Top 100 How True Quotes
#1. But now he knows for certain how true the axiom is, because he himself - his very life - has proven it. The person I was will always be the person I am, he realizes.
Hanya Yanagihara
#2. I'm before him on my knees, and he kisses me He assumes I lose my reason and I do. Men are stupid, men are vain, Love's disgusting, love's insane, A humiliating business-oh how true.
Stephen Sondheim
#3. People have no idea how true the promise of Allah is. Put your trust in Allah, and He will see you through.
Nouman Ali Khan
#4. I noticed, when I taught elementary school, how true the squeaky wheel thing is, and how endearing squeaky wheels can be! Because when you're being a squeaky wheel, you're also really letting people know who you are.
Aimee Bender
#5. Oh, my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to those who love you if we understand its value.
Teresa Of Avila
#6. How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom.
Karl Rahner
#7. I don't know how to be anything but pretend," I replied, and it ached in me how true that really was. "But if I could be real, I'd be real for you.
R. J. Anderson
#8. How true,' returned the measured, featureless voice. 'I would chuckle in amused agreement, but the laughter switches of my translator have been malfunctioning for the past six hours. You understand.'
'Certainly,' I said. And somehow felt much more comfortable.
Samuel R. Delany
#9. Even when I was Archbishop of Wales and working with new bishops, I used to say, not realising quite how true it was, 'One of the things you will do as a bishop is disappoint people'.
Rowan Williams
#10. The worst thing about depression is how true your vision seems, like misery is the only correct perspective and everything you think when you're happy is a sham. I didn't even want to be happy anymore because I'd rather live in honest misery than fake bliss. I
Michelle Tea
#11. What makes 'The Wire' a beautiful story is how true to life it is. In other shows, you have a good guy and a bad guy. In 'The Wire,' bad guys are trying to be good, good guys are doing bad. You have real life. The people who do bad get bad things done to them.
Tristan Wilds
#12. How true is the saying that the very highest in rank are always the most simple and kindly. It is from you half-and-half sort of people that you get pomposity and vulgarity
H. Rider Haggard
#13. How true it is that our destinies are decided by nothings and that a small imprudence helped by some insignificant accident, as an acorn is fertilized by a drop of rain, may raise the trees on which perhaps we and others shall be crucified.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#14. It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
Gore Vidal
#15. Having a Southwest Green in my backyard is a huge advantage for me on tour. I am pleasantly surprised just how true the ball rolls and reacts to chip and pitch shots. I love my Southwest Green.
Jim Furyk
#16. I need you, Anastasia," he whispers.
"I need you, too." And as I say the words, I am struck how true they are. I cannot imagine being without Christian, ever.
"Let me love you." he says hoarsely.
"Yes," I answer.
E.L. James
#17. How true is it that humanity refuses compromise during prosperity, and reaches out for arbitration when weak.
Jean Sasson
#18. What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.
Dan Quayle
#19. I have become more aware of (1) how true emotions can feel during crucial moments, and (2) how false they really are.
Joseph Grenny
#20. How true it is that, sooner or later, the' most rebellious must bow beneath the yoke of misfortune!
Madame De Stael
#21. How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean.
Theodore Dreiser
#22. Once you'd been with Freddie, you wouldn't go anywhere else.' (How true this was to prove.) This incessant bragging by Fred West was at best, annoying and at worst, sickening. According to him, he was God's gift to women.
Stephen Richards
#23. Horatio leaned toward her, "What is the secret of joy?"
Mousey thought for a moment. "Doing what you like best."
Of course. How simple. And how true.
Jean Ferris
#24. Isn't it funny how true peace describes war and chaos?
Lionel Suggs
#25. How true it is that without the guidance of the Holy Spirit intellect not only is undependable but also extremely dangerous, because it often confuses the issue of right and wrong.
Watchman Nee
#26. C'mon, Amory. Your romance is over
You don't know how true you spoke. No idea. 'At's the whole trouble
F Scott Fitzgerald
#27. It only shows how true the old saying is, that a man never knows what he can do till he tries, gentlemen. From "Pickwick Papers" ch. 49 page 646
Charles Dickens
#28. If it be not true to me, What care I how true it be.. Though it be not true to thee, It's gay and gospel truth to me..
D.H. Lawrence
#29. How true it was that one needed to be seen by others to be sure of one's own existence.
A.S. Byatt
#30. Please don't believe everything you hear about me, regardless of how true it may be.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#31. How true is the saying that man was forced to invent work in order to escape the strain of having to think.
Agatha Christie
#32. Do not stand directly in front of a cannon ... how true that is.
Brian Regan
#33. Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese and your ancestors lived in trees. Mine lived in palaces. It has been suggested to me that I am a bit of a snob. How true! I prefer to be.
Raymond Chandler
#34. They say it's always darkest until right before the dawn. I've worked on enough projects to know how true this saying really is.
Meg Cabot
#35. I think 'Game Of Thrones' is incredibly true to the books. I think the fans will, hopefully, be very pleased with how true to the books we are.
Emilia Clarke
#36. 34Then Peter began to speak: "I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritismf 35but accepts from every nation the one who fears him and does what is right.g
Anonymous
#38. We all crave for true love and genune friend in our lives. What we fail to realize, how true and genune we have been to others in life. When we begin to give uncondional love and support to others, True & genune friends will be knocking your door
Victor
#39. And it only matters how true you are. Be true to yourself and follow your heart.
Hilary Duff
#40. How true, how true" said the Sour Kangaroo, "And from now on, you know what I'm gonna do? I'm going to protect them with you!" And the Young Kangaroo in her pouch said "Me too!
Dr. Seuss
#41. Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!
Tony Robbins
#42. How true is the observation that unrequited love turns to deepest hate.
Samuel Richardson
#43. How true, lamentably true. I'm sorry, Father. I do not love my neighbor as myself.
Franny Billingsley
#44. As I say the words, I realize how true they are. And maybe that's the trick to getting through it, through life: realizing that everybody, including ourselves, is lugging around some kind of screwed-up baggage. Maybe we are put here to help each other carry the loads.
Lisa Ann Sandell
#45. Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em.
Aristophanes
#46. No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have failed.
Madeleine L'Engle
#47. What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
Dan Quayle
#48. The one advice that I would give just to moms who have a child or a newborn is definitely sleep while the baby sleeps. I've heard that so many times. I never realized how true it really is. If you don't, you'll be walking around like a zombie.
Tia Mowry
#50. How true it is that, if we are cheerful and contented, all nature smiles, the air seems more balmy, the sky clearer, the earth has a brighter green ... the flowers are more fragrant ... and the sun, moon, and stars all appear more beautiful, and seem to rejoice with us.
Orison Swett Marden
#51. Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.
Peggy Noonan
#52. Ah, how true it is that we love ourselves too much and proceed with too much human prudence, that we may not lose an atom of our consideration! Oh, what a great mistake that is! The Saints did not act thus.
Teresa Of Avila
#53. I love you, Cleo," he said, the words finally coming to him, with no effort at all because of how true they were. "I love you so much it hurts."
Her eyes widened. "What did you just say?"
Magnus almost laughed. "I think you heard me right.
Morgan Rhodes
#55. My father valued patriotism above all other social obligations, but he had his own particular interpretation of just how true patriotism was meant to function.
Thomas Steinbeck
#56. He who thinks that he is finished is finished. How true. Those who think that they have arrived, have lost their way. Those who think they have reached their goal, have missed it. Those who think they are saints, are demons.
Henri Nouwen
#57. True Friends are the bacon bits
In the salad bowl of life. How true
I read that and straight away,
My thoughts turned to you
And especially today on your 60th
These special wishes I send
Have a really wonderful birthday
My special "bacon flavored" friend
John Walter Bratton
#58. Oh, a friend! How true is that old saying, that the enjoyment of one is sweeter and more necessary than that of the elements of water and fire!
Michel De Montaigne
#59. When someone bestows something on you, no matter how true it is, when someone says, 'Sexiest Man Alive,' I'm honestly going, 'Thank you. Right on.' For me, it's never canceled out anything, it's never made me go, 'Does this make me less talented of an actor?'
Matthew McConaughey
#60. How true it is that 'God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb,' or in other words, that He renders the worst of human conditions tolerable, while He permits the best, to be nothing better than tolerable.
Joshua Wolf Shenk
#61. How true a twain
Seemeth this concordant one!
Love hath reason,
Reason none,
If what parts, can so remain.
William Shakespeare
#62. I think the illest thing about Wiz Khalifa is how true to himself he's always been, and I miss that from artists. Nothing about what he does ever felt like he was reaching to be something that he wasn't.
Miguel
#63. How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.
Yann Martel
#64. The beauty of life depends on how you respond not in how true you answer.
Debasish Mridha
#66. I think the success of a talk show depends on how true it is to the personality of the person hosting it. The shows I really admire, like 'Oprah' and 'Ellen,' are distinctively like their hosts, so I think my show will be successful only if we try to stay consistent to my own sense of myself.
Jane Pauley
#67. I have always been impressed by those indivilduals that love another so hard. Now I know, it is not how hard you love, but how. "True You Love Until The End".
Ronald Gray
#68. I've lost loved ones in my life who never knew how much I loved them. Now I live with the regret that my true feelings for them never were revealed.
Garth Brooks
#69. How do you measure what's real, what's true? How do you stack up all that's pure against all that's evil?
Jennifer Handford
#70. True friends are to people what lighthouses are to ships. No matter how stormy it gets, they stay put and light our way.
Julie-Anne
#71. The duty of the people is to tend to their own affairs.
The duty of government is to help them do it.
This is the pasta of politics.
The inspired leader, the true prince, no matter how great, can only be sauce upon the pasta.
Bombolini
Robert Crichton
#72. The happening and the telling are very different things. This doesn't mean that the story isn't true, only that I honestly don't know anymore if I really remember it or only remember how to tell it.
Karen Joy Fowler
#73. You know how some people, when they're together, they somehow make you feel more hopeful? Make you feel like the world is not the insane place it really is?
Rebecca Wells
#74. I've never been able to understand 'faith' myself, nor to see how a just God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion out of an infinitude of false ones - by faith alone. It strikes me as a sloppy way to run an organization, whether universe or a smaller one.
Robert A. Heinlein
#75. When it comes to true dance, it's not about how you look, it's all about the joy you feel.
David Levithan
#76. The true test of whether Mr. Obama has improved on the Bush era lies in how his administration justifies its decisions on the 241 remaining Guantanamo detainees, whose cases will now be evaluated internally and reviewed by the courts.
Noah Feldman
#77. How can one liberate the many? By first liberating his own being. He does this not by elevating himself, but by lowering himself. He lowers himself to that which is simple, modest, true; integrating it into himself, he becomes a master of simplicity, modesty, truth.
Laozi
#78. True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you want.
Larry Wall
#79. It's not the having of the gift that makes the difference in life here or in another place. It's how we use that gift that shows the true heart. ~ Acronis
Madison Thorne Grey
#80. When you love a song so much you have to sing, you know how you feel - it releases something in you that resonates as true, whether it's James Brown or Joni Mitchell.
Bonnie Raitt
#81. I was in shock. Funny how the world works. You don't get the something you really covet, but then the universe provides unexpected compensation. Here I thought you had to make a wish for it to come true.
Sarah Dessen
#82. But spectacular lies don't need to be perfect. They rely less on the liar's skill than on the listener's expectations and wishes. After Mark's dishonesty was exposed, I understood how much I wised that what he had told me had been true.
Siri Hustvedt
#83. Work really hard, think carefuly about how you spend every penny, and be absolutely true to your own vision of your clothes and your brand. It has to be personal.
Patrick Grant
#84. Happiness comes in many forms - in the company of good friends, in the feeling you get when you make someone else's dream come true, or in the promise of hope renewed. It's okay to let yourself be happy because you never know how fleeting that happiness might be.
Lucas Scott
#85. I believe really strongly in imitation, actually: I think it's the first place you need to go to if you're going to be able to understand how something works. True mimicry is actually quite difficult.
Eleanor Catton
#86. Storm leans towards her and says in a teaching voice, "Joyans consider it is rude to express one's true opinion unless it is unequivocally flattering."
Her brow furrows. "Then how do the express anything at all?
Rae Carson
#87. In True Balance Sonia Choquette takes the mystery out of staying balanced, both physically and spiritually. She offers a clear explanation of our chakras and how they influence our daily lives.
Salle Merrill Redfield
#88. I am amazed about how everyone wants to know about my love life. They whisper to me, 'Tell me the truth? Is it true?' Who cares? Because we have this job, we are to say to everybody what we do, or with whom we sleep? It's a bit absurd, but that's why everybody lies so much.
Penelope Cruz
#89. When you travel alone, no one knows who you are, there's no predetermined idea about how you should act, you are free, and you can be your true self. Every morning you are liberated to create your identity as you truly want it to be.
Sean Michael Hayes
#90. This generation lacks true knowledge of how the past has trapped you with psychological lassos over Adam's apples.
Reks
#91. The true measure of spiritual growth is not how much you've learned in the past year but how much you've grown in holiness.
Mike Bullmore
#92. I think it's true that the 1 Percent or the elite are living in a world of, maybe, excessive privilege, and they don't fully realize how much pain and suffering, how much anxiety exists out there.
Nouriel Roubini
#93. A lot crystallized in Phil's mind that day about how people lie. If the facts are not their ally, people have to say something that convinces you, and the best thing they can say is something that's true or irrefutable.
Philip Houston
#94. You can only know how confident you are when you kick-start. True confidence is not found in excessive rehearsals; it comes from experience. Plan, prepare, but will willing to make it happen!
Israelmore Ayivor
#95. Don't lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don't have a career. You have a life. Do the work. Keep the faith. Be true blue. You are a writer because you write. Keep writing and quit your bitching. Your book has a birthday. You don't know what it is yet.
Cheryl Strayed
#96. If a man's thoughts are muddy, If he is reckless and full of deceit, How can he wear the yellow robe? Whoever is master of his own nature, Bright, clear and true, He may indeed wear the yellow robe.
Gautama Buddha
#97. It's true that I never wanted to grow up. But how important was it really - to have decided to be human?
Rachel Klein
#98. One of the main reasons is that most Sunday school curricula only teaches disconnected Bible stories. They don't teach how we know the Bible is true, how to defend the faith, and how to answer the skeptical questions of today.
Ken Ham
#99. The culture you live in today is the culture you have allowed. That is true of your family, and it is true of your country.
Never forget that you will shape the culture in which you exist, or the culture you allow will determine how and - maybe someday - if you are allowed to exist.
Andy Andrews
#100. True courage knows fear. It knows how to fear that which should be feared. Honest people value life passionately, they hang on to it like a precious jewel. And they pick the right time and place to surrender it, to die with dignity.
Eiji Yoshikawa
