Truth Quotes

This I set down as a positive truth. A woman with fair opportunities, and without a positive hump, may marry whom she likes.

William Makepeace Thackeray

I never truckled. I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies. I told them the truth. They liked it or they didn't like it. What had that to do with me? I told them the truth.

Frank Norris

You can't get decent Mexican food in DC.

Michael Crichton

Always I will take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult. I will persist until I succeed.

Og Mandino

He inherited from his mother's stories the fundamental style he used, unaltered, in his own stories: namely, the assumption that fact may not be truth, and truth may not be factual.

Haruki Murakami

The worst thing about talk ... is that there's no way to lay it to rest. Every fresh breeze brings a new speculation.

Susan Wittig Albert

A painting is more than the sum of its parts,' he would tell me, and then go on to explain how the cow by itself is just a cow, and the meadow by itself is just grass and flowers, and the sun peeking through the trees is just a beam of light, but put them all together and you've got magic.

Wendelin Van Draanen

Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. In order for you yourself to become the way, the truth, and the life, you must embrace the whole universe and bring harmony to it.

Sun Myung Moon

Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.

Darren Shan

O brave flag, O bright flag, O flag to lead the free! The glory of thy silver stars, Engrailed in blue above the bars Of red for courage, white for truth, Has brought the world a second youth And drawn a hundred million hearts to follow after thee.

Henry Van Dyke

It has been said, people drawn to law enforcement have a sixth sense, an ability to see what others do not. He prayed he was wrong. His sixth sense said there was much more than a broken heart in Claire's past.

Aleatha Romig

While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.

Quintilian

John Kerry didn't out me, nor did he offend or attack me by calling me a lesbian. I certainly couldn't be offended by the truth.

Mary Cheney

When Art becomes a Science it is no longer an Art.

Kevin James Breaux

This sounds an extraordinary statement to make, but in fact all truth is very ordinary.

Brian Perkins

The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.

Robert A. Heinlein

The truth that we must finally confront is that Islam contains specific notions of martyrdom and jihad that fully explain the character of Muslim violence.

Sam Harris

Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.

Wendell Berry

I've been told, by various people, that I think too much. This is incorrect! The truth is that I deliberately challenge people to think more than they would like to.

Wayne Gerard Trotman