True People Quotes

#1. Many people ask me what I have learned from all of the experiences in my life, and I say unhesitatingly: People are wonderful. It is true. People really are wonderful.

Desmond Tutu

#2. After a while, we start really believing these things are true. People who have had self-defeating behaviors for a long time, such as people who have been overweight since they were children or people with longtime addictions, actually believe there is no other alternative.

Wayne Dyer

#3. My fears came true: People called me fat and hideous, and I lived. And now I keep living.

Lena Dunham

#4. 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

#5. Many people say that time heals all wounds, but that simply is not true. People can become more bitter, arrogant and spiteful with age.

Gudjon Bergmann

#6. It's true, people don't imagine I'd be particularly woody.

Clive Anderson

#7. I'd rather reminisce about old memories I had with true people than record the moments I have with fake people

Nathanael Kanyinga

#8. The Berbers belong to a powerful, formidable, and numerous people; a true people like so many others, the world has seen - like the Arabs, the Persians, the Greeks and the Romans.

Ibn Khaldun

#9. Dreams are reality that has not become true. However, in the hearts of some people, they have already come true. People whose dreams are already achieved in their hearts, and who can see that as they boldly throw themselves into it, have true courage.

Ilchi Lee

#10. The old adage is true, people will only be as good to you as you are to yourself. They will follow your example, and those who don't will be left by the wayside.

Niecy Nash

#11. It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true.

J.D. Salinger

#12. People don't change, Lola said. Maybe you're still young enough to pretend that's not true. People are who they are, and everybody around them has to take it or go somewhere else.

Charles Frazier

#13. That's not true. People are more affected by true stories than they are fiction. You said so yourself." "What I said was that people have a tendency to call whatever moves them 'the truth.

Hiroshi Yamamoto

#14. People only know what you tell them.And it was true.People gave out their whole life stories to anyone and everyone without a second's thought.Stand at a bus stop,sit in a strange pub,get banged up,and someone would always give you their life story.It was as if they were trying to prove they existed

Martina Cole

#15. Flourishing goes beyond happiness, or satisfaction with life. True, people who flourish are happy. But that's not the half of it. Beyond feeling good, they're also doing good-adding value to the world.

Barbara Fredrickson

#16. It is simply not true that war is solely a means to an end, nor do people necessarily fight in order to obtain this objective or that. In fact, the opposite is true: people very often take up one objective or another precisely in order that they may fight.

Martin Van Creveld

#17. People say, 'If you open a movie online at the same time as in movie theatres, no one is going to go to the movies.' That's just not true. People love to go out and have a shared experience; they always will.

Kevin Spacey

#18. There's a reason we'll all end up with just a handful of true friends in our life. These are the people that have taken the time to look at our heart, so despite any flaws they're forever in our lives.

Ron Baratono

#19. But it's better to have bad options than no options. And people won't save you either, ya know.

J.A. Huss

#20. I realize it's impossible to have any sympathy, I mean, true sympathy, for people that are famous.

Bill Murray

#21. True, we might never have arrived, but the fact is we did. If only people thought a little more about it, they would see that life is not worth worrying about so much.

Mikhail Lermontov

#22. 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

#23. I would say I don't like people who are really into themselves or are very materialistic. Just always talking themselves up. Not being real is the pet peeve. Be true to yourself.

Austin Stowell

#24. 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

#25. One of the most frightening things about your true nerd, for may people, is not that he's socially inept - because everybody's been there - but rather his complete lack of embarrassment about it.

Neal Stephenson

#26. Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away.

Ismail Haniyeh

#27. People kept on talking about the true king of Ankh-Morpork, but history taught a cruel lesson. It said - often in words of blood - that the true king was the one who got crowned."

Terry Pratchett

#28. 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

#29. Actual places, landscapes that exist[ed] simultaneously in both physical and metaphysical space ... true geographical refugia, verdant valleys dominated by protective mountain deities where people could seek solace as lonely pilgrims, or flee violence as a community in time of war.

Wade Davis

#30. I would have Simon Cowell sing 'Shiny Happy People' by R.E.M. just to show his true personality.

Sanjaya Malakar

#31. We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.

Mae Jemison

#32. 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

#33. People say things die in winter, but it isn't true, mostly. They just gather their strength.

Rose Lerner

#34. True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to.

James C. Collins

#35. There are interviewers who try to trip up the candidate," says Hanold. "If you make people do intellectual gymnastics, you're not getting their true self. There is no right answer to any question I ask. I want an authentic response." To

Ethan F. Becker

#36. The conventional wisdom is that people come to the United States, and immigration is so great, and they say, 'America, what a great country.' And a lot of that is true.

James Gray

#37. The thing you can't underestimate is the true fan's intimacy. So Lady Gaga or anybody's true fan, I don't think they're going anywhere. There are people who are into commitment. If they're connecting with an artist, I think they'll be there over the long course.

Alanis Morissette

#38. Writers spend too much time among dead things. I thought that was profound and actually true, that you're trying to pump life into something that is inanimate. You see what a sort of audacious thing it is to move these sort of imaginary people around in a very stylized and patterned world.

Martin Amis

#39. Neither the good nor the true is self-realizing, so it is not generally a sufficient explanation of why people believe that X that X is true, or of why people do Y that Y is good.

Raymond Geuss

#40. This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.

V.S. Naipaul

#41. Courage' isn't the kinds of word you use to describe yourself, Nick, even if we both know it's true. That only works if other people are saying it.

Lisa Belkin

#42. Boys," said Hermione Granger, "should not be allowed to love girls without asking them first! This is true in a number of ways and especially when it comes to gluing people to the ceiling!

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#43. The true definition of a phony is a high flyer with low mileage; a person who offers a worldview from the comforts of his/her living room.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#44. Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ... But underneath they feed a hunger for justice ... you offer to divert them, and you show them by stealth the orderly world in which we should all try to be living.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#45. I fervently believe that people shouldn't stay in bad relationships just because of some artificial rom-com notion of true love being "forever." In fact, I think that the pressure of conforming to that framework ruins-literally RUINS-a lot of people's lives.

Lindy West

#46. There is no one true church, no one chosen people.

Terry Tempest Williams

#47. It is easy to club people together, but there are bound to be influences of authors you've read. I grew up reading fast paced authors such as Sidney Sheldon and Jeffrey Archer, but to say I'm one of them isn't true; my style is intrinsically my own.

Ashwin Sanghi

#48. Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of.

Matthew Modine

#49. I wasn't convinced I was crazy, though I feared I was. Some people say that having any conscious opinion on the matter is a mark of sanity, but I'm not sure that's true. I still think about it. I'll always have to think about it.

Susanna Kaysen

#50. Everyone tells me I need to do comedy. It's never something that crossed my mind, but to be able to do a true comedy and make people laugh, that would be great.

Dexter Darden

#51. You see there are people who believe the function of the police is to fight crime,
and that's not true, the function of the police is social control and protection of
property.

Michael Parenti

#52. No one could ride a horse if the horse discovered its real strength. The same thing is true for people.

Napoleon Hill

#53. I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.

Kurt Cobain

#54. True enjoyments also keep people from vice.

Samuel Johnson

#55. True humor is fun - it does not put down, kid, or mock. It makes people feel wonderful, not separate, different, and cut off. True humor has beneath it the understanding that we are all in this together.

Hugh Prather

#56. Before I spoke with people, I did not think of all these things because there was no one to bother to think them for. Now things just come out of my mouth which are true.

Bernard Pomerance

#57. True greatness means that, even if you forget what you've done for others, you never forget what others have done for you. It means always doing your utmost to repay debts of gratitude. Such people radiate integrity, depth of character, bigheartedness and charm.

Josei Toda

#58. I think it's true that unless human beings experience something, they simply don't understand what people are going through.

Lynne Tillman

#59. People are going to be upset in life no matter what we do, Bexley. Might as well go big or go home. (Jude)

Frankie Love

#60. People come to L.A. because they're chasing that dream of a better life. That's why I came here, because I thought it would be a place where I would find other people like me; people who wanted to write, people who had a dream of being something else. And that proved to be true.

Robert Crais

#61. I've had people come up to me with the strangest interpretations of what my lyrics might mean, and I'm like, "You go! I never thought of that, but that works,"...I think that true art is a universal reflection, and true artists are just messengers of that reflection or, at best, skilled presentors.

Serj Tankian

#62. The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future.

Roone Arledge

#63. If only more people lusted to be kind than lusted to be rich, then maybe we could begin to know true wealth.

Charles F. Glassman

#64. There must be something wrong with those people who think Audrey Hepburn doesn't perspire, hiccup or sneeze, because they know that's not true. I n fact, I hiccup more than most.

Audrey Hepburn

#65. All young people worry about things, it's a natural and inevitable part of growing up, and at the age of sixteen my greatest anxiety in life was that I'd never again achieve anything as good, or pure, or noble, or true, as my O-level results.

David Nicholls

#66. You should either be like the candle that produces light or you live like mirror which reflects it. Pray for love; Sow love, Show love and Share love!

Israelmore Ayivor

#67. When people get married young, you don't really understand the true definition of marriage.

Kevin Hart

#68. It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about "Eleanor Rigby." It's true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong?

Jonathan Safran Foer

#69. I think most people read and re-read the things that they have liked. That's certainly true in my case. I re-read Pound a great deal, I re-read Williams, I re-read Thomas, I re-read the people whom I cam to love when I was at what you might call a formative stage.

James Laughlin

#70. When you arrive really inside the discussion of race, practically they institute a Mexican-ness, a Latin-ness, a racial community that just isn't true. So, we know who are the people that have the majority of power, access and privileges in Mexico, and they are white Mexicans.

Bocafloja

#71. People always think something's all true. I don't give a damn, except that I get bored when people tell me to act my age. Sometimes I act a lot older than I am, I really do. But people never notice. People never notice anything.

J.D. Salinger

#72. You could play the blues like it was a lonesome thing - it was a feeling. The blues is nothing but a story ... The verses which are sung in the blues is a true story, what people are doing ... what they all went through. It's not just a song, see?

David Edwards

#73. Love; I consider true love happens once in a lifetime. I really don't understand when people love someone and marry someone else. Either they never loved anyone at first place or they befool themselves by saying that we have moved on.

Ritu Chowdhary

#74. The disconnect lasted too long. I think people got the idea I was sullen and couldn't communicate, which wasn't true.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#75. It must surprise people that I'm such a rap fan, but it's true. Sometimes, just staying in, putting on some rap music, and letting loose is all I need to have a good time.

Phoebe Tonkin

#76. True love isn't expressed in passionately whispered words an intimate kiss or a embrace; before two people are married, love is expressed in self-control, patience, even words left unsaid.

Joshua Harris

#77. I believe there are only one or two people in the world with whom one can have a true connection. When you've been fortunate enough to marry one of those people, you are reluctant to settle for less. One can have lovers, those are easily found, but true love rarely strikes twice.

Nicole Richie

#78. Many people confuse a Dom personality with a Dom's position of authority. The two are not exactly the same or interchangeable. A true Dom dominates. Plain and simple. And by dominate, we mean does what it takes to get a job done. Even if that means submit.

Lucian Bane

#79. Most people were raised to think they are not worthy. School is a process of taking beautiful kids who are filled with life and beating them into happy slavery. That's as true of a twenty-five-thousand-dollar-a-year executive as it is for the poorest.
Bill Talcott - Organizer

Studs Terkel

#80. I predict that the time will come in this once free America when the battle for religious liberty will have to be fought over again, and will probably be lost, because the people are already ignorant of its true basis and conditions.

Robert Dabney

#81. 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

#82. A true leader inspires by being among the people,
not above them.

Lynda Cheldelin Fell

#83. It would be a divine injustice to allow only those people who were learned and who had the time and money to buy expensive books to have access to true knowledge.

Paulo Coelho

#84. What gives people superiority at a task is true intention. That makes you attuned to everything.

Werner Erhard

#85. 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

#86. Too many assume that the reason people do not come to God is because they are ignorant; it is more generally true that the reason people do not come to God is because of their behavior.

Anonymous

#87. People want biography. People want memoir. They want you to tell them that the story you're telling them is true. The thing I'm telling you is true, but it did not always happen to me.

Dorothy Allison

#88. Fiction gives us empathy: It puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gift of seeing through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.

Ray Bradbury

#89. I create lies for people in order for them to find something true about themselves. I teach people that lies are doors that opens up to truth. Either you accept the lie, or you run away from it, thus, eliminating the meaning behind it, and what is could have accomplished.

Lionel Suggs

#90. I think people who make movies and have invested a lot of money in them get frightened that if they challenge an audience they are going to repel them. And I think the opposite; it's really true.

Claire Danes

#91. I left the Midwest feeling like, "People are small-minded, they don't want to ask questions, they don't want to think out of the box." Some of that was true.

Lissie

#92. Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

Jean Genet

#93. True conservation provides for wise use by the general public. The American people do not want our resources preserved for the exclusive use of the wealthy. These land and water resources belong to the people, and people of all income levels should have easy access to them.

George Aiken

#94. Being true to ourselves doesn't make us people of integrity. Charles Manson was true to himself, and as a result, he rightly is spending the rest of his life in prison. Ultimately, being true to our Creator gives us the purest form of integrity.

John Wooden

#95. And people are always saying: 'Well, you go to Hollywood and you get yourself a film career or a TV series, and then you can do anything you want. Because then you've got the clout.' That had always sounded like a lot of hooey to me, but now I think it's true, unfortunately.

Kathy Bates

#96. 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

#97. We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.

Pamela Hansford Johnson

#98. As is true for most people I know, I've always loved learning. As is also true for most people I know, I always hated school. Why is that?

Derrick Jensen

#99. The true impressionism is realism. So many people do not observe.

Childe Hassam

#100. 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