I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
The truth is, I'm drawn to all kinds of things.
I had a list of rules I made up one time. It says: Tell the truth, sing with passion, work with laughter, and love with heart. Those are good to start with, anyway.
If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
I've always had a problem with people who couldn't tell the truth or admit a mistake and say they're wrong.
It feels so good to tell the truth.
I thought it would be interesting to write a song about a lonely person who is scared to see the truth that is right in from of him. I thought it would be interesting if you could watch yourself from a distance.
Benghazi matters because Americans deserve to know the truth from those entrusted to lead and govern.
I love to invent - avoiding the truth. I need to dramatize.
I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.
Polling only works in a country without a depressed, frightened populace. Where the public trusts authorities enough to tell them the truth without fear of retribution.
The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.
Somebody said I am the most popular person in Arizona because I am speaking the truth.
The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.
Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.
It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it.
These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn't even know existed.
I had earlier concluded that a war with Iraq would be a distraction from the successful and expeditious completion of our aims in Afghanistan. Now I had come to question whether the White House was telling the truth.
Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God.
There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend - I am a guilty party here - to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.
The truth of the matter is that muggers are very interesting people.
There's no question that sources sometimes have interests aside from the truth when they talk to reporters. That's why reporters have to very aggressively report against their own theses and against their initial information.
There is no teacher, living or past, who can give us the actual understanding of Truth. A teacher can only put our feet upon the path and point the way. That is all. It is wholly dependent on the individual to make his way to Truth.
You can't have justice unless you have truth.
Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.
There will be the 5% on the fringe of any hardcore fanbase that get angry about any change you make to the source material. The truth is that novels, games, comics, and what-have-you are not usually ready to be slapped up on screen as-is.
However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
Without a Jewish state, the iron truth of history is that the Jewish people sooner or later become even more vulnerable to the next wave of anti-Semitism.
I soon discovered, after I became chairman of the NEH, that, for a number of academics, the truth was not merely irrelevant - it no longer existed.
Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
I know that from the days of Watergate... the notion of two sources on a story has become the popular dogma about how you confirm something. And there is a lot of truth to that, but there are all kinds of ways to check to the extent that you can, a story that you get.
It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
I guess professionally it began when Hal Hartley used some music of mine in his film The Unbelievable Truth.
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
