Quotes Tagged "truth"

Questers of the truth, that’s who dogs are; seekers after the invisible scent of another being’s authentic core.

I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.

Truth cannot be constructed. To live in ideology is, as Havel so eloquently reminds us, inevitably to live in a lie. Truth can only be revealed. We cannot be creators, only receptors.

It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that upright integrity, that strict adherence to truth and principle, that distain of trick and littleness, which a man should display in every transaction of his life.

There has to be new words to explain new worlds.

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.

The idea of celibate vampires is ridiculous. To me, vampires are sex. I don't get a vampire story about abstinence. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian could search for truth, and the search was as worthy as any other human activity.

I was saying the right things, but not the really true things.

What you see is what you see

How you approach birth is intimately connected with how you approach life

I am right. I`m always right. One time I thought I was wrong, I found out I was right.

I've often mused over the idea that madness is actually a sane reaction to an insane world.

Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.

There is the truth of history, and there is the truth of what a person remembers. As {she} sat at the edge of {the lake}, memory blossoms floated unbounded, as though breathed, no words spoken. Like birds that fly across national borders, between countries at war at each other.

A relationship that is truly genuine does not keep changing its colors. Real gold never rusts. If a relationship is really solid and golden, it will be unbreakable. Not even Time can destroy its shine.

The story is about being loyal to the truth as a nation, that citizens of a democracy are collectively responsible for what their troops do in war, good or bad.

The truth doesn't mind being told every once in a while.

.. the truth is what you can't see but are certain of anyway.

Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.