Unvarnished Truth Quotes

#1. Ever since I came to Congress in 1992, there are those who have been trying to silence my voice. I've been told to 'sit down and shut up' over and over again. Well, I won't sit down and I won't shut up until the full and unvarnished truth is placed before the American people.

Cynthia McKinney

#2. I'm thankful my parents obliged me to live with the unvarnished truth: I might not have been a looker, but I was a better speller than the prettiest girl in my class, and I was funnier, too.

Laurie Graham

#3. Mothers were the only ones you could depend on to tell the whole, unvarnished truth.

Margaret Dilloway

#4. No people in the world other than the English would have had the courage, in the midst of war, to tell the people such unvarnished truth.

Anton Walbrook

#5. The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.

LeVar Burton

#6. The unvarnished truth is that almost all the people you meet feel themselves superior to you in some way, and a sure way to their hearts is to let them realize in some subtle way that you recognize their importance, and recognize it sincerely.

Dale Carnegie

#7. It is the literal, unvarnished truth, that the crack of the lash, and the shrieking of the slaves, can be heard from dark till bed time, on Epps' plantation, any day almost during the entire period of the cotton-picking season.

Solomon Northup

#8. If you were lucky, very lucky indeed, there were one or two people in your life who you could tell the unvarnished truth too, shell and egg. And that these people held the essence of you inside them. The rest would be conversations that ended when night fell, or the dinner part ended.

Julia Gregson

#9. The unvarnished truth is that what we most frequently give thanks for betrays what we most highly value. If a large percentage of our thanksgiving is for material prosperity, it is because we value material prosperity proportionately.

D. A. Carson

#10. The plain, unvarnished truth is that public education is a shoddy, fraudulent piece of goods sold t to the public at an astronomical price. It's time the American consumer knew the extent of the fraud which is victimizing millions of children each year.

Samuel Blumenfeld

#11. Why do I write? The truth, the unvarnished truth, is that I haven't a clue.

Gloria Naylor

#12. Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth. That is its power and its fiction.

Alexandra Kerry

#13. You cannot think of Margaret without Denis. There comes a time when every Prime Minister needs someone to give him or her the unvarnished truth, and, in Denis, Margaret had just that.

John Major

#14. There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose

#15. The language of truth is unvarnished enough.

Seneca The Younger

#16. If it is not an interesting picture when in focus, it is not going to be a better picture out of focus.

Bill Jay

#17. I don't think that care homes are all rotten old places that ought to be shut down.

Judi Dench

#18. Al Hickey: [following the final shootout] Nobody came ... nobody cares. It's still not about anything.
Frank Boggs: Yeah, you told me.

Phillip Rock

#19. Forbear harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of fortune.

Aesop

#20. I am proud that [I was] , , , enabled to guide this great talent ... towards the superb fulfillment of its individual potentialities, towards the greatest independence.

Alban Berg

#21. His own wand trembled in his hand, and he almost welcomed the oncoming oblivion, the promise of nothing, of no feeling.

J.K. Rowling

#22. I always try to find the truth in a situation. That unvarnished, pure nugget of truth at the core of every issue that I write about.

Michael Arrington

#23. Multitracking keeps egos in check. If your boss has three pet projects in play, chances are she'll be open to unvarnished feedback about them, but if there's only one pet project, it will be harder for her to hear the truth. Her ego will be perfectly conflated with the project.

Chip Heath

#24. Here's the truth, unvarnished and inalienable: I wanted him. I'd always wanted him. I could pretend otherwise, I could walk away, I could avoid him for two years, but it didn't change a thing. Dylan was mine. First, last, and always.

Viv Daniels