The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
The truth is, no matter how trying they become, babies two and under don't have the ability to make moral choices, so they can't be bad. That category only exists in the adult mind.
I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.
I used to think there was something cheap in trying to make beautiful sentences. Now I think language has its own ways and ends, and it does one's thinking good to try to serve them. Beauty isn't truth. But a certain kind of clear beauty will help in the pursuit of truth.
If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.
My mother brought me magicians and witches, because I was very ugly, really revolting. So she thought somebody had put a spell on me - this is the truth - so she made me drink some horrible terrifying potions, for year.
The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.
I kind of got my big break with 'The Princess Diaries' and during the press rounds for that everyone asked me: 'Did you always want to be a princess growing up?' And the truth was, no I wanted to be Catwoman.
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect.
In everything I do, whether in business, philanthropy or my personal life, I am guided by my inner truth, my values.
Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
Very few stories embody a human truth so definitively that we cannot think of the truth without remembering the story and cannot imagine how people ever got by without it.
The law reports in newspapers contain perhaps the only real history of England that has any relation to truth.
At the end of the day, we always show that truth triumphs. We don't leave the movie in the middle saying, 'Great, pick whatever you want to and go out there and do something wrong'. Bollywood is not the only influence in a person's life. They are also affected by their family and friends.
The Internet has been this miraculous conduit to the undeniable truth to the Holocaust.
The job of the travel writer is to go far and wide, to make voluminous notes, to tell the truth.
This Divine truth flows into heaven from the Lord from His Divine love.
What I've found - and the older I get, the more I understand this and stand behind it - is, my whole life has been an exploration of telling the truth. It's scary to be truthful, and it's scary to reveal yourself, and I'm very attracted to doing things that scare me.
Someone needs to tell the truth, but it shouldn't be my job.
A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.
Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.
People are starved for the truth, and when something comes along that even looks like the truth, people will latch onto it because everything's so false.
The bud of victory is always in the truth.
A writer's job is to tell the truth.
You must have love as the core; it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.
I am not going to answer to this so-called court, out of respect for the truth and the will of the Iraqi people. I've said what I've said, and I'm not guilty.
Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
Man has throughout the ages been seeking something beyond himself, beyond material welfare - something we call truth or God or reality, a timeless state - something that cannot be disturbed by circumstances, by thought or by human corruption.
It's good just to laugh sometimes, and if it comes out of some truth, it's even stronger.
As we have always seen here in the U.S. the universal truth about elections is that people vote their pocketbook.
What I want to do with my filmmaking is help kids experience the truth and wisdom of nature no matter where they are, whether or not they have the opportunity to go to a national park.
