attitude achievement-gap achievements achieving-dreams achieving-excellence achieving-mastery achieving-success arriving business doing evangelical evangelism evangelistic listening listening-skills listening-to-others moving-forward perseverance personal-planning presentation professional-listening reputation sales sales-advice sales-effectiveness sales-training selling success success-in-business success-in-life success-quotes success-self-improvement success-strategies successful-living tenacity truth Chris Murray
82a3ca1 You've got to be driven to become successful. achievement-and-attitude achievement-gap achievements achieving-dreams achieving-excellence achieving-mastery achieving-success arriving business doing evangelical evangelism evangelistic listening listening-skills listening-to-others moving-forward perseverance personal-planning presentation professional-listening reputation sales sales-advice sales-effectiveness sales-training selling success success-in-business success-in-life success-quotes success-self-improvement success-strategies successful-living tenacity truth Chris Murray
969de97 It is your duty to save these prospects from that disappointment. Every potential customer, who misses out on what you have to offer, due to your lack of zeal or passion, every prospect who ends up with an excuse of an alternative from your lacklustre competition, should rest heavy on your conscience. achievement-and-attitude achievement-gap achievements achieving-dreams achieving-excellence achieving-mastery achieving-success arriving business doing evangelical evangelism evangelistic moving-forward perseverance personal-planning presentation reputation sales sales-advice sales-effectiveness sales-training selling success success-in-business success-in-life success-quotes success-self-improvement success-strategies successful-living tenacity truth Chris Murray
288e8a5 That which is currently beyond your capabilities now, does not have to be so forever achievement-and-attitude achievement-gap achievements achieving-dreams achieving-excellence achieving-mastery achieving-success arriving business doing evangelical evangelism evangelistic happiness happiness-quote listening listening-skills listening-to-others moving-forward perseverance personal-planning positive positivity presentation professional-listening reputation sales sales-advice sales-effectiveness sales-training selling success success-in-business success-in-life success-quotes success-self-improvement success-strategies successful-living tenacity truth Chris Murray
9a44284 "Lord Foulgrin: "You must not let him see Charis as a place of learning, exploration, duties, travel, companionship, banquets, celebrations, and productive work. A low view of heaven is our ace in the hole." (conspiring to bring Fletcher down after salvation)" heaven inspiration truth Randy Alcorn
630ecb9 We do not, after all, deal in truths, only potentialities. Too much truth can be worse than death, and last longer. potential potentialities truth Richard Ford
95c03b3 "Honesty is a moral virtue, a matter of the will. Honesty means willing the truth with the whole of your heart. This demands sacrifice. We have little hope of attaining honesty unless we realize how demanding it is. It demands sacrifice of self-will, self-image, the desire to win, and the comfort of being right. The "honesty" often praised today is usually only emotional honesty with others, not intellectual honesty with one's self; only "letting it all hang out," not asking what is the real truth. Sometimes "honesty" is only a code word for shamelessness. Rarely does it mean the absolute, fanatical, selfless love of truth." morality philosophy truth Peter Kreeft
6a8e26f If we seek the truth without realizing how far we are from it, we will be dogmatists. If we realize how far we are from the truth but do not seek it, we will be skeptics. If we both seek the truth and realize how far we are from it, we will be wise. dogmatism skepticism truth wisdom Peter Kreeft
da87738 When you see somwthing, it can't be unseen. When you hear a sound, it can't be unheard. I know, deep down, that this evening I have learned something that cam never be unlearned lessons-learnt truth truth-of-life Cecelia Ahern
f7b8cb0 Seeking those elusive individuals is like mining for rare gems. It will take hard work, patience, and a persistent attitude. To find that rich seam of colourful stones, you will have to chip through dirt and rock. You will have to learn how to hold rubble in your hands and see the fortune inside. achievement-and-attitude achievement-gap achievements achieving-dreams achieving-excellence achieving-mastery achieving-success arriving business doing evangelism evangelistic moving-forward perseverance personal-planning presentation reputation sales sales-advice sales-effectiveness sales-training selling success success-in-business success-in-life success-quotes success-self-improvement success-strategies successful-living tenacity truth Chris Murray
3035d6d There can be no success in sales without tenacity. achievement-and-attitude achievement-gap achievements achieving-dreams achieving-excellence achieving-mastery achieving-success arriving business doing evangelism evangelistic moving-forward perseverance personal-planning presentation reputation sales sales-advice sales-effectiveness sales-training selling success success-in-business success-in-life success-quotes success-self-improvement success-strategies successful-living tenacity truth Chris Murray
a00007b The more a family can be splintered apart, the weaker and more ineffectual they become, and the more the enemy has control of their lives. One way to avoid this is through prayer. When you cover your family relationships in prayer, whether it be with your children, parents, stepparents, brothers, sisters, grandparents, husband, or wife, there will be far fewer instances of strained or severed relationships. parenting prayer relationships truth Stormie Omartian
5196c1d The Consul looked at the sun. But he had lost the sun: it was not his sun. Like the truth, it was well-nigh impossible to face; he did not want to go anywhere near it, least of all, sit in its light, facing it. truth Malcolm Lowry
2e64cf9 Love, sorrow, and wealth are the three things that cannot be concealed. sorrow truth wealth Patrick O'Brian
371f66c ...you must understand that not even the Jedi know all there is to be known about the Force; no mortal mind can. We speak of the as someone ignorant of gravity might say it is the will of a river to flow to the ocean; it is a metaphor that describes our ignorance. The simple truth - if any truth is ever simple - is that we do not truly know what the will of the Force may be. We can know. It is so far beyond our limited understanding that we can only surrender to its mystery. ignorance jedi metaphor mystery obi-wan-kenobi old-ben simple-truth surrender-to-mystery the-force the-will-of-the-force truth Matthew Woodring Stover
7d2b365 Sometimes, if you get too close to a subject you can miss what's most important. achievement-and-attitude achievement-gap achievements achieving-dreams achieving-excellence achieving-mastery achieving-success arriving business doing evangelism evangelistic moving-forward perseverance personal-planning presentation reputation sales sales-advice sales-effectiveness sales-training selling success success-in-business success-in-life success-quotes success-self-improvement success-strategies successful-living tenacity truth Chris Murray
6634ce7 Truth-telling is difficult because the varieties of untruth are so many and so well disguised. Lies are hard to identify when they come in the form of apparently innocuous imprecision, socially acceptable slippage, hyperbole masquerading as enthusiasm, or well-placed propaganda. These forms of falsehood are so common, and even so normal, in media-saturated, corporately controlled culture that truth often looks pale, understated, alarmist, rude, or indecisive by comparison. Flannery O'Connor's much-quoted line 'You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you odd' has a certain prophetic force in the face of more and more commonly accepted facsimiles of truth - from PR to advertising claims to propaganda masquerading as news. language marilyn-chandler-mcentyre truth writing Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
459d246 "Truth," Nietzsche continued, "is arrived at through disbelief and skepticism, not through a childlike wishing something were so! Your patient's wish to be in God's hands is not truth. It is simply a child's wish--and nothing more! It is a wish not to die, a wish for the eveastingly bloated nipple we have labeled 'God'! Evolutionary theory scientifically demonstrates God's redundancy--though Darwin himself had not the courage to follow his evidence to its true conclusion. Surely, you must realize that we created God, and that all of us together now have killed him." philosophy skepticism truth Irvin D. Yalom
1764b06 How wide the gulf between Henry as he was and Henry as Helen thought he ought to be! And she herself--hovering as usual between the two, now accepting men as they are, now yearning with her sister for Truth. Love and Truth--their warfare seems eternal. Perhaps the whole visible world rests on it, and if they were one, life itself, like the spirits when Prospero was reconciled to his brother, might vanish into air, into thin air. conflict e-m-forster expectations-vs-reality howards-end love the-world truth E.M. Forster
334f538 Archaeology is a deeply conservative discipline and I have found that archaeologists, no matter where they are working, have a horror of questioning anything their predecessors and peers have already announced to be true. They run a very real risk of jeopardizing their careers if they do. In consequence they focus--perhaps to a large extent subconsciously--on evidence and arguments that don't upset the applecart. There might be room for some tinkering around the edges, some refinement of orthodox ideas, but God forbid that anything should be discovered that might seriously undermine the established paradigm. careers conservative jeopardy orthodoxy predecessors questioning truth Graham Hancock
9f1fd7d I would not have majored in English and gone on to teach literature had I not been able to construct a counterargument about the truthfulness of fiction; still, as writers turn away from the industrious villages of George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, I learn less and less from them that helps me to ponder my life. In time, I found myself agreeing with the course evaluations written by my testier freshman students:'All the literature we read this term was depressing.' How naive. How sane. literature teaching truth Mary Rose O'Reilley
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