Quotes with half-truth

Quotes 121 till 140 of 1376.

  • Bill Dedman About 100 firefighters a year die in the line of duty in the U.S. Heart attacks on the job and vehicle accidents on the way to the fires account for about half. The other half are traumatic deaths while fighting fires.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Anna Jameson Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.
    Anna Jameson
    Anglo-Irish art historian (1794 - 1860)
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  • Tryon Edwards Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • Robert Half Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
    Robert Half
    American businessman, founder of Robert Half HR consulting firm
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  • Billy Dee Williams Acting, I started when I was six and a half years-old, on Broadway with Kurt Weill.
    Billy Dee Williams
    American actor, voice actor, and artist (1937 - )
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  • Lord George Byron Adversity is the first path to truth.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Helene Deutsch After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.
    Helene Deutsch
    Polish-American psychoanalyst (1884 - 1982)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard After I did 'Orchids,' I enrolled back in film school and did a million and a half workshops and worked with great professors and people, trying to hopefully get better.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Bill Goldberg After you ride a roller coaster that's been going up for a year and a half, and you reach the pinnacle and then dive straight down with no gradual decline, it's a little disorienting. I didn't know how to take losing.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Bruce Lee All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Carole King All I needed to do was sing with conviction, speaking my truth from the heart, honestly and straightforwardly, and to offer my words, ideas and music to the audience as if it were one collective friend that I'd known for a very long time.
    Carole King
    American singer-songwriter (1942 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli All is race; there is no other truth.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • William Mathews All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson All necessary truth is its own evidence.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Alan Dershowitz All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth.
    Alan Dershowitz
    American lawyer and author (1938 - )
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  • A. Lawrence Lowell All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
    A. Lawrence Lowell
    American educator and legal scholar (1856 - 1943)
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  • Brian K. Vaughan All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.
    Brian K. Vaughan
    American comic book and television writer (1976 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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