#telling the truth

I had earlier concluded that a war with Iraq would be a distraction from the successful and expeditious completion of our aims in Afghanistan. Now I had come to question whether the White House was telling the truth. ↗

— Bob Graham

#aims #come #completion #concluded #distraction

If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth. ↗

— Gerald Vann

#distorting #history #long #long succession #say

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act. ↗

— George Orwell

#deceit #revolutionary #telling #telling the truth #time

I think I'm telling the truth. I sat by Ray Perkins at the Hall of Fame dinner in New York, and at that time he didn't know he was our coach and I didn't either. ↗

— Bear Bryant

#dinner #either #fame #hall #i

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me. ↗

— Joe Biden

#me #never #someone #telling #telling the truth

I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy. ↗

— Lee Child

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In this play we're dealing with relative truths - who's lying, who's telling the truth. But underneath that, Ed and I have hit this deeper level of intimacy between old friends that comes out in the play. ↗

— Fred Ward

#comes #dealing #deeper #deeper level #ed

Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims. This is not a bigoted statement. It is a statement of my feelings, my fears after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by radical Muslims. ↗

— Juan Williams

#airplane #am #attacks #bigoted #dressed

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people. ↗

— Philip Guedalla

#autobiography #other #people #telling #telling the truth

I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#am #artist #atheist #distrust #everything