Truth
Quotes - One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age
“History,
Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
―
James Joyce, Ulysses
“One
should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell
one that would tell one anything.”
―
Oscar Wilde
“It
is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to
lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.”
―
Ally Carter, Heist Society
“Believe
those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”
―
Andre Gide
“Facts
are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run
away.”
―
Dorothy L. Sayers
“Here's
something else to think about: calling when you say you're going to is the very
first brick in the house you are building of love and trust. If he can't lay
this one stupid brick down, you ain't never gonna have a house baby, and it's
cold outside.”
―
Greg Behrendt, He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to
Understanding Guys
“You
never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood
becomes a matter of life and death to you.”
―
C.S. Lewis
“Words
can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce
the soul. In the final analysis, words mean nothing. They are labels we give
things in an effort to wrap our puny little brains around their underlying
natures, when ninety-nine percent of the time the totality of the reality is an
entirely different beast. The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his
actions. Judge him by them.”
―
Karen Marie Moning
“Things
come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.”
―
Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina
“I
was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My
silences had not protected me. Your silences will not protect you.... What are
the words you do not yet have? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day
and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in
silence? We have been socialized to respect fear more than our own need for
language."
I
began to ask each time: "What's the worst that could happen to me if I
tell this truth?" Unlike women in other countries, our breaking silence is
unlikely to have us jailed, "disappeared" or run off the road at
night. Our speaking out will irritate some people, get us called bitchy or
hypersensitive and disrupt some dinner parties. And then our speaking out will
permit other women to speak, until laws are changed and lives are saved and the
world is altered forever.
Next
time, ask: What's the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little
further than you dare. Once you start to speak, people will yell at you. They
will interrupt you, put you down and suggest it's personal. And the world won't
end.
And
the speaking will get easier and easier. And you will find you have fallen in
love with your own vision, which you may never have realized you had. And you
will lose some friends and lovers, and realize you don't miss them. And new
ones will find you and cherish you. And you will still flirt and paint your
nails, dress up and party, because, as I think Emma Goldman said, "If I
can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution." And at last
you'll know with surpassing certainty that only one thing is more frightening
than speaking your truth. And that is not speaking.”
―
Audre Lorde
“I
am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but
I am bound to live up to what light I have.”
―
Abraham Lincoln
“A
fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement”
―
Jess C Scott
“Live
your truth. Express your love. Share your enthusiasm. Take action towards your
dreams. Walk your talk. Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings.
Make today worth remembering.”
―
Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human
Experience
“Oh,
what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.”
―
Walter Scott, Marmion
“Man
is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself
from them.”
―
Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
