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I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.


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THE TRUTH When you look back with regret, that (regret, loss) becomes your focus.
Then your focus direct...
THE TRUTH The 'all for me and only me' mentality is the most destructive force on earth.
THE TRUTH When you look back with regret, that (regret, loss) becomes your focus.
Then your focus direct...
THE TRUTH We need not fear death, for it is simply the next phase of life. We never die, we simply change form...
THE TRUTH Any perceived 'rejection' is simply a 're-direction'.
THE TRUTH Without awareness, every one of us is at risk of living trapped, an unfulfilled trace of our self, b...
THE TRUTH To tell the truth is useful to those to whom it is spoken, but disadvantageous to those who tell it,...
BLAISE PASCAL In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.
WILLIAM PENN If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
VIRGINIA WOOLF I'm not sure that everybody really knows about it, to tell you the truth.
DEBBIE RITCHIE 'The Truth' is not meant to preach or point any fingers. It's meant to show that perhaps...
MICHAEL PALIN To tell the truth about oneself, to discover oneself near at hand, is not easy.
VIRGINIA WOOLF I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.
MOTHER JONES I know nothing about this film. If someone really wanted to tell the truth about what happened he sh...
MOHAMMED DAOUD Most of us avoid telling the truth because it’s uncomfortable. We’re afraid of the consequences�...
JACK CANFIELD I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Knowledge isn't the issue, it's what you think you know that's not the truth.
RICK PRICE 'Listen, this is an international incident. It's a tragedy and I don't know what's going to happen f...
JOHN HALL Life can be long or short, it all depends on how you choose to live it. it's like forever, always ch...
SARAH DESSEN There were so many people, so much to navigate, and as the distance fluctuated between us his hand k...
SARAH DESSEN Forever [is] so many different things. It is always changing... it is twenty minutes, or a hundred y...
SARAH DESSEN karma's a bitch, and so am I
RACHEL CAINE I did not know then what Brother William was seeking, and to tell the truth, I still do not know tod...
UMBERTO ECO My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question, but to be consistent...
MAHATMA GANDHI It's not clear to me that this really has any legs at all. To tell you the truth, it's not very crea...
BRUCE BABCOCK The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth
SOCRATES When you can't tell the truth, tell *a* truth.
GREG COX The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if no...
KATHARINE ANTHONY Necessary truth is merely the subject-matter of mathematics, not the reward we get for doing mathema...
DAVID DEUTSCH If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!
MARK TWAIN When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sak...
WILLIAM BLAKE I will say this about the truth - that it's one of those crisis rules, whether you are a client ...
JUDY SMITH I had the good fortune and opportunity to come home and to tell the truth; many soldiers, like Pat T...
JESSICA LYNCH You are worth the Truth. Don't ever let someone tell you that you are not worth tellng the truth.
PATTY RASE HOPSON We demand that sex speak the truth [...] and we demand that it tell us our truth, or rather, the dee...
MICHEL FOUCAULT Opposition to the truth is inevitable, especially if it takes the form of a new idea, but the degree...
B.H. LIDDELL HART The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m...
AMBER SMITH Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
MARK TWAIN To live a lie may allow us to avoid the truth, but the real lie lays in believing that we can avoid ...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH If you are in doubt, you are close to the truth
DR.MOHAMMED FAIG ABAD ALRAZAK Three things can not be hidden; The Sun, The Moon, and The Truth.
BUDDAH I don't think that any government has a right to subvert the truth or to cover up the truth, and...
PAUL WATSON I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to thi...
WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON Amazing how the most obvious things escape your notice. Maybe the truth is exactly the things you do...
RICHARD HELL …it’s not the truth about others that will set you free, but the truth about yourself.
LOUISE PENNY If a poet does not tell the truth about time, his or her work will not survive it. Past or present, ...
EAVAN BOLAND But if you can't tell the truth to the people you care about the most, eventually you stop being abl...
CASSANDRA CLARE I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a wo...
HENRY ADAMS As an actor, what I can do is tell the truth. At least, I hope I can tell the truth - a dramatic tru...
LARRY DRAKE The Most Important Truth Is The Truth We Tell / Don't Tell To Ourselves. Truth Is The Way To Real Im...
GEORGE M. ETHERIDGE Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
STEPHANIE KLEIN A true friend will tell you the truth to your face - not behind your back.
SASHA AZEVEDO Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy
FRAN LEBOWITZ Tell the truth about any situation & you are delivered from lack of progress,but become hippocrital ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) When you're on stage, unless you surrender to the moment, you're not telling the truth. I lo...
DAVID SANBORN Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy.
F. MULDER All I could say was, "I don't know what to do." I remember her taking me by the shoulders and lookin...
ELIZABETH GILBERT IF YOU CAN'T THANK GOD FOR WHAT YOU HAVE, THANK HIM FOR WHAT YOU HAVE ESCAPED!
NOT SURE i believe in love. lust. sex. romance. i don't want everything to add up to the perfect equation...i...
NOT REAL A conservative is a liberal who just got mugged and a liberal is a conservative who just got arreste...
NOT SURE If you are constantly looking in the rear view mirror, how will you ever see what is in front of you...
NOT SURE It's a lot on your shoulders. I wouldn't have it any other way, to tell you the truth.
CRAIG HEIMAN I'm not a good liar. I just tell the truth; I think that's the best way.
ZACK GREINKE We are committed to speaking the truth, ... We must continue to tell the truth about the street if t...
RUSSELL SIMMONS But sometimes I longed for that sense of someone pulling me close, feeling another heartbeat against...
SARAH DESSEN With a good friend it’s not always how long you knew them, but how well you did.
JANET GURTLER THE TRUTH ABOUT US If you love her. If you want her to stay. Fight for her.
JANET GURTLER THE TRUTH ABOUT US If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?
BEN STEIN The fact that he does not tell me the truth all the time makes me not sure of his truth at certain t...
LYDIA DAVIS Therefore, truth is not a matter of knowing this or that but of being in the truth.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
LILLIAN HELLMAN The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has...
ALBERT EINSTEIN The truth today isn't the truth it used to be. Today's truth is the tainted truth, not the pure trut...
DRAYKE POWELL Speak well to people; tell them the truth today! If you meet them another day, tell them the same tr...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I'm not into older guys. To tell you the truth, Richard Gere is not the sexiest man alive, in my...
WINONA RYDER Our news organizations and our reporters should be going after the best obtainable truth, not the se...
CARL BERNSTEIN The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any ...
WALTER LIPPMAN I'm simply trying to tell the truth about human behaviour as I see it.
SARAH KANE A government that cannot survive truth and must resort to stamping out truth is not a government tha...
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS The worst thing about someone not telling you the truth, is knowing you weren't worth the truth.
BJ MORIN The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
ARISTOTLE Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'
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LAURELL K. HAMILTON All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a fun...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a func...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I'm a tell-it-like-it-is kind of person; I don't like being misled or someone not telling th...
JOHN MCENROE Lord, in my zeal for the love of truth, let me not forget the truth about love.
ST. THOMAS AQUINAS Truth is used to vitalize a statement rather than devitalize it. Truth implies more than a simple st...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.
PIETRO ARETINO A good character is not only about the good person people know you to be. Your ability to tell the t...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR If you're a prosecutor, and you believe the defendant is guilty, you only talk about ultimate tr...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ The thing about me and books is that whichever one I’m reading always reminds me of whatever’s h...
LAUREN BARNHOLDT Truth is subject to too much analysis.
FRANK HERBERT Don't Ask Me Nothing About Nothing,
I Just Might Tell You the Truth
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ANITA STEEVES We're still reviewing the decision.
ANITA STEEVES We had a lot of structural damage and broken poles, and when you're in a bucket 35 feet in the air a...
ANITA STEEVES Be smart about your own safety and lock your doors.
ANITA SHELL (It's) $80 for one pill and if you have a bottle of 20 or 30 then you've got a gold mine.
ANITA SHELL So a good homework assignment for everybody, take a screwdriver, unscrew your screws to your strike ...
ANITA SHELL Their target on this home invasion robbery was the medicine that this victim was on.
ANITA SHELL But what happens in the fourth grade you get individual ways you write - you have a unique way of ma...
ANITA SEAMANS This individual used a habit of using upper case (letters) where there should have been a lower case...
ANITA SEAMANS You start out as if you're going to fool them, and the minute your mind strays to anything else, you...
ANITA SEAMANS When you were in first grade, there were letters above the chalkboard.
ANITA SEAMANS Fear is present in our lives due to the absence of faith, not knowing our true identity as heirs & t...
ANITA PLESSIS We give up on our dreams, because we doubt self and struggle with fear of shame and failure, which p...
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