Truth Quotes
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"A bit of talcum is always walcum."Source: Reflection on Babies | Author: Ogden Nash
"A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as clear as the nose on your face."Source: Pinocchio | Speaker: The Blue Fairy
"A Swiss watch or a woman from anywhere."Source: Red River | Speaker: Cherry Valance
"All in the game. All in the game, yo."Source: The Wire | Speaker: Omar Little
"All the lonely Starbucks lovers, they'll tell you I'm insane."Source: Blank Space | Speaker: Taylor Swift
"And I hold within my hand Grains of the golden sand"Source: A Dream within a Dream | Author: Edgar Allan Poe
"And I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"And that's the way it is."Source: CBS Evening News | Speaker: Walter Cronkite
"Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong."Source: None. | Speaker: Edward Murphy
"Anything. Can be a slam. Poem. If you say it like this."Source: Parks and Recreation | Speaker: Leslie Knope
"Because I could not stop for death — He kindly stopped for me —"Source: Because I could not stop for Death | Author: Emily Dickinson
"Because only one thing counts in this life: get them to sign on the line which is dotted."Source: Glengarry Glen Ross | Speaker: Blake
"Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are."Source: The Alchemist | Author: Paulo Coelho
"Billions and billions."Source: Carl Sagan | Speaker: Carl Sagan
"Bread makes you fat?"Source: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World | Speaker: Scott Pilgrim
"Burn!"Source: That '70s Show | Speaker: Kelso
"But it does move."Source: Unknown | Speaker: Galileo Galilei
"Butts."Source: Bob's Burgers | Speaker: Tina Belcher
"Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?"Source: The Book of Jeremiah | Speaker: The Prophet Jeremiah
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."Source: "Loving Your Enemies" Sermon, Christmas Day 1957 | Speaker: Martin Luther King Jr.
"Dear frozen yogurt: you are the celery of desserts. Be ice cream or nothing. Zero stars."Source: Parks and Recreation | Speaker: Ron Swanson
"Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom."Source: 1896 Letter to Booker T. Washington | Author: George Washington Carver
"Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world."Source: 2003 Speech | Speaker: Nelson Mandela
"Everybody lies."Source: House M.D. | Speaker: Dr. Gregory House
"He tells you when you've got on too much lipstick"Source: The Perfect Husband | Author: Ogden Nash
"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it."Source: Misquoted | Speaker: Winston Churchill
"Human beings can be awful cruel to one another."Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Author: Mark Twain
"I ain't so tough."Source: The Public Enemy | Speaker: Tom Powers
"I am definitely a mad man with a box."Source: Doctor Who | Speaker: Eleventh Doctor
"I am not an animal!"Source: Elephant Man | Speaker: John Merrick
"I can see Russia from my house!"Source: TV Interview | Speaker: Sarah Palin
"I did not have sexual relations with that woman."Source: Televised Press Conference | Speaker: Bill Clinton
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."Speaker: Voltaire
"I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing."Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Author: Mark Twain
"I don't know what's right and what's real anymore."Source: The Fear | Speaker: Lily Allen
"I don't like work—no man does—but I like what is in the work—the chance to find yourself."Source: Heart of Darkness | Author: Joseph Conrad
"I don't think you ready for this jelly."Source: "Bootylicious" | Speaker: Destiny's Child
"I know it was you, Fredo."Source: The Godfather, Part II | Speaker: Michael Corleone
"I like big butts and I cannot lie."Source: Baby Got Back | Speaker: Sir Mix-a-Lot
"I love mankind… It's people I can't stand."Source: Peanuts (comic) | Author: Charles M. Schulz
"I love you more than a wasp can sting."Source: To My Valentine | Author: Ogden Nash
"I might love the people upstairs more If only they lived on another floor."Source: The People Upstairs | Author: Ogden Nash
"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."Source: 1780 Letter | Author: John Adams
"I need to know that I'm being heard."Source: The Comeback | Speaker: Valerie Cherish
"I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber, poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys."Source: A Supermarket in California | Author: Allen Ginsberg
"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good"Source: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Author: J.K. Rowling
"I stand behind my decision to avoid salad and other disgusting things"Source: Parks and Recreation | Speaker: Leslie Knope
"I used to love doggy chow."Source: Showgirls | Speaker: Cristal Connors
"I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters—two beautiful, intelligent, Black young women—playing with their dogs on the White House lawn."Source: 2016 Democratic National Convention Speech | Speaker: Michelle Obama
"I want my MTV!"Source: MTV commercial | Speaker: Various
"I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules."Source: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Speaker: Jefferson Smith
"I'll have what she's having."Source: When Harry Met Sally | Speaker: A deli patron
"I'm no hero. I put my bra on one boob at a time like everyone else."Source: Bob's Burgers | Speaker: Tina Belcher
"I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way."Source: Who Framed Roger Rabbit | Speaker: Jessica Rabbit
"I'm not even supposed to be here today."Source: Clerks | Speaker: Dante Hicks
"I'm the man who's gonna save your lives and all 6 billion people on the planet below. You got a problem with that?"Source: Doctor Who | Speaker: The Tenth Doctor
"If no one fought except on his own conviction, there would be no wars."Source: War and Peace | Author: Leo Tolstoy
"If you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth."Source: Gandhi | Speaker: Gandhi
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."Source: Misquote | Speaker: Joseph Goebbels
"If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make a change."Source: "Man in the Mirror" | Speaker: Michael Jackson
"If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."Source: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | Author: J. K. Rowling
"In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, and they had 500 years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."Source: The Third Man | Speaker: Harry Lime
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."Source: Pride and Prejudice | Author: Jane Austen
"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life."Source: Star Trek: The Next Generation | Speaker: Jean-Luc Picard
"It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well."Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends."Source: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | Author: J.K. Rowling
"It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily."Source: Shanghai Express | Speaker: Shanghai Lily
"It's a hell of a thing killing a man."Source: Unforgiven | Speaker: William Munny
"It's better to look at the sky than live there."Source: Breakfast at Tiffany's | Author: Truman Capote
"It's me. I'm the thing that needs to be fixed. I'm the thing that needs to be handled. I'm the scandal, and the best way to deal with a scandal is to shut it down."Source: Scandal | Speaker: Olivia Pope
"It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me."Source: Batman Begins | Speaker: Batman
"Just one more thing..."Source: Columbo | Speaker: Lieutenant Columbo
"Just the facts, ma'am."Source: Dragnet | Speaker: Sgt. Joe Friday
"Love fades away. But things...things are forever."Source: Parks and Recreation | Speaker: Tom Haverford
"Love means never having to say you're sorry."Source: Love Story | Speaker: Jenny
"Lucy, you got some 'splainin' to do."Source: I Love Lucy | Speaker: Ricky Ricardo
"Man is the measure of all things."Source: Truth | Author: Protagoras
"Man is the only creature that consumes without producing."Source: Animal Farm | Author: George Orwell
"Maybe Christmas, perhaps...means a little bit more!"Source: How the Grinch Stole Christmas | Author: Dr. Seuss
"Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor, and it can never be used to hurt you."Source: Game of Thrones | Speaker: Tyrion Lannister
"Not that there's anything wrong with that."Source: Seinfeld | Speaker: Jerry Seinfeld
"One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them."Source: Brave New World | Author: Aldous Huxley
"One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them"Source: To Kill a Mockingbird | Author: Harper Lee
"Put the lime in the coconut."Source: "Coconut" | Speaker: Harry Nilsson
"Right is right, and wrong is wrong."Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Author: Mark Twain
"Seize the moment. 'Cause tomorrow you might be dead."Source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Speaker: Buffy Summers
"Snap out of it!"Source: Moonstruck | Speaker: Loretta Castorini
"Sometimes being stuck inside my own head is so exhausting it makes me want to cry."Source: Girls | Speaker: Marnie Michaels
"Sometimes I can feel my bones straining"Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close | Author: Jonathan Safran Foer
"Starve a cold, feed a fever."Source: Medieval Reference Manual | Author: John Withals
"Struggle is a never-ending process. Freedom is never really won. You earn it and win it in every generation."Source: My Life with Martin Luther King Jr. | Author: Coretta Scott King
"Tell all the truth but tell it slant"Source: Tell all the truth but tell it slant— | Author: Emily Dickinson
"That the sun will not rise tomorrow implies no more contradiction than that it will rise."Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding | Author: David Hume
"That's when you know you've found somebody really special. When you can just…comfortably share silence."Source: Pulp Fiction | Speaker: Mia Wallace
"The Dude abides."Source: The Big Lebowski | Speaker: Jeff "the Dude" Lebowski
"The gift of a good liar is making people believe you lack a talent for lying."Source: House of Cards | Speaker: Frank Underwood
"The hardest thing in this world is to live in it."Source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Speaker: Buffy Summers
"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."Source: I Can Read with My Eyes Shut! | Author: Dr. Seuss
"The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence either way."Source: An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish | Author: Bertrand Russell
"The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience."Source: Dune | Author: Frank Herbert
"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few."Source: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan | Speaker: Spock
"The proof is in the pudding."Source: Proverb | Speaker: Unknown
"The record shows I took the blows and did it my way."Source: "My Way" | Speaker: Frank Sinatra
"The seaweed is always greener in somebody else's lake."Source: The Little Mermaid | Speaker: Sebastian
"The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him…"Source: Eichmann in Jerusalem | Author: Hannah Arendt
"The trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry."Source: The Trouble with Poetry | Author: Billy Collins
"The truth is out there."Source: The X-Files | Speaker: Title Sequence
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."Source: The Importance of Being Earnest | Author: Oscar Wilde
"The truth is...I am Iron Man."Source: Iron Man | Speaker: Tony Stark
"There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment."Source: The Truth About Forever | Author: Sarah Dessen
"There's something in our world that makes men lose their heads—they couldn't be fair if they tried."Source: To Kill a Mockingbird | Author: Harper Lee
"There’s only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you’ve got to be kind."Source: God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater | Author: Kurt Vonnegut
"This is a man's world. But it wouldn't be nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl."Source: It's a Man's Man's Man's World | Speaker: James Brown
"This is no dream! This is really happening!"Source: Rosemary's Baby | Speaker: Rosemary Woodhouse
"This is not one of your more convincing fake showers."Source: Girls | Speaker: Marnie Michaels
"This is the city."Source: Dragnet | Speaker: Sergeant Joe Friday
"This is the people's war!"Source: Mrs. Miniver | Speaker: The Vicar
"This whole court's out of order!"Source: …And Justice for All | Speaker: Arthur Kirkland
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."Source: Pennsylvania Assembly | Author: Benjamin Franklin
"Time is a flat circle."Source: True Detective | Speaker: Rust Cohle
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."Source: The Lorax | Author: Dr. Seuss
"Wake up Maggie, I think I got something to say to you."Source: "Maggie May" | Speaker: Rod Stewart
"War—huh yeah—what is it good for? Absolutely nothing!"Source: War | Speaker: Edwin Starr
"Watch the skies. Everywhere. Keep looking. Keep watching the skies."Source: The Thing from Another World | Speaker: Ned "Scotty" Scott
"We are not makers of history; we are made by history."Source: Strength to Love | Author: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be very careful what we pretend to be."Source: Mother Night | Author: Kurt Vonnegut
"We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice."Source: "The Celebration of Negro History Week" in The Journal of Negro History | Author: Carter G. Woodson
"We'll never be royals."Source: "Royals" | Speaker: Lorde
"We're not worthy! We're not worthy!"Source: Wayne's World | Speaker: Wayne and Garth
"We've got a situation."Source: Jersey Shore | Speaker: Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino
"Well-behaved women rarely make history."Source: Marilyn Monroe | Author: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
"What a treacherous thing to believe a person is more than a person."Source: Paper Towns | Author: John Green
"What he did to Shakespeare we are doing now to Poland."Source: To Be or Not to Be | Speaker: Colonel Ehrhardt
"What is the point of worrying oneself too much about what one could or could not have done to control the course one's life took?"Source: The Remains of the Day | Author: Kazuo Ishiguro
"What you see is what you get!"Source: The Flip Wilson Show | Speaker: Geraldine Jones
"When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake."Source: To Kill a Mockingbird | Author: Harper Lee
"When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it."Source: Matthew 27:24 | Author: Matthew
"When you control the mail...you control information."Source: Seinfeld | Speaker: Newman
"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Whenever you're wrong, admit it Whenever you're right, shut up."Source: A Word to Husbands | Author: Ogden Nash
"Whisper words of wisdom, let it be."Source: "Let It Be" | Speaker: The Beatles
"Who's on first."Source: The Naughty Nineties | Speaker: Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
"Words can be like X-Rays if you use them properly – they'll go through anything."Source: Brave New World | Author: Aldous Huxley
"Would you believe…?"Source: Get Smart | Speaker: Maxwell Smart
"You are from New York; therefore, you are just naturally interesting."Source: Girls | Speaker: Hannah Horvath
"You can never step into the same river twice."Source: Cratylus by Plato | Author: Heraclitus
"You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find you get what you need."Source: You Can't Always Get What You Want | Speaker: The Rolling Stones
"You can't handle the truth!"Source: A Few Good Men | Speaker: Col. Nathan R. Jessup
"You can't live forever; you can't live forever."Source: The Great Gatsby | Speaker: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war."Source: 1946 Letter | Author: Albert Einstein
"You come at the king, you best not miss."Source: The Wire | Speaker: Omar Little
"You know, Billy. We blew it."Source: Easy Rider | Speaker: Wyatt
"You must never lend any money to anybody unless they don't need it."Source: Bankers Are Just Like Anybody Else, Except Richer | Author: Ogden Nash
"You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."Source: No Country for Old Men | Author: Cormac McCarthy
"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you."Source: Persuasion | Author: Jane Austen
"You should never assume."Source: The Odd Couple | Speaker: Felix Unger
"You think I'm licked. You all think I'm licked. Well, I'm not licked."Source: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Speaker: Jefferson Smith
"You're so money and you don't even know it."Source: Swingers | Speaker: Trent Walker
"You're the sanest man that ever walked into this courtroom."Source: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | Speaker: Judge May