Pastoral Resources

I think it's time for the people and the press, in particular, to be more vigilant about not giving equal weight to lies as they give the truth.

The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.

It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.

The truth of the matter is that muggers are very interesting people.

I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.

Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.

I think one of the major things a director has to do is to know his subject matter, the subject matter of his script, know the truth and the reality of it. That's very important.

I got a role in this movie called Freeway playing this really angry, aggressive, violent young woman who believed wholeheartedly in the truth. I had such satisfaction afterward, and I thought, That's what I want to do.

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.

My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way.

The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.

In time the truth will come out, I will be cleared.

The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others.