Famous Quotes

The stories people tell you about themselves seem to retain the possibility of being false. But what you discover about them by yourself seems to be the truth.

~ John Verdon

When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.

~ Mark Twain

We learn to make a shell for ourselves when we are young and then spend the rest of our lives hoping for someone to reach inside and touch us. Just touch us—anything more than that would be too much for us to bear.

~ Bill Russell

They were all fitting into place, the jig-saw pieces. The odd strained shapes that I had tried to piece together with my fumbling fingers and they had never fitted. Frank's odd manner when I spoke about Rebecca. Beatrice and her rather diffident negative attitude. The silence that I had always taken for sympathy and regret was a silence born of shame and embarrassment. It seemed incredible to me now that I had never understood. I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out from their own web of shyness and reserve, and in their blindness and folly built up a great wall in front of them that hid the truth. This was what I had done. I had built up false pictures in my mind and sat before them. I had never had the courage to demand the truth. Had I made one step forward out of my own shyness Maxim would have told these things four months, five months ago.

~ Daphne Du Maurier

There are two paths of which one may choose in the walk of life; one we are born with, and the one we consciously blaze. One is naturally true, while the other is a perceptive illusion. Choose wisely at each fork in the road.

~ T.f. Hodge

See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.

~ Galileo Galilei

The topic of compassion is not at all religious business; it is important to know it is human business, it is a question of human survival.

~ Dalai Lama Xiv

I think most are too afraid to see the truth.

~ Morgan Rhodes

She had the best kind of courage, or maybe the worst kind, the kind that gets you into trouble.

~ Alistair Maclean

Your strength will be found when you stop struggling with yourself, instead of thinking everyone is a struggle worth overcoming. Every obstacle in life is a lesson that teaches us, not others.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Brilliance is impossible without a touch of insanity.

~ Skyla Madi

That truth should be silent I had almost forgot. (Enobarbus)

~ William Shakespeare

The beauty of truth is that it need not be proclaimed or believed. It skips from soul to soul, changing form each time it touches, but it is what it is, I have seen it, and someday you will, too.

~ Mark Helprin

We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves.

~ Marcel Proust

Give me the facts and I will determine my own truths.

~ Tanjlisa Marie

It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.

~ E.m. Forster

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 5 levels of truth telling. This is the five-fold path to freedom.

~ Neale Donald Walsch

I wondered if emotions were like menstrual cycles, if you get enough women together. Give it time, and everyone was crying.

~ Sarah Dessen

Stand up for what is right even if you stand alone.

~ Suzy Kassem

Whatever demon invented stiletto-heeled boots should roast in hell...

~ Cherise Sinclair

[novan]: bassists are very good with their fingers[novan]: and some of us sing backup vocals, so that means we're good with our mouths too...(~ IM chat with Novan Chang, 18, bassist)

~ Jess C. Scott

Miles and years become suddenly invisible when you find yourself back where you started from, as if you've learned nothing and you are once again the person you once were.

~ Karen White

Don't ever trust men with good intentions. They'll always disappoint you.Leo

~ Lisa Kleypas

If you like someone, you tell the truth because that, to me, is respect. If you hate someone, you tell them the truth because what do you have to lose?

~ Tara Kelly

If humor and rumor are needed more than faith and truth, then it tells me something about the kind of world we live today.

~ Toba Beta

A handwritten letter carries a lot of risk. It's a one-sided conversation that reveals the truth of the writer. Furthermore, the writer is not there to see the reaction of the person he writes to, so there's a great unknown to the process that requires a leap of faith. The writer has to choose the right words to express his sentences, and then, once he has sealed the envelope, he has to place those thoughts in the hands of someone else, trusting that the feelings will be delivered, and that the recipient will understand the writer's intent. How childish to think that could be easy.

~ Adriana Trigiani

The truth is the last thing that matters,' she said. 'And you can believe one thing of the truth and me: I keep it well hidden, inside my heart.

~ Philippa Gregory

To realize the truth, you have to cross the boundaries of all religions and prophets.

~ Amit Ray

It was so much easier to be angry. Being angry made him feel strong, even though-- and this contradiction did nothing to diminish his anger-- he was angry only because his position was so weak.

~ Lev Grossman

I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil.And that no one knows the truth.

~ Molly Ivins

I really like you better aimless and lost among people, a little crazy, oddball, not looking like yourself. So that I don't know you at all and the nearer I get to you the more you separate yourself from me-- I get dizzy trying to follow you and I have to work really hard-- and that's what I want!

~ Alia Mamdouh

How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

There’s no such thing as `one, true way’; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good — they’re the things worth living and dying for, and if you aren’t willing to die for the things worth living for, you might as well turn in your membership in the human race.

~ Mercedes Lackey

Even things that are true can be proved.

~ Oscar Wilde

You can’t live your life thinking death is going to come all the time. You have to live life and if it comes, then we can only hope we were able to do all the things we wanted. He has to want to do something. Everyone does.

~ Shelena Shorts

Because the truth is, it isn't worth loving something if you aren't going to love it all the way.

~ Goldy Moldavsky

Extrapolating from the statistical growth of the legal profession, by the year 2035 every single person in the United States will be a lawyer, including newborn infants.

~ Michael Crichton

I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.

~ Criss Jami

Love doesn't always come when you want it to. Sometimes it just happens, despite your will.

~ V.c. Andrews

I wasn't mean; I wasn't evil. I was nice. And let me tell you, a hesitant man is the last thing in the world a woman needs. She needs a lover and a warrior, not a Really Nice Guy.

~ John Eldredge