Famous Quotes

If we don’t honor our truth, how can we expect anyone else to do so?

~ Alexandra Katehakis

Don’t take yourself too seriously. Take yourself as seriously as death itself. Don’t worry. Worry your ass off. Have iron-clad confidence, but doubt. It keeps you alive and alert! Believe you are the baddest ass in town – and [that] you suck! It keeps you honest. Be able to keep two completely contradictory ideas alive and well inside of your heart and head at all times. If it doesn’t drive you crazy, it will make you strong. And when you walk on stage tonight to bring the noise, treat it like it’s all we have – and then remember it’s only rock’ n’ roll.

~ Bruce Springsteen

It takes more effort to avoid the truth than it does to face it.

~ Robert J. Braathe

The Christian God is interested in relationship with us, and not just relationship, but union, and not just union, but such a union that everything He is and has—all glory and fullness, all joy and beauty and unbridled life—is to be shared with us and to become as much ours as it is His. The plan from the beginning, in the Christian vision, is that God would give Himself to us, and nothing less, so that we could be filled to overflowing with the divine life.

~ C. Baxter Kruger

A lie twice believed is self decieved

~ Brandon Mull

Any problems that may occur have ultimately been caused by you, because you are responsible for where you are and what you are doing there.

~ Garth Stein

I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.

~ Anne Brontë

But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

~ Arthur C. Clarke

But I do know which is the least popular. The truth.

~ Jay Asher

Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.

~ Alice Hoffman

He was attractive. I knew that. And I knew that attractive people always got away with things.

~ David Levithan

It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact that they exist at all, their presence in our lives, will wreak more havoc than we can begin to fathom. Nuclear weapons pervade our thinking. Control our behavior. Administer our societies. Inform our dreams. They bury themselves like meat hooks deep in the base of our brains. They are purveyors of madness. They are the ultimate colonizer. Whiter than any white man that ever lived. The very heart of whiteness.

~ Arundhati Roy

I'm not saying she was lying to me, but she just acted so different before I got to know her, and if she really isn't like what she was at the beginning, I wish she could have just said so.

~ Stephen Chbosky

And though there’s a grain of truth in every rumor, I’ve found that the worst gossip usually starts with something harmless.

~ Kathleen O'dell

Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth.

~ Brian Greene

Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.

~ Sherwood Smith

Maybe the truth is I really want to like you instead.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

It was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies.

~ Jeffrey Eugenides

It’s strange how what drives us may abandon us midstream, how what tickles our ears with lies one moment may tell us truths that knock us on our emotional ass the next. After all, it is an unbelievably real world, with Darwin scribbling his thoughts into books and telling us what monkeys we are. Each of us explores possibility, hungry for sustaining adoration, yet we know enough to render ourselves helpless. We strive and strain, bellow and believe, we learn, and everything we learn tells us the same thing: life is one great meaningful experience in a meaningless world. Brilliance has many parts, yet each part is incomplete. We live, heal and attempt to piece together a picture worth the price of our very lives. The picture I saw presented demonic executioners, who crippled those daring to look and consumed souls without defense. They’re everywhere. Some are people we know. Others are the great fears and addictions of our lives.

~ Christopher Hawke

Truth is dangerous.

~ Melina Marchetta

However cozy things seemed, the facts of life were the same. You couldn't escape death: It would get us all in the end.

~ Rachel Ward

Not every instance requires a response. Truth resides silently in the seat of power.

~ T.f. Hodge

You're stubborn- anyone ever tell you that before?

~ Carrie Ryan

A lie's true power cannot be accurately measured by the number of people who believe its deception when it is told, it must be measured by the number of people who will go out after hearing it trying to convince others of its truth.

~ Dennis Sharpe

Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are.

~ Herman Melville

Nothing is needed more than truth, and in relation to it everything else has only second-rate value.This unconditional will to truth—what is it? Is it the will not to allow oneself to be deceived? Or is it the will not to deceive? For the will to truth could be interpreted in the second way, too—if only the special case I do not want to deceive myself is subsumed under the generalization I do not want to deceive. But why not deceive?But why not allow oneself to be deceived?Note that the reasons for the former principle belong to an altogether different realm from those for the second. One does not want to allow oneself to be deceived because one assumes that it is harmful, dangerous, calamitous to be deceived. In this sense, science would be a long-range prudence, a caution, a utility; but one could object in all fairness: How is that? Is wanting not to allow oneself to be deceived really less harmful, less dangerous, less calamitous? What do you know in advance of the character of existence to be able to decide whether the greater advantage is on the side of the unconditionally mistrustful or of the unconditionally trusting?

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

The truth, he thought, has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

~ Graham Greene

Drosophila,” I said, remembering the word.“What?” Lily asked.“Why do girls always fall for guys with the at ention span of drosophila?”“What?”“Fruit flies. Guys with the attention span of fruit flies.”“Because they’re hot?”“This,” I told her, “is not the time for being truthful.

~ Rachel Cohn

DNA tells you all the secrets of life,’ he used to say. Except for one—how to live it.

~ Jennifer Donnelly

Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war!

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

I'm afraid to have a boyfriend. I don't know how to do that and not lose who I want to be. And I'm afraid of what it means to be close to a guy, a guy I might really like.There it was: the truth.

~ Julia Karr

It's not enough to listen to their words. You have to mine their silences for buried ore. It's often only in the lies that we refuse to speak that truth can be heard at all.

~ Karen Marie Moning

My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be.

~ Frank Herbert

Let me say no more. Words do no justice to the hidden meaning. Everything immediately becomes slightly different when it is expressed in words, a little bit distorted, a little foolish...It is perfectly fine with me that what for one man is precious wisdom for another sounds like foolery.

~ Hermann Hesse

Once again, we are reminded that awakening, or enlightenment is not the property of Buddhism, any more than Truth is the property of Christianity. Neither the Buddha nor the Christ belongs exclusively to the communities that were founded in their names. They belong to all people of goodwill, all who are attentive to the secret which lives in the depths of their breath and their consciousness. (14)

~ Jean-Yves Leloup

Verily, knowledge is a lock and its key is the question.

~ Imam Ja'far Al-Sadiq

The truth is often one's best shield.

~ James Rollins

Perception was easily accomplished, required little effort, and it never had to stand the test of reality.

~ Terry Goodkind

This thought strengthened in me my belief that all men, without exception, deserve to be pitied, if only because they are alive.

~ Alberto Moravia

. . . there is a wish in the heart of mankind to be distracted and confused. Truth is but one attraction, and not always the most powerful.

~ Joyce Carol Oates