#tru

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#brave #coward #either #him #man

That's the method: restructure the world we live in in some way, then see what happens. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#live #method #restructure #see #some

When war is declared, truth is the first casualty. ↗

— Arthur Ponsonby

#declared #first #truth #truth is #war

Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime. ↗

— Maximilien Robespierre

#attempts #butchers #crime #innocence #might

A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true. ↗

— Catherine Crowe

#afterwards #age #authorities #been #both

Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#good #hurts #real #sometimes #truth

I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards. ↗

— Dick Dale

#everything #horn #i #i can #instrument

There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning. ↗

— James Dean

#crook #great #truly #way #world

In Manhattan, and its true on some level till this day; its a whole different mentality from the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, which I didn't know at the time - because you basically just know your neighborhood. ↗

— Kool Moe Dee

#because #bronx #brooklyn #day #different

I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets. ↗

— Hamlin Garland

#breath #cedar #dawns #fragrant #hundred