Top 1200 Tell Me The Truth Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I have a theory, too, that the best and only answer to a smear or to an honest misunderstanding of the facts is to tell the truth

You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

The job of the travel writer is to go far and wide, to make voluminous notes, to tell the truth.

Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he - That when they speak truth they are not believed.

I think we have to do everything that's useful. We're doctors. Our job is to tell the truth. And it doesn't have to be embellished in any way.

Four Rules For Life Show up. Pay attention. Tell the truth. Don't be attached to the results.

Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the truth but to satisfy the questioner.

I never set out to write a book to change women's lives, to change history. It's like, 'Who, me?' Yes, me. I did it. And I'm not that different from other women. Maybe my power and glory was that I could speak my truth as a woman and it was the truth of every woman.

I am very excited to work with people who have a strong vision of what they want. They're trying to tell a story, and they want to use me. I'm there to facilitate that. I really like that. I'm like, "Tell me where your frame is. Tell me what you want, what kind of story you want, and I will facilitate it." That's sort of my job, and it makes my work better when I'm working in that kind of a frame, and hopefully it's their work. It's incredibly collaborative, in the sense that you're working toward a common goal.

If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you.

Just tell the truth and you're home free. If there are amends to be made, you make them. You own it and move on.

The truth is I am beholden to no one, nobody's gonna tell me what to do, no - no group that owns a military firm that gives military supplies. Because I know - I've heard the case where often times you wanna buy certain weapons or something and you like one but you get the other one because that one has a contact to our politicians.

I always say, if you think it’s over the top then tell me where the top is first. I don’t think anyone can. But if you can tell me where the top is then I’ll tell you whether or not I’m over it.

Stop," I said. "Please do not further endorken yourself to me. You have great hair and a car that is most fly, and you have just saved me with your mad ninja driving skills, so do not sully your heroic hottie image in my mind by further reciting your nerdy scholastic agenda. Don't tell me what you're studying, Steve, tell me what's in your soul. What haunts you?" And he was like, "Dude, you need to cut back on the caffeine.

The Four Rules of Life: 1. Show Up 2. Pay Attention 3.Tell the Truth 4. Don't be upset at the results.

Readers tell me that my novels are filled with significant mothers. Do I realize this? Do I do it on purpose? The truth is, I don't. I think of myself as a writer of family stories. I write more often than not from a male point of view, and I usually begin by focusing on siblings, spouses, even fathers, before I think about the mothers.

Truth is never our enemy, ever. So we should never freak out about people who claim to have discovered truth. If it's true truth, God owns it and has already accounted for it, and while nothing that is true ever contradicts God's revealed word in the Bible, discovered truth sometimes contradicts the words of Christians. We shouldn't be afraid of this, because God knew it before anybody else and its discovery is dependent on his sovereignty anyway. The truth is that the truth is ours - all truth is our truth because we are of Christ and Christ is of the sovereign God.

I could wear makeup today, and one person would say it looks bland, another would say it looks fake, and another might tell me I look really natural. Everyone is convinced their opinion is the truth, and that's what I struggle against.

A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.

I would do nearly anything for a laugh, to tell the truth. And I'm a particular favourite with young men with earrings.

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.

Citizens have to fight suppression of information on matters of vital public importance. To tell the truth is not a crime.

I believe the U.S. government owes it to the American people to tell them the truth about what is happening in Guantanamo.

I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts.

To tell you the honest-to-God truth: without Scientology, I would be dead. So, I can personally highly recommend it.

Reason and truth have rarely prevailed against demagoguery when the audience is too ignorant to tell the difference.

I've gotten to the point where I realize that I need to tell my truth in music and not walk around blabbing my mind.

Don't speak to me about your religion; first show it to me in how you treat other people. Don't tell me how much you love your God; show me in how much you love all God's children. Don't preach to me your passion for your faith; teach me through your compassion for your neighbors. In the end, I'm not as interested in what you have to tell or sell as I am in how you choose to live and give.

How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?

The problem a guy who lies all the time faces is he never can tell when anybody else is telling the truth.

I don't know" means "NO!" "I don't know" means "I'm too cowardly to tell you the truth because I can't deal with confrontation." "I don't know" means please do the dirty work for me because I don't want to hurt your feelings even more then I already have.

To tell you the truth, I don't like talking too much once I leave this booth. I'm talked out.

I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false.

Most of the coaches just tell you, 'No, no, you're doing well. This is fine.' But I actually want someone who will tell me what I didn't do right so that I can improve.

Tell the truth and read story books;it will take you to the magical moment in a glory night.

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.

If you've witnessed bullying or if you're being bullied, tell somebody you trust. Tell mom and dad. Tell your counselors or your coaches. Tell your teachers. Tell an adult who you trust.

Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young peoples, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation.

The best way to do business with a liar is confront them with the truth. Tell them that you do business as a partner. If your lying customer still can't see the light, tell him that you may not be the best choice for business, and that you think you have someone that can serve him better. Then, refer him to the competitor that you hate the most.

The truth frequently seems unreasonable; the truth frequently is depressing; the truth sometimes seems to be evil, but it has the eternal advantage, it is the truth and what is built thereon neither brings nor yields to confusion.

I don't need a man to tell me he loves me; I don't need this industry to tell me it loves. I love myself.

Whether I'm acting, writing, or directing, I want to tell the truth about human beings, especially my folk.

I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be.

Lots of old slaves closes the door before they tell the truth about their days of slavery.

We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.

What data can tell you is if you have 10 messages, all of which you believe, it can tell you which messages are resonating and which aren't. And if you break it down even further, the truth of the matter is some messages resonate one place and other messages resonate another place.

It seems to me that any ideology is bad because it is inevitably reductive and identifies other ideologies as evil, and itself with truth, whereas both truth and goodness are always transcendent.

When you have the courage to tell the truth about what you're really afraid of, fear doesn't have control over your life.

I thought, 'Anyone can make up a lie, but making the truth funny is really hard.' But I actually had more problems with people believing me when I told the truth on stage.

I thought how you can never tell just by looking at them what they were thinking or what was happening In their lives. Even when you got daft people or drunk people on buses, people that went on stupid and shouted rubbish or tried to tell you all about themselves, you could never really tell about them either... I knew if somebody looked at me, they'd know nothing about me, either.

Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.

The truth is that key influencers exist in all effective organizations, but a solid-line org chart won't tell you where they are.

I don't speak a lot when I get home, during the season. It's great. I just get to sit and listen. My wife gets to tell me whatever she wants to tell me, and I don't talk. I'm too exhausted to talk, so I'm a very good listener.

You need to tell the truth to the audience, or they will throw a brick through the TV. They'll turn you off.

Saying I took my clean water for granted is an overstatement. To tell you the truth, I didn't even think about it.

When I was a boy, the priest, my uncle, carefully inculcated upon me this proverb, which I then learned and have ever since kept in my mind: 'Dico tibi verum, Libertas optima rerum; Nunquam servili, sub nexu vivito, fili.' 'I tell you a truth: Liberty is the best of things, my son; never live under any slavish bond.'

Tell your boss what you really think about him and the truth shall set you free.

We are the party of Roosevelt. We are the party of Kennedy. So don't tell me that Democrats won't defend this country. Don't tell me that Democrats won't keep us safe.