Top 100 Quotes About True
#1. I am a huge Prince fan. It's a very rare thing for him to have people open for him. It's been the Time and Sheila E., and that's about it. Building a relationship with him has been like a dream come true. I've been looking for a mentor, and I feel like I have that in him.
Jill Scott
#2. Caribbean literature only has to be true to itself. It doesn't need colonialism or imperialism. It's always been vibrant.
Marlon James
#3. The influence of mankind on climate is trivially true and numerically insignificant.
Richard Lindzen
#4. While it's true that you may lose your religion during the course of a lifetime, you never lose your salvation. Once you let Jesus in your kitchen, he just keeps on making peanut butter and banana sandwiches, and he never leaves.
Cathleen Falsani
#5. We've never performed the song live outside of recording it in the studio. That was a dream come true because Whitney, she's an icon and she's been one of my main mentors in this business.
Deborah Cox
#6. I am being accused of all this plastic surgery, which is absolutely not true.
Nicollette Sheridan
#7. A true university can never rest upon the will of one man. A true university always rests upon the wills of many divergent-minded old men, who refuse to be disturbed, but who growl in their kennels.
John Jay Chapman
#8. I may not be perfect but I've always been true
I may not be worthy in your eyes
Avenged Sevenfold
#9. The performance is created by the director. The actor is the material. And I think that has to be true.
Ian McKellen
#10. Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.
John Lothrop Motley
#11. True champions deal with success and failure, not just success alone.
Jeff Brown
#12. The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual.
Henry David Thoreau
#13. I remember being 18, and my first boyfriend said to me, "Unless you're in the room, you don't know if it's true." We were talking about gossip.
Winona Ryder
#14. True submission comes from a place of strength, ... because submitting means choosing to make yourself vulnerable to another person. It takes real guts to do that. It isn't weakness at all - exactly the opposite, in fact.
Indigo Wren
#15. My friend James Cameron and I made three films together - True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2. Of course, that was during his early, low-budget, art-house period.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#16. A poet must discover that it's his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.
Jim Harrison
#17. True love doesn't always last," I say. "It doesn't always have to be for a lifetime.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#18. Sick people grew to resent well people, and sometimes that was true of husbands and wives, or even of mothers and their children. Both
Alice Munro
#19. Sin is a technique of the pseudo-religions. A true religion has no need of the concept at all. The pseudo-religion cannot live without the concept of sin, because sin is the technique of creating guilt in people.
Rajneesh
#20. There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.
Camille Paglia
#21. Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name ... Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
George Eliot
#22. truisms at least have the merit of being true, which distinguishes them from a good deal of political discourse. And
Noam Chomsky
#23. It is hard to see anything as true as saying nothing.
Marty Rubin
#24. It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.
Henry James Sumner Maine
#25. True respect comes when we fend for ourselves without the aid of anyone, and when we owned something and say, 'this is my own'! Not necessarily as a way of boasting of our abundance and grace, but having a feeling that we can use it without obstruction, or being asked to return the favor.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#26. Self-esteem is the result of recognizing our personal power; awe and wonder come from recognizing our lack of it. Both are true, and in an exceptional life there is no conflict between them.
Victoria Moran
#27. The Word of God represents all the possibilities of God as at the disposal of true prayer.
Arthur Tappan Pierson
#28. All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
Antonin Artaud
#29. The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.
Albert Camus
#30. I have received 16 Grammy nominations and I have no trophies, because I chose to write the harsh realities. I stayed true to myself and I've taken a little beating behind it.
Curtis Jackson
#31. True prayer is an awareness of our helpless need and an acknowledgment of divine adequacy.
Ray Stedman
#32. Remember that all is opinion. For what was said by the Cynic Monimus is manifest: and manifest too is the use of what was said, if a man receives what may be got out of it as far as it is true.
Marcus Aurelius
#33. Dreaming is good. But working to make those dreams come true is even better.
Joel L.
#34. I don't think George Bush is a good president by any imagination, but when he said, 'If you're talking to Al-Quaeda, we want to know what it's about,' it just proves one thing: If you're president long enough, you will one day say something that is true.
Bill Maher
#35. I once ran away from home because I was upset with my parents! I didn't get farther than a few feet into the woods, where I hid behind a tree. Sometimes you feel like you should just go out and rebel, and then you realize it's not the right thing to do. You've got to stay true to your family.
Max Schneider
#36. Coercion is as much the tool of the welfare state as it is of communism. The programs and edicts of both are backed by the police force. All of us know this to be true under communism, but it is equally true under our own brand of welfare statism.
Leonard Read
#37. If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.
Saint Teresa Of Avila
#38. Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
George Orwell
#39. Show true cost of FICA-double what is shown on paychecks.
Newt Gingrich
#40. Sometimes, songs spill out of you very fast, and sometimes you have to wrangle them to the floor. But the same thing is true of comedy, where sometimes it really flows.
Harry Shearer
#41. Bear true witness, even if it be against yourselves, your parents or your family.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#42. You wanna Know who your true friends are? Screw up and see who's still there.
Jeffree Star
#43. You may travel the whole world, but you'll not find true religion anywhere. Whatever there is, it is in your own mind.
Abhijit Naskar
#44. What is true for a given person in a given situation is not necessarily true for that person in a different situation, or for another person in the same situation, and still less if both are different.
Michael Dibdin
#45. A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#46. 'Jaws,' first time I saw it, I forgot I was in it. True. Totally forgot, and got as scared as everybody else, and it's a great movie.
Richard Dreyfuss
#47. IN A DETECTIVE'S WORLD there was one true blight on society, and it wasn't the master criminal; after all, superpredators were few and far between. It was the media. Sunday
Lisa Gardner
#48. The hunger to belong is not merely a desire to be attached to something. It is rather sensing that great transformation and discovery become possible when belonging is sheltered and true.
John O'Donohue
#49. True love does not put a person in a cage like a bird. It gives true freedom to soar.
Debasish Mridha
#50. The True Self always has something good to say. The False Self babbles on, largely about itself.
Richard Rohr
#51. The old saying is true: If you have only the Word, you dry up. If you have only the Spirit, you blow up. But if you have both, you grow up.
Jim Cymbala
#52. Someone once wrote that musicians are touched on the shoulder by God, and I think it's true. You can make other people happy with music, but you can make yourself happy too. Because of my music, I have never known loneliness and never been depressed.
John Berendt
#53. If truth doesn't exist, then it would be true that truth doesn't exist, and once again we arrive at truth. There is no alternative; truth must exist.
Nabeel Qureshi
#54. False hope can lead to intemperate choices and flawed decision making. True hope takes into account the real threats that exist and seeks to navigate the best path around them.
Jerome Groopman
#55. I must confess that I know nothing whatsoever about true underlying reality, never having met any.
Edward Abbey
#56. A modest, godly woman will dress modestly ... The one who is simple and unpretending in her dress and in her manners shows that she understands that a true woman is characterized by moral worth.
Ellen G. White
#57. I can't remember too much about the '80s, to be honest with you ... I wish that weren't true, but it is.
Colin Hay
#58. Change is the most beneficial power available to you, simply change the things you don't like, replacing them with your true desires.
Steven Redhead
#59. People are raised to believe that happiness is the land to which they are destined to travel. But that belief, which one so easily accepts as true, might just as well be a mirage.
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
#61. We are the true architects of our lives. Only we as individuals and individuals alone, carry within us, the inner ability to make any changes to it's blue prints.
Robert M. Hensel
#62. Some say loyalty inspires boundless hope. And while that may be, there is a catch. True loyalty takes years to build... and only seconds to destroy.
Emily Thorne
#63. I read in a book that they cut off the workers' hands if they hadn't collected enough rubber by the end of the day. The Belgian foremen would bring baskets full of brown hands back to the boss, piled up like a mess of fish. Could this be true of civilized white Christians? In
Barbara Kingsolver
#64. 'Six Feet Under' was about repressing our deepest, most primal impulses, and 'True Blood' is about giving full sway to them all the time. In a way they are like yin and yang.
Alan Ball
#65. To have a true idea of man or of life, one must have stood himself on the brink of suicide, or on the door-sill of insanity, at least once.
Hippolyte Taine
#66. If you could find a way to peel back the skin of this world so to speak, would you really see this supernatural reality that is greater? Is it true that we fight not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers? Every young person wants to know.
Ted Dekker
#67. Reality is neither the subject nor the object of true art which creates its own special reality having nothing to do with the average "reality" perceived by the communal eye.
Vladimir Nabokov
#68. When I write nonfiction, it's always absolutely true. There will be no moment in my nonfiction where I have made something up and have to apologize to the bullying hostess of a talk show.
Jamaica Kincaid
#69. Know that the true dharma emerges of itself [during the practice of zazen], clearing away hindrances and distractions.
Dogen
#70. They had dreams but they called them dreams because they were unrelated to reality, they were a distant unknown, an impossibility, they would never come true.
James Frey
#71. Everything is in place - after 500 years - to build a true 'new world' in the Western Hemisphere ... And what happens if we don't pass NAFTA? I truly don't think that 'criminal' would be too strong a word for rejecting NAFTA.
David Rockefeller
#72. Every pleasure or pain has a sort of rivet with which it fastens the soul to the body and pins it down and makes it corporeal, accepting as true whatever the body certifies.
Socrates
#73. We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.
Cassandra Clare
#74. Knowledge does not corrupt, unless it is arrogant; but then it is not true knowledge.
Elie Wiesel
#75. True human capabilities will not find expression in competition. True human capabilities will find expression only in absolute relaxation. Your mind, your body will work best, will find fullest expression, only when you are joyful and peaceful, and quiet within yourself.
Jaggi Vasudev
#76. We journalists love writing about eccentrics. We hate writing about impenetrable, boring people. It makes us look bad: the duller the interviewee, the duller the prose. If you want to get away with wielding true, malevolent power, be boring.
Jon Ronson
#77. You have to believe in what you are saying. Maybe they will like it or not but they cannot contest that what you are saying is true.
Jean-Christophe Maillot
#78. We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world - mad, even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt.
R.D. Laing
#79. The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#80. Say it's true: It is what it is. We're social, tribal, musical animals, walking percussion instruments. Most of us do the best we can. We show up. We strive for gratitude, and try not to be such babies.
Anne Lamott
#81. A true prince. One of the finest, least dedicated men in the whole world.
Joseph Heller
#82. The deepest word that can be spoken about sanctification is that it is a progress towards true humanity.
J.I. Packer
#83. Silence is the true friend that never betrays.
Confucius
#84. It was heaven. Forget angels, forget St. Peter and glittering harpsichords. Heaven was a dance in the arms of one's true love.
Julia Quinn
#85. But believing something to be true has nothing to do with whether it is true.
Marcus J. Borg
#86. Just remember," he said. "Maybe these guys are nice, and the ants are mean. But that doesn't mean their fairy tales are true.
Robert Repino
#87. He turned his head, kissed the top of her head. "I love you."
"It sounds lovely in bed, in the dark, when everything's quiet."
"Because it's true. And it'll be true in the morning.
Nora Roberts
#88. My science is based in voraciously wandering fact, luscious speculation, and spontaneous theory with a dash of prevarication. All of which are most likely to come true.
J. DeWayne Pierce
#89. People who say things like 'may all your dreams come true' should try living in one for five minutes.
Terry Pratchett
#90. For me, success was finding the courage to be true to myself, and holding on to a sense of humor along the way while refining my craft. Sean
Jewel
#91. Death cannot be struggled against, brother. It ever arrives, defiant of every hiding place, of every frantic attempt to escape. Death is every mortal's shadow, his true shadow, and time is its servant, spinning that shadow slowly round, until what stretched before one now stretched before him.
Steven Erikson
#92. Is it really true that we can't afford one attack helicopter's worth of seed corn to listen to the stars?
Carl Sagan
#93. Truth cannot be sacrificed at the alter of a pretended tolerance. All religions, plainly and simply, cannot be true.
Ravi Zacharias
#94. If love and hate aren't true opposites, perhaps neither are pleasure and pain - if you go far enough in one extreme, it resembles the other.
Daria Snadowsky
#95. Progress, then, is a property of the evolution of life as a whole by almost any conceivable intuitive standard ... let us not pretend to deny in our philosophy what we know in our hearts to be true.
E. O. Wilson
#96. Providence has decreed that those common acquisitions, money, gems, plate, noble mansions, and dominion, should be sometimes bestowed on the indolent and unworthy; but those things which constitute our true riches, and which are properly our own, must be procured by our own labor.
Desiderius Erasmus
#97. He mouths something. Six words. Six words that seem too impossible to be true. Six words that bleed hope into my soul. Six words. You're not crazy. I love you.
Lauren Hammond
#98. The fundamental virtue of success is that it allows you to know the true significance of what it means to have the freedom to make your dreams come true.
Stacy Keach
#99. The true destiny of America is religious, not political: it is spiritual, not physical.
Alvin R. Dyer
#100. Metal. In some ways, that was the true mark of mankind. Man tamed the stones, the bones of the earth below. Man tamed the fire, that ephemeral, consuming soul of life. And combining the two, he drew forth the marrow of the rocks themselves, then made molten tools.
Brandon Sanderson
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