T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The truth is neither friend nor foe. Rather, it is our decision to embrace it or reject it that makes it one or the other. Therefore, the nature of truth as it relates to us is up to us.”
“The truth is never dangerous. Except when told.”
“The truth is never dressed for the occasion.”
“The truth is never pretty.”
“The truth is never pure and rarely simple.”
“The truth is never the problem; The problem is always the problem.”
Source: Tired of Trying to Measure Up: Getting Free from the Demands, Expectations, and Intimidation of Well-Meaning People
“The truth is never what you want it to be, Little Fox.”
Source: The Ballad of Never After
“The truth is, new furniture or a better house will never really satisfy - they will just set new, higher standards for what is acceptable to us for our comfort and contentment. When you take care of what you have and find joy right where you are, you set the right tone and expectations for contentment in all circumstances moving forward. Whether things get better or worse, our standard will be to love what we have and be grateful for it (even when we might not like it).”
“The truth is - no matter how “self-made” you think you are, you are really made by many who have invested in your life.
Be known as a thankful and grateful person… and be known as the person that is investing in others to build them up, as well. It’s your way of paying back the debt that others have invested in you.”
Source: Manlihood: The 12 Pillars of Masculinity
“The truth is no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.”
“The truth is not a cloth every man can cut to fit himself. The truth is there was love as well as hate. The truth is the love hurt worse.”
“The truth is not a crystal that can be slipped into one's pocket, but an endless current into which one falls headlong.”
Source: The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic
“The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.”
“The truth is not always useful, not always good. It’s like putting your faith in water. Yes, we need the rain, but too much can sweep you away in a flood and drown you. Like all great natural, elemental forces, the truth needs to be channeled, managed, controlled and intelligently, morally allocated.”
“The truth is not always what you see. It is about what you actually want to see. You cannot let go your whole life based on truth. Because, sometimes, it is a lie that we count on for our togetherness.
And when I said that I do not need you, I actually wanted to keep us together, with that lie.”
Source: The Papery Onions
“The Truth is not Arbitrary or a Matter of Opinion, but can be Investigated, and Those who Earnestly Search for the Truth will Find It. The Truth is Hidden to the Blind, but he who has the Mental Eye Sees the Truth.”
“The truth is not beautiful - it stands on cloven hooves - it is covered in coagulated blood - but it is the truth.”
“The truth is not being aired in the West. It’s a surreal perversion of history that’s going on once again, as in Bush pre-Iraq ‘WMD’ campaign.”
“The truth is not believable to someone who has not lived it in his muscles.”
Source: Machete Season
“The truth is not delicate and it does not suffer from denial—the truth only dies when true stories are untold.”
Source: The Paper Menagerie
“The truth is not designed to ease fears,' Vikter responded.
'Is that why we tell lies, then?' Hawke questioned, and I pressed my lips together.”
Source: From Blood and Ash
“The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.”
“The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.”
“The truth is not good or bad, it is just the truth.”
Source: Little Moments of Truth
“The truth is not in the commercial media because the truth is a dagger pointed at its heart, which is its pocketbook.”
“The truth is not only do appearances never reveal what lies beneath them of their own accord, but also, generally speaking, they never just reveal; they also conceal. No thing, no side of a thing shows itself except by actively hiding the others. They expose and they also protect from exposure and as far as what lies beneath is concerned, this protection may even be their most important function. This is true for living things, whose surface hides and protects the inner organs that are their source of life.”
Source: The Life of the Mind
“The truth is not simply visible to the naked eyes, not any more. When people believe so much in media reports, history itself may conceal the truth only the chosen ones can see.”
Source: Bits of Heaven
“The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why, and how it is said.”
“The truth is not so good a story.”
Source: The Firebrand
“The truth is not so important as the leaving of it behind.”
Source: Keep Me Close / Betrayal Duo
“The truth is not that the problem is the newsroom does not understand capitalism. The problem is that the front office does not understand journalism. The problem is not that the average reporter does not understand what it is that's necessary to make the payroll, to make the good edifice, to make the thing that he wants. It is that in fact those who control too many of the edifices have actually come to believe that Wall Street has wisdom, and that that wisdom should instruct our business.”
“The truth is not what is told, the truth is hidden beneath several layers of lies what is claimed to be truth. There is only ultimate truth and it it's difficult to uncover it.”
“The truth is not what it seems, but what it is.”
Source: Follow Your Conscience: Make a Difference in Your Life & in the Lives of Others
“The truth is not what we received today. Once again, we are being used as props in a Pentagon public relations exercise.”
“The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.”
“The truth is now as it was yesterday, and as it always will be, that the world is-as we are.”
“The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold”
Source: Tolstoy's Diaries Volume 2: 1895-1910
“The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.”
“The truth is often a beautiful paradox.”
“The truth is often a big, scary wall, no less massive and haunting even after you find a way around it.”
Source: Heaven, Hell, and the Planet In Between: Book 1: The Uniter
“The truth is often a double-edged sword, severing bonds with its sharpness. Yet, only through the pain of its cut can we understand the depth of our human relationships.”
“the truth is often a mixed message”
Source: Skipping Towards Gomorrah
“The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.”
“The truth is often an unkind conspiracy.”
“The truth is often found in humour.”
Source: Any Girl Who Loves The Beatles Is Bound To Break Your Heart
“The truth is often one's best shield.”
“The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story.”
“The truth is often veiled and hidden; rarely is it believed by the majority.”
Source: Daddy's Little Girl
“the truth is on your side, but it’s your buried side”
“war kills with the hands of the indifferent
and even the hands of the sympathizers”
“someday you’ll dig me up in a slab of coal
and you won’t even know what I’m burning about”
“citing anthracite”
“The Truth is, “One sky, all human's !”