Telling Half Truths Quotes & Sayings

The last void stone I'd worn was a beautiful black stone caught in vines of copper and silver. It looked like a necklace, a piece of art, really. This thing was spud-ugly. — Devon Monk

It's not enough to be able to lie with a straight face; anybody with enough gall to raise on a busted flush can do that. The first way to lie artistically is to tell the truth - but not all of it. The second way involves telling the truth, too, but is harder: Tell the exact truth and maybe all of it ... but tell it so unconvincingly that your listener is sure you are lying. — Robert A. Heinlein

Only fool keeps mocking perseverance. — Toba Beta

We were United World Federalists back then. I don't know what we are now. Telephoners, I guess. We telephone a lot - or I do, anyway, late at night. — Kurt Vonnegut

We must thank to all the failed people in the history as they showed us the true way to success! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It hurt the economic historians, the Marxists and the fabians, to admit that the Ten Hour Bill, the basic piece of 19th century legislation, came down from the top, out of aa nobleman's private feelings about the Gospel, or that the abolition of the slave trade was achieved, not through the operation of some "law" of profit and loss, but peurlet as the result of tyhe new humanitarianism of the Evangelicals. — Barbara Tuchman

Basically, I feel inspired by any artist that seems to want to introduce the world to their likes and perspective rather than trying to shape their interests and point of view to fit better into the world around them. — Marie Calloway

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying. — Dale Carnegie

What joy to fully know and feel the bond of true friendship. — Jaye L. Knight

When we go to a restaurant, they don't ask, 'Do you want the asbestos section or the non-asbestos section?' They do ask, 'Do you want smoking or nonsmoking?' — John Roberts

We all know that the un-examined life is not worth living (socrates). But if all you are doing is examining, you are not living. — Adam Leipzig

Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity & disenchantment it is perennial as the grass. — Max Ehrmann

How you eat is how you live. — Geneen Roth

There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new. — Oscar Wilde

There's always gonna be rock n' roll bands, there's always gonna be kids that love rock n' roll records, and there will always be rock n' roll. — Dave Grohl

My son craves picture books about Transformers and Ninja Turtles and the Hulk; they show one fantastic creature smashing or zapping another into smithereens on page after page. They are dull and ugly and show no interesting stories or models of conflict resolution or character building. — Russell Smith

There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one. — Alexander McCall Smith