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To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth. -- Nawal El Saadawi
When I think it's good not to say the truth, I don't say anything. I don't like actors in general, they lie, they are liars, trust me. -- Melanie Laurent
And when you say the truth you get stronger. -- Ned Vizzini
And yet,to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays. -- William Shakespeare
Is it treason to say the truth? A bitter truth, but no less true for that. -- George R. R. Martin
To say the truth, so Judas kissed his master And cried, 'All hail!' when as he meant all harm. -- William Shakespeare
Until we say the truth, there can be no tenderness.As long as there is desire, we will not be safe -- Tony Hoagland
People say the truth hurts. Hell no, it hurts even more if you do a whole bunch of foolishness to try and avoid it. -- Tyler Perry
Men may not believe you, my son. But you must always say the truth, when the truth holds no danger for you or your loved ones. -- Janet Morris
Yea I may come across as blunt, but I will say the truth even if its bitter, that's just me. You either hate me for it or respect me for it. -- Tilicia Haridat
Conscious awareness is the source of our healing...Only when you say the truth can the truth set you free. This is not a negative process, but at times it is a difficult process. -- Marianne Williamson
Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth. -- Joan of Arc
Everything I say comes from my heart - and it's the truth. -- Cindy Sheehan
The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show. -- Vivien Leigh
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. -- Jean Cocteau
I'd say that all nations have contact with the truth, and all religions have admirable people. -- Jon Voight
Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.' -- Khalil Gibran
Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others. -- Charles Caleb Colton
People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies. -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling. -- Robert M. Pirsig
People say children are charming because they tell the truth. That's a lie. I've got five of them. They only tell the truth if they're in pain. -- Bill Cosby
It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away. Puzzling. -- Robert M. Pirsig
The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.' -- Thornton Wilder
If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth. -- Gerald Vann
My personal life is in the spotlight, but people say what they want to say. The truth isn't in the spotlight, I should say. I'm in the spotlight, but not the truth. -- Hope Solo
Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is telling the truth, you look in the eyes. I have a tendency to believe people. -- Jean-Claude Van Damme
In whatever adulation you get, there's truth and there's not truth. And wherever they dog you, and they say it was horrible - there's truth and there's not truth. It's human nature to like to read the adulation more. -- Matthew McConaughey
Say the truth and shame the devil. -- Hugh Latimer
I say that justice is truth in action. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Say the truth even if it may be bitter. -- Muhammad
Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
As the poets say, stories are truth told through lies. -- Jessica Khoury
Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth. -- Voltaire
Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. -- Carl Sagan
I'd just say that truth is power and vice versa. -- George Saunders
Who dares To say that he alone has found the truth? -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Total truth is necessary. You must live by what you say. -- Neem Karoli Baba
When they say laughter is healing, it absolutely is the truth. -- Katey Sagal
I always say this: 'In life, truth is on your side.' -- Daniel Snyder
If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us? -- Lois McMaster Bujold
Well, you know what they say. A bullet always tells the truth. -- Christopher Walken
Whatever a woman's reason may say, her feelings tell her the truth. -- Stefan Zweig
We have the truth and we need not be afraid to say so. -- J. C. Ryle
By the way, nothing I ever say, ever, has any truth behind it. -- Daniel Tosh
Most of what I say is complete truth. My edit button is broken. -- Myra McEntire
Deride not what I say because of its simplicity. Truth is always simple. -- George S. Clason
The truth isn't what we say, it's how we feel when we say it. -- Merrit Malloy
Some people say the camera loves me, the truth is, I love the camera. -- Nan Kempner
Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed. -- Livy
Some might say we lose ourselves in a good book. In truth, we find ourselves. -- Cassandra King
To this generation I would say: Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty. -- Edgar Lee Masters
Listen to what people say when they are mad, that's when the truth comes out. -- Ziad K. Abdelnour
I don't care WHAT the say about me, as long as it's not the truth -- Katharine Hepburn
Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe. -- Henry David Thoreau
Parents must have the courage to say no, to defend truth, and to bear powerful testimony. -- Quentin L. Cook
Like the newspapers used to say, if the truth isn't big enough, you print the legend. -- Neil Gaiman
I would not presume to say that I know anything about "The Truth," whatever that is. -- Rob Nilsson
Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction. -- Mark Twain
Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring up trouble, but it's the truth! -- Malcolm X
What you say should not just be truth now, but should be a proven truth tomorrow. -- Harbhajan Singh Yogi
People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long. -- Sarah Addison Allen
That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth. -- Marilynne Robinson
No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy. -- George Orwell
People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true. -- Robert Ringer
I sometimes have these spells of compulsive truth. But as Lady Macbeth would say, "The fit is momentary." -- Ken Kesey
It would be inaccurate to say the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, are narcissists. -- Matt Taibbi
I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me. -- Walter Scott
I say, when you tell the truth, you never offend nobody, particularly if you do it with dignity. -- Pat Cooper
They say the only people who tell the truth are drunkards and children. Guess which one I am. -- Stephen Colbert
People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true. -- Robert Ringer
The past lies beneath the surface, intransigent truth. Remembered or not, what we say and do remains, always. -- Meredith Hall
In truth, I'm still slightly embarrassed to say, I am a poet. I'd rather say, I make poems. -- Henri Cole
It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood. -- Albert Einstein
Only God knows hearts, and so only He can say, in truth, "I know how you feel." -- Henry B. Eyring
Courage is the willingness to speak the truth about what you see and to own what you say. -- Seth
Yeah, well all I can say is that a half truth is a still a while lie, ain't it... -- Terry McMillan
In fact, it is more correct to say that Truth is God, than to say that God is Truth. -- Mahatma Gandhi
To say that death opposes life is just the same as you would say you live the absolute truth. -- Sorin Cerin
It's true when they say songwriting is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. In truth, what happens is... songs comes through you. -- Greg Lake
I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth. -- Eric Carr
The truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all. -- Djuna Barnes
You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don't, for any reason, ever tell the truth. -- Katharine Hepburn
Knowing the truth is so minuscule compared to having the nerve to say itand even more to live it. -- Criss Jami
I will say that if there is anything like God Or Truth on earth, Hindu-Muslim unity is also possible. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Truth is not merely what we are thinking, but also why, to whom and under what circumstances we say it. -- Vaclav Havel
It's only a story, isn't it?"... "Who's to say what's only a story and what's truth disguised as a story? -- David Eddings
People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies. -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
I've always had a problem with people who couldn't tell the truth or admit a mistake and say they're wrong. -- Burt Bacharach
Be aware of things you say because words have power. When you speak truth. It's Beautiful. And, that beauty illuminates! -- Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Knowing the truth is so minuscule compared to having the nerve to say it...and even more to live it. -- Criss Jami
If you say it very softly, with a smile, you can get away with saying almost anything, even the truth. -- Neel Burton
If you want the truth rather than merely something to say, you will have a good deal less to say. -- Thomas Nagel
We live in a world that someone can say anything about anyone and it can be seen as the truth. -- Luke Hemmings
You don't have to tell everything you know, but let what you do say be the truth as you understand it. -- Maya Angelou
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We say that the truth will make us free. Yes, but that truth is a thousand truths which grow and change. -- Walter Lippmann
As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture. -- Edmond de Goncourt
It is an understatement to say that in this society injustices abound: In truth it is itself the quintessence of injustice. -- Emile M. Cioran
Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect. -- Stephen Covey
One must be truly able to say I in order to know the mystery of the Thou in its whole truth. -- Martin Buber
The truth is, sometimes too much can happen in a relationship, and then there's nothing anyone can do or say. It's broken. -- Gabrielle Zevin
Nobody ever completely means what they say. Even when they think they're telling the truth, there's always something hidden behind their words. -- Orson Scott Card
Times are you say a person's b'liefs ain't true, they think you're sayin' their lifes ain't true an' their truth ain't true. -- David Mitchell
When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth. -- Terry Pratchett
Smartass Disciple: Master, what do say about the truth itself ?Master of Stupidity: Like sex, no fun anymore if all is revealed. -- Toba Beta
It is the simple truth to say that the New Testament books became canonical because no one could stop them doing so. -- William Barclay
What they say doesn't matter because it can be lies, but it's what they do that matters because it always speaks truth. -- Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
The truth is a rabbit in a bramble patch. All you can do is circle around and say it's somewhere in there. -- Pete Seeger
Many say that life entered the human body by the help of music, but the truth is that life itself is music. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass. -- Richard Steele
The truth is that the devil is very cunning. The truth is that he is not always as ugly as they say. -- Jacques Cazotte
The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did. -- Alain de Botton
In truth, the degree of anyone's success depends on how often they can say the word yes and hear the word no. -- Chuck Palahniuk
The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling. -- Robert M. Pirsig
The truth about Chanel's bespoke femininity is that a woman can do or say whatever she wants as long as she's wearing pearls. -- Karen Karbo
In what you say of another, apply the test of kindness, necessity and truth, and let nothing pass your lips without a 2/3 majority. -- Liz Armbruster
Watch what people do before they say something. Then watch what they do before they say something else. That's where the Truth Lies. -- Darnell Houston
It's very disconcerting to start out and to say, "I'm going to tell the truth," and then to realize it's that much trouble. -- Elaine Stritch

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