#truth

'The Help' sheds light on a certain truth in America, but the tragedy is if we don't get a chance to contrast it with other points of views. 'The Butler' does that, 'Red Tails' does that and that's what '96 Minutes' does. ↗

— David Oyelowo

#butler #certain #chance #contrast #does

I like the idea that when I die, I will have a long sit-down chat with God and get answers to all my questions. For example, those apple cores that I threw out of car windows when I was a child—did any of them become trees? Few boys or men had ever asked me out. I told myself that it was because I was almost 6-feet tall. Was that true or was there something humbling I needed to know? ↗

— Kristine K. Stevens

#journey #pilgrimage #travel #travel-writing #truth

Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold. ↗

— Theodore Parker

#broadcast #catch #dead #fell #however

No secular state ever existed and none would exist until the end of the French Revolution, and so we understand that America was built on the Judeo-Christian ethic and we believe that this nominee is going to see to it that those truths are upheld. ↗

— Rod Parsley

#believe #built #christian ethic #end #ethic

No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God. ↗

— Saint Patrick

#anything #conclusion #did #ever #forth

All we can do is keep going up against then as long as Ray is alive because when he dies it will not be possible to establish the truth of his innocence in a court of law. ↗

— William Pepper

#alive #because #court #dies #establish

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#great #great men #melancholy #men #poor

Official truths are often powerful illusions. ↗

— John Pilger

#official #often #powerful #truths

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth. ↗

— George Dennison Prentice

#bare #naked #necessarily #truth

Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history. ↗