Telling The Truth Quotes - Page 22

• I was never promised any special treatment or consideration for fingering star players. I was never coerced to provide information against anyone. All that I was ever told to was to tell the truth to the best of my ability. And that is what I have done.

  Jim Lehrer

  Stars, Player, Special

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• It was illegal for black people and white people to play checkers together in Birmingham. And there were even black and white Bibles to swear to tell the truth on in many parts of the South.

  Isabel Wilkerson

  Black And White, Play, People

  "Great Migration: The African-American Exodus North". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 13, 2010.

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• To tell the truth I never had it so good. But I lacked the strength of character to bear such joy.

  Saul Bellow

  Character, Joy, Bears

  Saul Bellow (1976). “Herzog”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• The writer's job is to tell the truth.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Jobs

  Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities Harold Bloom, Ernest Hemingway (2009). “Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms”, p.16, Infobase Publishing

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• The four Ways reflect a pervasive belief that life will be simple if we practice four basic principles:
  Show up or choose to be present,
  Pay attention to what has heart and meaning,
  Tell the truth without blame or judgment, and
  Be open, rather than attached to, the outcome.

  Angeles Arrien

  Heart, Simple, Practice

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• The only thing I can do is tell the truth as I see it and let the chips fall where they may.

  Jack Kemp

  Fall, May, Chips

  "Washington Memo; For Bush, the Kemp Thing Reappears" by Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. November 26, 1991.

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• Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth.

  E. W. Howe

  Mean, Opinion, Shows

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• A sincere friend conceals all your deformities, deceives and convince others that you are extremely perfect, the insincere will tell the truth of destruction, leave you open for others to glare and laugh.

  Michael Bassey

  Perfect, Laughing, Deceiving

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• In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.

  Nelson Eddy

  Opposites

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• To tell the truth is an act of love. To withhold the truth is an act of hate. Or worse, apathy.

  Gene Kim

  Hate, Apathy, Truth Is

  Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford (2014). “The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win”, p.242, IT Revolution

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• Strange to dream in the right shape and build in the wrong shape, but maybe that is what we do every day, never believing that a dream could tell the truth.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Dream, Believe, Shapes

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• As a pastor and as a dad, I want my son to know I tell the truth. He can read the book. He knows if I exaggerated or if I didn't. My son is forever gonna believe that I'm an honest person or I'm a liar by what I wrote in that book, because he can read.

  Todd Burpo

  Dad, Liars, Believe

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• Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want. Anything at all .... as long as you tell the truth.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Long, Answers

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• Most of us avoid telling the truth because it's uncomfortable. We're afraid of the consequences-making others feel uncomfortable, hurting their feelings or risking their anger. And yet, when we don't tell the truth, and others don't tell us the truth, we can't deal with matters from a basis in reality.

  Jack Canfield

  Hurt, Reality, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Jack Canfield from Dec 02, 2013

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• Thanks to pathetic reporting by The New York Times and other media sycophants more than 50 years ago, Fidel Castro, following the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, was also seen by many as a liberator of Cuba. 'I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.' Castro said at the time. Only after he consolidated power, did he tell the truth: 'I am a Marxist-Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.'

  Cal Thomas

  New York, Media, Years

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• The street is the most impactful for me really, always, and the Internet. I guess I'd like to sell some more light pieces so I can rent some more billboards; that's my only ambition in life really. Then I'd like to save up some money so I can buy a very simple wooden house, and then after that I'd like to start buying billboards. I'd like to buy a bunch of billboards in different cities so we owned them and I could give them to Occupy to tell the truth with.

  Robert Montgomery

  Ambition, Simple, Cities

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There really is no weight to telling the truth. It's a little scary sometimes, but if you tell the truth, you don't have to be looking over your shoulder.

  Jussie Smollett

  Scary, Over You, Weight

  Source: collider.com

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• As an actor, your main goal is to tell the truth.

  Johnathon Schaech

  Goal, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• You want songs to sound cohesive with the other songs on the record but when you first start writing you just want to write to tell the truth.

  Jon Foreman

  Song, Writing, Sound

  Source: www.scenepointblank.com

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• The person who imagined that he could not be the victim of propaganda because he could distinguish truth from falsehood, is extremely susceptible to propaganda, because when propaganda does tell the truth, he is then convinced that it is no longer propaganda: moreover, his self-confidence makes him all the more vulnerable to attacks of which he is unaware.

  Jacques Ellul

  Self Confidence, Doe, Vulnerable

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• I am going to say something I have never said before and this is the truth. I have no reason to lie to you and God knows I am telling the truth. I think all my success and fame and I have wanted it, I have wanted it because I wanted to be loved. That's all. That's the real truth.

  Michael Jackson

  Real, Lying, Thinking

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• The difference between a baby and adult is that a baby believes in everything while the adult doubts everything. Babies also only tell the truth until they learn what a lie is.

  Alan Watts

  Baby, Lying, Believe

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• How forthright does the audience want the broadcasters to be? Because when you tell your truth, there's a lot of anger that comes out. I think it's a good question to ask TV people [executives] too. How much truth do they want to be told? How much truth does the league want told? Because the truth isn't just a positive truth. If you're going to tell the truth, you would be telling a lot of positive and some negative.

  Jeff Van Gundy

  Thinking, People, League

  "ESPN 2015 NBA Finals Media Call with Jeff Van Gundy and Mark Jackson". Interview with Gianina Thompson, espnmediazone.com. June 1, 2015.

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• I think the most important thing I learned from my dad is the importance of telling the truth...treat other people well, work hard at the job and tell the truth.

  Sean McDonough

  Jobs, Dad, Hard Work

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• I think the biggest lesson I learned from my Dad was the importance of telling the truth.

  Sean McDonough

  Dad, Thinking, Lessons

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