All Quotes

The truth is that the writers who most influenced me weren't people categorized as crime writers. I'd say I learned more from John O'Hara, who isn't much read today but whose short stories I really admired, and Hemingway, who I think has lasted pretty good.
‐‐ Elmore Leonard

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.
‐‐ Jean-Luc Godard

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
‐‐ Helen Hayes

The truth is that throughout my careers in both chess and the martial arts, I often knew that my rivals were more naturally gifted than me - either with their mental machines or their bodies. But I have believed in my training, my approach to learning, and my ability to rise to the challenge under pressure.
‐‐ Joshua Waitzkin

The truth is that to enjoy acting one must be an exhibitionist at heart, one must revel in those exposures of the emotions which would be agonizing to a shy or reserved person. All the great actors have been and are exhibitionists.
‐‐ Leslie Howard

The truth is that we all have lives that are complicated. We all get hurt by people we love sometimes. It's laughable to believe that anyone is immune. The important thing is how you behave.
‐‐ Tamara Mellon

The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
‐‐ Tony Robbins

The truth is that we don't need everyone to like us; we need a few people to love us. Because what's better than being roundly liked is being fully known - an impossibility both professionally and personally if you're so busy being likable that you forget to be yourself.
‐‐ Jessica Valenti

The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
‐‐ Jorge Luis Borges

The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.
‐‐ Yehuda Berg

The truth is that when it comes to suffering, if we do not go to our graves in confusion, we will not go to our graves trusting. Explanations are a substitute for trust.
‐‐ Tullian Tchividjian

The truth is that you can't really tell how anybody's doing in the tech business for at least five or 10 years.
‐‐ Steve Ballmer

The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.
‐‐ Robert Capa

The truth is, the difference between a studio photographer and a photojournalist is the same as the difference between a political cartoonist and an abstract painter; the only thing the two have in common is the blank page. The jobs entail different talents and different desires.
‐‐ Lynsey Addario

The truth is, the 'Fortune' 500 prefer lobbying to campaigning.
‐‐ Bradley A. Smith

The truth is, the NFL will never respect women and their opinions as long as the media it answers to doesn't. I'm ready when you are, Fox.
‐‐ Katie Nolan

The truth is the real Christian experience is truly about repenting every day because there is no Christian that doesn't sin.
‐‐ Stephen Baldwin

The truth is the Republican leadership has created a credit card Congress that is recklessly selling out the future of America, our children and our grandchildren, and President Bush is the most fiscally irresponsible President in the history of America.
‐‐ Dennis Cardoza

The truth is, the secular world isn't too enamored with Jesus. And they're not too enamored with someone who is leading people to Jesus. So if you're out there talking about people's sins, and you're talking about righteousness, you will get pushback. Jesus Himself did. The apostles did. I mean, there's persecution all up and down the line.
‐‐ Pat Robertson

The truth is, the sport of skiing takes so much effort, setting up and traveling with equipment, that you can only train for a certain number of days in the summer. Most of my peers ski between 40 to 60 days. I ski about 55 days.
‐‐ Julia Mancuso

The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy.
‐‐ Bob Schieffer

The truth is the truth is the truth. And as long as you tell the truth, you'll be okay in the end.
‐‐ Don Lemon

The truth is, there are probably eight more 'Snow White' scripts floating around out there. And once one 'Snow White' script got hot, other people started pulling out their 'Snow White' scripts.
‐‐ Evan Daugherty

The truth is, there is no link between vaccines and autism. Vaccines are incredibly important.
‐‐ Timothy Simons

The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.
‐‐ Adam McKay

The truth is, this being errand boy to one hundred and fifty thousand people tires me so by night I am ready for bed instead of soirees.
‐‐ Rutherford B. Hayes

The truth is this is a very dangerous world.
‐‐ Mike Rogers

The truth is, those who diligently seek to learn of Christ eventually will come to know Him. They will personally receive a divine portrait of the Master, although it most often comes in the form of a puzzle - one piece at a time.
‐‐ Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The truth is, through all these years of public service, the 'service' part has always come easier to me than the 'public' part.
‐‐ Hillary Clinton

The truth is, truly passionate media creators don't get into the media business to make huge gains from spectacular unicorn exits. When it happens, we certainly all cheer (and perhaps secretly hope it happens to us). But the fact is, we make media because we don't know what else to do with ourselves. It's how we're wired, so to speak.
‐‐ John Battelle

The truth is, unlike TV and film cameras, the theater stage doesn't add 10 pounds.
‐‐ Sara Ramirez

The truth is very few of us are related to Napoleon or Cleopatra. Although, those are bad examples as I am actually descended from both of them.
‐‐ Jim Piddock

The truth is, we have this idea that late night is about creativity and being cool, but that's not our job. Our job is to get as many people watching the commercials in between our show. That's the reality of it.
‐‐ Jimmy Kimmel

The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments.
‐‐ Brad Holland

The truth is we just have a normal life, because we do have a church where our children are growing up pastor's children. And we just try to keep it really normal.
‐‐ Victoria Osteen

The truth is we need to build an economy going forward with all of us, when we all move forward and the payment of a national debt is not the responsibility of one group of Americans versus another.
‐‐ Paul Sadler

The truth is, we're all cyborgs with cell phones and online identities.
‐‐ Geoff Johns

The truth is, what Americans enjoy about football is much of what makes the sport dangerous. However, I believe there must be a way to find the art of success and vitality in football, without the driving the level of impact that causes serious risk of head trauma, paralysis and other life-changing injuries.
‐‐ Naveen Jain

The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.
‐‐ Sam Donaldson

The truth is, when I started to make films, I was terrified. I had a huge difference in what I was writing in the screenplay and what was on the screen after. Sometimes there was a big gap. Now, the more I have experienced, the more I do movies, the more I feel that the dream is closer to the screen. It's coming with experience.
‐‐ Denis Villeneuve

The truth is when I went to graduate school I would've said I was among the least talented of the students, I was certainly the least smart, or less educated. But I worked very hard.
‐‐ Mary Karr

The truth is when you have a movie that was as successful as 'Chronicle' was, it's not as quick of a process. There are a lot more voices coming in and saying 'This is what the sequel should be' because there's a bigger expectation and a bigger fear of failure. And that's really what's going on with 'Chronicle 2.'
‐‐ Max Landis

The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also to improve their health and the health of their families. Increased access to contraception is directly linked to declines in maternal and infant mortality.
‐‐ Felicity Huffman

The truth is, working on single camera, show or film, you have no life. You work 60-80 hours a week. You're up before your kid gets up, and you're home when they go to sleep.
‐‐ Jaime Pressly

The truth is, you can be honest with your friends - but you just can't be honest with the general public if you want to keep your friends.
‐‐ Jennifer Saunders

The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees.
‐‐ Demi Moore

The truth is you can't get more water from reservoirs that are empty.
‐‐ Frances Beinecke

The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.
‐‐ Eminem

The truth is, you have a much richer life if you somehow lead one that you can hold together.
‐‐ Ralph Macchio

The truth is, you have about three paragraphs in a short story, three pages in a novel, to capture that editor's attention enough for her to finish your story.
‐‐ Nancy Kress