Famous Quotes

But vain to popularize profundities, and all truth is profound.

~ Herman Melville

It was strange how she found out, One moment she didn't know; the next minute she did. One moment her mind was as blank as the desert; the next minute the snake of suspicion had slithered into her thoughts and raised its poisonous head.

~ Thrity Umrigar

Sometimes you have to do something ugly so that something beautiful can grow.

~ Cedric Nye

After years of searching, I have found my soulmate, and it is myself. The bachelor is content. Oh, he still dates women from time to time, and he listens to the wedding marches sometimes too. But only because he likes them.

~ Marci Shimoff

Silence is a powerful tool.

~ Na

Tell the truth no matter who it hurts.

~ Zarina Bibi

You lie to her, you lie to me, you lie to yourself. Blind girl blind you.

~ Daniel Wallace

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

~ G.k. Chesterton

We're all so multifaceted, and it's impossible to see all the sides at once.

~ Na

he looked at her, stripped naked for the instant of verbiage and deceit.

~ William Faulkner

Facts, like living things, have a value in and of themselves and demand respect. Yet some people use them as means to an end, and dismiss them as soon as they are done using them.

~ James Rozoff

Only by learning the truth—whatever that truth might be—could people be given the right kind of power.

~ Haruki Murakami

True ideas seem to suffer from repetition, while stupid ones tend to flourish.

~ James Rozoff

Elizabeth Bachinsky, Darren Bifford, Jason Camelot, Rachel Cyr, Tara Flanagan, Lilly Fiorentino, John Goldbach, David McGimpsey, Evan Munday, Sachiko Murakami, Ian Orti, Marisa Grizenko, Christina Palassio, Mike Spry, Darren Wershler.

~ Jon Paul Fiorentino

As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power.

~ James Rozoff

Quid quo pro - you cant get something from nothing .

~ Carlous Ruiz Zafon

Wherever you go you will find people lying to you, and as your awareness grows, you will notice that you also lie to yourself. Do not expect people to tell you the truth because they also lie to themselves. You have to trust yourself and choose to believe or not to believe what someone says to you.

~ Miguel Ruiz

A charm invests a faceImperfectly beheld,—The lady dare not lift her veilFor fear it be dispelled.But peers beyond her mesh,And wishes, and denies,—Lest interview annul a wantThat image satisfies.

~ Emily Dickinson

Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth.

~ Tamora Pierce

All of them are the same type; girls with overprocessed hair and too much makeup and way too much access to Daddy’s credit cards. Girls who, if you took away the designer labels, hair dye and cover-up, wouldn’t be more than average-looking, but with all that stuff look too plastic to be pretty.

~ Hannah Harrington

The best way to waste your life is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate. Let Big Brother do the singing and dancing for you. Be a reporter. Be a good witness. A grateful member of theaudience.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

People enjoy inventing slogans which violate basic arithmetic but which illustrate “deeper” truths, such as “1 and 1 make 1” (for lovers), or “1 plus 1 plus 1 equals 1” (the Trinity). You can easily pick holes in those slogans, showing why, for instance, using the plus-sign is inappropriate in both cases. But such cases proliferate. Two raindrops running down a window-pane merge; does one plus one make one? A cloud breaks up into two clouds -more evidence of the same? It is not at all easy to draw a sharp line between cases where what is happening could be called “addition”, and where some other word is wanted. If you think about the question, you will probably come up with some criterion involving separation of the objects in space, and making sure each one is clearly distinguishable from all the others. But then how could one count ideas? Or the number of gases comprising the atmosphere? Somewhere, if you try to look it up, you can probably fin a statement such as, “There are 17 languages in India, and 462 dialects.” There is something strange about the precise statements like that, when the concepts “language” and “dialect” are themselves fuzzy.

~ Douglas R. Hofstadter

Speak you too,speak as the last,say out your say.Speak-But don’t split off No from Yes.Give your say this meaning too:Give it the shadow.Give it shadow enough,Give it as muchAs you know is spread round you fromMidnight to midday and midnight.Look around:See how things all come alive-By death! Alive!Speaks true who speaks shadow.But now the place shrinks, where you stand:Where now, shadow-stripped, where?Climb. Grope upwards.Thinner you grow, less knowable, finer!Finer: a threadThe star wants to descend on:So as to swim down beliow, down hereWhere it sees itself shimmer:in the swellOf wandering words.

~ Paul Celan

The devil has not vanished simply because people refuse to believe he exists, no more than God has...

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

In the essence of truth lies deceit.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

There are two more turds, smaller ones, and when he has eaten these, residual shit to lick out of her anus. He prays that she'll let him drop the cape over himself, to be allowed, in the silk-lined darkness, to stay a while longer with his submissive tongue straining upward into her asshole. But she moves away. The fur evaporates from his hands. She orders him to masturbate for her. She has watched Captain Blicero with Gottfried, and has learned the proper style.

~ Thomas Pynchon

The problem with escaping is that we leave behind us, even among those we love, different versions of the truth and everything we couldn’t bring ourselves to say.

~ Frederick Weisel

Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble.

~ Criss Jami

Hey, metaphysics seminar is on the roof. Just take the elevator up and keep walking until you hit the sidewalk. Anything is true if enough people believe it.

~ David Mitchell

See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind ... is the one fundamental treason which the scholar's mind must not allow is the bond uniting all the Oxford people in the last resort.

~ Dorothy L. Sayers

From time to timeI once wondered how one wanders from time to timeAnd think up the paradox lineSpeak of Epoch's crimeOh I lied, it hasn't happened yetBut bet you better believe it's such a habit thatI just said that in a past mindset

~ Criss Jami

Truth without love, isn't.

~ Shane Hipps

In a myriad of ways you tell one truth.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

I died last night. Seventy years too young.

~ Colin Thompson

I’m a dinosaur, he thought, lumbering through a world where truthtellersare despised.

~ Tess Gerritsen

Why do you give way to your ego and pride. Where does it stand in the ocean of time.

~ Naveen Rajeev

Consequently, the truth of God lives in our souls more by the power of superior moral courage than by the light of an eminent intelligence. Indeed, spiritual intelligence itself depends on the fortitude and patience with which we sacrifice ourselves for the truth, as it is communicated to our lives concretely in the providential will of God

~ Thomas Merton

Why does truth carry such a dreadful face? Why does subjugation carry such a happy mask? It becomes sad when people understand that they can lead a better life as long as they bow their heads, ignoring the truth.

~ Lionel Suggs

You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable.

~ Alasdair Gray

All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.

~ Wally Lamb