Ed Silvoso Quotes

Preaching the truth without love is like giving someone a good kiss when you have bad breath.

Ed Silvoso

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• People talk about 'getting rid of the old image', and I guess there's some merit in that. But the truth is that people loved 'The Wonder Years' - I can't turn my back on it.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • People
  • Truth
  • Wonder

• The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Truth
  • You
  • Journalism

• Songwriters tell the truth.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Truth
  • Tell
  • Songwriters

• Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Truth
  • Myself
  • Blind

• 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
  • People
  • Truth
  • Small

• A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Kiss

• Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Lie

• God's truth is helped by no man's ignorance.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • God
  • Truth
  • Man

• Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Truth
  • Moral
  • Truth Is

• Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected.

  

  Edmond Halley
  • Truth
  • Earth
  • Problem

• Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • She
  • Truth
  • Today

• Regardless of theology or however you see life or relate to worshiping God, as an artist, my job is to tell the truth and then try to connect with these characters and people as honestly and deeply as possible.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• It is not, then, in the content or substance of folly that its difference from truth lies, but in where it comes from. It comes not from ‘the wise man’s mouth’ but from the mouth of the subject assumed not to know and speak the truth.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Truth
  • Wise
  • Lies

• Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Truth
  • Opinion
  • Religion

• 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
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• 'No matter how fast a lie runs, the truth will someday overtake it.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Truth

• Truth never was indebted to a lie.

  

  Edward Young
  • Truth

• 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.

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Growing

• In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity — please observe, a plodding mediocrity — for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is joy in that success, and a distinction can come from courage, fidelity and industry.

  

  Benjamin Cardozo
  • Truth
  • Success
  • Joy

• Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

  

  Aristotle
  • Truth
  • Speak
  • Liars

• Much of what has gone wrong in the pursuit of Arab-Israeli peace is due to a lack of strong leadership, primarily among the Palestinians.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Strong
  • Peace
  • Leadership

• I demonstrate by means of philosophy that the earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides; that it is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.

  

  Johannes Kepler
  • Earth
  • Small

• He seems like a man who knows what he wants, and the problem is he wants what I want.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Man
  • Problem
  • Wants

• Preaching the truth without love is like giving someone a good kiss when you have bad breath.

  

  Ed Silvoso
  • Truth
  • Kiss
  • Breath