#ruth

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#out #shutting #soul #truth

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#near #oracle #poet #poetry #true

My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#every #his #own #tell #time

Kids are brought into show business because they are cute and see truth and they're very bright. But there's a sense of doing it because you want the adults to be approving of you. You want to make them happy. ↗

— Anna Chlumsky

#because #bright #brought #business #cute

Today, the biggest challenge we must meet is the one we present to ourselves. To not become a nation that places entitlement ahead of accomplishment. To not become a country that places comfortable lies ahead of difficult truths. To not become a people that thinks so little of ourselves that we demand no sacrifice from each other. ↗

— Chris Christie

#ahead #become #biggest #biggest challenge #challenge

Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

#made #often #scoundrels #time #traitor

If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth. ↗

— John Cleese

#better #get #i #i can #ideas

People will feel safer around you and speak truthfully to you when they feel you are listening intently to them. ↗

— Brian Koslow

#feel #intently #listening #people #safer

It is of no help to us that there is an absolute truth of the matter of things because unfortunately, none of us are in a position to say definitively what that is - although we all think that we are. ↗

— Stanley Fish

#absolute truth #although #because #definitively #help

To tell you the truth I am hard put to think of anyone who's career was affected significantly by making all those phone calls and I must be wrong. I must be wrong! Because it has just got to pay off! ↗

— Dabney Coleman

#am #anyone #because #calls #career