True Quotes

• The true bureaucrat is a man of really remarkable talents. He writes a kind of English that is unknown elsewhere in the world, and an almost infinite capacity for forming complicated and unworkable rules.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
  • Men
  • Writing

• The Reformation did not directly touch the question of the true character of God's church.

  

  John Nelson Darby
  • God
  • Character
  • Question

• Being of service to others is what brings true happiness.

  

  Marie Osmond
  • True
  • Service

• It is not easy to stop thinking ill of others.Usually one must enter into a friendship with a person who has accomplished that great feat himself.Then something might start to rub off on you of that true elegance.

  

  Hafez
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Stop

• They committed murder, it is true; but their situation may have rendered it inevitable.

  

  Philip Hone
  • May
  • True

• Science seems to be at war with itself.... Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism to be false. Therefore naive realism, if true, is false; therefore it is false.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • War
  • True
  • Science

• Everybody claims they have relatable, connectable characters, but those claims often aren't true.

  

  David Walton
  • True

• If you're being true to who you are, and the things you believe in, that is so attractive to me.

  

  Teresa Palmer
  • Believe
  • Being
  • Attractive

• Everybody influences everybody else, in my opinion. There are different trends in music all the time. No matter who starts them, if it's a true trend in the music, it ends up influencing other people as well.

  

  Chris Young
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Singing provides a true sense of lightheartedness. If I sing when I am alone, I feel wonderful. It's freedom.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Freedom
  • Alone
  • Singing

• Well can I just say unlike my predecessors, Conservative and Labour, I have set up an independent body that studies whether what I'm saying is true, whether I've met the targets that I set out.

  

  George Osborne
  • Up
  • True
  • Independent

• There is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice and solidarity.

  

  Pope John Paul II
  • Truth
  • Peace
  • Justice

• No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.

  

  Lawrence Clark Powell
  • World
  • Great
  • Library

• It is true that the Puritans banned all recreation on Sundays and all games of chance, gambling, bear baiting, horse racing, and bowling in or around taverns at all times. They did so, not because they were opposed to fun, but because they judged these activities to be inherently harmful or immoral.

  

  Leland Ryken
  • True
  • Fun
  • Horse

• A painter's hand has a thirst for thieving, it steals from heaven and makes a gift to the memories of men, it feigns eternity and it delights in this pretence almost as if it had created rules of its own, more durable and more profoundly true.

  

  Dacia Maraini
  • Men
  • Art
  • Hand

• Every fictional thing I wrote gave me strength to write another and another. By the end I wasn't remaining true to anything but the story I wanted to tell.

  

  Lily King
  • True
  • Story
  • Fictional

• 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

• The best words for resolving a disagreement are, "I could be wrong; I often am." It's true.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • True
  • Words
  • Disagreement

• Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter.

  

  Johann Georg Hamann
  • True
  • Knowledge
  • Mirror

• Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.

  

  Peggy Noonan
  • Friends
  • True
  • Equality

• It's true that no child is born knowing there's an evil thing. You learn what is ugly.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • True
  • Evil
  • Ugly

• I heard that the same thing occurred in a scene in Alien, where the creature pops out of the chest of a crewman. The other actors didn't know what was to happen; the director wanted to get true surprise.

  

  Marvin Minsky
  • True
  • Alien

• All right, let's get to work again!-This is the spirit of people of genuine substance. Those who avoid hard work or neglect the things they have to do, who just while away their time, eating, sleeping, playing, watching television-such individuals will never experience true happiness, satisfaction or joy.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• You know, it is said that we Greeks are a fervent and warm blooded breed. Well, let me tell you something - it is true.

  

  Melina Mercouri
  • True

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