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  • If a statement is untrue, it is not the more respectable because it has been said in Latin.

    A. A. Milne (2012). “Not That it Matters”, p.52, The Floating Press
  • Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue.

    Believe   Stuff   Fool  
    Francis Spufford (2012). “Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense”, p.19, Faber & Faber
  • I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me.

    "Sources: Jackson accuser appeared on documentary", www.cnn.com. November 24, 2003.
  • All religions are both harmful and untrue.

    Untrue  
    Bertrand Russell (2014). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.25, Routledge
  • I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn't reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to say, what to emphasize, how to say it, what is true or untrue.

  • There are a lot more tabloids in England that like to report other things in your life, some of which are true and some of which are exaggerated and untrue. There have been stories where people claim to have seen me in one place and I wasnt even in that city then. The Aussie press is more judgmental and moralistic.

    Cities   People   Stories  
    "Ten questions for". Interview with Oliver Price, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2006.
  • When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.

    Mean   Air   People  
    "Ira Glass: Live and Uncut". Interview with Ana Marie Cox And Joanna Dionis, www.motherjones.com. August 11, 1998.
  • A lot of horrible, unfair, untrue things have been said about me. I can only say that the best revenge is success.

    Revenge   Unfair   Said  
  • The true word leads; the untrue misleads.

  • Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What's happened to the world?" A great Shadow has departed," said Gandalf, and then he laughed and the sound was like music, or like water in a parched land; and as he listened the thought came to Sam that he had not heard laughter, the pure sound of merriment, for days upon days without count.

    Laughter   Land   Water  
    J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.640, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • I was 12 when I ordered my first guitar out of the worn and discolored pages of the Sears and Roebuck catalog. The story that I bought it on the installment plan is untrue, the invention of a Hollywood press agent. Local color. I paid cash, $8, money I had saved as a hired hand on my uncle Calvin's farm, baling and stacking hay. Prairie hay, used as feed for the cattle in winter. It was mean work for a wiry boy, but ambition made me strong.

  • A strange thing, words. Once they're said, it's hard to imagine they're untrue.

    Strange   Imagine   Said  
    FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from Apr 23, 2012
  • When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.

    Thinking   Lakes   Lovely  
  • Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.

    Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg (2010). “Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters”, p.33, Penguin
  • The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city, in our hearts. But we would be untrue to the best part of ourselves and who we are as New Yorkers and Americans if we said no to a mosque in lower Manhattan.

    Heart   Cities   Forever  
    Address in Support of Religious Tolerance and New York City Mosque, delivered 3 August 2010, Governors Island, New York
  • Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.

  • Any thought of discomfort or stress is an alarm that lets you know you're believing an untrue thought

    Stress   Believe   Alarms  
  • A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it untrue and add an accent of truth.

    Vices   Knavery   Add  
    Robert Hale Ives Gammell, Edgar Degas (1961). “The shop-talk of Edgar Degas”
  • Look, how many stories have I broken? Hundreds. How many have proved to be untrue? There isn't one.

    Broken   Looks   Stories  
  • Madame Bovary and a flying carpet, they are both untrue in the same way. Somebody made them up.

    Flying   Way   Made  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

  • Bush told me, he doesn't watch TV ... though it's untrue that he doesn't read the newspapers.

    "Books: 'Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush'". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. September 11, 2007.
  • It's not fair. It's not fair," she cried, knowing it was a child's argument but not caring, because being childish did not make it untrue.

    Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.159, Hachette UK
  • Here was a period where I was particularly attacked, and in untrue ways, some people online said some things that were not true about me - but it was very hurtful. And there was like, a period of time that it was very panicky, I was very upset. And my son at the time was, I guess seven, eight months old, and I would wake up early with him and let my wife sleep.

    Sleep   Son   Up Early  
    Source: www.slate.com
  • This symmetrical composition--the same motif at the beginning and at the end--may seem quite "novelistic" to you, and I am willing to agree, but only on condition that you refrain from reading such notions as "fictive," "fabricated," and "untrue to life" into the word "novelistic." Because human lives are composed in precisely such a fashion.

    Fashion   Reading   May  
  • Together they [President Nixon and Secretary Kissinger] pursued ends that frequently had a tenuous link with reality, using means that were not merely disproportionate but counterproductive and untrue to those values they were meant to defend. In fact neither man demonstrated much faith in those values.

    Mean   Reality   Men  
  • Every man has been brought up with the idea that decent women don't pop in and out of bed; he has always been told by his mother that "nice girls don't." He finds, of course, when he gets older that this may be untrue-but only in a certain section of society.

    Girl   Mother   Nice  
  • A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true.

    Catherine Crowe (1850). “The night-side of nature; or, Ghosts and ghost-seers”, p.205
  • Every one of the numberless religions and religious sects views the Deity after its own fashion; and, fathering on the unknown its own speculations, it enforces these purely human outgrowths of overheated imagination on the ignorant masses, and calls them "revelation." As the dogmas of every religion and sect often differ radically, they cannot be true. And if untrue, what are they?

    H.P. Blavatsky (2014). “Isis Unveiled”, p.780, Lulu Press, Inc
  • I realize that Kenya and America are very different, but experiences like this warned me that my own favorite beliefs in the miracles of free enterprise and the boundless opportunities to be had in America were largely untrue.

    "Coons took 'bearded Marxist' turn" by Alex Isenstadt, www.politico.com. May 4, 2010.
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