I think a really rich world to live in is where you’re thinking in terms of human behavior and human types and not being super literal. In order to see the deeper truth, you need to break out of literal frame of mind. – Silas Weir Mitchell
To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I’m kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I’d say, ‘Your mom would love a painting of you!’ A salesman! I’d hawk paintings. – Taylor Negron
I would not have done much differently, but I would have loved to have done everything better. The truth is, I think I was just getting warmed up when the era ended. – William Jackson
I believe in broken, fractured, complicated narratives, but I believe in narratives as a vehicle for truth, not simply as a form of entertainment, though I love entertainment, but also a way of conveying what needs to be conveyed about the works that I care about. – Stephen Greenblatt
Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. Unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer. – Shunryu Suzuki
There was a time when I just felt like a superwoman. I was like, ‘I got Jesus! I ain’t afraid!’ But, the truth is, I want to do things right, and sometimes I am afraid that I’m not good enough or that I’m not going to handle something right. – Tasha Smith
Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece’s new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth. – Yanis Varoufakis
It is generally believed that our science is empirical and that we draw our concepts and our mathematical constructs from the empirical data. If this were the whole truth, we should, when entering into a new field, introduce only such quantities as can directly be observed, and formulate natural laws only by means of these quantities. – Werner Heisenberg
Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie. – Wole Soyinka
My role is to just tell the highest degree of truth with every character and every story. From there, I have no clue whatsoever how things are going to turn out. – Sarah Shahi
I’m not comfortable with just entertaining. Although I like entertaining, I also like bringing forward the truth of our times as minstrels used to in the old days. – Serj Tankian
Education was a given, only because of the way I was raised. Truth be told, I thought, at 15 years old, I should go and get a record deal and drop out of school, and my parents would have had none of that. I’m grateful now that my parents were pushing me in that way, because I wasn’t mature enough on so many levels to do that. – Trisha Yearwood
Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth. – Wole Soyinka
My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don’t fight it. – Whitney Houston
When part of what you’re trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh. – Todd Solondz
I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn’t bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we’d be able to tell the story the way it happened. – Ted Demme
I am a lover of truth; and if you think of truth as being multifaceted and so huge that we human beings can’t fully comprehend it, then obviously it makes sense to put all the facts together – to compare disciplines and try to advance the sum of knowledge by exploration and examination. – Susan Howatch
I’ll tell you the truth, even in an election year, and that’s what people are ready for. – Tom Cotton
I seek a deeper truth, but I don’t think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it. – Ted Lange
The truth is that we all have lives that are complicated. We all get hurt by people we love sometimes. It’s laughable to believe that anyone is immune. The important thing is how you behave. – Tamara Mellon
I do what I believe the Lord did, and that is walk in love with all mankind, which I don’t see a lot of Christians doing. Christians can be so judgmental that it can turn off people who are considering converting. It makes me a little embarrassed, to tell you the truth, when I hear Christians criticizing others. – Tasha Smith
I’ve never played golf with Tiger Woods. To tell the truth, I’m not sure that watching him pound it 100 yards past me all day is something I’d like to do. – Tim Finchem
Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth. – Walter Raleigh
And the people I have been accountable to every single day in the Senate are the 27 million Texans who I represent and I made a promise to them that I make to you today, which is, if I am elected, every single day I will do two things: tell the truth, and do what I said I would do. – Ted Cruz
I’ve been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I’m quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I’m one of the few people who tell the truth about myself. – T. E. Lawrence
When people talk, they lay lines on each other, do a lot of role playing, sidestep, shilly-shally and engage in all manner of vagueness and innuendo. We do this and expect others to do it, yet at the same time we profess to long for the plain truth, for people to say what they mean, simple as that. Such hypocrisy is a human universal. – Steven Pinker
