Quotes About Telling Half The Truth

#1. Anyone who recommends attention to the moment as a prescription for grateful wonder is only telling half the truth. To be happy one must pay attention, but to be unhappy one must also have paid attention.

Philip Lopate

#2. I'm telling you the truth, Carol. Even though it's actually none of your business.'
She half turned, found a smile from somewhere and said, 'You're quite right. It is none of my business. Till tomorrow Tony.

Val McDermid

#3. There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.

Alexander McCall Smith

#4. Americans ... have wrought a country that has after more than two centuries yet to evidence a single year during which it was not making war upon someone, somewhere, for some reason.

Ward Churchill

#5. True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#6. It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But a half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.

Neil Gaiman

#7. Much testing, much reflecting, much living must intervene before we can say, 'My soul is my own.

Madonna Kolbenschlag

#8. A place isn't a place until it has a bookstore.

Gabrielle Zevin

#9. If you agree to work for us, half the time you won't know the purpose of your duties ... and when we do explain, we might not be telling the truth. But that's the real world, folks ...

James Alan Gardner

#10. We tend to think of human trafficking as a foreign issue, not something that could happen here in our own back yards. But it's a fast-growing problem in the United States, in every area, with no real defined demographic.

Lori Foster

#11. Half the truth is often a whole lie.

Frank Sonnenberg

#12. When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.

Elmer Davis

#13. When the waterholes were dry, people sought to drink at the mirage.

Evelyn Waugh

#14. Nobody says anything to me now when it comes to Japanese. They actually ask me things. I now have power!

Seungri

#15. If you're not the establishment candidate, they're going to attack you some ways.

Rick Scott

#16. Just as the normative standard for the good and for the true is God, so the ultimate standard of beauty is God.

R.C. Sproul

#17. Sometimes I am a cicada, hissing and singing in the leaves of a tree by the sunlit water, thoughtless and wordless, a voice that is all consonants and tribal clicks. Sometimes I rub my legs together like a string bass, and the lake quivers

Catherynne M Valente

#18. A lie is a lie
even if everyone believes it.

Anonymous