Quotes for All
The first thing a writer has to do is find another source of income. Then, after you have begged, borrowed, stolen or saved up the money to give you time to write and you spend all of it staying alive while you write, and you write your heart out, after all that, maybe no one … Read more
The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow. Edward Abbey
Sharona Muir has written a gripping personal memoir about her odyssey to rediscover and reclaim her father. Along the way she uncovers some hard truths about the heroic founders of Israel and the Beginnings of Israeli science. The Book of Telling keeps in all the fears and resentments and consolations and warmth of such a … Read more
One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths. Friedrich Nietzsche
Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do. Fareed Zakaria
I kind of talk about songwriting in the sense that it’s really not my job to try to state hard truths. I’m not out to say this is what truth is, this is what’s false, this is reality, this is not reality. What I prefer is to try to create a space where truth can … Read more
The ability to make hard truths palatable is one that every long-lived co-leader has mastered. David A. Heenan
Lucas had told me only one lie, ever; he kept the secret of black Cross because it wasn’t his secret to tell. In every other way, he’d been honest with me and shared the hard truths nobody else thought I deserved to hear. Claudia Gray
The President’s biggest problem right now is he’s gotta tell the truth. And we’ve seen this in New Jersey. I’ve told lots of hard truths in New Jersey that people didn’t necessarily agree with, but they give you credit for looking them in the eye and telling them the truth. Chris Christie
When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, that is the heart of science. Carl Sagan