Paul Harding Quotes
Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction writing is all about telling the truth.
Paul Harding
Quotes to Explore
Joe was being called a liar and a traitor; I'm being accused of nepotism, of being a glorified secretary. The stresses that that places on an individual and, of course, a marriage were tremendous. It was - there were some dark days.
Valerie Plame
I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.
Randy Newman
The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree.
Caitlyn Jenner
We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ourselves by severe self scrutiny, then in our neighbours by compassionate indulgence, and, finally, in its essential nature by that direct vision which belongs to the pure in heart.
Saint Bernard
The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
Dag Hammarskjold
The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.
Hans Jonas
Songwriters tell the truth.
Kara DioGuardi
I don't want to be disrespectful to people who are incredible at their craft, but the truth is, if I didn't get paid for it, I wouldn't act. The best-paying jobs are usually the worst films. You're a very small cog in a big machine.
Paddy Considine
Obviously any band, any group, someday is not going to be together anymore. That's the truth.
Camila Cabello
Fifth Harmony
When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.
Barry White
I'm not proud of it, but I'm a great liar when I travel. I smile and lie, and things are smooth.
Paolo Bacigalupi
Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German.
W. G. Sebald
Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.
Walter Raleigh
When truth takes a backseat to ego and politics, trust is lost.
Patrick Lencioni
Everything possible to be believed is an image of the truth.
Orson Scott Card
When soon I sail from here, I may again run into such a storm as the one in Kvasefjord. But this time I shall clearly understand that it is not a play in the theatre, but it is death. and it seems too that then, in the last moment before we go down, I can in in all truth be yours...
Karen Blixen
The truth, indeed, is something that mankind, for some mysterious reason, instinctively dislikes. Every man who tries to tell it is unpopular, and even when, by the sheer strength of his case, he prevails, he is put down as a scoundrel.
H. L. Mencken
I knew better than to let you break my heart The soul you'll never see again won't be showing scars You still love her I can see it in your eyes The truth is all that I can hear every time you lie.
Demi Lovato
Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires,And decorate the verse herself inspires:This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,-Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best.
Lord Byron
The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves.
Jane Goodall
I think the love between a child and parent is wonderful. You know, Mei... I haven't seen my mother for over two years. I used to live with her... but now I live with my father. I used to be sad and wonder why it happened... but parents have a lot of things they have to deal with too. I saw how they were suffering... and I know they both love me a lot. You can't let loneliness harden your heart. Mei, you know... Misuzu loves you, don't you?
Bisco Hatori
You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.
Seth Godin
The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.
John Lothrop Motley
Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction writing is all about telling the truth.
Paul Harding
