Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Quotes
It is through the multitudinous mass of living human hearts, of human acts and words of love and truth, that the Christ of the first century has become the Christ of the nineteenth.
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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.
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My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way.
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I'm shy, and I can hide behind my acting and discover the truth about myself because it's cathartic in that way. But I tend not to read reviews.
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It's difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either wholly banal or too intimate.
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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
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Facts are many, but the truth is one.
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Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.
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Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.
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The truth is you can't get more water from reservoirs that are empty.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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Superstition is marked not by its pretension to a body of knowledge but by its method of seeking truth.
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'I’m a terrible salesman,' he finally said. 'I always tell the truth about what I’m selling, and then nobody buys it.'
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She didn’t know which she liked less, having people tell lies about her or having people know the truth.
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Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used 'to tell' at all.
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Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge.
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Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your soul. And that's a fact.
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Just because the left has ignored and disparaged truth for years is no excuse for the right to do so as well. And unfortunately, truth-free politics seems to be growing exponentially on the right.
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But our great security lies, I think, in our growing strength, both in numbers and wealth; … unless, by a neglect of military discipline, we should lose all martial spirit …; for there is much truth in the Italian saying, Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.
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I used to do a lot of comedy. I don't know what happened. I think it's my face.
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I have always been a fan of 'Star Trek.' I love Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future.
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Sometimes in conversation the sound of our own voice distracts us and misleads us into making assertions that in no way express our true opinions.
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I'm 34 years old. In most jobs, your early 30s to early 40s are your power years.
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If you are explaining, you are losing.
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It is through the multitudinous mass of living human hearts, of human acts and words of love and truth, that the Christ of the first century has become the Christ of the nineteenth.
