Top 61 Quotes About Telling Me The Truth

#1. What I've found - and the older I get, the more I understand this and stand behind it - is, my whole life has been an exploration of telling the truth. It's scary to be truthful, and it's scary to reveal yourself, and I'm very attracted to doing things that scare me.

Jane Wiedlin

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#2. 'Whale Talk' is a tough book, but it is also a compassionate book about telling the truth and about redemption. I didn't draw the tough parts out of thin air; they are stories handed to me by people in pain.

Chris Crutcher

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#3. People want biography. People want memoir. They want you to tell them that the story you're telling them is true. The thing I'm telling you is true, but it did not always happen to me.

Dorothy Allison

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#4. When life tries to define you with its hardship, you gotta push back, look it straight in the eye and say, 'No matter what life throws at me, I'm going to keep telling myself that I will overcome.' And every time you own that truth, you write your own life script.

Nikki Rosen

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#5. When people lie to me they're telling me I'm not worth the truth.

Lauren Dane

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#6. I felt like all of the American people did not believe me because of the things that were said about me, and said that people would say that it was just for the money, and it wasn't about the money. It was about what he did to me. And I knew I was telling the truth.

Paula Jones

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#7. (Adlai Stevenson once said to Richard Nixon: If you stop telling lies about me I'll stop telling the truth about you.

Christopher Hitchens

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#8. Don't thank me for telling the truth when it would have been mercy to lie to you.

Marissa Meyer

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#9. If I didn't work on the assumption that people were mostly telling me the truth, I think I'd go mad ... And I'd rather be mistaken about others than mistrustful of them.

Una McCormack

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#10. Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who could really understand me, who'd be kind to me. That's what people really want, if they're telling the truth.

Doris Lessing

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#11. When you're on stage, unless you surrender to the moment, you're not telling the truth. I look for people that tell me the truth.

David Sanborn

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#12. Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, Stephen Colbert. Those are the guys I look at who are telling me pretty much the truth. And they throw humor into it which makes it much more interesting to listen to.

Grace Slick

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#13. To tell the truth, I'd scare me too.

Jethro Tull

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#14. People come telling the truth. When I ask how thing are in the States, they don't give me the okeydoke. They say, "Honey, things are hard." It reminds me I have to keep struggling.

Assata Shakur

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#15. Dr. Breed keeps telling me the main thing with Dr. Hoenikker was truth."
"You don't seem to agree."
"I don't know whether I agree or not. I just have trouble understanding
how truth, all by itself, could be enough for a person.

Kurt Vonnegut

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#16. I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.

Anais Nin

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#17. I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

Pietro Aretino

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#18. The vast majority of women who say that they are being abused are telling the truth. I know this to be true because the abusers let their guard down with me, belying their denial.

Lundy Bancroft

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#19. I consider telling him the truth. That if I were dead like Snow White and he kissed me like that, surely my heart would kick back to life

Colleen Hoover

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#20. Im okay Im okay now. But you really need to listen to me 'cause im telling you the truth I mean this im okay Trust me ... Im not okay ... Well okay im not okay. Im not o-f cking-kay

Gerard Way

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#21. Since I do not believe in so many things, it is not difficult for me to disbelieve in the Fall as well, so that I am entirely convinced I will be telling the truth to the people.

Isaac Asimov

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#22. If there is a god, or hundreds of them, I hope they will forgive me for the harm I may have inflicted on you by telling you exactly what happened.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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#23. I stayed in Hamburg a few more days, and during that time I received a visit from Rolf Aldag, the sporting director at T-Mobile. He advised me to tell the truth.

Patrik Sinkewitz

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#24. This is me telling the truth. It just so happens to be a very explosive truth.

Corey Clark

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#25. I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.

Edmund White

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#26. Father taught me to like wht he called 'discussion', she recalled. Margaret Thatcher never repudiated the Methodism of her childhood, with its reverence for truth-telling, hard work and puting into practice the teachings of Scripture. page 6

Charles Moore

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#27. In truth, this was a bad thing that Yan Chang had done, telling me my mother's story. Secrets are kept from children, a lid on top of the soup kettle, so they do not boil over with too much truth. After

Amy Tan

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#28. After telling the hard facts to anyone from lover to friend, I have changed in their eyes. Often it is awe or admiration, sometimes it is repulsion, once or twice it has been fury hurled directly at me for reasons I remain unsure of.

Alice Sebold

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#29. When I forget the power of the word, I read Frederick Buechner. When I forget the deep relief of telling the truth, I read Frederick Buechner. When I forget to look for the holiness all around me, I read Frederick Buechner. When I forget why the gospel matters, I read Frederick Buechner.

Barbara Brown Taylor

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#30. For me, exploration is about that journey to the interior, into your own heart. I'm always wondering, how will I act at my moment of truth? Will I rise up and do what's right, even if every fiber of my being is telling me otherwise?

Ann Bancroft

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#31. The truth will lead me to all.

Maya Angelou

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#32. If you tell me the truth, the truth I'll proclaim.
If you tell me a lie, you'll be fair game.

Belva Rae Staples

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#33. There is not a man who has been in this community a few years but knows I am telling the living truth. Do any of you hate me for it? Do any of you love me for it? It is all the same to me.

Brigham Young

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#34. Their fate rested entirely on me. I could save them by telling the truth. I could destroy them by lying. No one should have that much power.

Neal Shusterman

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#35. I'd always liked our inside jokes the best - they made me feel more connected to Amy than any amount of confessional truth-telling or passionate lovemaking or talk-till-sunrising.

Gillian Flynn

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#36. When I won the Oscar, there was something telling me 'this isn't the truth'. I had to get back to real work.

Juliette Binoche

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#37. From an early age, I had the idea that writing was truth-telling. It's on the record. Everybody can see it. Maybe it goes back to the sacred origins of literature - the holy book. There's nothing holy about it for me, but it should be serious, and it should be totally transparent.

Edmund White

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#38. I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they descend to telling the truth about me I consider that this is taking an unfair advantage.

Mark Twain

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#39. My intent is to tell the truth as I know it, realizing that what is true for me may be blasphemy for others.

Gerry Spence

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#40. Telling the truth has always come naturally to me. And I realize, that people like me are the reason the world hates the truth.

Auliq Ice

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#41. Phil has always been a fighter. He was getting in fights all the time. I told him that if he ever hit me then I would leave the band. He wanted to find out if I was telling him the truth. He hit me so I left and that is how UFO split up.

Michael Schenker

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#42. But I have told the truth. Isn't that ironic? They sent me because I am so good at telling lies. But I have told the truth.

Elizabeth Wein

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#43. Are you seriously telling me the truth about all this?" I asked.
"I seriously am," he replied. "I was also serious about stealing a fry.

Lindsay Ribar

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#44. I tell you, it was kind of two-fold. I fortunately had a lot of support. My coach was amazing - he told me to focus on being prepared and that is what I did. Every athlete is nervous - any athlete who tells you they're not nervous isn't telling you the truth. I was as prepared as I could be.

Carl Lewis

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#45. He was telling me then that lyrics have truth
behind them, because they come from somewhere
inside the person who wrote them. I look back
down at the page.

Colleen Hoover

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#46. To me, horror is when I see somebody lying. I mean a person I know. A friend. And he's telling me something that I accept. And then suddenly, as he or she is telling it, there's something that gives them away. They're not telling me the truth.

Jonathan Frid

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#47. A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

Joe Biden

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#48. Let me tell so much truth. I want to tell the truth in my work. The truth will lead me to all.

Maya Angelou

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#49. The truth never set me free.

Paramore

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#50. You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don't, for any reason, ever tell the truth.

Katharine Hepburn

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#51. He deceived me by telling the truth.

E.F. Benson

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#52. Please explain to me why John Kerry sounds more dickish telling the truth than Bush sounds when he's lying. How is that possible?

Jon Stewart

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#53. My truth is everyone else's lies. My lies are their comfort. Telling the truth makes people uncomfortable. Who am I to cause anyone discomfort on purpose? Lying works. Lying makes it all better. Lying is my gift to everyone around me. They never even say thank you.

Kathryn Perez

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#54. I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.

Shakira

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#55. It was after 2:00 A.M. before we got back to the graveyard. The Feds had kept us forever, like they didn't believe we were telling them the whole truth. Fancy that. I hated being accused of concealing evidence when I wasn't. Made me want to lie to them just so they wouldn't be disappointed.

Laurell K. Hamilton

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#56. The only way you could be good in bed for me would (be) if you became a complete person, not just some shell of a man that doesn't have a middle ground between putting women on a pedestal and degrading them with meaningless sex.

R.K. Lilley

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#57. Dude, you scared the hell out of us. We thought you were a goner." Harper rocked his head on the pillow. "Nah. Takes more than a couple bullets to take me out." Chad laughed. "I remember you saying you were an iron man when we hired you, but I didn't think you were telling the truth." Harper

J.M. Madden

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#58. The thing is, I get the sense that you're telling me the truth. You're just not telling all of it. And the part you're leaving out is the part that would help me understand who you are.

Nicholas Sparks

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#59. When someone starts talking to me about the truth, what I hear is what they're telling me about themselves.

Nicole Kidman

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#60. Well, I - all cases to me have interest. Every case is important to somebody, the people litigating that case. But the most difficult case for me is the case where one person says a, the other person says b, and you just don't know for certain who is not telling you the truth.

Judge Mills Lane

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#61. I knew that his confession would be a tremendous relief to him but a burden to me. Such information, once shared, can never be retracted.

Karen Essex

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