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

What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, yet an imbecile earthworm; depository of truth, yet a sewer of uncertainty and error; pride and refuse of the universe. Who shall resolve this tangle?

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

I couldn't hit an elephant's ass with a bull fiddle.

Aziz Ansari

I'm like an elephant, ok? If I walk into a room, it's like, OK, he's in there.

Dinesh D'Souza

Life after death is the elephant in the living room, the one that we are not supposed to notice.

Richard Leakey

The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer areas. And now people have moved into the corridors once used by the elephants.

Spike Milligan

Education isn't everything, for a start it isn't an elephant

Richard Dawkins

I am trying to call attention to the elephant in the room that everybody is too polite - or too devout - to notice: religion, and specifically the devaluing effect that religion has on human life.

Sara Gruen

Life goes on with fragile normalcy.

Wyndham Lewis

Elephants are VERY BIG. Motor cars go quickly.

Jacques Monod

What is true for E. coli is also true for the elephant.

M. Wolfe

Are they going to have Victoria's Secret selling underwear?

Earl Watson

You play so many teams so many times, I don't think there are any secrets about what teams do.

Carson McCullers

And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.

Anthony Trollope

The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.

Elie Wiesel

We still are looking for someone who knows the secret of immortality. Only God is immortal; we are not.

Dustin Pedroia

I just try to see the ball and hit it. If I get a hit, I get a hit. If I get out, I get out. There's no secret about it.

Doug Liman

It's no secret that my process is a little bit loose and can be a little bit infuriating to a studio if they don't know what they're signing up for.

Anne Rice

Do we have to confess our loves to everyone?" asked Thorne softly. "Can we not keep some secrets?

David Foster Wallace

There are secrets within secrets, though--always.