Facing The Truth Quotes - Page 2

• Deliver us from evil - from moral duplicity and weakness, from laziness and spiritual complacency, from those lies we tell ourselves from our fear of facing the truth.

  Rich Mullins

  Spiritual, Lying, Lies We Tell Ourselves

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• I would rather be the offspring of two apes than be a man and afraid to face the truth.

  Thomas Huxley

  Men, Two, Religion

  "The Harvest of a Quiet Eye, A Selection of Scientific Quotations". Book edited by Alan L. Mackay, 1977.

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• Tell me why you're so hard to forget. Don't remind me, I'm not over it. Tell me why, I can't seem to face the truth, I'm just a little too not over you.

  David Archuleta

  Over You, Littles, Faces

  Song: A Little Too Not Over You, Album: David Archuleta, 2008

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• Do the hardest thing on earth for you. ACT YOURSELF.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Risk, Earth, Take A Chance

  Journal, 10 Oct. 1922

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• Something like Nightmare On Elm Street, to me, was kind of an examination of levels of consciousness and the pain of facing the truth, and how easy it is to fall asleep, or want to fall asleep.

  Wes Craven

  Pain, Fall, Examination

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.

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• Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.

  Alveda King

  Lying, Racism, Faces

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• Americans need to face the truth about themselves, no matter how pleasant it is.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Needs, Matter, Faces

  "What's So Great About America". Book by Dinesh D'Souza. Chapter 6: "America the Beautiful", 2002.

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• Memories seem to surface in no particular order, with no time attached. Yesterday can seem as distant as last year. My life now consists of fragments where some are so blinding in their intensity that they make everything else indistinguishable. It feels as if my existence was extinguished in a flash, and afterwards my universe became incomprehensible. I want to remember everything. But perhaps I need to give it more time. Allow myself some rest. Distance myself a little, to see if I can make out a pattern. And face the truth about what is really there.

  Linda Olsson

  Memories, Distance, Remembers Everything

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• The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do.

  E. V. Lucas

  Honesty, Risk, Ethics

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• It is time to stop waiting for someone to save us. It is time to face the truth of our situation - that we're all in this together, that we all have a voice - and figure out how to mobilize the hearts and minds of everyone in our workplaces and communities.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Heart, Voice, Community

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• When we were only acquaintances, you let me be myself, but now you're always protecting me... I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult. Can't I be trusted to face the truth but I must get it second-hand through you? A woman's place!

  E. M. Forster

  Hands, Shields, Faces

  E. M. Forster (2016). “A Room With A View: England Literature”, p.154, 谷月社

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• I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth.

  Naomi Campbell

  Always Trying, People, Want

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• When I am dead--I say it that way because from the things I know, I do not expect to live long enough to read this book in its finished form--I want you to just watch and see if I'm not right in what I say: that the white man, in his press, is going to identify me with "hate". He will make use of me dead, as he has made use of me alive, as a convenient symbol, of "hatred"--and that will help him escape facing the truth that all I have been doing is holding up a mirror to reflect, to show, the history of unspeakable crimes that his race has committed against my race.

  Malcolm X

  Hate, Book, Men

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.388, Ballantine Books

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• I think it's almost immoral to keep on with a marriage that's really bad. It just gets more and more rotten and vindictive and everybody gets more and more hurt. There's not enough honesty about marriage, I think. I wish more people would face the truth about their marital situations.

  Johnny Carson

  Hurt, Honesty, Thinking

  Source: www.alex-haley.com

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• It's a shameful piece of history and I think - I don't mean to be political or sobering or anything - but I think America, the United States, we still have to deal with the issue of our original sin, which was slavery. And I think we're seeing the ramifications, the consequences, of not really facing the truth as to what we as a nation struggled towards. You know, struggled with and are still struggling and rectifying.

  Tamlyn Tomita

  Struggle, Mean, Thinking

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• It is now necessary to face the truth and to acknowledge against all prejudices that the struggle that the Albanian tribe is leading today is a natural and unavoidable historic struggle for a different political life than that experienced under Turkish rule - different also from that which its neighbours Serbia, Greece and Montenegro would like to force upon the Albanians.

  Dimitrije Tucovic

  Struggle, Political, Different

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• Now, we are seeing many of these same companies face the truth about their financial standing. Congress is faced with the challenge of reforming our accounting industry and holding corporate executives responsible for their actions.

  Bennie Thompson

  Business, Challenges, Faces

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• That's what you realized when you got older. When you were little, you thought you were just too young to understand the answers and that when you got older things would come into focus. Then you had to finally face the truth: There were no answers.

  Anne Frasier

  Focus, Answers, Littles

  Anne Frasier (2012). “Hush”, p.84, Theresa Weir

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• Voting in particular is an embarrassment, being a public display of weak character and low intelligence. Let us face the truth: Democracy, like spitting in public or the Roman games, is the proper activity of the lower intellectual and moral classes. It amounts to collusion in one's own suckering.

  Fred Reed

  Character, Games, Class

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• Youth is the only thing worth having.

  Oscar Wilde

  Honesty, Youth, Honest Truth

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.30, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

  H. L. Mencken

  Love, Life, Relationship

  H.L. Mencken “A little book in C major”, Рипол Классик

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• Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Death, Mirrors, Dying

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• Human beings can be redeemed. Empires cannot. Our refusal to face the truth about empire, our refusal to defy the multitudinous crimes and atrocities of empire, has brought about the nightmare Malcolm predicted. And as the Digital Age and our post-literate society implant a terrifying historical amnesia, these crimes are erased as swiftly as they are committed.

  Chris Hedges

  Historical, Age, Atrocities

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• Normally we do not like to think about death. We would rather think about life. Why reflect on death? When you start preparing for death you soon realize that you must look into your life now... and come to face the truth of your self. Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Death, Thinking, Mirrors

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