True Quotes

• There are so many of these young-adult movies with these cold guys who act like jerks to girls but are hiding soft sentiments. But in the real world most guys who act like jerks are jerks. Generally they are. I spent a lot of high school thinking that horrible guys must be very sensitive and interesting and it's not true.

  

  Alice Englert
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Real

• Staying true to who I am was tougher when I first got wealthy. Having great friends kept me grounded.

  

  Mark Cuban
  • Great
  • Friends
  • True

• As chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee - the chief tax-writing body in Congress - I understand that true comprehensive tax reform is tremendously difficult.

  

  Kevin Brady
  • Writing
  • True
  • House

• I was always a show-off - as a kid I was never afraid to make a fool of myself, and I guess that's still true.

  

  Ann Robinson
  • True
  • Fool

• My wife and children seem to like me quite a bit, and as long as that is true, I'm really OK.

  

  Brian Williams
  • Long
  • Children
  • Wife

• 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
  • True
  • Gossip

• Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.

  

  Franz Grillparzer
  • Life
  • Work
  • Poetry

• "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

• Even the two novels I've written were based on true stories. It's how I'm wired - real life is fascinating and fantastical enough. The kind of journalism I did unpeeled lids from cans otherwise sealed.

  

  Peter Landesman
  • Life
  • Real
  • True

• Faith is more than thinking something is true. Faith is thinking something is true to the extent that we act on it.

  

  W. T. Purkiser
  • Thinking
  • Faith
  • True Faith

• I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of suffering, living at ease, when there are so few to contend for Christ and His cause.

  

  Donald Cargill
  • Fear
  • Wish
  • Suffering

• In San Francisco, the majority of the restaurants are ingredient-driven. In New York, that is true as well, but there's also a greater focus on technique.

  

  Daniel Humm
  • True
  • Focus

• The two sides that fought in World War I lived in the same century but in different places. The same is true for World War II. In World War III, both sides are almost everywhere, but they live in different centuries.

  

  Haim Harari
  • World
  • Different
  • Live

• It's true that I'm not cozy. I'm more reserved.

  

  Colleen Atwood
  • True

• True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.

  

  Louis Nizer
  • Life
  • Positive
  • Creeds

• We need to take a step back and realize that not everything we encounter is true. You don't want to be gullibly accepting everything as true, but you don't want to be cynically rejecting everything as false. You want to take your time to evaluate the information.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Time
  • True

• By "moral discipline," I mean self-discipline based on moral standards. Moral discipline is the consistent exercise of agency to choose the right because it is right, even when it is hard. It rejects the self-absorbed life in favor of developing character worthy of respect and true greatness through Christlike service.

  

  D. Todd Christofferson
  • Life
  • Character
  • Respect

• Not true at all. Vaseline is manufactured right here in the United States.

  

  Don Sutton
  • United States
  • Manufacture
  • Vaseline

• There's something that intervenes and is very important which has to do with value. Value in the true biological sense, which is that contrary to what many people seem to think, taking it at face value - sorry for the pun - we do not give the same amount of emotional significance to every event.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • People
  • Important
  • Value

• ...new nuclear plants are simply unfinanceable in the private capital market, and the technology will continue to die of an incurable attack of market forces-all the faster in competitive markets. This is true not just in the U.S., where the last order was in 1978 and all orders since 1973 were cancelled, but globally.

  

  Amory Lovins
  • True
  • Die
  • Technology

• A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly problems. It is almost equally true that a clear and full apprehension of the universal providence of God is the solution of most theological problems.

  

  B. B. Warfield
  • God
  • True
  • Faith

• All times are changing times, but ours is one of massive, rapid moral and mental transformation. Archetypes turn into millstones, large simplicities get complicated, chaos becomes elegant, and what everybody knows is true turns out to be what some people used to think.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • People
  • Moral
  • Chaos

• Satan will advocate that it is cool to doubt spiritual gifts and the teachings of true prophets.

  

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf
  • Cool
  • Spiritual
  • Doubt

• Worse than thieves, murderers, or cannibals, those who offer compromise slow you and sap your vitality while pretending to be your friends. They are not your friends. Compromisers are the enemies of all humanity, the enemies of life itself. Compromisers are the enemies of everything important, sacred, and true.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Life
  • Important
  • Friends

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