Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sydney J. Harris

Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.

Thomas Jefferson

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Judi Dench

It takes courage to recognize the real as opposed to the convenient.

Josh Brolin

Nothing misleads people like the truth.

Joseph Joubert

You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth.

Joseph Joubert

Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.

Patrick Henry

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.

Pat Cooper

I say, when you tell the truth, you never offend nobody, particularly if you do it with dignity.

Julia Roberts

Some people are antagonized by the truth.

Azar Nafisi

A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.

Bertrand Russell

Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.

Charles Kettering

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Demi Lovato

When I look back, it saddens me to think that I was so hard on myself - when I was younger, I thought I had to look like everyone else, but I learned that beauty comes from how you feel about yourself. Once I started taking care of my mind, body, and soul, I realized that I didn't need to conform to what's "normal" and started to love myself.

Demetri Martin

I think it's interesting that cologne rhymes with alone.

Dale Evans

I lay in the bed at the hospital and said, 'let's see what I have left.' And I could see, I could speak, I could think, I could read. I simply tabulated my blessings, and that gave me a start.

Dustin Clare

The White Ribbon Foundation is organization I support. They're bringing awareness of violence against women and I think it's important in our society.

Donald Trump

Business is full of complexities. That's what makes it so interesting. Anyone who thinks it's boring hasn't given it much thought.

Donald Trump

I just don't think Hillary Clinton has the presidential look.

Morris Gleitzman

A little hope goes a long way.

Woody Allen

I don't mind dying... as long as I don't have to be there when it happens.

Og Mandino

And so long as I can laugh, never will I be poor. This then, is one of nature's greatest gifts and I will waste it no more.

Northrop Frye

Horace, in a particularly boastful mood, once said his verse would last as long as the vestal virgins kept going up the Capitoline Hill to worship at the temple of Jupiter. But Horace's poetry has lasted longer than Jupiter's religion, and Jupiter himself has only survived because he disappeared into literature.

Norman Mailer

When a novel comes, it's a grace. Something in the cosmos has forgiven you long enough so that you can start.

Pierre Omidyar

Long-term sustainable change happens if people discover their own power.

Joel Osteen

As long as you have breath, someone needs your talents.

Madeleine L'Engle

Life is not easy and comfortable, with nothing ever going wrong as long as you buy the right product. It's not true that if you have the right insurance everything is going to be fine. That's not what it's really like. Terrible things happen. And those are the things we learn from.

Lynne Truss

As someone who sends texts messages more or less non-stop, I enjoy one particular aspect of texting more than anything else: that it is possible to sit in a crowded railway carriage laboriously spelling out quite long words in full, and using an enormous amount of punctuation, without anyone being aware of how outrageously subversive I am being.