All Quotes By Tag: Truth

“No matter what you do, someone always knew you would.”

“I have no name,” she purred. “I’m whoever the keepers of my fate tell me to be.”

“The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.”

“Don’t live by my words, don’t die by them, chew them slowly digest them, and smile if they give nourishment to your soul.”

“Sex is mathematics. Individuality no longer an issue. What does intelligence signify? Define reason. Desire – meaningless. Intellect is not a cure. Justice is dead.”

“Thanks to my mother, I was raised to have a morbid imagination. When I was a child, she often talked about death as warning, as an unavoidable matter of fact. Little Debbie’s mom down the block might say, ‘Honey, look both ways before crossing the street.’ My mother’s version: ‘You don’t look, you get smash flat like sand dab.’ (Sand dabs were the cheap fish we bought live in the market, distinguished in my mind by their two eyes affixed on one side of their woebegone cartoon faces.)The warnings grew worse, depending on the danger at hand. Sex education, for example, consisted of the following advice: ‘Don’t ever let boy kiss you. You do, you can’t stop. Then you have baby. You put baby in garbage can. Police find you, put you in jail, then you life over, better just kill youself.”

“I shouldn’t believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.”

“He looked at me intently, from what seemed behind the veil of a grave experience. Then slowly and prophetically, he said the scariest thing I’d ever heard: “Because the answer to a heartfelt question, Jack, will always break your heart.”

“Those who understand history are condemned to watch other idiots repeat it.”

“The Universe doesn’t like secrets. It conspires to reveal the truth, to lead you to it.”

“Oh, what is brighter than the light?What is darker than the night?What is keener than an axe?What is softer than melting wax?Truth is brighter than the light,Falsehood darker than the night.Revenge is keener than an axe,And love is softer than melting wax.”

“People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it’s too long.”

“There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you.”

“Yes my lord, but questions are dangerous, for they have answers”

“Since then your sere Majesty and your Lordships seek a simple answer, I will give it in this manner, neither horned nor toothed. Unless I am convinced by the testimony of the Scriptures or by clear reason (for I do not trust either in the pope or in councils alone, since it is well known that they have often erred and contradicted themselves), I am bound by the Scriptures I have quoted and my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and I will not recant anything, since it is neither safe nor right to go against conscience. May God help me. Amen.”(Reply to the Diet of Worms, April 18, 1521)”