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Something like Nightmare On Elm Street, to me, was kind of an examination of levels of consciousness and the pain of facing the truth, and how easy it is to fall asleep, or want to fall asleep. -- Wes Craven
The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free. -- Oprah Winfrey
Falling hard for somebody makes you do things you never thought you'd do before. Like pulling off an A in History or finally facing the truth about yourself -- Steve Kluger
Deliver us from evil - from moral duplicity and weakness, from laziness and spiritual complacency, from those lies we tell ourselves from our fear of facing the truth. -- Rich Mullins
Have the courage to face the truth -- W. Clement Stone
Face the truth or the truth will face you! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
You never find yourself until you face the truth. -- Pearl Bailey
Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil. -- Menander
Stand up and be strong! No fear. No superstition. Face the truth as it is! -- Swami Vivekananda
The day is coming when even the most closed-minded ridiculers will have to face the truth. -- David Icke
Face the truth squarely. In politics that is always the best and the only correct attitude. -- Vladimir Lenin
It's always better to face the truth, no matter how uncomfortable, than to continue coddling a lie. -- Lou Holtz
I would rather be the offspring of two apes than be a man and afraid to face the truth. -- Thomas Huxley
Stop looking for a scapegoat in your life but be willing to face the truth within yourself & right your own wrongs -- Eileen Caddy
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth. -- Katherine Mansfield
We've pretended too much in our family, Luke, and hidden far too much. I think we're all going to pay a high price for our inability to face the truth. -- Pat Conroy
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity. -- W. Clement Stone
Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit. -- Alveda King
That's what you realized when you got older. When you were little, you thought you were just too young to understand the answers and that when you got older things would come into focus. Then you had to finally face the truth: There were no answers. -- Anne Frasier
I think it's almost immoral to keep on with a marriage that's really bad. It just gets more and more rotten and vindictive and everybody gets more and more hurt. There's not enough honesty about marriage, I think. I wish more people would face the truth about their marital situations. -- Johnny Carson
It is time to stop waiting for someone to save us. It is time to face the truth of our situation - that we're all in this together, that we all have a voice - and figure out how to mobilize the hearts and minds of everyone in our workplaces and communities. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
Human beings can be redeemed. Empires cannot. Our refusal to face the truth about empire, our refusal to defy the multitudinous crimes and atrocities of empire, has brought about the nightmare Malcolm predicted. And as the Digital Age and our post-literate society implant a terrifying historical amnesia, these crimes are erased as swiftly as they are committed. -- Chris Hedges
Normally we do not like to think about death. We would rather think about life. Why reflect on death? When you start preparing for death you soon realize that you must look into your life now... and come to face the truth of your self. Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected. -- Sogyal Rinpoche
It is now necessary to face the truth and to acknowledge against all prejudices that the struggle that the Albanian tribe is leading today is a natural and unavoidable historic struggle for a different political life than that experienced under Turkish rule - different also from that which its neighbours Serbia, Greece and Montenegro would like to force upon the Albanians. -- Dimitrije Tucovic
The most valuable thing I can share is the importance of living in truth. Sometimes, facing those truths can actually be your worst fear. -- Liberty Ross
Going into hospitals and being able to meet kids that are in similar situations to those that the characters are facing in the 'Red Band Society' allows us to see the truth of these real humans' lives. -- Nolan Sotillo
We know enough to stand here in truth - facing pain, cry and suffering of those who were murdered here. Face to face with the victims' families who are here today. Before the judgment of our own conscience. -- Aleksander Kwasniewski
The more you face the truth, the angrier you will probably become. You have a right to be angry about being sexually abused. You have a right to be angry with the perpetrator, regardless of who it was, how long ago the sexual abuse occurred, or how much he/she has changed. -- Beverly Engel
The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda"¦ -- Michael Crichton
The key challenge facing us today is to successfully transmit into daily and everyday lifestyle the principle of truth and honesty. -- Sunday Adelaja
I am no faint-heart when it comes to the unpleasant truth. Indeed I have always taken a bracing sort of pleasure in facing it. -- Jude Morgan
Some people have a difficult time facing truth and reality. They prefer to live in a make-believe world, pretending that certain things aren't happening. -- Joyce Meyer

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