Quotes About Truth

The adage that you're either gay or straight or you're lying, well, that's not true. Bisexuality does exist.

Even if it's a bit blunt, I really appreciate somebody being straight with you.

Why don't you talk, and go straight, and let all be well?

I believe the American people are entitled to some straight talk when it comes to higher education funding.

I need to set the record straight for myself.

For far too long we've allowed the other side to paint us as racist, as sexist, inhumane war mongers - well, today as a conservative black Republican and former solider, I'm here to set that record straight.

It seems to me that the way to remove people's cynicism is, when asked a straight question, to give a straight answer.

Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.

You have to live what you write, or you have to know it. There are exceptions, like story songs, where you just have to have your facts straight. But I think you don't have to live a hard life to be a good or interesting songwriter.

All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy.

I have a hard time keeping a story straight when I tell the truth because when you start lying you have to remember what you said, and I'm not very good at that.

Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.

Too often, when you are close to people in power, you're trying to make them happy; you're trying to tell them what they want to hear. But I find that really good leaders don't want that. They want the truth. And you do them a service, and yourself a service, by just being honest and straightforward.

The Bush administration also was not straightforward about the intelligence it had, releasing tenuous information that fit its goal of attacking Iraq. I feel deceived.

In a very straightforward way, I am a terrible reporter. I'm not someone who can go into a story and not get involved.

Reality isn't straightforward or easily accessible.

When I was a prosecutor, we had one straightforward goal: convict the guilty and protect the innocent. To me, that simple mission still holds true.

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.

Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.

Other people are talking about writing books about my life, or about some of the things I've done. I find it strange, but I also feel it's my life and my story, and I guess I better be the one to get it on paper the way it actually happened.

The Internet is a strange, strange place that is full of lies. I would say mostly lies.

Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these strange circumstances, Peruvian life, a life in which so few actually do read, has become literary.

I think that's so strange, because they do know that we're all actors and we perform things that have not necessarily anything to do with us personally.

I like to write about real people, real crimes. But what has increasingly come to interest me, and also appear to me as a challenge, is the idea of doing strange things with what is real. Take what is real and make it more or less real.