„Lies don't fix things. They don't even make things easier, at least not in the long run. Best to tell the truth then clean up an honest mess" P. C. Cast ( Grandma Redbird)… So wish People would understand this!!“
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1960Podobné citáty
— Joe Biden 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017) 1942
Speech to national conference http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/06/biden-a-gaffe-is-when-you-tell-the-truth-126866.html of the National Association of Black Journalists, Washington, D.C. (June 20, 2012)
2010s
— Tony Blair former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1953
BBC Newsnight http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/1988874.stm
Interview with Jeremy Paxman, 16 May 2002.
2000s
„We don't mean to mess things up,
But mess them up we do.“
— Paul Simon American musician, songwriter and producer 1941
Everything About It Is a Love Song
Song lyrics, Surprise (2006)
Kontext: We don't mean to mess things up,
But mess them up we do.
And then it's "Oh, I'm sorry."
Here's a smiling photograph
Of love when it was new.
At a birthday party.
Make a wish and close your eyes:
Surprise, surprise, surprise.
— Ron Paul American politician and physician 1935
In response to the question "What is your opinion on direct democracy, where the citizens themselves make law, rather than elected representatives?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-nfaTZNWcI (May 14, 2015)
2015
— William Empson English literary critic and poet 1906 - 1984
"Let It Go" (1949), line 1; cited from John Haffenden (ed.) The Complete Poems (London: Allen Lane, 2000) p. 99.
The Complete Poems
— Andy Warhol American artist 1928 - 1987
Nicolas Love, April 1987
1975 - 1987, BBC interview (1981)
Zdroj: Warhol in his own words – Untitled Statements ( 1963 – 1987), selected by Neil Printz, in Andy Warhol, retrospective, Art and Bullfinch Press / Little Brown, 1989, pp. 457 – 467
— Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials trilogy
Zdroj: His Dark Materials, The Subtle Knife (1997), Ch. 4 : Trepanning
Kontext: Lyra sighed; she had forgotten how roundabout Scholars could be. It was difficult to tell them the truth when a lie would have been so much easier for them to understand.
— Michael Bloomberg American businessman and politician, former mayor of New York City 1942
http://www.nycivic.org/MediaArchive/BloombergSpeech041110.html
Election Reform
— Harper Lee, kniha To Kill a Mockingbird
Pt. 1, ch. 10
Atticus Finch & Maudie Atkinson
Zdroj: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Kontext: "I'd rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it.
“Your father's right," she said. "Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Varianta: They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
Zdroj: The Great Gatsby