Quotes About Truthful

I am what I am and I'm a horrible liar. I can't do it. I'm just very candid.

The best thing about me is that I am generally very honest - not hurtfully honest, but honest. The worst thing about me is that everybody can make me feel guilty. I feel responsible about things that don't even concern me.

I'm not the kind of person to hold my tongue.

I am not talking about a negative, pessimistic, insulting, or overly sexual version of brutally honest. If

Stevie always tried to be truthful, but she didn't want to make her first acquaintance in her new house and say, Your show was mediocre and overrated but I see why you are valued: for your looks and deep voice. People tended not to warm to that kind of thing.

But it's just that he is basically a very honest person. That makes him uncompromising sometimes.

legal investigation. As Clinton noted, "My goal in this deposition was to be truthful, but not particularly helpful.

Dare, instead, to be dangerous. Dare to be truthful. Dare to articulate yourself, and express (or at least become aware of) what would really justify your life.

Dare, instead, to be dangerous. Dare to be truthful. Dare to articulate yourself, and express (or at least become aware of) what would really justify your life. If you allowed your dark and unspoken desires for your partner, for example, to manifest themselves—if you were even willing to consider them—you might discover that they were not so dark, given the light of day.

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

re: Matthew 8) "[Jesus'] almost refusal to allow the complications of men to interfere with the loving work of God." [for the leper} "...this is not a media event, it is a personal experience...he is in effect, to minimize the wonder by returning to the ordinary rituals." "One wonders still at the cleanness of the incident...God's spirit hovers now as it always has over simpler scenes; He is found directly more often in truthful human exchanges than in convoluted efforts to escape humanity.

But alone with my prose I am maker and critic, teacher and student, lazy and specific. Alone with my prose I fail for days and sometimes years and over the course of many drafts. Incapable of finding the truth in memoir, I turn to fiction. Paralyzed by length, I turn to poems. Bucking against short lines I turn to prose again, to truth again, to nonsequential truth because that seems more truthful.

It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat, for all the strange, tiny, hard-to-articulate, instantaneous, unwilled things that actually go on in our minds in the course of a given day, or even a given moment.

It's been a huge honor to collaborate and create new theatre with new writers and to create theatre that will last after my lifetime. It's been in the most truthful way possible. It's my favorite thing to do.

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.

My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible.

Poetry is my first love. Photography often fails to look into things. It looks at things. Poetry is so much more truthful.

That's what I'd like to think that my reputation is - being honest.

I just try to be authentic and speak from the heart. Sometimes it requires me to shut up and not say anything.

that acting was truthful emotions in false circumstances.

My instincts are not comedic.

I'm not Mary Poppins, but I think I functioned with integrity.

Charles Barkley is always a good interview because he's honest.

He wouldn't write a letter because he couldn't without beginning it 'Dear Sylvia' and ending it 'Yours sincerely' or 'truly' or 'affectionately.' He's that sort of precise imbecile. I tell you he's so formal he can't do without all the conventions there are and so truthful he can't use half of them.