#ruth

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect. ↗

— John Ruskin

#fantastic #imperfect #important #most #nevertheless

My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#truth #dead

Just because everybody else is engaged in a group hug with Barack Obama doesn't mean that somebody doesn't have to tell the truth. ↗

— Joe Scarborough

#barack obama #because #else #engaged #everybody

The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#beauty #truth #beauty

If 'All' --quite seriously all---'for love' is implicit in the Beloved's attitude, his or her love is not worth having. It is not related in the right way to Love Himself. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#romance #the-four-loves #truth #attitude

One can spend too much of one's life locked in stuffy rooms seeking out obscure truths, searching, researching, until one is too old to enjoy life. ↗

— Jimmy Sangster

#enjoy life #life #locked #much #obscure

Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#devices #everyone #far #forms #goes

Both the two of us knew it. We watched the lie go up big and slow between us, then it burst like a spit bubble. They always burst before too long. ↗

— Stephen Kelman

#lie #truth #age

Our family had been shattered, but we now are more united, and the remains of my family and the majority of my mother's family are glad to know the truth about a horrible crime. ↗

— Sam Sheppard

#been #crime #family #glad #had

If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

#love