Richard Whately Quotes
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I couldn't tell the truth if my life depended on it.
Rabih Alameddine -
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 -
I used to say to my bubbe, 'Bubbe, is this story true?' And she'd say, 'Of course it's true! But it may not have happened.' What my bubbe was saying is profound: All stories are true. The truth is the journey you take through it - did it make you laugh, cry, seek and want justice? Then it's true.
Patricia Polacco -
Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.
Saint Bernard -
I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted imagination. The truth is, I haven't had a hugely eventful life - maybe I'm compensating in my creative life. Or maybe I'm just a bit sick.
Laura Wade -
The genuine truth, and I do think about this a lot, is that I'm one of the least competitive people you'll ever meet. Except with myself.
Daniel Craig
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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
Wallace Stevens -
You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
Wendell Phillips -
People where we come from hear so many lies that the truth stands out like a sore thumb.
Eric Lynn Wright -
Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.
Edith Hamilton -
It is not decided by votes what is true; otherwise we could never come to any truth, ever. People will vote for what is comfortable - and lies are very comfortable because you don't have to do anything about them, you just have to believe. Truth needs great effort, discovery, risk, and it needs you to walk alone on a path that nobody has traveled before.
Rajneesh -
The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
Clarence Darrow
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Whatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger.
Ayelet Waldman -
Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance.
Ann Voskamp -
It's become my brand in a way, you know, speaking the truth even though it was not politically correct.
Christine Lagarde -
There's so many stories to tell in Hollywood in the Golden Age that stems from truth.
Lily Collins -
In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
Marcus Tullius Cicero -
I came not from within the administration, and it was clear and clear in our discussions and no one asked otherwise that I would lead this the way I thought best and I would speak the truth as we found it.
David Kay
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All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when something nudges it into outline it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.
Tom Stoppard -
You know, people really know me from 'The Best Man.' I've done five other movies since then, but it always comes back to 'The Best Man.' It was time to do the sequel.
Malcolm D. Lee -
I love working with other actors and other people - you know, stand-up - it's lonely; it's just you out there and the audience. But it's fun working with other actors. I love doing that, too.
Wanda Sykes -
I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
Margaret Fuller -
It's definitely a dream come true to be recognized and to be able to sign autographs. But, it's also a lot of hard work and can be draining. If you don't know already, you will quickly learn who your real friends are.
Christina Aguilera -
There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
Richard Whately