True Quotes

• Plots, true or false, are necessary things,To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.

  

  John Dryden
  • Up
  • True

• Say whatever your memory suggests is true; but add nothing and exaggerate nothing.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • True
  • Memory
  • Suggests

• Race is the true protagonist of the American novel. Our most popular classic fictions have known this, from 'Moby Dick' to 'Beloved;' all these books take on race or talk it out, often in other forms; they are less 'horror stories for boys' than ghost stories from a haunted conscience.

  

  Kevin Young
  • American
  • True
  • Popular

• I just think Brian d'Arcy James is a dream come true. I've known of him ever since I saw him in 'Titanic,' and I fell crazy in love with him at that moment.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Dream
  • Crazy
  • Titanic

• I think the best piece of advice that I would give is beauty is really just - I know it sounds cheesy - being true to who you are. Beauty is not something that is acquired necessarily through like makeup or clothing.

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • Beauty
  • Advice
  • Makeup

• It's very helpful to start with something that's true. If you start with something that's false, you're always covering your tracks. Something simple and true, that has a lot of possibilities, is a nice way to begin.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Possibilities
  • False
  • Tracks

• “Money to Burn” is a fantasy. I mean, I would love for that to be a true story. Most of my songs are written in metaphors.

  

  Ladyhawke
  • True

• I have seen players and coaches come and go, but through it all, I have always known Cleveland is where I want to retire. But life doesn't always work the way you want it to, and at the end of the day, the saying, 'This is a business,' is unfortunately true.

  

  Anderson Varejao
  • Life
  • Work
  • Business

• It also is true that some ideas naturally work themselves out over a longer period of time than a single human life can encompass.

  

  James E. Gunn
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.

  

  Eric Hoffer
  • True
  • Obstacles

• Eddie Marsan is just my favourite actor of all time. I love everything he's been in, so it's a dream come true to work with him.

  

  Abi Morgan
  • Time
  • Work
  • Dream

• When you repeat a new pattern often, you literally change the neural pathways in your brain. This shift helps true change settle in.

  

  Gabrielle Bernstein
  • True
  • Brain

• The true test of a man's spirituality is not his ability to speak, as we are apt to think, but rather his ability to bridle his tongue.

  

  R. Kent Hughes
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Tests

• True Christian is not an angel; he is not a halfangelic being, in whom is no weakness, or blemish, or infirmity: he is nothing of the kind. He is nothing more than a sinner who has found out his sinfulness, and has learned the blessed secret of living by faith in Christ.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Faith
  • Christian
  • Blessed

• 'Instagram' can engage generations of people that may not be on Facebook yet. I think that's true with 'WhatsApp,' and I think that will be true with things like Oculus.

  

  Kevin Systrom
  • People
  • May
  • True

• 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

• True genius walks along a line, and, perhaps, our greatest pleasure is in seeing it so often near falling, without being ever actually down.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Fall
  • Genius
  • Lines

• I think it's true we look forward to enormous amounts of information, but I think we would be better off if we thought about the kinds of wisdom and thoughtfulness that we need in order to handle the amount of information ahead.

  

  Maya Soetoro-Ng
  • True
  • Wisdom

• Yes, it's true, I've been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. I guess that would make Laurence Olivier the Leslie Nielsen of Shakespeare.

  

  Leslie Nielsen
  • True

• 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

• Be true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • True

• It was the understanding of the power of perception that allowed the Martin Luther King, Jr. generations to stay true to the strategy of non-violence, refusing to retaliate when every emotional instinct would justify them doing so.

  

  Burgess Owens
  • Power
  • Understanding
  • Violence

• Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Believe
  • Dreams
  • Secrets

• But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Friendship

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