Famous Quotes

Le vrai est trop simple, il faut y arriver toujours par le compliqué.[Letter to Armand Barbès, 12 May 1867]

~ George Sand

Very quickly, very suddenly, words fell through my mind. They landed on the floor of my thoughts, and in there, down there, I started to pick the words up. They were excerpts of truth gathered from inside me.

~ Markus Zusak

There's Only so much emotional super glue in a person's soul, that everything just stays broken.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

A man of God would never burn or harm a temple of any kind - regardless of religion. A true man of God would see every temple or divine mansion built to glorify the Creator - as an extension of the temple closest to his home, regardless of its shape, size, or color. A man who truly recognizes and knows God can see God in all things.

~ Suzy Kassem

The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

~ Thomas Henry Huxley

There is nothing more pure and beautiful than a person who always speaks truthfully with a childlike heart.

~ Suzy Kassem

No matter how smart we may think we are, no matter how committed we are to our truth, we can lose our way.

~ Kamal Ravikant

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.

~ Joyce Cary

Never say that you can't do something, or that something seems impossible, or that something can't be done, no matter how discouraging or harrowing it may be; human beings are limited only by what we allow ourselves to be limited by: our own minds. We are each the masters of our own reality; when we become self-aware to this: absolutely anything in the world is possible.Master yourself, and become king of the world around you. Let no odds, chastisement, exile, doubt, fear, or ANY mental virii prevent you from accomplishing your dreams. Never be a victim of life; be it's conqueror.

~ Mike Norton

Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.

~ Catherine Of Siena

Isn't strength the ability to renounce every lie in your heart?

~ Bisco Hatori

Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.

~ Halldór Laxness

But you don’t have to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.”“You don’t have to assume the worst about everyone, either. The world isn’t always out to get you.

~ Sarah Dessen

It is what it is. Isn't that how these things always go? They are what they are. We just get to cope.

~ Mira Grant

You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits.

~ Charles Yu

You know the minute you stop thinking about it, it'll happen.

~ Sarah Dessen

This is how you start to get respect, by offering something that you have.

~ Mitch Albom

It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.

~ Augustine Of Hippo

Laws of nature have no physical properties of mass /energy. They are platonic truths in transcendent realm that create & govern the Universe.

~ Deepak Chopra

There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God.

~ Victor Hugo

What does it mean to live in truth? Putting it negatively is easy enough: it means not lying, not hiding, and not dissimulating.

~ Milan Kundera

Disinformation is duping. Misinformation is tricking.

~ Toba Beta

You need to understand that truth is stranger than fiction. Listen: people are willing to swallow any old tripe as long as you say it without flinching. They want to be told stuff. And they don't want to doubt you either. It's too hard.

~ Craig Silvey

After telling the hard facts to anyone from lover to friend, I have changed in their eyes. Often it is awe or admiration, sometimes it is repulsion, once or twice it has been fury hurled directly at me for reasons I remain unsure of.

~ Alice Sebold

A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.

~ Orson Scott Card

When did swearing become so easy? You still would never swear in front of your parents or most adults, but when you're with your friends it's like every fifth word. Why couldn't learning Spanish be that easy?

~ Charles Benoit

My mother is a firm believer in the long pause, useful in interrogations, proclamations of truth, and the occasional cutting dead of someone without their knowing it.

~ Suzanne Finnamore

There can be many opinions on a thing, but there is only one truth.Vashet smiled lazily. And if the pursuit of the truth was my goal, that would concern me. She gave a long yawn, stretching like a happy cat. Instead I will focus on the joy in my heart, [...}

~ Patrick Rothfuss

How would your life be different if...You could control the outcome of your day, your week, your year? Let today be the day...You embrace the truth that you DO have such control to label every event in your life, and create an agreement with reality that empowers you and propels you to greatness.

~ Steve Maraboli

You always know the truth, because when you cut yourself or someone else with it, there’s always a bloody show.

~ Stephen King

Here are the Top Ten things that your parents say to you:-Is that all you're going to do all day, sit in front of the computer?-When I was your age I had two jobs.-Why don't you wear some clothes that fir for a change?-Turn it down. I can hear it all the way over here.-You're not eating that for dinner.-Did you do your homework?-Stop mumbling and speak up.-Now what did you do?-Because I said so.-No.

~ Charles Benoit

Fifty percent of something is better than than one hundred percent of nothing.

~ Chuck Barris

Pick a truth that blesses your life!

~ Toba Beta

Just beyond the ticket booth Father had painted on a wall in bright red letters the question: DO YOU KNOW WHICH IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL IN THE ZOO? An arrow pointed to a small curtain. There were so many eager, curious hands that pulled at the curtain that we had to replace it regularly. Behind it was a mirror.

~ Yann Martel

Some people say, ‘Do not judge the book by its cover!’ Well, I say not to judge at all. People can say anything they want to say, but for me, cover does matter.

~ Toba Beta

Law is made by the winner to preserve victory over the loser.

~ Toba Beta

She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.

~ Henry James

The truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths woven about it.

~ Konrad Lorenz

A story can always break into pieces while it sits inside a book on a shelf; and, decades after we have read it even twenty times, it can open us up, by cut or caress, to a new truth.

~ Andre Dubus

Men don't need linguistic talent, they just need courage and words.

~ Helen Fisher