Quotes About Truth

A Tornado knocks a house down, killing the owner, and it's a tragedy. Then you learn a serial killer lived there and the same act becomes a miracle. The truth about what happens to us in this world keeps changing. Always. It never stops. Sometimes not even after death.

It's a terrible thing, to lie. It's a field you keep seeding and watering and plowing, but nothing will ever grow on it.

They looked happy, but, of course, that didn't say much. Everyone smiles for a photograph.

It's a terrible thing, to lie. It's a field you keep seeding and watering and plowing, but nothing will ever grow on it." She

Que sont les fantasmes ? Des rêves dont nous nous servons pour nous préserver de la réalité. Notre monde est un plancher rigide qui nous casse le dos si on dort à même le sol.

The truth about what happens to us in this world keeps changing Ã¢â'¬Â¦ it never stops.

It's a terrible thing, to lie. It's a field you keep seeding and watering and plowing, but nothing will ever grow on it.

The truth about what happens to us in this world keeps changing … it never stops.

I was aware of how shoddily stitched together the words were—suddenly I was a kid in the hall standing outside my locker about to head to Math. But that was how it went sometimes, the English language, when you really needed it, crumbled to clay in your mouth. That's when all the real things were said.

I love to put my characters in the dark, it's only then that I can see exactly who they are

Mögest du für die Wahrheit kämpfen -, für deine eigene Wahrheit, nicht für die Wahrheit anderer

It is adorable and healthily childlike secretly to believe in fairy tales, but the instant one articulates such viewpoints to other people, one goes from darling to dumbo, from childlike to chillingly out of touch with reality," wrote Albert Pooley in The Imperial Consort of the Dairy Queen (1981, p. 233).

Whether this tale be true or false, none can tell, for none were there to witness it themselves.

Vais conhecer muitos idiotas na vida. Se te magoarem, lembra-te que é porque são estupidos. Assim, não vais reagir à sua crueldade, porque não há nada pior do que ser amargo e vingativo. mantem sempre a tua dignidade e sê verdadeira contigo mesma.

It is one thing to be told what God is like; it could be another thing altogether to discover the truth for ourselves!

Journalists make lousy politicians because they think they always need to tell the truth. —STEPHEN HARPER

Never had a general so effectively willed away the facts.

Against the certainties of the American command, the truth never stood a chance.

How much sense would it make, after all, for someone involved with a kidnapping to draw attention to himself by claiming to be a witness and telling an elaborate lie?

he was not the first general to welcome statistics he wanted to hear—but the numbers emerged from an intricate origami of war bureaucracy: South Vietnamese, North Vietnamese, and American. The truth was bent at every fold for reasons that went beyond propaganda to self-interest, sycophancy, and wishful thinking.

Nobody ever tells you when you go into police work that it will require dishonesty.

One of its analysts was Daniel Ellsberg, who at the time was back in the States compiling the report that—after he leaked it to the press in 1971—would become known as The Pentagon Papers. The study showed that American leaders had been systematically lying about the scope and progress of the war for years and had consistently enlarged it despite doubts that the effort could succeed.

Two hundred and fifty American marines and soldiers were killed, and 1,554 wounded.75 Another 458 ARVN soldiers were killed and an estimated 2,700 wounded. The Front's losses are estimated to have been between 2,400 and 5,000—the difference between the official counts of both sides, both known to lie about such numbers. When

You cannot truly win a conflict that you cannot truthfully define.