Quotes About Truth

Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?

Oh, what lies there are in kisses.

Now the fact that people are saying, 'Oh my God, he's finally come out' - I was never in.

Oh my God, to be a free man, to be honest with you, it's awesome. It's fantastic.

Dave Chappelle

OK, magic boy, let's see who you really are.

I don't have time to write a mom blog, but I'm not against it. I think it's great when women talk about things. I'm all about female empowerment. There's a lot of lonely, lost moms out there. Moms need to be encouraged to tell the truth. There's a lot of glamour mommy stuff. It's OK to get real.

It's okay to lie as long as you reach a higher truth doing it.

It's not okay to lie about people and particularly not okay to hurl the worst imaginable names at people just because you think you might not like their politics.

We hear stories from our parents and our grandparents about what life was like in the old country or wherever they came from. They are biblical. They are truth. There could be no alternate history.

In the old days, the media is who held people accountable when they lied in politics. That isn't happening anymore.

I sometimes fantasize about being an old lady, when you can say the truth that everyone else is thinking and no one is saying.

I'd stand in line for Confession with old people and little kids, and as the line moved up, I knew when I got into the box that I would lie! Again!

Call me old-fashioned, but I believe that morality is not just a matter of opinion.

The truth is that I don't really understand the concept of having an old-fashioned sense of humour, because to me fashion is about clothes not comedy.

If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.

There's some truth that roles for older women are harder to come by, but it's wrong for actors to monopolise the ageist thing.

Something I found while writing 'Alice & Oliver' - a book that is unquestionably a work of fiction, but which also borrows details from my own life - is that writing the truth often requires invention and imagination.

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

The things I have to say on and off the record are important, and I say them because I want to be heard.

A lot of times as writers, you want to come up with the best possible story, and you bend it according to what you want to happen. I think one of the things that I always try to think about is what would really happen in a situation, what feels real.

This is in us: a certain sense of denial, a certain sense of groupthink. This is not something that sits on one party line or the other. We've seen it in all permutations throughout history, and at the core of it is a certain insistence that what we want to be true is now true, and what we don't like is now false.

Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.