Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ione Skye

It always feels good to tell you the truth. If I can't share it with you, it feels like it didn't happen.

Jack Kerouac

Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.

Isabel Allende

my husband, who is a lawyer, is very careful with words and with the truth. He thinks that the truth exists, and it's something that is beyond questioning, which I think is totally absurd. I have several versions of how we met and how wonderful he was and all that. At least twenty. And I'm sure that they are all true. He has one. And I'm positive that it's not true.

Bob Woodward

I have to go to the prosecutor. I have to tell the truth.

I don't know how much I'm going to find out. I don't know how much of the truth will be told.

J. D. Salinger

I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.

J. D. Salinger

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.

Arlen Specter

I want to know what the truth is,

I want to know the truth. The truth.

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

The truth should not offend, it should only inconvenience.

Kevin Connolly

The truth of the matter is, I'm a filmmaker.

It's a lot on your shoulders. I wouldn't have it any other way, to tell you the truth.

Madeleine L'Engle

No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have failed.

Lysander Spooner

For a government to declare a vice to be a crime, and to punish it as such, is an attempt to falsify the very nature of things. It is as absurd as it would be to declare truth to be a falsehood, or falsehood a truth.

Lou Ferrigno

The truth is, I've been the Hulk my whole life

John Florio

From the physician and lawyer keep not the truth hidden.

John F. Kennedy

First, what does truth require? It requires us to face the facts as they are, not to involve ourselves in self-deception; to refuse to think merely in slogans. If we are to work for the future of the city, let us deal with the realities as they actually are, not as they might have been, and not as we wish they were. [...] The truth doesn't die.

John F. Kennedy

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.

John F. Kennedy

Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism.

Jon Voight

Nothing beats being really honest about who you are and what you need. All the rest just works itself out.

Joyce Carol Oates

like all virtuous people he imagines he must speak the truth ...

Joyce Carol Oates

Not even the most devastating truth can be told; it must be evoked.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Truth is not afraid of questions.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Paul Lowe

There are no rules for living, because you are unique. Find your truth in each moment and dare to live it. That is the way to freedom.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Deep truth is imageless.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The jealous keys of truth's eternal doors.

Paul Valery

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Paul Valery

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

Paul Westerberg

The truth is overrated.

Paul Weyrich

Without the ability of issue groups to tell the truth, who knows what the public will believe.