Telling The Truth Quotes - Page 14

How much more money do we have to waste, how many more families have to be destroyed, how many more people have to be killed before you summon the courage to tell the truth to the American people?

You can't aspire to have heightened senses, whereas you can aspire to tell the truth, every single second, and you can aspire to be dogged and just never let anything be enough, never give in, and never give up.

I'd always thought telling the truth to other people was hard, but maybe that was a snap compared to telling the truth to yourself. Sometimes we just refused to know what we knew.

It is much harder to lie to someone's face. But. It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face.

Andrew Calhoun tells the truth. To my knowledge, there is no better songwriter alive.

The issue is that when you're a critic it's hard to tell the difference between the thrill of denouncing and telling the truth. Telling the truth to me feels more often like denouncing than like praising. There are many more concrete advantages in the world for people who praise than for those who denounce. So if you want to tell the truth, oftentimes you're going to err on the side of denouncing. That's just something I have to work on.

A writer is first and foremost a witness of her time. She must tell the truth, not take a political position. But then the truth that she discovers is profoundly political.

The panelists on To Tell The Truth, which is the one that I really knew, they cared about getting it right. They wanted to guess, you know? Although, when I was on as a contestant, the one time I was on as a contestant, apparently they had a rule, which was that when children were on, everybody would get a vote - and Kitty Carlisle voted for me.

Just tell the truth and you're home free. If there are amends to be made, you make them. You own it and move on.

You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.

I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth.

I take work very seriously and telling the truth in my job and professionalism.

The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.

Stop telling the truth about my record!

All you have to do to be a camera actor is tell the truth.

Trump fired Jim Comey because the most dangerous thing in the world, if you are Donald Trump, is a person who tells the truth, is dogged, you can't control, and who is as committed as Comey is to the institutional independence of an organization that has the power to investigate you.

The existence of the writer is to write, and to write is to tell the truth.

I think it's my job to tell the truth.

Outing is a nasty word for telling the truth.

I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.

No one tells the truth to people they don't actually know, and if they do it is a horrible trait. Everyone wants something smaller, something neater than the truth.

Since then I've always thought that under rape in the dictionary it should tell the truth. It is not just forcible intercourse; rape means to inhabit and destroy everything.

When you have the courage to tell the truth about what you're really afraid of, fear doesn't have control over your life.

Don't work. Avoid telling the truth. Be hated. Love someone. You're going to have a busy life. Thank goodness there's no life expectancy.