True Quotes
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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
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And because she so desperately wanted it to be true, she knew she could not manage an objective judgment.
Jack McDevitt
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When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can he have the true vision of the beauty that is everywhere.
Rabindranath Tagore
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You kind of need to weed through who is wanting to be a true friend.
AJ Michalka
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For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.
Francis Bacon
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I try not to look too far ahead. I'm more about living day to day and working hard. I think it's great to visualize a dream, but it's more important to make it come true with your efforts.
Ana de Armas
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Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.
Lawrence Welk
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It's not true that I never left South Bend to recruit a player. It is true that I didn't leave very often.
Ara Parseghian
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It's true you never know the full depth of a parent's touch in your life until they're gone. Even if you cared for them in their old age, there's never a way to prepare yourself for the death of a parent.
Donna Brazile
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In my life I've learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we're all searching for. I haven't come across anyone who didn't become a better person through love.
Marla Gibbs
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It's true I didn't get a fair trial, but the problem is people don't understand the details. It is important to understand the details of the trial and why I'm not guilty under the charges that were brought against me.
Chen Shui-bian
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We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws, the Indian question, a source of such dishonor to our country and of shame to true patriots, will soon be a thing of the past.
George Crook
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You can get the true essence of New Yorkers by just hanging out in Central Park
Andy Roddick
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Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity.
Chris Van Allsburg
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There is a great difference between the Idols of the human mind and the Ideas of the divine. That is to say, between certain empty dogmas, and the true signatures and marks set upon the works of creation as they are found in nature.
Francis Bacon
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I got snubbed about eight times for the Mid-Summer Classic, and I know what type of career I had, and I know that I'm a true All-Star. The selection process is not very accurate.
Frank Thomas
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Singing provides a true sense of lightheartedness. If I sing when I am alone, I feel wonderful. It's freedom.
Andrea Bocelli
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It sounds corny to say, but the theater is sacred; something transcendent can occur, and when it does, everyone grows. It's a true communion.
Val Kilmer
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I never had a true childhood.
Bethenny Frankel
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We live in crazy times - that is true - and things have gotten crazier, but it still doesn't feel like the turn of the century.
Om Malik
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Everything that I've done has made me who I am today. You know, it's cliche, but it's true.
Kristin Cavallari
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If 'god' is a metaphysical term, then it cannot be even probable that a god exists. For to say that 'God exists' is to make a metaphysical utterance which cannot be either true or false. And by the same criterion, no sentence which purports to describe the nature of a transcendent god can possess any literal significance.
Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer
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True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.
Jonathan Edwards
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The stoic husband was the glorious thing.The man had courage, was a sage, 'tis true,And lov'd his country.
Alexander Pope