Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ted Cruz

I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do.

A. Hodge

No one truth is rightly held till it is clearly conceived and stated, and no single truth is adequately comprehended till it is viewed in harmonious relations to all the other truths of the system of which Christ is the centre

Richard P. Feynman

You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. When you get it right, it is obvious that it is right -- at least if you have any experience -- because usually what happens is that more comes out than goes in.

Russell Lynes

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

William S. Burroughs

Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

Richard Russo

I can be glib and truthful all at once.

Robert De Niro

There is only one way to gain access to the truth and that is to not expect anything.

Vera Farmiga

Honesty is not synonymous with truth.

Robert Ringer

People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.

William Hazlitt

He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves

Robin Williams

For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see.

Samuel Johnson

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy.

Winston Churchill

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Robert Green Ingersoll

There are some truths, however, that we should never forget: Superstition has always been the relentless enemy of science; faith has been a hater of demonstration; hypocrisy has been sincere only in its dread of truth, and all religions are inconsistent with mental freedom.

Oswald Chambers

The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality.

Josh Billings

I don't never have any trouble in regulating my own conduct, but to keep other folks' straight is what bothers me.

Oscar Wilde

There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.

Jonah Goldberg

Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.

William Friedkin

In the case of a film like The Exorcist or To Live and Die in L.A., I saw the whole movie in my head before I went to shoot it. I never did storyboards, or anything like that. I had the film in my head.

Will Ferrell

I grew up in an entertainment family, and so I saw how susceptible you are to the ups and downs of this business.

Roberto Bolano

…I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn't really happy.

Robertson Davies

"There is no disputing about tastes," says the old saw. In my experience there is little else.

Walt Whitman

Have you not learned the most in your life from those with whom you disagreed - those who saw it differently from you?

Wilson Mizner

I never saw a mob rush across town to do a good deed.

Walter Lippmann

It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?

Walter Johnson

Nobody saw it, he (Rogers Hornsby) hit it and it disappeared.

Jules Shear

I saw Krishnamurti speak one time. And I thought, I'm not going to live here.