Truth Be Told Quotes

Actually think anybody ever approaches writing any song, I think the song approaches them, truth be told. Usually what happens is that a song arrives and afterwards you say that "I wrote the song," and it's not actually true; they find you, they write themselves.

People fear the unforeseen and the unseen. Truth be told we all fear the unseen.

If lyrics sold then truth be told/I'd probably be just as rich and famous as Jay-Z.

The truth is always the strongest argument.

Truth be told, ginormous portions have become a pet peeve of mine.

Oppressors in front of the Lord, truth be told shall inherit oppression, while others receive gold.

All I know, is that I feel extremely blessed to be on TV. Its a hard job, but real life is harder. Truth be told, playgrounds can be war zones.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.

There is no difference between alternative and traditional club comedy. People think there's a difference, but I don't think so. It's like gay men versus straight men. There's no difference. They both like sucking penises. But truth be told, I don't even believe alternative comedy is a real thing anymore. I think at this point, it's just a buzz word to make things seem cool and different and hip.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

Truth be told, there is not one day that goes by when I don't fall in love with someone, with something.

If a lie is only printed often enough, it becomes a quasi-truth, and if such a truth is repeated often enough, it becomes an article of belief, a dogma, and men will die for it.

But I can tell - let truth be told - That love will change in growing old; Though day by day is nought to see, So delicate his motions be.

The Truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind.

Truth be told, our modern education systems crush the very spirit they claim to instill.

The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.

When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess.

Truth be told, when you start your career out as a clown, you don't consider yourself a writer.

Truth be told, John said, the one thing in this world I want more than anything else is a great big crowbar, to jimmy myself open and take whatever creature that's sitting inside and shake it clean like a rug and then rinse it in a cold, clear lake like up in Oregon, and then I want to put it under the sun to let it heal and dry and grow and sit and come to consciousness again with a clear and quiet mind.

Tell all the Truth, but tell it slant/Success in Circuit lies.

There wasn't any particular player I modeled my game after. I tried to learn from everyone and create my own style. I studied past players... Truth be told I never had a favorite player. It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people. I just go try to learn.

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

Truth be told, I'm much more comfortable in a pair of hiking boots or with a rack of climbing gear than in front of a laptop.

I'm a bit uncomfortable, truth be told, with being seen as an expert, because there is always so much more to learn. I see myself as a perpetual student of the goddess.

Well, truth be told it was the hope on the last one, it's always the hope. It's just you don't just wasn't to do it- everything we do is, for a lack of a more crass term, everything we do is pushing against the conveyer belt.

If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better.

The rapt pupil will be forgiven for assuming the Tsar of Death to be wicked and the Tsar of Life to be virtuous. Let the truth be told: There is no virtue anywhere. Life is sly and unscrupulous, a blackguard, wolfish, severe. In service to itself, it will commit any offense. So, too, is Death possessed of infinite strategies and a gaunt nature- but also mercy, also grace and tenderness. In his own country, Death can be kind.

The question that a lot of people ask me all the time is how did you make it? The truth be told, it was nothing but the grace of God.

Actually, I don't really consider myself either a Liberal or a Conservative. Truth be told, I consider myself a 'Truthetarian.' I try to examine each separate issue and go to where I feel the truth is. And, yes, I must admit that more often than not, when I do this, upon arrival, I do seem to find myself in the company of left-minded people. However, quite often, I'm more than a little surprised to find myself standing in a room full of right-wingers!

The truth be told, the World Trade Center was neither a very good work of architecture nor a very successful piece of urbanism. Its shortcomings were somewhat mitigated by the westward and southward expansion of the World Financial Center and Battery Park City during the 1980s.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

But truth be told, I'm not as dour-looking as I would like. I'm stuck with this round, sweetie-pie face, tiny heart-shaped lips, the daintiest dimples, and apple cheeks so rosy I appear in a perpetual blush. At five foot four, I barely squeak by average height. And then there's my voice: straight out of second grade. I come across so young and innocent and harmless that I have been carded for buying maple syrup. Tourists feel more safe approaching me for directions, telemarketers always ask if my mother is home, and waitresses always, always call me 'Hon.

All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns.

Let truth be told - women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits, and again look about them with an interested eye. While there's life there's hope is a connviction not so entirely unknown to the "betrayed" as some amiable theorists would have us believe.

Truth be told, there are lots of companies that provide exemplary phone support. DirecTV, Virgin America and Apple are a few that regularly exceed my expectations.

Truth be told, most of us are faking our way through life. We pick only those battles we are sure to win, only those adventures we are sure to handle, only those beauties we are sure to rescue.

Jesus beckons me to follow him to that place of weakness where I risk the vulnerability of a child so that I might know how strong my Father is and how much he loves me. But truth be told, I would rather be an adult. I'd rather be in a place where I can still pull things together if God doesn't show up, where I risk no ultimate humiliation, where I don't have to take the shallow breaths of desperation. And as a result, my experience of my heavenly Father is simply impoverished.

They say that Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a homosexual. Truth be told, we don't love him because of that, but he was a great musician, and we all love his music. So what? I assure you that I work with these people. I sometimes award them with state prizes or decorations for their achievements in various fields. We have absolutely normal relations, and I don't see anything out of the ordinary here.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.