Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
Miguel de Cervantes

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
Miguel de Cervantes

Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.
J. Edgar Hoover

You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention and sometimes somebody will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.
David Lee Roth

No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.
Bruce Barton

We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
Jesse Jackson

Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.
Vernon Howard

There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.
Edith Wharton

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.
Mao Zedong

Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write.
Nicholas Sparks

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
Charles de Montesquieu

I had to spend countless hours, above and beyond the basic time, to try and perfect the fundamentals.
Julius Erving

To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.
Simone Weil

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
Karl Von Clausewitz

I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.
Clement Attlee

A number of images put together a certain way become something quite above and beyond what any of them are individually.
Francis Ford Coppola

The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers.
Pope Benedict XVI

These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate.
Jacques Derrida

I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none.
Gustave Flaubert

Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.
Gustave Flaubert