Told The Truth Quotes

#1. We're always pitching ideas and being told "no thank you." No offense taken, because I would so much rather be told the truth that they're not interested and be able to find the right show for that network down the line.

J.J. Abrams

#2. Fear was the biggest bullshitter, he'd said. But sometimes, too, fear told the truth.

Deb Caletti

#3. One is never told the truth. One has to find it out." "Whatever

Cameron Jace

#4. Man is nothing but insincerity, falsehood, and hypocrisy, both in regard to himself and in regard to others. He does not wish that he should be told the truth, he shuns saying it to others; and all these moods, so inconsistent with justice and reason, have their roots in his heart.

Blaise Pascal

#5. Don't you wonder sometimes why so much gets heaped on certain people?" I almost told the truth. That truth being, "I wouldn't dare." I wouldn't dare dwell on a thing like that. I try to look forward in my life. Because what's behind me is a little hard to take.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#6. You are an amazing woman, Maggie Ryan." He gazed deep into her eyes and told the truth. "Stay with me.

Jennifer Probst

#7. I believe unconditionally in the ability of people to respond when they are told the truth. We need to be taught to study rather than believe, to inquire rather than to affirm.

Septima Poinsette Clark

#8. My book is extremely graphic. I make no apologies for it. But it is graphic only because I told the truth about what the Ripper did to his victims.

Bernard Schaffer

#9. Playing the guitar is like telling the truth - you never have to worry about repeating the same [lie] if you told the truth. You don't have to pretend, or cover up. If someone asks you again, you don't have to think about it or worry about it because there it is. It's you.

B.B. King

#10. When the truth changes from your speaking, you know you have told the truth.

Ray Blanton

#11. Lisa had confessed and Mommy had forgiven her. It had been a long, complicated confession, followed by a brief absolution for all the sins committed--a look, a kiss--nothing more was needed...Oh how wonderful it was to have told the truth at last! How free she felt, as free as air!

Erich Kastner

#12. In woods where the woodsmen told lies, maybe it was the wolves who told the truth.

Anne Ursu

#13. So, that's what I'm doing until I meet a friend here. I was hoping that the kid who told the truth could become a friend of mine, but I think he was just being a good guy by telling.

Stephen Chbosky

#14. Even little children repeat that oftentimes people are hanged for having told the truth.

Joan Of Arc

#15. Whoever said the truth sets you free never told the truth.

Leonard Pitts Jr.

#16. Our rulers for more than half a century have made sure that we are never to be told the truth about anything that our government has done to other people, not to mention our own.

Gore Vidal

#17. I knew enough about adults to know that if did tell them what had happened, I would not be believed. Adults rarely seemed to believe me when I told the truth anyway.

Neil Gaiman

#18. Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.

William Howard Taft

#19. Keep in mind that when public figures get in trouble for something they said, it is usually not because they misspoke, but because they accidentally told the truth.

David Carr

#20. You know-portraits are odd things." "How do you figure?" I asked. "Well at the time, that portrait told the whole story. It told the truth. We were a family-a happy family. Now that same portrait just looks like a lie.

Brian Joyce

#21. He always told the truth, but he didn't always tell it all.

Orson Scott Card

#22. I told the truth, and I did it on national TV in a lie-detector test.

Paula Jones

#23. Gossip is so dangerous, because it makes you feel like you told the truth. And you did. Just not to the person involved. It scratches that itch, that impulse to tell the truth, but it has no power to transform, and it destroys trust. When

Shauna Niequist

#24. He didn't want to play football. He wanted to be told the truth.

John Boyne

#25. At no time, anywhere, was the population of a country told the truth: facts about events trickled into general consciousness much later, if ever.

Doris Lessing

#26. I told the truth about the Miami life. It's a nice place to visit, but you don't want to live here. I lived through two major riots and three Category 5 hurricanes, I don't know if a lot of people could say that.

Trick Daddy

#27. I told the truth about steroids and human growth hormone. I injected those drugs into the body of Roger Clemens at his direction.
Unfortunately, Roger has denied this and has led a full-court attack on my credibility

Jim Lehrer

#28. Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance.

Ann Voskamp

#29. I shall give a propagandist reason for starting the war, no matter whether it is plausible or not. The victor will not be asked afterwards whether he told the truth or not. When starting and waging war it is not right that matters, but victory.

Adolf Hitler

#30. Having told the truth for years as a first-rate reporter, Jason Leopold now comes completely clean about himself and also sheds light on his imperiled profession. A riveting account of just how hard the truth can be.

Mark Crispin Miller

#31. The woman whose behavior indicates that she will make a scene if she is told the truth asks to be deceived.

Elizabeth Jenkins

#32. If you told the truth, that was all well and good and if you told the un-truth, well, that's still well and good. Folk songs had taught me that.

Bob Dylan

#33. She told the truth as she saw it, and she died for it. I came along for the ride, and I lived. It wasn't worth it. But it was the truth, and it was what had to happen.

Mira Grant

#34. Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to.

George Saunders

#35. My dad's era believed that there was something noble in being a good guy - the kind of guy that lived straight and narrow, told the truth, and stood up for what he believed was right.

Dean Norris

#36. A child can live with anything as long as he or she is told the truth and is allowed to share with loved ones the natural feelings people have when they are suffering.

Eda LeShan

#37. When people ask what were the qualities of Bobby Kennedy that they most admired, it was first that he was tough. Second, he told the truth and third, he stood up for the little guy.

Emilio Estevez

#38. She had told the truth: she did not like to dance. Men assumed that a spinster wanted for excitement. Dried-up. They made a point of spinning her wildly across the floor. Once she had fallen, and thereafter she'd declined all invitations.

Meredith Duran

#39. Either Christ is a liar or war is never necessary, and very properly assuming that Christ told the truth, it follows that the State is without [in the words of Father Macksey] 'judicial authority to determine when war is necessary,' because it is never necessary.

Ben Salmon

#40. I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.

Harry Truman

#41. Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#42. I think everybody could agree that our immigration system is broken. We have not told the truth about it.

Jose Antonio Vargas

#43. It's about time people told the truth about beautiful women. They do not shimmer down staircases. They do not descend, as was once supposed, from on high, attached to nothing other than wings. Clara was from somewhere. She had roots.

Zadie Smith

#44. The woman had told the truth. The flowers were the color of sunset. And not the yellowish tinge of a lazy sun either, but the intense orange of a sun refusing to set on anyone else's terms.

Dolen Perkins-Valdez

#45. I think maybe I was instrumental in taking the stereotype out of the Southern actor is some ways. I would hope my legacy would be as a serious actor who told the truth and did parts based on the quality of part and not necessarily the money.

Billy Bob Thornton

#46. Pictures rarely told the truth. They were like gold lacquer over Styrofoam, making things seem shiny and bright, disguising the fragility beneath. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but it still wasn't worth a whole hell of a lot.

Amy Harmon

#47. Hello, everyone." I didn't think lying was an option, appearing as I did, so I told the truth. "I've come to kill you all. It would be much easier if you would kindly stand still.

Scarlett Dawn

#48. It is such a relief to be told the truth.

Katherine Anne Porter

#49. Other than that, we have each told the truth, and each truth is our own.

Liz Welch

#50. Oh, he'll help us whether he wants to or not. I told the truth. I would not kill him. The death-curse of a god is an evil thing.
But I can hurt him. And I will.
And besides ...
Have you never wondered, little bird, what it must be like to see the world through the eyes of a god?

Neil Gaiman

#51. What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?
The world would split open.

Muriel Rukeyser

#52. I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth.

Sean Penn

#53. There is no salvation without accepting Joseph Smith. If Joseph Smith was verily a prophet, and if he told the truth ... no man can reject that testimony without incurring the most dreadful consequences, for he cannot enter the kingdom of God

Joseph Fielding Smith

#54. The tragic reality is that there have been occasions when [Mormon] Church leaders, teachers, and writers have not told the truth they knew about difficulties of the Mormon past, but have offered to the Saints instead a mixture of platitudes, half-truths, omissions, and plausible denials.

D. Michael Quinn

#55. Once you marry me, none of it is a lie," he pointed out. "It will be exactly as though you've told the truth all these years."
"Except for the part where we love each other."
He shrugged. "That's a minor detail. Love is just a lie people tell themselves.

Tessa Dare

#56. The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.

T. Boone Pickens

#57. Jesus said, "I am the way [to heaven]." I'm betting that he's not a liar. I'm betting that he told the truth.

Rick Warren

#58. I've always told the truth. I've often been wrong - but I've never knowingly lied. Not in public life. Because I don't see the need to.

Ken Livingstone

#59. Words are reflections. What we speak comes back to us. I prefer being told the truth, so I tell the truth. Within reason.

Marjorie M. Liu

#60. By not elaborating, he'd sort of told the truth. The fact was weirdly disturbing.

James S.A. Corey

#61. It is heartbreaking to me that I wasn't told the truth. I'm a very loyal guy, and I expect loyalty in return. And lying to me is not an exhibition of loyalty.

Chris Christie

#62. I've always been me. I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out.

Bev Perdue

#63. I've always told the truth. I think that's been part of the foundation of my career. I don't put myself above people. I don't put myself different than people. And I, for one, know that none of us is immune.

Iyanla Vanzant

#64. Time is real, we can't rewind it ...
Out of everybody I met, who told the truth?
Time did.

Common

#65. By the end of it all I just assumed no one ever told the truth, and that was when I started lying too.

Jessica Knoll

#66. Art is the only proof we have that we told the truth.

Rob Ryser

#67. Make no mistake: When I told Senator Mitchell that I injected Roger Clemens with performance-enhancing drugs, I told the truth.

Jim Lehrer

#68. The eye hath ruined me,' the heart complained. 'The heart has lost me,' the eye replied. I know not which told the truth, which lied Between, the two, it was Meer who died.

Khushwant Singh

#69. If politicians all told the truth, we'd be out of business.

Jay Leno

#70. Trust is the great simplifier. If people in business told the truth, 80 to 90 percent of their problems would disappear.

William Schutz

#71. 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

#72. The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

Adolf Hitler

#73. It's amazing how lies grow. You start with a small one that seems easy to cover, then you get boxed in and tell another one. Then another. People believe you at first, then they act upon your lies, and you catch yourself wishing you'd simply told the truth.

John Grisham

#74. When I testified in front of Congress, I know that I was testifying under oath and I told the truth.

Rafael Palmeiro

#75. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

Mark Twain

#76. I believe that the people, instead of pretty lies, should be told the truth, no matter how ugly it may be. What can we do, destiny hasn't been kind to us; but, with the help of God, we will prevail.

Alija Izetbegovic

#77. Vaclav Havel had moral stature. The president in first Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic in many ways is a ceremonial role. And so, speaking out and having that strong moral fiber, people just knew that he told the truth to people who had only heard lies. And so I think his - that's his legacy.

Judy Woodruff

#78. Often when I thought I joked, I told the truth, afraid to speak it except in jest.

Lucy Freeman

#79. He'd learned that lies were only dangerous if you sometimes told the truth.

Maggie Stiefvater

#80. He stumbled and told the truth one night: workers had lost protections under WorkChoices.

David Marr

#81. Today I feel more betrayed than perhaps ever before, that someone who had got to know my children, my staff and me, whom I let into my heart and told the truth, could then sacrifice the trust I placed in him and produce this terrible and unfair program.

Michael Jackson

#82. Once everyone thought you were crazy, they ignored you even when you told the truth.

Thomm Quackenbush

#83. I told the truth, I didn't come to fool you

Leonard Cohen

#84. i never told the truth so i can never tell a lie...

Tom Waits

#85. Good players want to be coached ... Great players want to be told the truth

Doc Rivers

#86. He had performed that last service that a man can perform for a friend - he had told the truth about him.

David Eddings

#87. The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.

Barry White

#88. And it's time people told the truth about beautiful women. They do not shimmer down staircases. They do not descend, as was once supposed, from on high, attached to nothing other than wings.

Zadie Smith

#89. In future days you will call John Mandeville a liar, and my shade will laugh at you and say: true, true, I was, but not always, not so. When the world was good enough in my sight, when it behaved as wildly and gorgeously as I always knew it could, I told the truth of it.

Catherynne M Valente

#90. (I lied, in 1939, with far greater conviction that I told the truth- so I was positive that M. Yoshoto looked at me with suspicion when I said I wasn't feeling well.

J.D. Salinger

#91. The painter knew the mirror lied. And the canvas told the truth.

Thomas Lloyd Qualls

#92. The truth shouldn't be told only when it's convenient. Honesty must be a way of life.

Frank Sonnenberg

#93. But the truth is God has not told us His arrangement about the other people are. We do know that no man can be saved except through Christ; we do not know that only those who know Him can be saved through Him.

C.S. Lewis

#94. The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told.

Alan Dershowitz

#95. My sword," I told him, "says I tell the truth, and that you are a stinking bag of wind, a liar from hell, a cheat and a perjurer who deserves death."
"Up to our arses again," Leofric said.

Bernard Cornwell

#96. Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that.

Miriam Makeba

#97. The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.

Mark Twain

#98. So they told us all about how other kids were deceived by their parents, how the toys the grown-ups claimed were made by little elves wearing bell caps in their workshop at the North Pole actually had labels on them saying MADE IN JAPAN.

Jeannette Walls

#99. I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It dont move about from place to place and it dont change from time to time. You cant corrupt it any more than you can salt salt.

Cormac McCarthy

#100. Every town has its stories. Stories that have been told so many times by so many different people they've worked themselves into the collective consciousness as truth.

Jessi Kirby