Telling Quotes
It is my experience that most claims of national security are part of a campaign to avoid telling the truth.
An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.
I tell the truth: your enemy is also your friend-his presence makes your life fuller and richer.
Science is a set of rules to keep us from telling lies to each other. All scientists really have is a reputation for telling the truth.
The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think
Someone once noted that a 'gaffe' in Washington is when a politician accidentally tells the truth.
I have a responsibility to tell the truth. The truth about what we've done, and what we'll do.
Tell the truth, but lead so improbable a life that the truth will never be believed.
I don't think telling the truth ever gets anyone in trouble in the long run. Maybe the day after, but not in the long run.
I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.
You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.
There really is no weight to telling the truth. It's a little scary sometimes, but if you tell the truth, you don't have to be looking over your shoulder.
A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.
I feel like in telling stories, there are the things the audience thinks are important, and then there are the things that are actually important.
You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.
Its very seldom you get paid for doing what you love and telling the truth at the same time. It seems they dont often coincide.
Small movie, small role, giant movie, giant role. Work is work. You've got to tell the truth and show up.
What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don't serve us well because they don't tell the truth, and they don't keep their promises.
When everyone is catching great waves and out in the line up telling stories and having a laugh, you have the best times. I also get really psyched surfing or running in the rain.
I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy.
Poets can tell the truth as they see it. It’s the author’s story, the author’s voice.
The brain stays up all night telling stories while we sleep. We just call them dreams.
I love hearing stories, telling stories, sharing stories. I've shared 37,000 on the Oprah show! Every day I was like the town crier.
The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind.
I really love sort of classical cinema where people were telling stories with very little dialogue, and people were using the camera in a really interesting way.
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.
A comedian is someone who tells the truth. Truth is the set of all jokes told by all comedians in the world.
My favorite thing in the world is telling stories, and most of what I do is telling stories through music.
I'm always interested in telling stories that have a message because I really do believe that film is so powerful.
