#truth

The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#come #dreadful #ideas #out #people

You sang in church, you know, and you didn't act at all. You tried not to act, you tried to tell the truth. The idea of being a troubadour on the road singing for your supper was very disturbing to him. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#being #church #disturbing #him #idea

You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#know #oath #stand #tell #took

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please. ↗

— Mother Jones

#am #i #i am #pen #please

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer. ↗

— Shunryu Suzuki

#accept #accepting #although #because #cannot

But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you. ↗

— Vanessa Kerry

#away #believe #best #do your best #fight

The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy. ↗

— Ken Kesey

#mercy #truth

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#discrimination #dominating #every #gnaws #inferiority

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. ↗

— Stephen King

#duty #endlessly #friends #lie #lovers

All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about. ↗

— Nigel Kneale

#honesty #just #otherwise #playing #should