Top 100 Genuinely Quotes
#1. There is no life so humble that, if it be true and genuinely human and obedient to God, it may not hope to shed some of His light. There is no life so meager that the greatest and wisest of us can afford to despise it. We cannot know at what moment it may flash forth with the life of God.
Phillips Brooks
#2. Organized religious institutions are in for a huge transformation, for the simple reason that people have become genuinely religious in spite of them.
Marianne Williamson
#3. Is there anyone in this apartment who hasn't seen me naked?" I demanded, grabbing the sheet and the phone.
"I genuinely hope so, Cassandra.
Karen Chance
#4. I think you learn a lot about a country from its art. To me, it's part of the drama of life. It teaches you that there are places, moments and incidents in other cultures that genuinely have a life of their own.
Michael Palin
#5. Most of us no longer have the luxury of asking whether a job is genuinely productive, but only whether it pays well and has tolerable conditions.
Susan Neiman
#6. - Bird of the soul -
To all the beautiful people who seek to genuinely love themselves and live the life that their souls truly want.
Ilchi Lee
#7. Science" in many minds is genuinely taking the place of a religion. Where this is so, the scientist treats the "Laws of Nature" as objective facts to be revered.
William James
#8. If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction.
Alex Chilton
#9. Jokes are a lot about meaning. I think if we understand what jokes mean and why they work, we'd understand everything else. Genuinely I do.
John Lloyd
#10. Art and Entertainment are the same thing, in that the more deeply and genuinely entertaining a work is, the better art it is. To imply that Art is something heavy and solemn and dull, and Entertainment is modest but jolly and popular, is neo-Victorian idiocy at its worst.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#11. Making up characters and places and plots, unlike fixing your plumbing or doing dishes, is anything but practical or rational. I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right.
Etgar Keret
#12. It's very hard to find critics or a magazine today that will publish material that is genuinely independent and written without any concern about being cut off some distributor's list or not be invited or flown into screenings.
Wim Wenders
#13. I feel that there's nothing more genuinely artistic than to love people.
Vincent Van Gogh
#14. Self-esteem must be earned! When you dare to dream, dare to follow that dream, dare to suffer through the pain, sacrifice, self-doubts, and friction from the world, you will genuinely impress yourself.
Laura Schlessinger
#15. If we are genuinely committed to promoting a culture of peace, as individuals we must look to our values and ensure that we all exhibit a peace loving life to our nation's children.
Silvia Cartwright
#16. What if, when we are feeling less than happy, we were prescribed two genuinely inspiring experiences each day?
Elaina Marie
#17. The path of Martial Arts begins and ends with courtesy. So be genuinely polite on every occasion.
Mas Oyama
#18. I genuinely don't feel that anything that's been written or said about me has overshadowed my music, and that's the most important thing as far as I'm concerned.
Norah Jones
#19. And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through me.
Suzanne Collins
#20. It is great to be desperate for the word of God. It is also assential to have the spirit of discernment because there are many vultures and wolves in sheep skin in the Body of Christ. They are longing to devour those who are genuinely seeking for Kingdom of God.
Euginia Herlihy
#21. War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy of the world's first superpower, of a great democracy, with genuinely idealistic traditions.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
#22. To this group belong not only the genuinely great statesmen but all the great reformers as well. Beside Frederick the Great we have men such as Martin Luther and Richard Wagner.
Adolf Hitler
#23. It probably does make it more difficult to enjoy a good laugh at someone who's onstage, seemingly yelling at you. But I'm not yelling at the audience, I'm yelling at the world. It genuinely sucks if people are taking it that way. But I'm not talking to individuals.
David Cross
#24. I don't want to record anything unless it can be great and genuinely interesting.
Renee Fleming
#25. When inward life dries up, when feeling decreases and apathy increases, when one cannot affect or even genuinely touch another person, violence flares up as a daimonic necessity for contact, a mad drive forcing touch in the most direct way possible.
Rollo May
#26. He was sorry, genuinely sorry, for the pain she was in. Yet the revelation had caused certain other feelings - feelings he usually kept under tight rein, considering them both misguided and dangerous - to flex inside him, to test their strength against their restraining bonds.
Robert Galbraith
#27. I promise I won't spank you," he told me, his voice rough and low as he added, "not unless you ask me to."
I let him feel my laugh against his shoulder. "That's because you aren't genuinely suicidal.
Patricia Briggs
#28. All I've ever wanted for my kids is for them to be happy. There's no pressure on Victoria to do anything, but she genuinely loves performing. My son Simon is in advertising. They're both tremendous people. I don't think they've ever been awkward, even Simon as a teenager.
Tony Blackburn
#29. When you're in a conversation, genuinely be in it. Stare people in their eyes. Know what you're talking about. Enjoy that moment.
Khloe Kardashian
#30. In The Earthwise Herbal, Matthew Wood has revived the richness, depth, and dignity of the herbal medicine of the old masters, while at the same time endowing it with a new cosmopolitan, cross-cultural flavor that lifts it to a genuinely planetary level.
Rudolph Ballentine
#31. Time is the inexplicable raw material of everything. With it, all is possible, without it nothing. The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it.
Arnold Bennett
#32. In the process of trying to understand others' difficult behaviour, I've found it is very helpful to realise that no one chooses to be unhappy. If someone is unhappy, they will be so because they genuinely cannot see how to do otherwise.
Torey L. Hayden
#33. When you genuinely lose your illusions, you begin to marvel at things, because you don't have the answers any more.
Sam Keen
#34. There are two things I'm very passionate about; doing things I genuinely enjoy doing and doing things that brings positive change in other people's life.
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#35. Alan Chadwick's garden is a 'garden of the mind' as much as it is of the soil, and like all genuinely inspired creations it has the power to stir us to new dreams, to a new vision of what man and nature can do, together.
Page Smith
#36. I genuinely have never been in an audience where most people want that person to fail. I've never been in an audience like that, and I've never seen it as a performer. Only in my dreams, in which case they are always throwing tomatoes and going, "This is the most boring thing I've ever seen."
Laurie Anderson
#37. The genuinely powerful, unlike the Vuyos of this world, don't give a fuck about making an impression.
Lauren Beukes
#38. When you're in pain, you're genuinely very, very alive, and that's beautiful. Especially emotional pain.
Alex Ebert
#39. My partnership with YouTube is one that I really, really treasure and I want to carry through. I mean, I don't just say it because I work with them; I genuinely am a fan of YouTube, so that's where I'd want to see my content.
Lilly Singh
#40. They've grown comfortable with their money,' I said. 'They genuinely believe they're entitled to it. This conviction gives them a kind of rude health. They glow a little.
Don DeLillo
#41. As late as the early '50s, jazz was still, for the most part, a genuinely popular music, a utilitarian, song-based idiom to which ordinary people could dance if they felt like it.
Terry Teachout
#42. Although we can talk about an Indonesian democracy, or we can talk about democratic elections and democratic rituals - the trappings of democracy - we can't genuinely talk about democracy in Indonesia because there is not rule of law, and democracy without rule of law is a nonsense.
Joshua Oppenheimer
#43. Constantly contradicting yourself because you genuinely see multiple sides to most situations.
Heidi Priebe
#44. A genuinely political society, in which discussion and debate are an essential technique, is a society full of risks.
Moses Finley
#45. As you might have gathered, I prefer the honest, decent and genuinely accepting friends and family I have in the conservative world.
Tammy Bruce
#46. She says things that genuinely move me. She lets her soul slip through her lips, and it's always raw and incredibly sad.
Tarryn Fisher
#47. You're mad at me. I get it. I get what this is all about. And I don't know what more I can do, Cadence. I've apologized to you. I'm sorry. Genuinely sorry for lying to you. Why can't you accept that?
S. Walden
#48. It is genuinely shocking to me that I'm on a television show.
Chris Hayes
#49. The more you genuinely praise people in your consciousness, the easier it is to tune into your own inner joy.
Christopher Dines
#50. Indeed, if one can say that one has built genuinely loving relationships with a spouse and children, then one has already succeeded in accomplishing more than most people accomplish in a lifetime.
M. Scott Peck
#51. The symmetry and organization of history teaches us that mankind, during its existence and development, genuinely was and became an individual, a person. In this great personality of mankind, God became man.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#52. The more we genuinely care about others the greater our own happiness & inner peace.
Allan Lokos
#53. Self-love is when you are genuinely happy not with the image you see in the mirror, but the person you see.
Kaiylah Muhammad
#54. The platform got me out of a very dark period of my life, so I love YouTube genuinely.
Lilly Singh
#55. Campaigns fail if they waste resources courting voters who are unpersuadable or already persuaded. Their most urgent task is to find and persuade the few voters who are genuinely undecided and the larger number who are favorably disposed but need a push to actually vote.
James Surowiecki
#56. As Max Weber long ago pointed out, once one sets up a genuinely effective bureaucracy, it's almost impossible to get rid of it.
David Graeber
#57. Unless you're powered by an ungodly amount of spite, it's pretty impossible to succeed while doing something that you genuinely hate.
Sophia Amoruso
#58. As I smiled and followed him to where he had set up watch, I couldn't help thinking that this boy - this helpful, friendly, genuinely nice human being - was probably going to get me killed.
Julie Kagawa
#59. I've played Big Bird for over half my life, and now I'm in my 80s. It does feel older than 79. Someone said it's just a number, and I said, 'No, I genuinely feel older.'
Caroll Spinney
#60. genuinely righteous people invariably become more aware of their personal guilt and need for forgiveness than those who have become so foul and hard they cannot detect their own shame.
D. A. Carson
#61. You can have all the tools in the world but if you don't genuinely believe in yourself, it's useless.
Ken Jeong
#62. I think some of what makes it a good podcast is that it's organic. It doesn't feel forced. If we can say anything about ours, it's that we're not faking it at all. We're genuinely interested in the people that we're talking to.
Chris Hardwick
#63. True knowledge is found only among those genuinely worshiping God.
John Cassian
#64. I can't actually believe how good 'The Sopranos' is. I genuinely am dumbfounded by it. It's like when you realize how good The Beatles are, and you think, 'How did they do that?'
Martin Freeman
#65. For the first time in a while, I must be honest, I really genuinely look forward to coming to work every day.
Treat Williams
#66. I always try to take projects I'm genuinely interested and passionate about versus just trying to take projects for the money.
Michael Dougherty
#67. I love her more than I actually express in words - an irony for a writer - and am every day genuinely amazed I get to spend my life with her.
John Scalzi
#68. I genuinely believe the next leader has to be somebody who sees the opportunity of leaving the EU and is completely determined to deliver on what the people have told us to do.
Andrea Leadsom
#69. No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
Camille Paglia
#70. God's creative love, precisely by being love, creates new space for there to be things that are genuinely other than God.
N. T. Wright
#71. I knew these people were genuinely sad, and that I wasn't really mad at them. I was mad a the universe. Even so, it infuriated me: You get all these friends just when you don't need friends anymore. -Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
John Green
#72. Love is not greedy or self-seeking, but pure, faithful and genuinely free, open to others, respectful of their dignity, seeking their good, radiating joy and beauty.
Pope Benedict XVI
#73. No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.
H.L. Mencken
#74. Love is just a further impetus, not something that will prevent us going forward. We do not realize that those who genuinely wish us well want us to be happy and are prepared to accompany us on that journey.
Paulo Coelho
#75. Don't hate me for wanting to change the way things are. I believe in you, Callum. You can change the world, I know you can. But not like this, I'm not trying to be magnanimous or patronizing. I genuinely want to help but ...
Malorie Blackman
#76. South Australia has transformed. There has been a range of changes to our economy over the past 10 years in which we have genuinely set ourselves up for the future. I think we have to start behaving like that's real and project a quiet confidence in the future of our state.
Jay Weatherill
#77. There are, of course, deeply sincere people of religion in different parts of the world who genuinely fight on the side of the poor, but they are usually in conflict with organised religion themselves.
Tariq Ali
#78. Return now to these studies and they will keep you safe. They will comfort you, they will delight you; and if they will genuinely penetrate your mind, never again will grief enter there, or anxiety, or the distress caused by futile and pointless suffering.
Seneca.
#79. Like the bodies of dancers or athletes, the minds of readers are genuinely happy and self-possessed only when cavorting around, doing their stretches and leaps and jumps to the tune of words.
Lynne Sharon Schwartz
#80. I don't realize how rare it is to genuinely have sincere love for everyone you work with. Especially in Hollywood, but even in life.
Eden Sher
#81. What I have appreciated about the 'Call of Duty' games is the scale of production. It's not an indie game. It's not trying to be an indie game. But I've genuinely been pretty consistently blown away by, wow, what an effort has gone into this.
Trent Reznor
#82. To direct a genuinely animated film, you're really having meetings and discussing what you want with animators who then go off and produce one shot at a time that you look at and comment on.
Peter Jackson
#83. I'm genuinely curious about people, and I'm always interested when people do share with me. But I would not want someone to share something with me and then after the fact feel uncomfortable or regret it.
Alison Rosen
#84. I'm on a weird quest to be sort of famous, like an indie movie star that only the hip people like to chat about.....I want to be underground famous," she wrote on Grrl, before working on her Sith promotions - she's genuinely on "our side.
Anne Elizabeth Moore
#85. The spectacle is a social relation between people that is mediated by an accumulation of images that serve to alienate us from a genuinely lived life. The image is thus an historical mutation of the form of commodity fetishism.
Guy Debord
#86. Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience ...
Joseph Joubert
#87. Being genuinely stunned by overwhelming kindness is one of my favorite occurrences in life.
Kim Holden
#88. It was genuinely eye-opening for me to read Tolstoy or Steinbeck or Colette for the first time and to feel as though they were speaking to me.
Diane Drake
#89. You will never know the purest love you can give a person, until the day you hurt because they hurt. You genuinely want them to succeed in life and be free from all the chains that keep them from being happy, whether you are in their life or not.
Shannon L. Alder
#90. ...political realism is the way forward for any system that is genuinely for humanity or for the interest and advancement of the people of this world.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#91. Smile and be happy because there is no one in this whole world like you. You're lucky because you're alive and breathing. Show gratitude and show it genuinely.
Assegid Habtewold
#92. ACADEMIC CHAIRS ARE MANY, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small.
Albert Einstein
#93. There are people that grandstand and seem to be publicly politically engaged because they like the attention, more than because they're genuinely concerned about the world. But I don't think that's the majority.
Viggo Mortensen
#94. She is up there with the best of them. I can only talk about my experience, but it was genuinely special.
Albert Finney
#95. My daughter genuinely asked me to hand her the basketball bat. I might be failing as a father.
Greg Behrendt
#96. Genuinely social people never ceased to amaze him. Their brains seemed to generate an inexhaustible fund of things to say, naturally, with no effort, out of nothing at all.
Lev Grossman
#97. What's interesting about songs where the writer is genuinely in love with words is that it's easy to read the lyrics like a poem.
Ann Reed
#99. What matters is a good person, a good soul, someone who genuinely gives good attention to the relationships in their lives.
Sophia Bush
#100. In the nature of the case, the best witness to God's existence, the truth of His revelation, and the basis of a genuinely sound defense of the Christian faith would be God Himself.
Greg L. Bahnsen
