Telling The Truth Quotes - Page 36

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  We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day.

  Ann Richards

  Leadership, Truth, America

  Ann Richards' Address at the Democratic National Convention in Texas, www.nytimes.com. July 19, 1988.

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• Start telling the truth now and never stop. Begin by telling the truth to yourself about yourself. Then tell the truth to yourself about someone else. Then tell the truth about yourself to another. Then tell the truth about another to that other. Finally, tell the truth to everyone about everything. These are the Five Levels Of Truth Telling. This is the five-fold path to freedom.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Levels, Path, Truth To Yourself

  "Conversations with God, Book 2: Living in the World with Honesty, Courage, and Love". Book by Neale Donald Walsch, December 8, 2011.

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• Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Fear, Freedom Of Speech, Silent

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• A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself.

  Neville Cardus

  Should, Cricket Funny, Strokes

  Neville Cardus (1930). “Cricket”

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• Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

  Nikola Tesla

  Change, Dream, Future

  "Tesla, Master of Lightning" by Margaret Cheney, Robert Uth, and Jim Glenn, (p. 73), 1999.

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• Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

  Albert Camus

  Lying, Fiction

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• It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.

  Ally Carter

  Truth, Lying, Hazards

  Ally Carter (2011). “Heist Society”, p.45, Hachette UK

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• I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar ideas which clutter my desk when my job is to tell the truth.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Jobs, Ideas, Unexpected

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• I don’t think there’s anything wrong with telling the truth. I know it isn’t fashionable.

  Craig Ferguson

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• ...there is a celebrated aphorism insisting that the best way to live is to 'work like you don't need the money, dance like nobody is watching, and love like you've never been hurt.'...After years of hearing and reading these lines I have decided to tell the truth: the original version is wrong. There is a grave error in the wording of this adage. The correct version should go as follows: Love like you don't need the money, Work like nobody is watching, Dance like you've never been hurt. See? Doesn't that make more sense?

  Gina Barreca

  Hurt, Reading, Years

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• leaning in he kissed her gently, first on the cheek then on her lips. When he met her eyes, she saw the young man shed loved last summer and the young man she still loved now. "I never stopped loving you, Ronnie. and I never stopped thinking about you. even if summers do come and end" she smiled knowing he was telling the truth. "I love you too, Will Blakelee" she wispered, leaning in to kiss him again.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Summer, Love You, Eye

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• We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be. That's why habits are so hard to break. If we know ourselves to be liars, we expect not to tell the truth. If we think of ourselves as honest, we try harder.

  Holly Black

  Liars, Thinking, Trying

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• Ugh! How many stories about love, copulation, marriage and death already exist, not one of which tells the truth! How sick I am of well-constructed plots and brilliant writing!

  Sadegh Hedayat

  Writing, Sick, Plot

  Sadegh Hedayat (2010). “The Blind Owl”, p.33, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Either we're a team or we aren't. Either you trust me or you don't." Hale took a step toward her. "What's it going to be, Kat?" It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth; in that moment Kat didn't have a clue what to say. I carn't do this with out you sounded trite. What they were doing was to big for a simple please. Hale I-" You know what? Never mind. Either way, I'm in Kat." He seemed utterly resloved as he slipped on his sunglasses. "I'm all in

  Ally Carter

  Team, Lying, Simple

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• All I could say was, "I don't know what to do." I remember her taking me by the shoulders and looking me in the eye with a calm smile and saying simply, "Tell the truth, tell the truth, tell the truth.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Eye, Calm, Remember

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.99, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Little lies that make people feel better are not bad, like thanking someone for a meal they made even if you hated it, or telling a sick person they look better when they don't, or someone with a hideous new hat that it's lovely. But to yourself you must tell the truth

  Louise Fitzhugh

  Lying, Feel Better, People

  Louise Fitzhugh (2009). “Harriet the Spy”, p.246, Yearling

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• Me, I say those are all great things to live for, if they're what happens to float your boat, but at the end of the day, there's got to be somebody you're doing it for. Just one person you're thinking of everytime you make a decision, everytime you tell the truth, or tell a lie, or anything. I've got mine. Do you?

  Mira Grant

  Life, Lying, Thinking

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• Since then I've always thought that under rape in the dictionary it should tell the truth. It is not just forcible intercourse; rape means to inhabit and destroy everything.

  Alice Sebold

  Mean, Should, Dictionary

  Alice Sebold (2009). “Lucky”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• That's what you get for telling the truth. Someone calls you a liar. Most people will accept a likely lie to an unlikely truth. In fact, they prefer it.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Liars, Lying, People

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5”, p.188, Penguin

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• Look, it's easy to outsmart a werewolf or a vampire," Jace said. "They're no smarter than anyone else. But faeries live for hundreds of years and they're as cunning as snakes. They can't lie, but they love to engage in creative truth-telling. They'll find out whatever it is you want most in the world and give it to you—with a sting in the tail of the gift that will make you regret you ever wanted it in the first place." He sighed. "They're not really about helping people. More about harm disguised as help.

  Cassandra Clare

  Regret, Lying, Years

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.599, Simon and Schuster

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• Why did adults have to be so thick? They always say “tell the truth,” and when you do, they don’t believe you. What’s the point?

  Rick Riordan

  Believe, Adults, Thick

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Balance, Trying, Ada

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.414, Faber & Faber

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• Never trust a mirror,' his mother had told him. 'They never tell the truth unless you make them.

  Isobelle Carmody

  Mother, Mirrors, Never Trust

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• The same principle that forbids me to lie does not allow me to tell the truth.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Lying, Principles, Doe

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• She thinks she knows everything that goes on inside me, and she doesn’t know a thing. What did she want from me – to tell the truth all the time? To run around saying it did matter to me that I live in a world where you can grow old and be alone and have to get down on your hands and knees and beg for friends? A place where people just sort of forget about you because you get a little old and your mind’s a bit senile or silly? Did she think that didn’t bother me underneath?

  Paul Zindel

  Running, Silly, Thinking

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