True Quotes

• I grew up in a household where there were really, really strong matriarchal characters. I think that's true of many Asian households. People tend to think of Asia as a misogynistic society or a society where men rule. At least in my experience, the women rule the household; the women rule the social scene. The men often become very useless.

  

  Kevin Kwan
  • People
  • Up
  • Men

• There are pretty girls all over the place. But there are still a lot of people standing strong, doing their thing in loving relationships, actually staying true. I wanted to write an honest love song from that point of view.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Song

• It's true that most people in the trans community don't have the incredible wealth and privilege that Caitlyn does. I don't think that, in any way, diminishes her struggle in her own transitioning.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Community
  • Struggle

• The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Character
  • True
  • Education

• Denzel Washington invoked confidence. When you have confidence, you can do anything. And that's what happened. I learned about being honest and keeping it true, keeping it true in my performance.

  

  Derek Luke
  • True
  • Confidence

• You just don't see Muslims being matter-of-fact Muslim. They're always defined by their Muslim-ness. We're either terrorists, or we're fighting terrorists. I remember seeing 'True Lies' and going, 'Why are we always the bad guys?'

  

  Kumail Nanjiani
  • Why
  • Remember
  • Bad

• Every true genius is bound to be naive.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
  • True

• I had this exceptional classical music voice. If I'd followed a true path for my talent, I would have ended up being an opera singer.

  

  Lesley Manville
  • Up
  • Music
  • Path

• Learn the true topography; the monstrous and wonderful archetypes are not inside you, not inside your consciousness; you are inside them, trapped and howling to get out

  

  R. A. Lafferty
  • True

• It must be obvious to anyone who can think at all that the charges against the Hussein regime are, as concerns arsenals of genocidal weaponry, true.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • True

• Dreamers become writers, and for me, being a published writer is a dream come true.

  

  David A. Adler
  • True
  • Dream

• It has frequently been said that we never desire what we think absolutely inapprehensible: it is however true that some of our sharpest agonies are those in which the object of desire is regarded as both possible and imaginary.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Thinking
  • Desire
  • Agony

• Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
  • Art
  • Age
  • Science

• A true epilogue is removed from the story in time or space. That's the reason it is called an 'Epilogue'; the label serves to alert the reader that the story itself is over, but we are going to now see a distant result or consequence of that story.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Time
  • Space
  • Story

• We will never sell or have an IPO. What that does is suddenly flushes you with cash. It makes you now work for a group of stockholders, who, again, put pressure and temptations on your true-blueness.

  

  Joel Salatin
  • Work
  • True

• I just have a sense that, you know, I'm curious about what is religion about, you know? Why do some of us still engage it? It's not because it's a set of old beliefs or old ideas. Or even, particularly, the view that this is the only true religion. Many of us no longer accept those views.

  

  Elaine Pagels
  • Why
  • True

• It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.

  

  Yann Martel
  • True

• It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.

  

  Bryant H. McGill
  • Life
  • Live
  • Freedom

• All you gotta do is think of the song in your head. And it doesn't matter whether you can play it or not, you can get somebody to play it. With songs I've written, there's a song called "The Statue", which I can't play. There are songs that I've written that I've actually just hummed on - there's a song on one of the albums they have there on the Internet called "My Love Was True" and it's almost operatic. I can't play it. But I can sing it.

  

  Don McLean
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Internet

• People assume that happiness stems from collecting things outside of yourself, whereas true happiness stems from removing things from inside of yourself

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • True

• "Out, damned spot!" That is the true cry of human nature. That stain cannot be removed without blood and that which is infinitely more, and deeper, and profounder, and more terrible than blood, of which blood is but the symbol - the suffering of Deity.

  

  G. Campbell Morgan
  • True
  • Nature
  • Suffering

• To understand a saint, you must hear the devil's advocate; and the same is true of the artist.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • True
  • Devil

• If you break things down to goodies and baddies, the baddies are always a bit more alluring in fiction, and that's true from a narrative point of view. But I wanted to write a novel about real life, and real life is a bit more nuanced than that.

  

  Gail Honeyman
  • Life
  • Real
  • True

• To me, the most interesting part of 'True Blood' is that the entire crux of the show is based on identity and finding your true identity.

  

  Marshall Allman
  • True
  • Interesting
  • Identity

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