Untruths Synonym Quotes & Sayings

There is nothing more beautiful in this world than a healthy, wise old man. — Lin Yutang

Identity is the history that has gone into bone and blood and reshaped the flesh. Identity is not what we were but what we have become what we are at this moment. — Nick Joaquin

Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly. — Nancy Kress

Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error. The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him. — William Faulkner

Under NAFTA, businesses, their property and their money can travel back and forth across national borders with relative ease, while workers who try to do the same are dubbed illegal, and are snatched off the streets and off factory floors, and are carted back over the borders they crossed. In the "free market" of NAFTA, the freedom is for the wealth and personnel of the capitalists- the thieves- there is no corresponding freedom for the refugees of land theft and conquest whose only capital is their daily toil.

Capitalism is the immense and widely celebrated ideological package used to rewrap theft as freedom, to recast imperialism as democracy. (273) Mexico Unconquered — John Gibler

I'm a firm believe that a man looks his best in a suit and I feel like in the late 40's people just dressed up to do everything. — Anthony Mackie

None of it means anything unless people see who you really are and your music had to be who you really are it's gotta show how you feel or it doesn't mean anything. — Stardevonno

There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful. — Oscar Wilde

Sexual union is a holy moment in which a part of Heaven flows into the Earth. — James Redfield

Just because she's dead it doesn't mean I stopped loving her or that she stopped loving me. It's just her body that left. The love didn't.
- Jenna Richards — Julius Lester

People do not want words - they want the sound of battle - the battle of destiny. — Gamal Abdel Nasser

It made sense. But rich folk, they had a different word for the crapper. They'd call it a "commode" or a "washroom." That way, when someone asked for the crapper, they knew it was a person they needed to oppress. — Brandon Sanderson

Shamash grant your wish.
What your mouth has said, may your eyes see.
May he open for you the barred path,
unclose the road for your footsteps,
unlock the mountain for your foot.
May the night give you things that please you,
and may Lugalbanda stand beside you
and satisfy your wish.
May you be granted your wish as a child is. — John Gardner