I got a role in this movie called Freeway playing this really angry, aggressive, violent young woman who believed wholeheartedly in the truth. I had such satisfaction afterward, and I thought, That's what I want to do.
~By Reese Witherspoon ~
There should be a readiness, on our part, to investigate with candor to follow the truth wherever it may lead us, and to submit, without reserve or objection, to all the teachings of this religion, if it be found to be of divine origin.
~By Simon Greenleaf ~
If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.
~By Nikki Giovanni ~
She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence.
~By Sri Aurobindo ~
For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
~By Lord Byron ~
I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress.
~By Carrie Fisher ~
To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.
~By Richard Baker ~
I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel his theory out. It drives you up the wall. I think the greatest form of finding out the truth is through fantasy.
~By Joseph Fiennes ~
When I testified in front of Congress, I know that I was testifying under oath and I told the truth.
~By Rafael Palmeiro ~
Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.
~By Vilfredo Pareto ~
I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.
~By Abu Bakr ~
The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.
~By Barry White ~
The truth is, I initially became a singer-songwriter while still in my teens because it was the only way to guarantee that somebody on earth would sing the songs I was writing. Since then, I've performed just about everywhere: rock clubs, concerts halls, arenas, TV.
~By Rupert Holmes ~
There is no magic. There is no secret. You need your sleep. A lot of our society tries to get by, but the truth is it is up to each individual to get their optimal sleep amount. If you get less than that you can get by temporarily, but it's only temporary.
~By Richard Berry ~
Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.
~By Samuel P. Huntington ~
It's part of the general global hypnotism to accept lies as the new truth.
~By Alan Rudolph ~
Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.
~By Friedrich Durrenmatt ~
As a main ingredient to the show, it has to have truth, represent truth, or else it won't last.
~By Adolph Green ~
An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy.
~By Boris Becker ~
Here's the truth. The proposed top rate of income tax is not 50 per cent. It is 50 per cent plus 1.5 per cent national insurance paid by employees plus 13.3 per cent paid by employers. That's not 50 per cent. Two years from now, Britain will have the highest tax rate on earned income of any developed country.
~By Andrew Lloyd Webber ~
I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial; but, if ever I should, it will then be known how far I can reduce to practice principles which I know to be founded in truth.
~By James Otis ~
Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
~By Nadine Gordimer ~
I intend to explode the myths about myself and get down to the real truth about the legend that is Batman.
~By Bob Kane ~
One word from Chairman Mao is worth ten thousand from others. His every statement is truth. We must carry out those we that understand as well as those we don't.
~By Lin Biao ~
Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.
~By Werner Herzog ~
The only ways of enquiry that lead to knowledge... the one way assuming that being is and that it is impossible for it not to be, is the trustworthy path, for truth attends it.
~By Parmedides ~
One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth.
~By Henrik Ibsen ~
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
~By Matthew Arnold ~
There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.
~By Minna Antrim ~
Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
An objective truth and individual reason are feared above all.
~By Jimmy Johnson ~
I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.
~By Samuel Goldwyn ~
It is simply the truth that the political system that I am part of has degenerated to the point that it needs fundamental change.
~By Gloria Macapagal Arroyo ~
The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.
~By Leslie Stephen ~
He said this has the potential to be the first broadband killer application, and it has sort of become the truth because obviously it's so bandwidth intensive. I mean, it has been an issue.
~By Shawn Fanning ~
There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.
~By Arnold Bennett ~
Be influenced by nothing but your clients' interests. Tell them the truth.
~By Arthur C. Nielsen ~
Well, to tell you the straight honest truth, it was like a Grateful Dead cover band. I didn't feel - and nothing against the guys - I didn't feel that they were opening up like they should. I'll tell you what, with guitar players, Steven has what I like in guitar players.
~By Bill Kreutzmann ~
Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.
~By Louisa May Alcott ~
But the truth is that critics are by definition critical. That's their job.
~By Frank Black ~
I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that.
~By John Malkovich ~
But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be expressed without suffering itself to be disguised by the prejudices of man.
~By Mercy Otis Warren ~
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
~By Publilius Syrus ~
I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.
~By Victor Garber ~
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
I think Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people.
~By Harry Belafonte ~
There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.
~By John Masefield ~
From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth.
~By Janet Frame ~
We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words of truth, even should he go over the whole field and omit nothing, is always speaking the one word.
~By Origen ~
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including self-interest.
~By John Charles Polanyi ~
People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.
~By Marsha Norman ~
We've got to be fair. You can't say a place that has strip joints is sacred ground. We've got to be just. We've got to speak the truth. We've got to have justice for everybody. We're a country of justice for all, not justice for non-Muslims only or some groups and not for others.
~By Feisal Abdul Rauf ~
This is our lives. The way to give it dignity is to tell the truth.
~By Lee Grant ~
Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
~By F. H. Bradley ~
A lot of the American press at the time was saying 'just watch what happens when Bertelsmann tries to buy EMI, that will be a moment of truth that will show the Commission's true colors.' Well, that deal never happened either.
~By Mario Monti ~
I have legs of iron, but to tell you the truth, they're starting to rust and buckle a bit.
~By Jeanne Calment ~
The truth is, I could no more dictate her nature than she could dictate mine. Kinsey's happy as she is and she doesn't need to be rescued, improved, or saved.
~By Sue Grafton ~
As we have always seen here in the U.S. the universal truth about elections is that people vote their pocketbook.
~By Jennifer Dunn ~
Probably what my comment meant was that I don't care about the circumstances if I can tell the truth.
~By Sally Kirkland ~
If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
~By Elizabeth Cady Stanton ~
Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries.
~By Henry Wotton ~
Well the truth is, Republicans didn't just lose a few elections, we lost our way.
~By Mike Pence ~
As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.
~By Edmond De Goncourt ~
I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~
A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
~By Alfred Lord Tennyson ~
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
~By Denis Diderot ~
But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey.
~By Leigh Steinberg ~
No secular state ever existed and none would exist until the end of the French Revolution, and so we understand that America was built on the Judeo-Christian ethic and we believe that this nominee is going to see to it that those truths are upheld.
~By Rod Parsley ~
Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.
~By James Broughton ~
Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.
~By Jeremy Northam ~
Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
~By Anatole France ~
I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth.
~By Naomi Campbell ~
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
~By Graham Greene ~
I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them.
~By Anne Stevenson ~
It's a lot easier to tell the truth usually.
~By Elliott Smith ~
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
~By James Madison ~
For great is truth, and shall prevail.
~By Thomas Brooks ~
You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
~By Henrik Ibsen ~
Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.
~By Phyllis Bottome ~
The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas.
~By Boris Johnson ~
I think it's like everything else; one shouldn't dig too deeply. It's silly to say that with a journalist, but sometimes there is not a truth to be found.
~By Alan Price ~
Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold.
~By Theodore Parker ~
I was being foolish. An atheist can't stand behind their assertion that God doesn't exist. The stupidest thing I ever could have done was to reject His Truth.
~By Kirk Cameron ~
The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.
~By Ken Kesey ~
It is a sort of great Victorian truth that actually, trying to do the right thing is pretty good for you and pretty good for business as well, by and large.
~By Chris Patten ~
We sat down and told stories that happened to us in our childhood, to our children. They were all basically based on the truth. These stories were funny and poignant to us. They just took off. These are all stories from my life.
~By Howie Mandel ~
The real truth is that the Obama administration is professional at bullying, as we have witnessed with ACORN at work during the presidential campaign. It seems to me they are sending down their bullies to create fist fights among average American citizens who don't want a government-run health care plan forced upon them.
~By Jon Voight ~
Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.
~By Charles Schumer ~
I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that are closer approximations to the truth than others.
~By Edward Tufte ~
Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.
~By Elmer Davis ~
That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.
~By William Hazlitt ~
The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.
~By Dan Simmons ~
All churches and all religions contain aspects of the truth, but only God is truth.
~By Pat Buckley ~
All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
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