Mark Kurlansky Quotes

So much of what I write in fiction is based on true stories.

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• This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Time
  • True
  • Want

• I'm usually late to the game on shows and watch them after they've aired. But I love 'House of Cards,' 'The Killing,' 'Orange Is the New Black,' loved 'True Detective,' and 'Arrested Development' when it was on. Also 'The Wire,' though I was way late to the game on that.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • True
  • Game
  • Way

• If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Live
  • True
  • Knowledge

• Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Love
  • True
  • Happiness

• Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Music
  • Money
  • True

• We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. Not so in politics, and especially in Congressional elections.

  

  Larry J. Sabato
  • Believe
  • Live
  • True

• Don't be 'consistent', but be simply true.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • True
  • Consistent
  • Simply

• My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great
  • True
  • Religion

• The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • War
  • History
  • True

• Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

  

  J. Donald Walters
  • True
  • Understanding
  • Happiness

• After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • People
  • Great
  • May

• Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Believe
  • Stories
  • Triumph

• It is absolutely true in war, were other things equal, that numbers, whether men, shells, bombs, etc., would be supreme. Yet it is also absolutely true that other things are never equal and can never be equal.

  

  J. F. C. Fuller
  • Men
  • War
  • True

• The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • True
  • Man

• I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Great
  • True
  • Funny

• The fashion world is so interesting because it's always changing, but if you know yourself really well, despite of all the changes in the fashion trends, you know how to stay true to yourself.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • True
  • Interesting

• At first, I did have that thought, like, 'Oh crap, what are we going to do after?' Then I realized 'Girl in a Country Song' was an honest, truthful song, and we were telling our truth, and that's all we have to do - write songs that are true and tell our stories.

  

  Madison Marlow
  • Country
  • Truth
  • True

• Stevie Wonder is just one of those guys that completely delivers everything that you want to be true about Stevie Wonder. He's an amazing human being, and the fairytale exists with that man.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • True
  • Man
  • Amazing

• In basketball - as in life - true joy comes from being fully present in each and every moment, not just when things are going your way.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Life
  • True
  • Way

• When I went to acting school, the kids that got the best grades were the kids that could cry on cue. But it didn't really translate into careers for any of them, because the external is the easy part.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • School
  • Kids

• Every labourer is a father, his labour is his child. Choose your project carefully and achieve it worthily

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Father

• What I want is that I can match my performances during training so I can be satisfied with myself.

  

  Liu Xiang
  • Training

• So much of what I write in fiction is based on true stories.

  

  Mark Kurlansky
  • True