Painfully Truthful Quotes

#1. I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.

Rick Springfield

#2. Virtue is not about what you deny yourself, but what you make of yourself.

Eric Greitens

#3. Truth's nakedness is not concerned with whom it strikes - painfully, or with pleasure; responding appropriately to its ingenuous temperament, however, rewards perceptions of unbiased transparency.

T.F. Hodge

#4. Not all novelists are power-hungry madman. Some are power-hungry madwomen.

Pseudonymous Bosch

#5. I woke up at five o'clock in the morning with the whole first paragraph in my head. Now, this just shows what a slothful person I am: I tried to go back to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

#6. Trying to ground everything in reality was the most important thing to me.

Rupert Sanders

#7. It is strange to talk of miracles, revelations, inspiration, and the like, as things past, while love remains.

Henry David Thoreau

#8. People who can put themselves in the place of other people, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for them.

Dale Carnegie

#9. Not feeling bad for others means having no regrets.

Magica Quartet

#10. I refuse to go out with a man whose ass is smaller than mine.

Elizabeth Perkins

#11. There is no substitute for the riches gained on a lifetime basis by the young American who studies or works abroad.

Letitia Baldrige

#12. Your top job as a new parent is to love your baby like crazy. After showering her with affection, your next two important jobs are to feed her and to calm her when she cries.

Harvey Karp

#13. As he left Chinatown behind, Alan thought of the woman he'd seen on the wharf the other day, the golden splendor of her gown, her glossy hair and the turbulent emotion in her eyes. He wondered what she was doing right now and if she'd found happiness in her new home.

Bonnie Dee

#14. It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.

Sandra Day O'Connor

#15. He pulled her back, off balance so that she fell against him, and he took her face in his two hands and held it very still while his eyes looked down into hers. Somber, truthful, painfully honest. "I love you, Chloe," he said. "Which is the most dangerous thing I could do.

Anne Stuart

#16. A survey carried out across the U.S. between 2004 and 2006 showed that frequent church- or synagogue-goers are more likely to give money to charity.

Jonathan Sacks

#17. Well, yes, I call it the Expando-Duck. It's perfect if you need a small metal duck. Or a larger metal duck.

Rick Riordan