Famous Quotes

The worst thing about talk ... is that there's no way to lay it to rest. Every fresh breeze brings a new speculation.

~ Susan Wittig Albert

Rhiannon's Law #14: There is a reason the truth hurts. When you cease to feel the sting, it means you've stopped caring. And damn, wouldn't that be a total fucking waste?

~ J.a. Saare

There are two kinds of truth, The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The fist of these is science and the second is art.

~ Raymond Chandler

Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they’re clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting you.

~ Gary Oldman

A man without pleasure is a man without any idea what life is about

~ Michael Grant

Truth is always stranger than fiction. We craft fiction to match our sense of how things ought to be, but truth cannot be crafted. Truth is, and truth has a way of astonishing us to our knees. Reminding us, that the universe does not exist to fulfill our expectations. Because we are imperfect beings who are self-blinded to the truth of the world’s stunning complexity, we shave reality to paper thin theories and ideologies that we can easily grasp – and we call them truths. But the truth of a sea in all it’s immensity cannot be embodied in one tidewashed pebble.

~ Dean Koontz

There’s a Chinese proverb that says “Wisdom is avoiding all thoughts that weaken you & embracing those that strengthen you” Your mind is like a Ferrari (Or your favorite car) it is Awesome!...but if you put sand on the gas tank it won’t run. Don’t put sand (negativity) on your mind. Think positive, encouraging, uplifting thoughts, & the negative will soon evaporate.

~ Pablo

And remember that within every lie, there is a truth hidden. Know the truth to defeat the lie.

~ T.a. Miles

When boy likes you, you say no thank you. You don't kick him on the ground.

~ Jenny Han

Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own. Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality.

~ James Cameron

The truth is not good or bad, it is just the truth.

~ J.b. Thomas

But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.

~ Edward Abbey

Women were created gullible. It they weren't no babies would be born.

~ Dakota Dawn

Women have no appreciation of good looks-at least, good women have not.

~ Oscar Wilde

Ο θάνατος είναι πάντα από μόνος του μια απόδειξη ειλικρίνειας.

~ Graham Greene

If something is wrong, it matters not if a thousand men are for it; you must still oppose it. If something is just, no amount of popular outcry should stay you from your course.

~ Terry Goodkind

We are always trying to convert people to a belief in our own explanation of the universe. We think that the more people there are who believe as we do, the more certain it will be that what we believe is the truth. But it doesn't work that way at all.

~ Paulo Coelho

Eventually everything connects — people, ideas, objects...the quality of the connections is the key to quality per se...I don't believe in this 'gifted few' concept, just in people doing things they are really interested in doing. They have a way of getting good at whatever it is.

~ Charles Eames

If you're explaining, you're losing.

~ Ronald Reagan

In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie.

~ Criss Jami

You have to believe what you're saying if you're going to convince me. I just can't break that rule, even if I want to.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

When you recognize or experience the truth about yourself you automatically feel love, because love is a quality of your true consciousness and true ideas.

~ Tae Yun Kim

It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much.

~ Neil Gaiman

It is, I suppose, the common grief of children at having to protect their parents from reality. It is bitter for the young to see what awful innocence adults grow into, that terrible vulnerability that must be sheltered from the rodent mire of childhood.

~ Katherine Dunn

...if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.

~ John Paul Ii

The thirst for knowledge is like a piece of ass you know you shouldn't chase; in the end, you chase it just the same.

~ George Pelecanos

It is much easier to believe lies than the truth. Why? asked Janna. Because lies are manufactured to satisfy the emotions. A mother would rather believe her pretty girl lazy than accept the fact that she's a dumb cluck. Germans would rather believe they were stabbed in the back than that they lost a fair fight. And anyone would rather blame someone else for his misfortunes. The truth is hard. Don't fool with it unless you realize that.

~ Hilda Van Stockum

I turn sentences around. That’s my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and I turn it around again. Then I have lunch. Then I come back in and write another sentence. Then I have tea and turn the new sentence around. Then I read the two sentences over and turn them both around. Then I lie down on my sofa and think. Then I get up and throw them out and start from the beginning. And if I knock off from this routine for as long as a day, I’m frantic with boredom and a sense of waste.

~ Philip Roth

Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.

~ Ernest Hemingway

No, honestly, my mouth shouldn't be able to function unless my brain's engaged.

~ Jodi Picoult

Truth was funny, because it was an insistent thing, maybe as powerful and insistent as some force of nature, the push of water or wind. You could keep it out only so long, but it had its own will and its own needs, and maybe you could keep it at bay with lies, but not for long, not for always.

~ Deb Caletti

Truths are as much a matter of questions as answers.

~ Ozzie Zehner

My mother was teaching me that the inside of something was not necessarily its outside. Always look carefully, she told me. Look with more than your eyes.

~ Alice Hoffman

Shit, money, and the World, the three American truths, powering the American mobility, claimed the Slothrops, clasped them for good to the country's fate. But they did not prosper... about all they did was persist

~ Thomas Pynchon

I know many versions of truth that explain one fact.

~ Toba Beta

If history is written by the victorious, what if the victors lied?

~ Michael Duncan

Eventually, there's certain limit in telling bare fact through words.It ain't about diction constraints, but common ability to understand.

~ Toba Beta

Telling the truth can be a dirty job.

~ Francesca Marciano

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.

~ Dorothy Dix

Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth?

~ Simon Bolivar