I'd Rather You Tell Me The Truth Quotes

#1. this, they've never felt that, they no longer feel anything, they don't count anymore. I think it's small-minded. I wish there were more people over sixty here, to tell you the truth.

Kathleen Rooney

#2. It's only the dead who'll tell you the truth.

Thomas Adcock

#3. Now, I know you expected me to say that, well, I just kick back in the rocking chair, fished a little bit, listened to Willie Nelson tapes and watched old baseball games on the Classic Sports network. And, tell you the truth, I have done that for maybe about five total minutes.

Dan Rather

#4. We can tell you many things, but none are certain and many are lies.

Ginn Hale

#5. On the one hand, we may tell the truth, regardless of consequences, and on the other hand we may mellow it and sophisticate it to make it humane and tolerable.

H.L. Mencken

#6. When you fail to tell the truth, you are kept bound to the past in ways that devastate your soul.

Debbie Ford

#7. A lot of fancier yarns come from people trying to tell the truth. It's not easy once you're out of the habit.

Dashiell Hammett

#8. The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth.

Criss Jami

#9. Spiritual empowerment is evidenced in our lives by our willingness to tell ourselves the truth, to listen to the truth when it's told to us, and to dispense truth as lovingly as possible, when we feel compelled to talk from the heart.

Christina Baldwin

#10. Maybe the goal in America is to have an easy life, and so we find it too disgraceful to tell the truth. I meet a lot of people in my line of work, and I can say with utmost certainty
life is pretty hard for almost all of them.

Matthew Quick

#11. To tell the truth, it is regarding the physical side of marriage that I have always been apprehensive...There so seldom seems to be enough of it," said Miss Teatime.

Colin Watson

#12. Come little cottage girl, you seem to want my cup of tea; and will you take a little cream? Now tell the truth to me!

Barry Pain

#13. Don't let anyone tell you that standardized tests are not accurate measures. The truth of the matter is they offer a remarkably precise method for gauging the size of the houses near the school where the test was administered.

Alfie Kohn

#14. The dictators of the world say that if you tell a lie often enough, why, people will believe it. Well, if you tell the truth often enough, they'll believe it and go along with you.

Harry Truman

#15. I've always been an optimistic guy, to tell you the truth.

Antonio Banderas

#16. To tell you the truth, there are all these websites predicting my early death, and it's starting to work on me!

Artie Lange

#17. I'll tell you something that's completely true - you can, as a man, obtain everything you want with the truth. If you lie, first of all you've got to be a very good lying actor, which is tres difficile. And it's going to give you poison inside the body.

Jean Reno

#18. You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.

Caitlin Moran

#19. The best writings, like the best men, tell the truth.

Sophie Perinot

#20. If you have discovered a truth, tell it first to a parrot! Every new truth needs an insistent repetition!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#21. When you can't tell the truth, tell *a* truth.

Greg Cox

#22. He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it with a brief gesture, a gesture which starts an ideal trajectory in the air along which we glide until we find ourselves at the feet of the new truth.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#23. I met Bush but we didn't talk at all. To tell you the truth, I was too pissed.

Ozzy Osbourne

#24. The conqueror writes history, they came, they conquered and they write. You don't expect the people who came to invade us to tell the truth about us ...

Miriam Makeba

#25. Society tells me to follow my own truth, but I don't let society tell me what to do. If you need someone to tell you that, chances are you're part of the crowd that will move on to the next fashion that comes around.

Criss Jami

#26. I had to get away from him. Sometimes we reject the people who tell the truth and it is not because they are wrong. It is because we can't

Rachel Joyce

#27. Don't lie!' 'Tell the truth!' are words which we must never say to another person in so far as we consider him our equal.

Milan Kundera

#28. Guns tell the truth. Guns never say, "I'm only kidding." War is ugly because the truth can be ugly and war is very sincere.

Gustav Hasford

#29. Don't be sorry for the truth. A harsh truth is less damaging than a tender lie, and the worst lies are the ones we tell ourselves.

Dianna Hardy

#30. Finally, we can accept this stunning, irrevocable truth: Our Lord can lift us from deep despair and cradle us midst any care. We cannot tell him anything about aloneness or nearness! ... He who cannot lie, will atteast to our adequacy with the warm words, Well Done.

Neal A. Maxwell

#31. Tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember a story.

John Wooden

#32. To tell the truth, I never think about a homer. I'm just thinking of the situation and what I've got to do when I go to the plate.

Sammy Sosa