I am a free spirit. I tell the truth, and I like to mix it up.
Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?
A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.
I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth.
In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.
Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries.
In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.
You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.
But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.
I take work very seriously and telling the truth in my job and professionalism.
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.
What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don't serve us well because they don't tell the truth, and they don't keep their promises.
When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.
In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.
I've always had a problem with people who couldn't tell the truth or admit a mistake and say they're wrong.
But, the relationships that I see work - As long as they're telling the truth, and saying the things that you don't ever want to have to say to another human being.
Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.
As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
The whole 'Melrose' series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating power in telling the truth.
My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.
I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.
The President is not squaring with the American people as to the seriousness of our nation's fiscal condition. It is time for people to stand up and tell the truth.
When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
Oral history is a recipe for complete misrepresentation because almost no one tells the truth, even when they intend to.
Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.
Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
I don't value authority. I don't value the systems. I don't value patriarchal religion. I don't value the things that diminish you when you do tell the truth. So I'm not scared of the end result, and that is the biggest asset I have.
I would do nearly anything for a laugh, to tell the truth. And I'm a particular favourite with young men with earrings.
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.
What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
Normally I tell the truth whether it's nice or not.
I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.
Someone needs to tell the truth, but it shouldn't be my job.
I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be.
The only people that ever stand up and tell the truth are who? Intelligence officers. Because our culture is, never break faith with the truth. We'll tell you, you don't have to drag it out of us.
The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think
The only thing I can do is tell the truth as I see it and let the chips fall where they may.
One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
I will tell the truth wherever I please.
I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy.
It feels so good to tell the truth
When you're playing country music, you have to tell the truth.
People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying.
It's a lot easier to tell the truth usually.
If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.
If I've learned one thing, it's 'don't tell the truth.' Lies keep you together.
A writer's job is to tell the truth.
If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
I could never be a career politician, because I believe in telling the truth.
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
It's difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either wholly banal or too intimate.
As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me.
I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called 'The Truth'.
The stupid thing I incorrectly believed for a long time is that I believed for a long time that some politicians could sometimes tell the truth.
I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth.
Everything can be forgiven in this world, save telling the truth.
There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.
[On Richard M. Nixon:] Americans began with a president who couldn't tell a lie and now they have one who can't tell the truth.
I'd always thought telling the truth to other people was hard, but maybe that was a snap compared to telling the truth to yourself. Sometimes we just refused to know what we knew.
It is my experience that most claims of national security are part of a campaign to avoid telling the truth.
It has always been desirable to tell the truth, but seldom if ever necessary.
When men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better.
You needn't think there is nothing you can do-you can tell the truth.
Outing is a nasty word for telling the truth.
I think what makes us human is those choices - whether to tell the truth or not.
When you ask someone how they are doing, do you really mean it? When you answer someone back how you are doing, are you really telling the truth?
Stop telling the truth about my record!
Telling the truth is always revolutionary
To tell the truth is revolutionary.
He who tells the truth says almost nothing.
All I can hope to teach my son is to tell the truth and fear no man.
The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.
The existence of the writer is to write, and to write is to tell the truth.
All we can do is go around telling the truth.
When you sing, always tell the truth.
You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.
Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
I try to take everyone's head off, to tell the truth.
We're in a place where no words can tell the truth about what happened... But they have to. This was hell on earth.
The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism.
Tell the truth, but lead so improbable a life that the truth will never be believed.
fiction is the great lie that tells the truth
How much more money do we have to waste, how many more families have to be destroyed, how many more people have to be killed before you summon the courage to tell the truth to the American people?
My mother had me on four times [on TV show To Tell The Truth.]. Four times. Only once as a contestant, but they had a bunch of kids on at the beginning [of some shows], playing with toys or things like that.
The panelists on To Tell The Truth, which is the one that I really knew, they cared about getting it right. They wanted to guess, you know? Although, when I was on as a contestant, the one time I was on as a contestant, apparently they had a rule, which was that when children were on, everybody would get a vote - and Kitty Carlisle voted for me.
Fear is a place where you just tell the truth
Telling the truth is the slow, mundane, difficult route to a meaningful life. Anything else is cheating.
Its very seldom you get paid for doing what you love and telling the truth at the same time. It seems they dont often coincide.
I want to use my gifts to tell the truth, and to tell it as beautifully as I can.
No one tells the truth to people they don't actually know, and if they do it is a horrible trait. Everyone wants something smaller, something neater than the truth.
Well, you know what they say. A bullet always tells the truth.
I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.
I leave a lot out when I tell the truth
To tell the truth days are all the same size and words aren't much company.
Since then I've always thought that under rape in the dictionary it should tell the truth. It is not just forcible intercourse; rape means to inhabit and destroy everything.