True Quotes

• A friend in the true sense is not a person who passively nods approval of our conduct or ignores improper behavior. A friend is a person who cares.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Friend
  • Behavior
  • True Sense

• Their argument is that most shows are losers, which is true, but it's also disingenuous to say, 'We are not going to take the risk unless it is totally covered by the few successful shows that are out there.'

  

  Dick Wolf
  • True
  • Risk

• Could I make you believe something that wasn't true?' He studied her through his eyelashes. 'You could make me believe anything at all.

  

  Emma Bull
  • Believe
  • True
  • Eyelashes

• Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

  

  John Boyle O'Reilly
  • Work
  • True
  • Friend

• All the warnings the founding fathers gave us about government proved to be true. We should have listened.

  

  James Cook
  • Government
  • Fathers
  • Warnings

• The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.

  

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.
  • True

• Music is intangible and ephemeral, but it comes from the home world of the spirit, and though so fleeting, it is recognized by the spirit as a soul-speech fresh from the celestial realms, an echo from the home whence we are now exiled, and therefore it touches a cord in our being, regardless of whether we realize the true cause or not.

  

  Max Heindel
  • World
  • Music
  • Home

• There are many different kinds of power. True power comes from serving and helping others. Such behavior makes people respect you. They are willing to listen to your views and advice, and they support you. The energy of many people is thus channeled through one person. This kind of power is positive and authentic.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Different
  • Power

• I'm not sure if a writer should talk about themes. Themes arrive out of the deeper structure and concerns, but to me, the main thing is getting it down right, writing about specific characters in specific predicaments, and finding a way to be true to the story itself, not only in the first burst of draft but in the revision, too.

  

  David Means
  • Writing
  • True

• I think most people, and I'm talking vamp or human, are shitty. They put on an act. They pretend to be all nicey-nice, but are really just one step away from showing their true asshole-ness.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Nice

• Be true to yourself, know that your are more than your face and body, and keep God first.

  

  Jessica White
  • God
  • True

• She picked up the book and then walked back past him into the tent, but as she did so, she brushed the top of his head lightly with her hand. He closed his eyes at her touch, and hated himself for wishing that what she said was true: that Dumbledore had really cared.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Up
  • She
  • Book

• Gineral C. is a dreffle smart man;He’s ben on all sides thet give places or pelf;But consistency still wuz a part of his plan,-He’s ben true to one party, an’ thet is himself.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • Party
  • Smart
  • Consistency

• If this were true, the population of the world would be at a stand-still. In truth, the rate of birth is slightly in excess of death. I would suggest that the next edition of your poem should read: 'Every moment dies a man, every moment 1

  

  Charles Babbage
  • World
  • Truth
  • Death

• I think the big lesson I've learned is that it's very hard to write satire in America because almost immediately, whatever you've thought of turns out to come true, or sometimes it already was true.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • America
  • True

• Often, when people don't do so well in a monologue at UCB, it's because they're racking their brain so hard to be funny that they're just not honest and don't just tell a true story, which is what we want.

  

  Matt Besser
  • People
  • Funny
  • Brain

• I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true.

  

  Cybill Shepherd
  • True
  • Success

• It has been said that every great emerging scientific truth goes to three phases: First people say: 'It can't be true'. Second they say: 'It conflicts with the bible.' Third they say: 'It's true all along.'

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • People
  • Great
  • Truth

• It's been painful to see the people that you love be attacked when you know it's not fair or true.

  

  Jeb Bush
  • People
  • True

• With my own comics, I try hard to get the vision in my head onto paper, to have one match the other as closely as possible. With the 'Airbender' comics, I'm working with someone else's vision, an already-established vision. I want to stay true to what's come before.

  

  Gene Luen Yang
  • True
  • Vision

• The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Country
  • True

• It's true I always try to be as seductive as possible but I wouldn't be here if I couldn't play tennis.

  

  Anna Kournikova
  • True
  • Tennis
  • Seductive

• Books are the true metempsychosis,--they are the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead men are scattered, and none shall find them. Behold they are here! they do but sleep.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • True
  • Books
  • Metempsychosis

• Maybe it was true, and being a girl could be about interest rates and skinny jeans, riding bikes and wearing pink. Not about any one thing, but everything.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Girl
  • Pink
  • Jeans

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