Truth Is Quotes - Page 22

• I think for the foreseeable future, the truth is going to be awful and funny all at the same time.

  John Hodgman

  Thinking, Awful

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 21, 2008.

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• We know truth for the cruel instrument it is. Beauty is infinitely preferable to truth.

  George R. R. Martin

  Beauty, Instruments, Knows

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin Starter Pack 4-Book Bundle: A Game of Thrones, Dreamsongs: Volume I, Fevre Dream, Armageddon Rag”, p.1045, Bantam

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• It is silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars and hypocrites.

  Henry Miller

  Brother, Liars, Integrity

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• Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don't count.

  Robert Anthony

  Life, Motivational, Procrastination

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• As the safety and prosperity of nations ultimately and essentially depend on the protection and the blessing of Almighty God, and the national acknowledgment of this truth is not only an indispensable duty which the people owe to Him.

  John Adams

  Bible, God, Religious

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1854). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.169

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• Faith stands or falls on the truth that the future with God is more satisfying than the one promised by sin. Where this truth is embraced and God is cherished above all, the power of sin is broken. The power of sin is the power of deceit. Sin has power through promising a false future. In temptation sin comes to us and says: "The future with God on his narrow way is hard and unhappy, but the way I promise is pleasant and satisfying." The power of sin is in the power of this lie.

  John Piper

  Lying, Fall, Broken

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• It is very easy to see the allure of alcohol to dull the prain and the temptation to punish myself for something that is not my fault. But he sobering truth is that if I step onto the path of self-destruction, I know I will never come back.

  Bill Jenkins

  Grief, Self, Alcohol

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• The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Qaida. And any informed intelligence officer knows this. But there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an identified entity representing the 'devil' only in order to drive the TV watcher to accept a unified international leadership for a war against terrorism. The country behind this propaganda is the US . . .

  Robin Cook

  Country, War, Believe

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• For hundreds of years the world was wrapped in a veil of spiritual darkness, until there was not one fundamental truth belonging to the place of salvation ...Joseph Smith declared that in the year 1820 the Lord revealed to him that all the 'Christian' churches were in error, teaching for commandments the doctrines of men.

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  Christian, Spiritual, Teaching

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• Say not unto thyself, Behold, truth breedeth hatred, and I will avoid it; dissimulation raiseth friends, and I will follow it. Are not the enemies made by truth, better than the friends obtained by flattery?

  Akhenaton

  Friendship, Truth, Hatred

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• Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that the gothic genre has continued to flourish and evolve since the days of Bram Stoker, producing some of its most interesting and accomplished examples in the 20th century - in literature, film and beyond.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Interesting, Example, Castles

  "Carlos Ruiz Zafón's top 10 20th-century gothic novels". www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2010.

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• The truth is, anyone who puts so much of herself and her life into art as you do must naturally fear any failure in that art as a potential threat to your life. And so you protect your art more than you protect your health or the common forms of happiness the rest of us have. And you probably have this in common with every artist you admire.

  Arthur Phillips

  Art, Common, Form

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• Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.

  Christopher Morley

  Truth, Prejudice, Facts

  Christopher Morley (1919). “Mince Pie: Adventures on the Sunny Side of Grub Street”

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• You know I am done lying. Obscuring the truth is no longer something I have any interest in doing.  I want it all to come out.  The good, the bad, the ugly.

  Jayson Blair

  Lying, Done, Ugly

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• The spirit of God speaking to the spirit of man has power to impart truth with greater effect and understanding than the truth can be imparted by personal contact even with heavenly beings. Through the Holy Ghost, the truth is woven into the very fibre and sinews of the body so that it cannot be forgotten.

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  Men, Understanding, Woven

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• Truth is not arrived at by majority vote.

  Peter Atkins

  Majority Vote, Majority, Vote

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• History, in the end, is only another kind of story, and stories are different from the truth. The truth is messy and chaotic and all over the place. Often it just doesn’t make sense. Stories make things make sense, but the way they do that is to leave out anything that doesn’t fit. And often that is quite a lot.

  Paul Murray

  Different, Stories, Way

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• Have not all poetic truths been already stated? The essence of a poetic truth is that no statement of it can be final.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Essence, Finals, Poetic

  Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”

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• I know that anybody who does all this and doesn't have to, everything thinks she's very driven. The truth is, I enjoy it all so! Can't it be that simple? I think it is! I don't feel overworked. I get a constant kick out of being heavily committed. Is that sick or something? God, what would I do sitting still?

  Beverly Sills

  Work, Passion, Simple

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• In its natural state, the child tells the literal truth because it is too naive to think of anything else. Blurting out the complete truth is considered adorable in the young, right smack up to the moment that the child says, 'Mommy, is this the fat lady you can't stand?

  Judith Martin

  Children, Honesty, Thinking

  Judith Martin (2002). “Miss Manners' Guide to Rearing Perfect Children”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

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• So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Friendship, Truth, Hate

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Bingo”, p.340, Bantam

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• Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.

  Erica Jong

  Writing, Cynical, Easy

  Erica Jong (1999). “What Do Women Want?: Bread, Roses, Sex, Power”, Perennial

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• But we should ask the question: Why should a writer be more than a writer? Why should a writer be a guru? Why are we supposed to be psychiatrists? Isn't it enough to write and tell the truth? It's not like telling the truth is common. Writers are the earthworms of society. We aerate the soil. That's enough.

  Erica Jong

  Writing, Soil, Common

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• Some people pretend to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even better with capers not in it.

  Nora Ephron

  Food, People, Taste

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Nov 26, 2015

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• The truth is that what the great religions preached, the Yiddish-speaking people of the ghettos practiced day in and day out. They were the people of The Book in the truest sense of the word. They knew of no greater joy than the study of man and human relations, which they called Torah, Talmud, Mussar, Cabala.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Book, Ghetto, Men

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph C. Landis (1986). “Aspects of I.B. Singer”

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