Quotes About Truth

I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.

Just because you're convicted in a court room doesn't mean you're guilty of something.

I don't really want to have any part of getting guilty people off.

I always said I wasn't guilty of any criminal activity.

I never used a gun in my life.

It's the sad truth that gun violence can often be prevented.

You know, there's a great discussion - I think that groups like the NRA have been really, really good at trying to divide us by fears, that the ideas that, well, Democrats want to take everybody's guns away. And that's not true.

I never say I am a guru.

I just wanted Sadness to be true, to come from a real place. I tried to work from the inside out, going from my gut all the time. I didn't over-analyze it. I just did it.

It takes guts to realize you screwed up and to then come clean without any excuses.

The only thing I do is say what everyone else is thinking but doesn't have the guts to say.

The DMK and the Communists may have the habit of lying, but I don't come from a family that lies.

Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use.

Believe me, than in half the creeds.

Everything we know about Hamilton, we knew when he was alive, because he told us.

I've always been impelled to say the truth. When I was 14, in 1954, I already wrote a gay novel, though I'd never read one. I felt that life handed me a great subject, gay life, that had scarcely been examined, and I was impelled to record it in all its strange detail.

Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.

The Gospel is meant to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

You're such a big liar you gotta get your neighbor to call your dog.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it...

If it were not for the truth of fiction there would not be any truth at all.

Anna: I've never understood all this devotion. Mouse: Don't you know? They all called me Mouse. But you were they only one who didn't believe it.

I walked away in the manner that we always do from horror: believing that refusal to accept reality might just negate it, knowing that it walks one constant, smirking step behind us. I walked until the vast, black truth of what had happened overwhelmed me, becoming part of my existence, pivotal-- - Ian Cowley, Crossed: Badlands #1