Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Straw

I think that his history of mendacity is so intense and so long-lasting that he wouldn't understand the truth if he fell over it.

Rachel Platten

I think you find universal truth when you get really honest with yourself and you can reach people. If you go deep enough, you have that core feeling, and that feeling can transcend the details of your experience.

I think the family has the right to know the truth about this case.

I think the FBI has shown, going back to January of 1997, its ability to use its power and prestige to curb statements and truths other agencies were willing to give out,

I think that there is a lot of metaphorical truth in the books, and I think that particularly when she talks about things like the protection of love, ... I think the reading experience is more rich and complex than just a bunch of fun, funky magical effects.

Ladies and gentlemen, how can I get any sleep with so many conspiracies and plots? ... The truth is there are many things in this world that have nothing to do with the United States.

Daunte Culpepper

I was confident when the legal process began that the truth would come out.

I think we're a little overconfident, to tell you the truth. They think they're pretty good -- which they are -- but they have to understand that they're a young team and they have a lot of room to grow. We have to keep growing if we want to get where we want to be -- in that national championship.

I think we're probably two to three years away from coming up with a technique where we might be able to put an individual in an MRI scanner and say whether an individual is telling the truth or telling a lie. But I think we have the technology. I cannot say with a 100 percent certainty, but I'm cautiously optimistic.

John Hawkes

I think we've all been misled, at moments in our lives, certainly in school situations, and things like that, with getting with the wrong group briefly, or falling in with someone who we learn the truth about and no longer want to really be with.

Peter Thiel

I think what's always important is not to be contrarian for its own sake but to really get at the truth.

Our college motto is 'lux et veritas' which is Latin for 'light and truth,' ... We mustn't contain our light and truth on the campus, but express it in the lives of people around us.

Ring in the love of truth and right,Ring in the common love of good.

Mark Burnett

Rock 'n' roll is a business, ... Rock 'n' roll is a way of life. It's nice to think of it as a guitar-smashing party all the time, but the truth of the matter is, it's a serious family and business for INXS, in that order.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Repetition does not transform a lie into the truth.

Karl Rove

Reporters now see their role less as discovering facts and fair-mindedly reporting the truth and more as being put on the earth to afflict the comfortable, to be a constant thorn of those in power, whether they are Republican or Democrat.

Reporter, n.: A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.

Rest assured myself -- as well as my family and these other families -- will not allow you to leave a stone unturned or let the truth go unheard. I too lost my everything.

Responsibility is not the Truth with a capital T. Its a point of view which I can choose to take regarding all of the events in my life. If I choose to approach life from the responsible point of view, it means giving up my excuses, my avoidances, all the manipulative games I play when I feel like a victim. In return, what I gain is freedom, clarity, and the empowering experience of being in control and in charge of my life.

Reluctant witnesses will not keep us from getting at the truth.

Religions, by definition, disagree as to the truth - a reality that cannot be overcome by demanding that one or the other faith repudiate its claim to truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

Remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS.

Jean-Luc Godard

Photography is truth. And cinema is truth twenty-four times a second.

People who take responsibility for all they create are able to quickly sort truth from fiction in their lives, and in the communication they're receiving from those around them, by using the simple litmus test of based on results. Wishing and hoping, reasons and excuses will never tell you the truth. If you say you intend to have a happy marriage, have you got one? If you say you want to earn a degree from a good university, have you done it? If you say you want ten million dollars, do you have it? If you don't have what you say you want, then how come? You've either got the results you say you want, or you have reasons to explain why not. Developing a rigorous and honest relationship with results moves you powerfully toward creating your extraordinary life.

Regarding some of the issues raised by Mr. Salinger in recent days, they are again a combination of falsehoods and claims that are only partially based on the truth and, when taken out of context, are completely misleading.

Reflection is only a partial understanding of truth if it does not translate itself in practice into commitments to the common good and justice. Truth is not mere abstraction but something to be done and is only apprehended when this is realized.

Real strength is telling the truth when troops are being killed, and one year later a lot of Americans realize John Kerry had it both right and consistent about Iraq and this president's still got it dead wrong.

John Ortberg

Real spiritual authority has to do with the truth of the actual words being spoken, and the spirit of the person behind the words. Really, authority is about truth: honest-living truth.

Our position has always been to use all available legal means to gather full and truthful testimony for the grand jury as expeditiously as possible.

Or do they say: He has forged a lie against Allah? But if Allah pleased, He would seal your heart; and Allah will blot out the falsehood and confirm the truth with His words; surely He is Cognizant of what is in the breasts.

Pathological liars can't always tell truth from falsehood and contradict themselves in an interview. They are manipulative and they admit they prey on people. They are very brazen in terms of their manner, but very cool when talking about this.

Paul Willett's our coach. There's no truth to the rumors (of him being replaced) at all. It just might be wishful thinking on some people's part.

Peace and happiness shall fill your mind deep within, if you act according to truth and self discipline.