Top 100 Say True Quotes
#1. Our world cannot be complete without you, and without hearing what you have to say. True justice cannot exist without compassion; compassion cannot exist without understanding. But no one will understand you unless you speak, and are able to speak clearly (Sister Janet to the students, page 155).
Mark Salzman
#2. People say true friends must always hold hands, but true friends don't need to hold hands because they know the other hand will always be there.
Mahatma Gandhi
#3. Gandhiji used to say, 'True democracy is not run by twenty people sitting in Delhi. The power centres now are in capital cities like Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata. I would like to distribute these power centres in seven lakh villages of India.
Arvind Kejriwal
#4. I'd say true friendship is worth fighting for.
L.T. Suzuki
#5. The more you say true things, the more you will be respected; the more you will respected, the more you shall feel to be obliged to say even truer things! Every true path at the beginning opens the paths of even greater and stronger truths in the future!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#6. It's therapy. [people] say true healing requires honest confrontation, and that can be seen on a macro scale with America and the things that have been swept under the rug, whether it be with the native Americans or slavery, or whatever holocaust that's happened on this soil.
Nate Parker
#7. Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishing industry; but alas, not always.
Teresa Nielsen Hayden
#8. Whether men lie, or say true, it is with one and the same object.
Darius I
#9. There are those who would say true predators are animals that don't have free will. I say everything's a choice. All creatures can choose to live or die, eat or starve, love or hate according to their will.
April White
#10. It's easier to say true things in the dark. Spider said, "You know what doesn't make sense here?" "Everything?
Neil Gaiman
#12. In future days you will call John Mandeville a liar, and my shade will laugh at you and say: true, true, I was, but not always, not so. When the world was good enough in my sight, when it behaved as wildly and gorgeously as I always knew it could, I told the truth of it.
Catherynne M Valente
#13. They say true genius often strikes in the pale moments between awake and asleep.
Sarah Ockler
#14. Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.
Neil Gaiman
#15. Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism
which is true, but they miss the point. It was the built-in blind spots of the Objective rules and dogma that allowed Nixon to slither into the White House in the first place.
Hunter S. Thompson
#16. Many stories are invented about me - too many stories; almost everyone uses me, and I'd say about 0.01 percent of the gossip is true.
Mario Balotelli
#17. I dish the dirt out, and I can take it. But why should my mother and children have to take it? In 20 years, I have taken any number of stories, most of which are not true, without a murmur of complaint. But some stories you have to draw the line and say No.
Jeremy Clarkson
#18. Our students didn't used to come from such damaged families," Louis mused. "It's true what they say. This country really is coming apart at the seams.
Paul Russell
#19. Forever echoed in their favor. "Never say never", she said softly. For you see, Forever had never heard of Never.
Shannon L. Alder
#20. The things you say, the things you don't say, the things you do, or the things you don't do are always sending a loud message to those around you. What kind of a message are you sending? Is it a true reflection of who you are?
Lindsey Rietzsch
#21. If we have got the true love of God shed abroad in our hearts, we will show it in our lives. We will not have to go up and down the earth proclaiming it. We will show it in everything we say or do.
Dwight L. Moody
#22. 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
#23. It's fun to be able to have a fun palate, and the way I say that, you think about it and it sounds funny, but it's true.
Joey Fatone
#24. If it's true, does it have to be nice? If you have something true to say, but you don't say it because you just want to be nice, isn't that sort of like a lie?
Megan Hart
#25. When people say that George Harrison made me famous, that is true in a way.
Ravi Shankar
#26. I used to hear people say nobody can prepare you for fame, and it's actually very true. But there is such beauty that comes with it when you're able to use your platform in a positive way.
Jussie Smollett
#27. So you begin to wonder if Leonia's true passion is really, as they say, the enjoyment of new and different things, and not, instead, the joy of expelling, discarding, cleansing itself of a recurrent impurity.
Italo Calvino
#28. I always try to enjoy the game. It is easy to say but it's true. Every game is different, sometimes you feel better inside you but you have to enjoy your game.
Rafael Van Der Vaart
#29. When I label something as fiction, people say it's true, and when I label something as non-fiction, people say it is made up. If something is not 100% true, then I label it as fiction. After all, there is no half of a lie, is there?
Robert Black
#30. You can take care of him," she insisted. This was madness. This was a true example of temporary insanity.
"I can't."
"Why not?" She demanded.
"Umm ... I don't ... like ... " I couldn't say diapers. I had my own baby! "I don't like ... black ... babies ...
L.D. Davis
#31. I'm not comfortable with the idea of my sex appeal, but I know in my job I have to use it. I wish I could say I got to this point in my career based on my talent, but I don't think that's true.
Matthew Morrison
#32. A misperception about anorexia is that you don't eat. Not true. Maybe you eat just 500 calories a day. It would be easy for me to say, 'Why didn't my parents notice?' But I didn't want them to. I made sure to eat half a sandwich around my parents.
Brittany Snow
#33. Beware of those who speak ill of others in your presence; don't be surprised of what they say about you in your absence.
A.J. Garces
#34. Just say anything without even caring if it is true. That is how riots start.
Colin Flaherty
#35. If I had to give one piece of advice to incoming college freshmen, I'd say always be true to yourself.
Beverley Mitchell
#36. Whereever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are one with everything. That is more true than I can say, and more true than you can hear.
Shunryu Suzuki
#37. It's definitely not true what they say about women wanting a guy with a sense of humour. What women mean is that they want a guy with a sense of humour who is really handsome. If a girl had a choice between Brad Pitt or me, she'd pick Brad Pitt. And I'm a lot funnier than he is.
Seth Rogen
#38. One senses with so many Democrats who support the Clintons an unspoken sentence: "They're all we have." They're the only big national winners the party has left. I always want to say to them: That's not true, you've got better than that, you've got good people, go look and you will find them.
Peggy Noonan
#39. The medieval mystics say the true image and the true real met once and for all on the cross: once and for all: and yet they still meet daily.
Madeleine L'Engle
#40. If ego is the voice that tells us we're better than we really are, we can say ego inhibits true success by preventing a direct and honest connection to the world around us. One
Ryan Holiday
#41. When people say they are happy for you it may mean they are sad for themselves.
Josephine Humphreys
#42. I am not going to be so American as to say that all true love demands some sacrifice. It doesn't. But I think that love will be truer and more permanent in which self-sacrifice has been exacted.
Ford Madox Ford
#43. When you first hear about this guy (Stan Musial), you say, 'it can't be true.' When you first meet him you say, 'It must be an act.' But as you watch him and watch him and see how he performs and how he comports himself you say, 'He's truly one of a kind.' There will never be another like him.
Jack Buck
#44. I'm seeing so much of America today, Luya kept telling Lowell in nervously accented English. It became a personal catchphrase for him - whenever things were not to his liking, he'd say that - I'm seeing so much of America today.
Karen Joy Fowler
#45. I can remember, when I was in college, irritating deeply somebody I was going out with, because he would ask me what I was thinking and I would say I was thinking nothing. And it was true.
Joan Didion
#46. I'm addicted to murder, and that's about the nicest way I can put it. You might say that's not technically true, that since they're already dead I'm not really killing. Horseshit; it's murder, and it's a rush like nothing else. Sure,
Max Brooks
#47. The first thing you ought to do is verify what I present. Just because I say it doesn't make it true. So check it out, see what looks correct, what looks wrong, look at other material which wasn't discussed, figure out what the truth really is. That's what you've got a brain for.
Noam Chomsky
#48. It is certainly true that whatever a man may do or say, the most significant thing about him is what he thinks; and significant also is how he came to think it, why he continued to think it, or, if he did not continue, what the influences were which caused him to change his mind .
Albert J. Nock
#49. Writers say many true things about their own experiences with publicity and promotion.
Teresa Nielsen Hayden
#50. They say that dog is man's best friend, and I think it's true. My dog does a lot of the same stuff my best friend does, like drool on my couch, mooch my food and hump my wife.
Brad Wilkerson
#51. [I]t seems to be just as foolish to say, 'I imagine, in order to understand more clearly what I am,' as to say, 'I am now clearly awake and I see something true, but because I do not yet see it clearly enough I shall fall asleep so that my dreams will represent it to me more truly and clearly.
Rene Descartes
#52. Suffice it to say, every actor works differently. Laurence Olivier would put on his costume and when the wardrobe was right, he was in character. That sounds superficial, but it's true, and look at the results.
Michael Mann
#53. If I'm president, some day, young kids will look at the world differently. They will say, I could be president some day. They couldn't have said that before I came along. The world will see the United States in a different context, as a country of true opportunity for all.
Barack Obama
#54. Now it is quite true to say that curiosity, exactly like its analogue, lust, never ends and is never satisfied; but man was made for something more than this. He was made to rise, above curiosity and lust, to love, and through love to the attainment of truth.
Seraphim Rose
#55. Three 6 Mafia have been around for a long time; we've made a lot of music. Anybody's music can influence anybody. I've heard people say that our music has influenced such and such, and it could be true, and it could not.
Juicy J
#56. And as much as I'm telling her to stay here, I still want her to choose to come with me. To say fuck sanity and healing and closure. To say that I am the only thing she needs to be well and whole and alive. But we both know that's not true.
Katja Millay
#57. I've never had a dream go this far, so I can't really say it's a dream come true,
Bubba Watson
#58. In my mind the job of a natural scientist is to bend over backwards to say something which can be demonstrated to be true or at least which is not of such a nature that there's no way to demonstrate that it's false.
Richard Lewontin
#59. You see, Doctor, what people say is true: man carries his fiercest enemy within himself. Hell isn't others. It's ourselves.
Elie Wiesel
#60. If you want to improve your life and live with all that you deserve, you must run your own race. It doesn't matter what other people say about you. What is important is what you say to yourself, being comfortable in your own skin. Be true to you. That's a key source of happiness.
Robin S. Sharma
#62. Enormous numbers of people are taken in, or at least beguiled and fascinated, by what seems to me to be unbelievable hocum, and relatively few are concerned with or thrilled by the astounding-yet true-facts of science, as put forth in the pages of, say, Scientific American.
Douglas Hofstadter
#63. They say that women dress for other women, but I don't think that's entirely true. If we want to look flossy out-and-about on a Friday night, we're dressing for the boys - and it's nice when they notice.
Rachel Nichols
#64. It may seem odd to say that the men who made the myths disliked the irrational and had a love for facts; but it is true, no matter how wildly fantastic some of the stories are ...
Edith Hamilton
#65. People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves.
Abdullah Ibrahim
#66. Things you might hear,
Things you wanna believe,
Things that aren't true,
Things that people say,
It's these THINGS that causes people to feel not wanted.
James Allen
#67. People say time changes things, but it's not true. Doing things changes things. Not doing things leaves things exactly as they were.
House
#68. I told you it was easy," HARV said.
"True, but you say that about everything."
"That's because everything is easy for me."
"Everything but humility."
"No, that's easy, too. I just choose not to practice it.
John Zakour
#69. There's the occasion when politicians will say things that are simply not true or that they make commitments that they have no intention of fulfilling. That is something that I think should not happen. That's a no-no. That's a third rail that you shouldn't touch.
Malcolm Turnbull
#70. Love is far better to know, even if it slips from your grasp or doesn't bear fruit like you'd hoped. People who say they regret love, true love, are just bitter liar.
Elise Kova
#71. My aim is so true,
I wanna show you,
I'll try forever,
I'm never gonna say "surrender".
Gavin DeGraw
#72. Its just the anniversary, she wanted to tell him. Its just this time of the year stirring up these memories. Everything will be all right. But she couldn't say that, because she wasn't sure it was true.
Elizabeth Chandler
#73. True faith, by a mighty effort of the will, fixes its gaze on our Divine Helper, and there finds it possible and wise to lose its fears. It is madness to say, "I will not be afraid; "it is wisdom and peace to say, "I will trust and not be afraid.
Alexander MacLaren
#74. Let me say for now that we knew once the Creation was broken, true fathering would be much more lacking than mothering. Don't misunderstand me, both are needed- but an emphasis on fathering is necessary because of the enormity of its absence
Wm. Paul Young
#75. I know that many authors say editors don't edit anymore, but that's not been true in my experience.
Victor LaValle
#76. I think what separates me from the candidates is the fact that I have a proven track record of being a fighter. A fighting for what people believe in, whether it is popular or not. Despite the opposition, I stand true. Because people know that I will do what I say. And that I say what I do.
Michele Bachmann
#77. Iggy Pop, or should I say Iggy's people, had reached out to me saying he was a True Blood fan, and if any opportunities come up, to please keep Iggy in mind. We sent Iggy the demo of 'LB&R'. He loved it and said, 'Sign me up.'
Gary Calamar
#78. That's the only part that bugs me about this. It's so empty out there." "True. On the other hand, if the Sun blows up we'll be in an unrivaled position to say, 'What was that?'" "Oh,
Larry Niven
#79. I can't just say the words, do a lot of one-liners. I love each person I play; I have to be that person. I have to do him true.
Richard Pryor
#80. You can teach a person all you know, but only experience will convince him that what you say is true.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#81. I say his version because there is no such thing as a true account of anything. Each sees the world from his own vantage point. Needless to say, a throne is not the best place from which to view anything except the backs of prostrate men.
Gore Vidal
#82. When you are working on a script, the story itself is not difficult. You say this would happen and then this, resulting perhaps in this. And the dialogue you make as true as you can.
Louis Malle
#83. They say bad things come in threes, but I don't think that's true. I think bad things keep right on coming. They don't stop. They'll never stop. It's just too depressing to keep counting, so we start over after the third bad thing.
Hugh Howey
#84. Every time I hear a Republican talking about health care reform, they say the American people don't want it. They say it so much that I think they're beginning to try to convince themselves that it's true.
John Yarmuth
#85. Can I remember "I remember lots," I say. How much of what I remember is true is another matter.
Charles Stross
#86. I know what it is to be pushed in a direction you don't want to go, or one you're not ready for. People say they know what's best for you. Maybe sometimes it's true. But it doesn't matter if they keep pushing until they take your choices away.
Nora Roberts
#87. Maybe calling it being hitched ain't the prettiest way to say you're married, but it's the truth to my mind and true in a good way, because you're working together and depending on each other, and you're sharing the load.
Ron Rash
#88. IOS users tend to be ones that really care about being online all the time. They also tend to be willing to pay for that. You might say they are richer users, which is partially true.
Robert Scoble
#89. I believe it's true to say that everyone who has experienced LSD or another psychedelic would look on that experience, especially the first one, as a major life-changing event.
Ralph Metzner
#90. Well even before she was diagnosed with the cancer, I would have said that she was a lot tougher than me and most guys would probably say that about their wives and it's probably true in most cases.
Brett Favre
#91. They say that lightning never strikes in the same place twice, but the same is not true for courage. As it turns out, when courage strikes, it almost always begets more courage.
Kathi Appelt
#92. It is probably true to say that the largest scope for change still lies in men's attitude to women, and in women's attitude to themselves.
Vera Brittain
#93. But was it not true that there were people, certain individuals, whom one found it impossible to picture dead, precisely because they were so vulgar? That was to say: they seemed so fit for life, so good at it, that they would never die, as if they were unworthy of the consecration of death.
Thomas Mann
#94. President Kennedy said that those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable. I would say that the converse is true.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#95. The true voyagers are those who go for the sake of traveling ... and without quite knowing why, they say, 'Let us depart!'.
Charles Baudelaire
#96. 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
#97. I do not say with words. I do not say it with images either. ... I do not say, I show. I show people who move and speak. That is all I know how to do, but that is my true subject.
Eric Rohmer
#98. I shook Alan's hand and the feeling just grew stronger. It was a bit frustrating. Like when you're looking for what to say and it's on the tip of your tongue, but no matter how hard you try, it just keeps eluding you.
Pamela Alvarado
#99. The Poets say you can live on love alone, but if that were true their books would be free.
Betsy Talbot
#100. A lot of people say they want to get out of pain, and I'm sure that's true, but they aren't willing to make healing a high priority. They aren't willing to look inside to see the source of their pain in order to deal with it.
Lindsay Wagner
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