#ruth

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

It's a classic album. If it ain't better than 'The Truth,' it's right there with it. I wouldn't say it if I ain't think so, 'cause 'The Truth' was my baby. That's the pure album. ↗

— Beanie Sigel

#baby #better #cause #classic #i

I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's questions after his first day's activity in his future profession. ↗

— Simone Signoret

#activity #actor #after #alive #answer

It takes much longer to leave the psychic place than the physical place." (p.120) ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#truth-telling #inspirational

Laine had been very proud of herself last night. Nicholas had talked about ghosts and magic and woven a bit of a spell himself. He'd sounded so convincing, so logical, so sad, that she'd found herself wanting to believe him. But testing prods at his argument had made him angry, and long years with Gavin had taught her that angry, defensive people shared the lousy habit of being wrong. ↗

— Stephen M. Irwin

#charisma #conning #defensiveness #pride #supernatural

The truth, my friend, is an awesome thing, to be handled with wisdom and with courage denied to ordinary people. Most of us must make do with illusions. Or else -- or else we could not endure. ↗

— Ruth Tessler Goldstein

#truth #courage

The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have forgotten what to do. They have become so skilled in finding facts that they have no use for the truths that would make the facts worth finding. ↗

— Albion W. Small

#become #facts #finding #forgotten #historians

I believe that an artist working for and representing the Kingdom of God should do the best of their ability to show and prove the depth, life, newness, creativity, truth and excitement of their Heavenly Father through the work that is set before them. ↗

— Daniel Smith

#artist #before #believe #best #creativity

If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth. ↗

— Morris West

#divine #function #god #his #image