Quotes About Truth

Our critics would love nothing more for us to go away and just be quiet. And we won't give them that satisfaction. We have young children that, one day, when they understand more of what's happened and what's transpired, we wanna be able to say to them, you know, we did our best. And we told the truth.

I think I always wanna write comedy because that's what feels truest to me; it feels closest to life as I know it, so that's what I want to reproduce.

People wanna escape the truth sometimes.

Something that I don't normally tell, and it's not necessarily because I wanna keep it from anybody - I just don't think about it - but one thing about me that not a whole lot of people know and that never really gets brought up is that I actually don't have a driver's license. I've never taken a driver's test.

Jay Prince is a real gangster. He ain't hiding behind a desk talking. He is the true living definition of what a gangster is. If you wanna see the truth and what gangster really is, that's what Jay Prince is.

People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people don't want to hear it.

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.

The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.

I'm not a politician. I don't want to be a politician, because politicians do what is politically expedient. I want to do what's right.

We only see what we want to see; we only hear what we want to hear. Our belief system is just like a mirror that only shows us what we believe.

The Lord gave me 'Sojourner,' because I was to travel up an' down the land, showin' the people their sins an' bein' a sign unto them. Afterwards, I told the Lord I wanted another name 'cause everybody else had two names, and the Lord gave me 'Truth,' because I was to declare the truth to people.

I had had enough pretend. I wanted to be in the real world.

We always wanted to be out there, to be more true to ourselves and a little more free.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

A spiritual life is 24 hours a day, seven days a week. How do you live? What's true? How do you respond? It's not about living by beliefs; it's about wanting to know.

Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.

The first step to believing something is true is wanting to believe it is true... or being afraid it is.

I'm a scientist at heart, so I know how important the truth is. However inconvenient, however unattractive, however embarrassing, however shocking, the truth is the truth, and wanting it not to be true doesn't change things.

I'd be lying if I said, 'No,' to wanting a lot of kids.

Don't misquote me as wanting to hurt homosexual people in any way. That would be a dastardly lie.

Where every moment is about truth and I think it's a great challenge every night. That's what really drove me to wanting to do theatre, and it's great.

In our lives in a lot of ways it's all about fake. You've got people wanting things for fake reasons.

I think a lot of us can relate to not choosing to face a painful memory, and something that's a painful past, and wanting to pretend like it never happened.

I don't appreciate, really, talking to journalists when there's a sense of wanting to kick up dust to sell more papers or get more hits on their Internet site.