Famous Quotes

It would actually constitute more than a miracle, he realised. It would take divine intervention plus luck, plus some unknown element of cosmic wizardry.

~ David Baldacci

There is a horror that sometimes comes with being right.

~ Samantha *

100% of a Guru’s marketing plan depends on you holding the belief that you are not enough, that you were created less equipped than necessary to fulfill your purpose. What if you let go of that belief and connected with the truth of your innate power to change and shape your life? You ARE enough. You CAN change and shape your own life. Anyone who tells you different is simply lying. Your life has immeasurable potentiality for greatness, act accordingly.

~ Steve Maraboli

Strangely enough, I don't seem to tolerate food in great quantities or when it is too rich anymore.”“That's perfectly all right. Most people dig their graves with their own teeth as it is.

~ Andrew Ashling

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.

~ William Faulkner

It is important to speak your truth, not to convince anyone else of it. Everyone must make up their own minds.

~ Barbara Marciniak

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for everyone takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness; and when this is done, one path towards error is closed and the road to truth is often at the same time opened.

~ Charles Darwin

The truth. Men will blind themselves with hot irons, rather than face it.

~ David Gemmell

Stories are not like the real world, they aren't held back by what we know is false or true. What's important is how a story makes you feel inside.

~ Tahir Shah

If you are involved with the intensity of crescendo situations, with the intensity of tragedy, you might begin to see the humor of these situations as well. As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.

~ Chögyam Trungpa

Our willingness to write truthfully brings the story to life.

~ Alan Watt

Every truth in this world stretched beyond its limits will become a false doctrine.

~ K.p. Yohannan

When truthsayers have the courage to say the emperor is wearing no clothes, whether you agree with their point of view or not, send them love. They are to be acknowledged for speaking their truth.

~ Barbara Marciniak

Our ancestors built temples for their gods. We build department stores.

~ David Mitchell

The first duty of an Author is --- I conceive --- a faithful allegiance to Truth and Nature; his second, such a conscientious study of Art as shall enable him to interpret eloquently and effectively the oracles delivered by those two great deities.--- Charlotte Bronte

~ Juliet Barker

Wedded she some years, and to a manOf fifty, and such husbands are in plenty;And yet, I think, instead of such a ONE'Twere better to have TWO of five and twenty...

~ George Gordon Byron

There are different ways people make this place. Sweat, exercise and pain is one way. You can see them in the gyms, in the well-ordered swimming pools. You can see them jogging in the small, worn parks. Another way to make your place is TV. A bright, brash place, always well lit, full of fun and jokes that tell you when to laugh so you never miss them. World news carefully edited so that it’s not too disturbing, but disturbing enough to make you glad that you weren’t born in a foreign country. News with music to tell you who to hate, who to feel sorry for, and who laugh at.

~ David Mitchell

Ultimately, in the battle against lies and violence, truth and love have no other weapon than the witness of suffering.

~ Pope Benedict Xvi

We tend to forget that words are, themselves, ideas. They might be called ideas in a state of suspended animation. When the words are mastered the ideas tend to come alive again.

~ James Webb Young

In history, truth should be held sacred, at whatever cost . . . especially against the narrow and futile patriotism, which, instead of pressing forward in pursuit of truth, takes pride in walking backwards to cover the slightest nakedness of our forefathers.

~ Col. Thomas Aspinwall

He looked very old. He looked, James thought, getting his head now against the Lighthouse, now against the waste of waters running away into the open, like some old stone lying on the sand; he looked as if he had become physically what was always at the back of both of their minds—that loneliness which was for both of them the truth about things.

~ Virginia Woolf

... there is a whole hell of a lot of knowledge about the (expletive removed) human condition that we are not ready for.

~ Norah Vincent

I suppose we all have our little hiding-hole if the truth was known, but as small as it is, the whole world is in it, and bit by bit grows on us again till the day You find us out.

~ Frank O'connor

I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that. I seem to know what he meant who said, No man can see God face to face and live.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

In a dispassionate view the ardour for reform, improvement for virtue, for knowledge, and even beauty is only a vein sticking up for appearances as though one were anxious about the cut of ones clothes in a community of blind men.

~ Joseph Conrad

LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY!True anyhow no matter how manyLiars use those words.

~ Langston Hughes

In simplicity there is truth.

~ River Phoenix

I continue to marvel at the reluctancy of people to look into the mirror and see all the darkness that's within them: all the deceit, the dishonesty, the insincerity, the lack, the need, the want, the lies...they would rather look upon the mural of themselves that they've painted on the wall, and stare at that inanimate portrait of beauty, all the while telling themselves that it is the mirror image of them! This is a falsity, this is unreal! It is only when you turn to the unveiled mirror and bravely face your light and your darkness at once, that you will be able to see the true image of you! How can you pull the thorns from your skin if you are too afraid to open your eyes and look at them? You must open your eyes first, look at the thorns where they are piercing your flesh, and only then can you pull them out!

~ C. Joybell C.

There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.

~ Alexander Mccall Smith

Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise?Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and constant aspects of truth that can be perceived by human means.And I don't mean the kind of surface beauty that fades with age, or the sort of shallow wisdom that gets lost in platitudes. is before you.True wisdom then steps in, to interpret, illuminate, and form a life-altering insight.

~ Vera Nazarian

If this book has made any point clear, I hope it's that things don't have to be real to be true. Or vice versa.

~ Grant Morrison

Well, the way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test reality we must see it on the tight rope. When the verities become acrobats, we can judge them.

~ Oscar Wilde

Cada vez que un libro cambia de manos, cada vez que alguien desliza la mirada por sus páginas, su espíritu crece y se hace fuerte. (Sempere)

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.

~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

But should you ever come to a time when you need to say something upon my behalf, say this, 'The last truth is that there is no magic.

~ Raymond E. Feist

Give your children big truths they will grow into rather than light explanations they will grow out of.

~ Tedd Tripp

Sight is one of the most easily deceived senses. I could make a coin disappear and your eyes would believe it gone, even if it were merely up my sleeve.

~ Megan Chance

But what a feeling can come over a man just from seeing the things he believes in and hopes for symbolized in the concrete form of a man. In something that gives a focus to all the other things he knows to be real. Something that makes unseen things manifest and allows him to come to his hopes and dreams through his outer eye and through the touch and feel of his natural hand.

~ Ralph Ellison

The impulse to tell the truth was not as great as the fear of being left off the page.

~ Jonathan Messinger

Living in this world will change you,” she confides. “It makes me value life. When a friend has a healthy baby, I don’t think it’s normal; I think it’s a fucking miracle.

~ Michael Ruhlman