All Quotes By Tag: Truth

“Becoming hurts.”

“One could argue that it’s romantic to die for love. Of course, then you’re dead and unable to take that honeymoon trip to the Alps with all the other fashionable young couples, which is a shame.”

“I don’t go out of my way to make friends, that’s all.”

“They dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who have not a good breastplate of patience.”

“Scepticism is the first step towards truth.”

“For those who like that sort of thing,” said Miss Brodie in her best Edinburgh voice, “That is the sort of thing they like.”

“If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.”

“It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.”

“Why do people respect the package rather than the man?”

“I think all of us are looking for that which does not admit of bullshit . . . If you tell me you can bench press 450, hell, we’ll load up the bar and put you under it. Either you can do it or you can’t do it—you can’t bullshit. Ultimately, sports are just about as close to what one would call the truth as it is possible to get in this world.”

“Loving another person is a wonderful thing, and if that love is sincere, no one ends up tossed into a labyrinth. You have to have more faith in yourself.”

“I’ve always liked the moonless night best. It’s easier to say things in the dark. It’s easier to be yourself.”

“when you’re a kid, they tell you that it’s what’s on the inside that counts. Looks don’t matter . But that’s not true. Guys like Phoebus in The Hunchback, or Dorian, or the old Kyle Kingsbury– they can be scumbags to women and still get away with it because they’re good-looking. Being ugly is a kind of prisoner.”

“People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they’ll spend all day telling you who they are.”

“You know the games I play And the words I say When I want my own way You know the lies I tell When you’ve gone through hell And I say I can’t stay You know how hard it can be To keep believing in me When everything and everyone Becomes my enemy and when There’s nothing more you can do I’m gonna blame it on you It’s not the way I want to be I only hope that in the end you will see It’s the Opheliac in me”