Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The theory of truth is a series of truisms.
cliches are truisms and all truisms are true
Never utter the truism but live it among men.
Every commonplace or trite observation is not a truism.
It's a truism that you can investigate anything forever.
I don't feel that I have anything to say beyond moral truisms.
It is a truism that children need more of Mother than of money.
There's a certain truism that you can't be self-conscious in comedy.
Never forget this simple truism: Forecasting is marketing, plain and simple.
You don't get to be a respected intellectual by uttering truisms in monosyllables.
There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.
It's a truism to say that my state, Texas, isn't a red state: It's a nonvoting state.
It is a truism throughout the civilized galaxy that when you go to the police, your troubles really begin.
In 'Ozark,' the truism that we are not as likely to do as well as our parents did in the past is front and center.
Occasionally the impossible happens; this is a truism that accounts for much of what we call good luck; and also, bad.
Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.
It is a general truism of this world that anything long divided will surely unite, and anything long united will surely divide.
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
The second truism that we must understand is that poverty does not create our social problems, our social problems create our poverty.
And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field.
The daily deluge of tales of lechery and trauma holds a hidden but crucial truism: sexual harassment routinely feeds on income inequality. After all, it's much harder to exploit an equal.
Anyone who has been around Washington politics long enough can't avoid this truism: Election-year money is like a rushing river that invariably finds cracks in any dam the reformers erect.
The defense of ObamaCare's constitutionality relies mainly on the truism that everyone is sure to get sick at some point in their lives, and this makes the health-care market unlike any other market.
People and places are the source of my work, both in prose and verse-and this remark is not the truism it seems, for I do not distinguish as sharply between a place and a person as most people seem to do.
Jews are frequently compared to the proverbial 'canary in the coal mine,' an enduring signal for when the world is failing to meet its obligations in tackling bigotry. It has never been clearer to me just how widely understood that truism is.
It may be a truism that the country cannot be strong abroad unless it is strong at home, but it's also a fact that the country's economic prosperity depends on its security abroad - not only in the core of the liberal democratic world but often well beyond it, too.
Realistically, it's the great truism that screenwriters are fungible, that at the end of the day a studio is not going to want to fire a movie star. And they're really not going to want to fire a star director because the director has the hand on the tiller of a ship.
To many American Jews, it is a truism that Barack Obama was the anti-Israel president. It was Mr. Obama who signed the Iran deal, which Israel portrayed as a mortal danger. It was Mr. Obama whose most contentious relationship with a foreign leader was with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The movie truism is that stars play themselves, while actors play other people - troubled or toxic, and memorably strange. By that definition, Philip Seymour Hoffman, who disappeared into the rabbit hole of his characters' souls, was our generation's anti-star and the chameleonic film actor of his age.
