Mel Odom Quotes

I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.

Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other married couples they sometimes live apart.

I never really tell lies, and sometimes it has worked against me.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

I'm not a fan of people making up lies, and I do feel I owe it to people to know what the truth is.

We cannot afford to have lies in music.

I have a really hard time abiding by falsehoods being left in place.

You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.

I try not to lie to people - the only way to control the way you're perceived is to tell the truth.

For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face. I now Say what I think.

The truth can be very sharp. But it makes a cleaner wound than lies. It will not fester

You can create many lies from Truth, but you cannot create any truths from lies.

I'd rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer.

Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.

It is better to disappoint people with the truth than to appease them with a lie.

By lying, we deny others a view of the world as it is. Our dishonesty not only influences the choices they make, it often determines the choices they can make—and in ways we cannot always predict. Every lie is a direct assault upon the autonomy of those we lie to.

The truth is a precious commodity. That's why I use it so sparingly.

If you want to be transparent with your people, do not do anything cosmetic, whether to deceive your people or to get some applaud from the West.

We obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.

The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.

With union grounded on falsehood and ordering us to speak and act lies, we will not have anything to do. Peace? A brutal lethargy is peaceable; the noisome is peaceable. We hope for a living peace, not a dead one!

One drop of truth can outweigh an ocean of lies.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.