Quotes About Truth

You have heard the expression 'love is blind' I think it's bullshit. Lust dazzles, sure, at least for the short term. But love clears the vision. You see better, sharper, because you feel more that you did before

Real responsibility means doing what's right, even when it's hard.

Murder doesn't leave anyone innocent. It shouldn't.

Gossip needn't be false to be evil—there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around. —Frank A. Clark

Idols always fall, Eve.

You can't make this shit up.

You have to believe the lie to live it, to make others see you the way you need to be seen.

I've eliminated everything else. This is what's left. And when you've eliminated everything else, what's left should be true.

A lot of the general population are wrong.

You have a point, but love can also cause you to see things as you prefer to see them, as you want them to be.

How do you know that? You couldn't have finished the book. I skipped to the end. You... He closed his eyes as he drank more wine. Some things are unforgiveable. --Roarke, Dallas, Roarke

Do you think any of us go anywhere until we have the truth? Do you think there's peace without justice?" "No, I don't," Eve admitted, knowing it would always drive her.

There's a difference between right and regs sometimes. That's why regs can change, but right doesn't.

When we get him," Eve continued, "it's going to come out that she—this symbol—knocked him around or boo-hoo broke his heart or made him feel weak and helpless. So his defense lawyers will come along saying: Oh, he was damaged, poor sick son of a bitch. He's not responsible. And that's a pile of shit, that's a big, smelly pile of bullshit. Because nobody's responsible for choking the life out of Elisa Maplewood but him. Nobody.

I thought it was 'innocent until proven guilty'' That's just one of the bigger lies we live by.

No, it's personal. I said to him I'd never seen joy for me or pride in me shine in my mother's eyes. But that's not altogether true, because I've seen it in yours

Gossip needn't be false to be evil—there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.

A lot of people know they're right, when what they are is wrong. Having doubts keeps you human.

You've got a knack for the dead and the innocent.

The media's no more objective than the last ratings term.

No, Paul, I couldn't care less if you tell me made-up stories. Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths.' (Said to Paul by Elizabeth Costello, the interloping novelist-angel-inner voice).

He would not mind hearing Petrus's story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and more he is convinced that English is an unfit medium for the truth of South Africa. Stretches of English code whole sentences long have thickened, lost their articulations, their articulateness, their articulatedness. Like a dinosaur expiring and settling in the mud, the language has stiffened. Pressed into the mold of English, Petrus's story would come out arthritic, bygone(117).

He would not mind hearing Petrus's story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and more he is convinced that English is an unfit medium for the truth of South Africa.

The truth is, he tired of criticism, tired of prose measured by the yard. --Disgrace