Jane Leavy Quotes

A lot of entrepreneurs hate big companies. But if you hate them so much, why are you trying to build a new one? The truth is, as soon as a startup has any kind of success whatsoever, it will face big company problems.

The truth is, my folk-lore friends and my Saturday Reviewer differ with me on the important problem of the origin of folk-tales. They think that a tale probably originated where it was found.

To cover politics in Washington allows you to live in the very, very wide gap between what the actual truth is, and how people are trying to manipulate the truth. They speak in the language of spin, obsequiousness, obfuscation. The meta of politics is just this endless source of material that can shed light on the psychology of the process.

People assume that I came back to Washington because of the 'Post', but the truth is less romantic. I came back for a job.

In Washington telling the truth is a gaff.

They said you'd really have to be something to be like Babe Ruth. But Babe Ruth was an American player. What we needed was a Puerto Rican player they could say that about, someone to look up to and try to equal.

Babe Ruth is an icon, in sports and in our society.

Trump did not spring out of nowhere, and I was struck by how prescient writers like Alexis de Tocqueville and George Orwell and Hannah Arendt were about how those in power get to define what the truth is.

As truth is Washington's worst enemy, everyone associated with the truth is Washington's enemy.

I cannot tell a lie.

One cannot seperate truth from actions...Physically inevitable or not, truth stands above all things. It is independant of who has the best army, who can deliver the longest sermons, or even who has the most priests. It can be pushed down, but it will always surface. Truth is the one thing you can never intimidate.

People have a vested interest in promoting one set of polices rather than finding out what the truth is.

"True" resembles... a compliment paid to sentences that seem to be paying their way and that fit in with other sentences which are doing so.

Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble.

Like a wild animal, the truth is too powerful to remain caged.

In a world of cruelty, sympathy is a crime, and in a world of lies, truth is blasphemy.

Truth is but approved facts.

It's all just fictions anyway. We do what we do and then we make up reasons for it afterward but they're never the true reasons, the truth is always just out of reach.

To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.

The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.

I'd just say that truth is power and vice versa.

Truth is as hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.

Our concern with truth is simply an echo of our concern with God .

I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination.