Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Kingsolver

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

Baruch Spinoza

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

Ayn Rand

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

Bertrand Russell

In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself ... may have had anything but a public motive... The phrases which are customary on the platform and in the Party Press have gradually come to him to seem to express truths, and he mistakes the rhetoric of partisanship for a genuine analysis of motives... He retires from the world after the world has retired from him.

Kate Winslet

It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.

Clarice Lispector

The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much.

Bob Dylan

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

Boris Pasternak

In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.

Blaise Pascal

Unless we love the truth we cannot know it.

Stacy Kim

Probably the toughest part is knowing that I have to play well. That's the one skill that I am still working on.

Arthur Mitchell

Walk into a room, knowing you are somebody, somebody special. Don't ever let them smash that or pull you down.

Brian Johnson

My willingness to explore and work freely is not without risk, and at times, I find myself caught in a bind... Knowing I can fix whatever goes wrong allows me to paint, not without thought, but without hesitation.

Blaise Pascal

We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.

Aristotle

Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely.

Elizabeth Bowen

Plot is the knowing of destination.

Linda Hogan

Especially being selected as a national merit scholar, I'm just fantastically proud of her, ... But it's just real tough knowing that that her mom couldn't be there. That's real hard.

Amanda Lindhout

For a while, the world for me was like a set of monkey bars. I swung from one place to the next, sometimes backward, sometimes forward, capitalizing on my own momentum, knowing that at some point my arms... would give out, and I'd fall to the ground.

Lynn Redgrave

We've had this strange intertwining relationship without really knowing each other.

Allen Wallace

A player makes a name for himself and then causes younger players to look and see what can be accomplished. The younger players start focusing on being like one of the older guys.

Brigham Young

Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow.

Anselm of Canterbury

But a problem occurs about nothing. For that from which something is made is a cause of the thing made from it; and, necessarily,every cause contributes some assistance to the effect's existence.

Peggy Noonan

Let's cause some senators distress.

Bill Selvey

Bubba causes a lot of heartache to right-handed pitchers in this park.

Tom Ellis

I feel like I'm giving back to society a little bit. There's a lot of causes out there, and 99% of them are for people. There is very little out there for the animals.

Florenz Ziegfeld

They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.

Francis Bacon

To know truly is to know by causes.

Jean Cocteau

Do not take up cause against the inaccuracies printed about you. They are your protection.