#tru

A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#call #does #get #mankind #our

Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#both #conflict #cure #everybody #give

The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching. ↗

— Dave Chappelle

#especially #everybody #hardest #the hardest thing #thing

The true art of memory is the art of attention. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#attention #memory #true #true art

I soon discovered, after I became chairman of the NEH, that, for a number of academics, the truth was not merely irrelevant - it no longer existed. ↗

— Lynne Cheney

#after #became #chairman #discovered #existed

I'm not talking about the blood ecstasy. I'm talking about my being able to fill that emotion void she has. You know her as well as I do, maybe better. She aches with it. She needs to be accepted for who she is so badly. And I was able to do that. Do you know good that felt? To be able to show someone that, yes, you are someone worth sacrificing for? That you like them for their faults and that you respect them for their ability to rise above them? ↗

— Kim Harrison

#acceptance-of-others #friendship #friendship-true-and-loyal #inspirational #love

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#author #bad #good #hero #novel

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#matters #nine #ought #out #proof

Our task was doing maintenance and repairs to keep the station in a good state for the return of the shuttle flights and resumption of major ISS construction. ↗

— Leroy Chiao

#doing #flights #good #keep #maintenance

The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible. ↗

— Jacques Chirac

#art #construction #europe #possible