“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
— Oscar Wilde“Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.”
— George R.R. Martin“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters”
— Albert Einstein“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”
— George Washington“Truth builds trust.”
— Marilyn Suttle“Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.”
— Jess C Scott“She asked if I loved another woman, so I answered honestly and said, “Dinner was great, but I could go for dessert.”
— Dark Jar Tin Zoo“To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken. ”
— Dark Jar Tin Zoo“My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism.”
— Jess C Scott“Fuck it... That's really the attitude that keeps a family together, it's not we love each other, it's just fuck it, man.”
— Louis C.K.“A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement”
— Jess C Scott“Those sweet lips. My, oh my, I could kiss those lips all night long.Good things come to those who wait.”
— Jess C. Scott“V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.”
— Jess C Scott“It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about.”
— Criss Jami“Some concepts are so incredibly risky they take an honest fool to try to articulate them.”
— Criss Jami“Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.”
— Hemingway Ernest“The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them.”
— Rachel Maddow“Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.”
— Jane Austen“Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.”
— Walter Scott“Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.”
— Criss Jami“I felt like an animal, and animals don’t know sin, do they?”
— Jess C. Scott“Please, touch me, I pray.”
— Jess C Scott“Friends ask you questions; enemies question you.”
— Criss Jami“Falsehood is never in words; it is in things.”
— Italo Calvino“When God takes out the trash, don't go digging back through it. Trust Him.”
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana“Lies don't end relationships the truth does.”
— Shannon L. Alder“Nothing is easier than self-deceit.For what every man wishes,that he also believes to be true.”
— Demosthenes“Words don’t have the power to hurt you, unless that person meant more to you than you are willing to confess.”
— Shannon L. Alder“You never know who you're inspiring or uninspiring. People notice more than you think.”
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana“Stop lying to yourself. When we deny our own truth, we deny our own potential.”
— Steve Maraboli“Your words will either give you joy or give you sorrow, but if they were spoken without regret, they give you peace.”
— Shannon Alder“LET'S FACE IT...WE ALL HEAR BLOODY LIES, WE ALL SEE DECEPTION WITH OUR OWN EYES,WE ARE NEITHER DUMB NOR BLIND... WE JUST DON'T HAVE THE COURAGE TO SPEAK OUR MINDS.”
— Mouloud Benzadi“A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn't know.”
— Criss Jami“It's good to see the snakes revealing themselves. They weren't actually hidden at all. People hide behind the masks, but eventually you see them for who they truly are.”
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana“You have to be transparent so you no longer cast a shadow but instead let the light pass through you.”
— Kamand Kojouri“We’re fine.’ A few feet away, Aurum snarled quietly, which meant Nico was lying.”
— Rick Riordan“Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.”
— Thomas Jefferson“When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”
— Jess C. Scott“It is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you will understand why everything in the past never worked.”
— Shannon L. Alder“[novan]: bassists are very good with their fingers[novan]: and some of us sing backup vocals, so that means we're good with our mouths too...(~ IM chat with Novan Chang, 18, bassist)”
— Jess C Scott“If someone doesn't care to accept you, respect you, believe in you, don't hesitate to move on and let them go. There are many who love and appreciate you just the way you are.”
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana“In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie.”
— Criss Jami“I was flipping channels, watching this cheerleading program on MTV. They took a field hockey girl and “transformed” her into a cheerleader by the end of the show. I was just wondering: what if she liked field hockey better?”
— Jess C Scott“When you don’t have honesty in love then there is no communication. Honesty is improvisation of the heart; anything less is a well thought out and rehearsed script.”
— Shannon L. Alder