The first truth for special operations is that quality is more important than quantity.
The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.
The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either.
Beauty - what is beauty, forsooth? Form and color; that is, surface only. Fortune - what is fortune? Nothing is ever a pleasure or a real profit to him who has to labour for it. Truth - you die in the pursuit, and the sea beats the beach as it did a thousand years ago. The stolid are alone happy.
Lies that do not hurt, which are different from lies that protect oneself or hurt another person. That is not my business. But the truth is mostly very boring, and you can help it along with lies. There is no harm in that.
As a child of God, your destiny, if you work hard enough and are faithful, is to become like Him. That means that there is nothing that is true that you cannot learn, because He knows all truth.
A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind.
Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
'A People's History of the United States' was actually a very big book for me. I read it in high school, and I felt like my mind was really blown by it. I think the truth is I read it because it's referenced in 'Good Will Hunting.'
A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
It's about time we all faced up to the truth. If we accept the radical homosexual agenda, be it in the military or in marriage or in other areas of our lives, we are utterly destroying the concept of family.
I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.
I do have my own personal convictions and values, and I live by those. But as an artist, as a portrait photographer, my job is to tell the truth and to capture someone's spirit on a certain day. And it's never the whole truth; it's the truth I experience in a very intense and intimate fashion.
When in doubt tell the truth.
I made it real clear to the business community - if your plan for innovation is to trick people, is to fool them, is not to tell them the truth about the price, then you're right: I'm going to be right in the way.
As a reporter you tend to seek coherence from your subject or your source - it all needs to add up and make sense. In truth, in reality, there's often a great deal of murkiness and muddiness, confusion and contradiction.
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
As for 'Great Expectations', it is up there for me with the world's greatest novels, not least as it vindicates plot as no other novel I can think of does, since what there is to find out is not coincidence or happenstance but the profoundest moral truth.
In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.
The only thing that I have is the truth, so the only thing I fear is a lie.
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.
President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history.
We believe - we believe that, if we tell the people the truth, that they will act bigger than the pettiness we see in Washington, D.C. We believe it is possible to forge bipartisan compromise, and stand up for our conservative principles.
The opportunity to declare a truth may come when we least expect it. Let us be prepared.
This is me telling the truth. It just so happens to be a very explosive truth.
Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth.
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
One word from Chairman Mao is worth ten thousand from others. His every statement is truth. We must carry out those we that understand as well as those we don't.
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
The truth is that contraception saves lives, prevents unplanned pregnancies, improves outcomes for children and reduces the number of abortions.
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
I do think the biggest problem newspapers have is loss of trust, and I feel that's a result of failure to speak truth to power.
I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.
Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.
