Bitter Truths Quotes

#1. Give me sweet lies, and keep your bitter truths.

George R R Martin

#2. God has given us speech in order that we may say pleasant things to our friends, and tell bitter truths to our enemies.

Heinrich Heine

#3. Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field.

James A. Baldwin

#4. When it comes to seeking a change of heart, our starting place must include our present situation, with the people we live with right here and now. It is with these very people that we must learn to forgo all taking of offense.

C. Terry Warner

#5. The mind itself is an art object ... The mind is a blue guitar on which we improvise the song of the world.

Annie Dillard

#6. Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty.

James Russell Lowell

#7. Ethanol doesn't burn cleaner than gasoline, nor is it cheaper.

Jeff Goodell

#8. Writing is about allowing yourself to become a vessel of creativity. Writers are avatars of creation. We have tender hearts, and strong emotions. It's hard not to when you have a million different people's personalities playing out in your head.

Sai Marie Johnson

#9. There was a certain graceful ease and freedom about all he said and did, that gave a sense of repose and expansion to the mind, after so much constraint and formality as I had been doomed to suffer.

Anne Bronte

#10. I want to be able to do anything. I know it's probably not reasonable to expect, but that's what I'd like to do.

Rufus Sewell

#11. When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write.

Ernest Hemingway,

#12. I think that it is a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit and reflect and anticipate their great shame and the shame in their grandchildren's eyes if they continue that way of support. We've got to have equal rights for everyone

Sean Penn

#13. Anyone with a smart phone is a potential eyewitness cameraman capturing and transmitting stories at speeds that turn Reuter photos and traditional reporting into, well ... yesterday's news.

Harvey Fierstein