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We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics. -- Josefina Vazquez Mota
I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth. -- Eric Carr
Sometimes we look at gay being a bigger sin than being proud or not telling the truth. I don't think God categorizes sins. -- Joel Osteen
When you're on stage, unless you surrender to the moment, you're not telling the truth. I look for people that tell me the truth. -- David Sanborn
The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or she is telling. -- Richard Russo
There's a part in a woman's soul, God has given it to every woman, and it's the part where you know whether he's telling the truth or not. Women see red flags. -- Jessica White
When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth. -- Eartha Kitt
I've never met or spoken to David Lee Roth, yet it's rather ironic that even he's saying Eddie's lying about things. I'm saying he's not telling the truth, yet Eddie insists that the two of us are lying! You be the judge. -- Sammy Hagar
The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been criticized; its terms of reference call for providing amnesty for those who cooperate in telling the truth. It does not lead to prosecution. -- Jose Ramos-Horta
To me, horror is when I see somebody lying. I mean a person I know. A friend. And he's telling me something that I accept. And then suddenly, as he or she is telling it, there's something that gives them away. They're not telling me the truth. -- Jonathan Frid
It's not that I'm universally loved. We know I'm not in New Jersey. But what they do say in New Jersey is, 'We like him, and we think he's telling us the truth.' I think we need to have that type of politics on the national level. -- Chris Christie
The scariest part to any story is the sliver of truth you hide in the horror. Sometimes its not about the axe wielding murder, but the fact that he's lurking somewhere in your basement. Sure, you keep telling yourself that you'll replace the burnt out light every week. -- Rob Manuel
I think there are so many books out there written on relationships and romance that women are the authors of. How can women know exactly how men think? And there are so many guys out there with relationship books who are just not telling the truth. They have shaded parts. -- Steve Harvey
The story of undocumented immigrants in this country is not just about undocumented immigrants. It's about the country as a whole, and it's about us being able to tell the truth about where we are with this issue because we haven't been telling the truth about where we are with this issue. -- Jose Antonio Vargas
Well, I - all cases to me have interest. Every case is important to somebody, the people litigating that case. But the most difficult case for me is the case where one person says a, the other person says b, and you just don't know for certain who is not telling you the truth. -- Mills Lane
Telling ourselves that fiction is in a sense true and at the same time not true is essential to the art of fiction. It's been at the heart of fiction from the start. Fiction offers both truth, and we know it's a flat-out lie. Sometimes it drives a novelist mad. Sometimes it energizes us. -- Joanna Scott
I felt like all of the American people did not believe me because of the things that were said about me, and said that people would say that it was just for the money, and it wasn't about the money. It was about what he did to me. And I knew I was telling the truth. -- Paula Jones
NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims. This is not a bigoted statement. It is a statement of my feelings, my fears after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by radical Muslims. -- Juan Williams
Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims. This is not a bigoted statement. It is a statement of my feelings, my fears after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by radical Muslims. -- Juan Williams
The young are not afraid of telling the truth. -- Anne Frank
Truth telling is not compatible with the defence of the realm. -- George Bernard Shaw
Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt -- Christian Boltanski
When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out! -- Agatha Christie
A lie does not become truth just because ten people are telling it. -- Nadeem Aslam
My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain. -- Laura Riding
If people are always comfortable with you, you're probably not telling them the whole truth. -- Aniekee Tochukwu
Any mom who tells you that she does it effortlessly is not telling the truth. -- Eva LaRue
Trust is built on telling the truth, not telling people what they want to hear. -- Simon Sinek
Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving. -- James E. Faust
We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I'm not very interested in telling the facts. I have a lot of investment in telling the truth. -- Pam Houston
Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth. -- Jonathan Maberry
What is it with you people? You think not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth? -- Robert Redford
If you will refrain from telling any lies about the Republican Party, I'lll promise not to tell the truth about the Democrats. -- Chauncey Depew
There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
I don't think telling the truth ever gets anyone in trouble in the long run. Maybe the day after, but not in the long run. -- Steve Spurrier
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If someone tells you a lie, they're not telling you the truth, but they are telling you something. It just takes longer to figure out what. -- Margot Livesey
People think the blues is sad. They hear people moaning and such. That's not the blues. That's just somebody singing slow...The blues is about truth-telling. -- Alberta Hunter
People on the Continent either tell you the truth or lie; in England they hardly ever lie, but they would not dream of telling you the truth. -- George Mikes
Telling the truth ... is not solely a matter of moral character; it is also a matter of correct appreciation of real situations and of serious reflection upon them. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
...truth-telling may be an ethic, adopted by photojournalists as a behavior, but experience shows us that it is not embedded in the medium like silver salts in film. -- Andy Grundberg

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