Famous Quotes

Everything was too sharp and clear, so that I could never tell where to start- the way a map that shows too much can sometimes be useless.

~ Haruki Murakami

This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.

~ Holly Black

Of course, I quiet agree that the Christian religion is, in the long run, a thing of unspeakable discomfort. But it does not begin in comfort; it begins in the dismay and it is no use at all trying to go on to that comfort without first going through that dismay. In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is one thing you cannot get looking for it. If you look for the truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth-only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and the in the end, despair.

~ C.s. Lewis

Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him ... These things I know, Ubertino; I also have belonged to those groups of men who believe they can produce the truth with white-hot iron. Well, let me tell you, the white heat of truth comes from another flame.

~ Umberto Eco

But suppose it was truth double strong, it were no truth to me if I couldna take it in. I daresay there's truth in yon Latin book on your shelves; but it's gibberish and no truth to me, unless I know the meaning o' the words.

~ Elizabeth Gaskell

Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair.

~ Criss Jami

At times there's something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism.Build a dam to take away water AWAY from 40 million people. Build a dam to pretend to BRING water to 40 million people. Who are these gods that govern us? Is there no limit to their powers?

~ Arundhati Roy

REFLECTIONS OF TRUTHWhere you find TruthIs where you find your reflectionAnd where you find your reflectionIs where you find loveAnd where you find loveIs where you find lightAnd where you find lightIs where you find faithAnd where you find faithIs where you find purposeAnd where you find purposeIs where you find happinessAnd where you find happinessIs where you find TruthAnd when you find TruthTruth will set you free.

~ Suzy Kassem

And where, I ask you, can a man escape to, when he hasn’t enough madness left inside him? The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death. You have to choose: death or lies. I’ve never been able to kill myself.

~ Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Man keeps looking for a truth that fits his reality. Given our reality, the truth doesn't fit.

~ Werner Erhard

A man who tells you to follow him will turn his followers into his company, while a true leader who does not tell you to follow him, will sit in the company of his followers.

~ Suzy Kassem

And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade.

~ Jacqueline Carey

Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.

~ Malcolm X

She’s a manner of speaking.Even the flowers don’t come back, or the green leaves.There are new flowers, new green leaves.There are other beautiful days.Nothing comes back, nothing repeats itself, because everything is real.

~ Alberto Caeiro

Do not dilute the truth of your potential. We often convince ourselves that we cannot change, that we cannot overcome the circumstances of our lives. That is simply not true. You have been blessed with immeasurable power to make positive changes in your life. But you can't just wish it, you can't just hope it, you can't just want it... you have to LIVE it, BE it, DO it.

~ Steve Maraboli

Oh darling, don't be bitter. It's the first instinct of the weak.

~ Sarah Dessen

If we act like prey, they’ll act like predators

~ Alyxandra Harvey

Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more--it's sad, but that's the truth.

~ Banana Yoshimoto

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful, they are found because it was possible to find them.

~ J. Robert Oppenheimer

And the truth must finally lie in that which every oppressed individual feels within himself but hasn't the courage to express

~ Wilhelm Reich

What my parents kept failing to understand was how happy I was when I was alone with my books. There was no pressure to perform or be cute, and books never disappoint-- unless, of course, you've chosen a bad one. But then, you can always put it down and pick up another one without any repercussions.

~ Lisa Yee

One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.

~ Kazuo Ishiguro

The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.

~ George Orwell

The Dimwit's Guide to the Female Mind might assist your efforts in understanding human females. But it must be pointed out that this subject can be a dangerous adventure and should be undertaken with extreme caution. After all, human males have been trying to understand their females for generations, and most of the time they come away from these encounters looking like someone stuck their tails into an electric socket.

~ Anne Bishop

For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit.

~ John Bunyan

Ask a deeply religious Christian if he’d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don’t seem so bad lately.

~ Scott Adams

Not one of the orthodox ministers dare preach what he thinks if he knows a majority of his congregation think otherwise. He knows that every member of his church stands guard over his brain with a creed, like a club, in his hand. He knows that he is not expected to search after the truth, but that he is employed to defend the creed. Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment.

~ Robert G. Ingersoll

Speak up, stand up, and keep correcting the false perceptions. Stay true to your heart's views and keep chanting for peace and justice.

~ Suzy Kassem

Knowledge planted in truth grows in truth.Strength born of peace loses nothing to hate.

~ Aberjhani

the squeeky wheel gets the grease.

~ Josh Billings

Lady, I do not make up things. That is lies. Lies are not true. But the truth could be made up if yo know how. And that's the truth.

~ Lily Tomlin

Where we fall are the stepping-stones for our journey.

~ Lolly Daskal

Whether your pleasing or pissing everybody off, your doing something wrong.

~ David Cook

The truth was stranger than the official fiction.

~ Dean Koontz

We have to know the truth about the past to discover out future.

~ Patti Callahan Henry

Some fish love to swim upstream. Some people love to overcome challenges.

~ Amit Ray

A good leader leads with compassion and love, not fear and blood. A country that harms its people because they are not happy with the leader - is not a country that belongs to the people, but to the leader.

~ Suzy Kassem

After that day, I discovered one indelible truth. I discovered that love wasn’t everything that mattered in life. It was an emotion that not many had the luxury of feeling without any pain attached to it. Many say that love will set you free, but I disagree. Love is a cage, a very painful one; its gilded bars made with yearning, heartache, and unfulfilled dreams. And the moment I realized that love wasn’t necessary to one’s survival I became free. No one would have the power to hurt me again.

~ Mia Asher

People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.

~ George Eliot

In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish.

~ Karl Lagerfeld