True Quotes
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I remember, once after we were captured the french showed us a video of these, these camps. I remember one of us snickered and the french officer said, "you goddamn nazi bastard, you think this is funny!" and he hit us both. I didn't realize until I was older that what they were showing us was true...
Alfons Heck
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If you have been suffering with physical ailments or even a spiritual emptiness, I want to share with you what I know to be true: The more love and reverence you give your body, the better you will feel.
Debbie Ford
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I have a rule in research: The third time you hear something, it's generally true.
James L. Brooks
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Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.
Douglas Horton
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Do not judge the way i show my feelings. It's weird, it's different, but it's true.
Nicholas Sparks
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What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of 'true scientific discourse.' It isn't.
Jimmy Wales
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True love is always shattered by the minor sticking points.
Ernst Happel
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Our almost-instinct almost true:What will survive of us is love.
Philip Larkin
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I guess I understand a public intellectual to be somebody who moves public discourse forward: someone who either says something new or says something that everybody knows to be true but is afraid to express.
Lionel Shriver
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It is true not all has been accomplished that the earnest advocates would desire, but a start has been made.
Frank B. Kellogg
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I once knew a house rather like The Land of Smiles - an old house occupied by a varied collection of young people, mainly students. However none of these people were true models for the characters in the book, though their way of life may have been.
Margaret Mahy
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If what was said in the Ethics is true, that the happy life is the life according to virtue lived without impediment, and that virtue is a mean, then the life which is in a mean, and in a mean attainable by every one, must be the best. And the same principles of virtue and vice are characteristic of cities and of constitutions; for the constitution is in a figure the life of the city.
Aristotle
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I think shows that are completely dramatic are a lie. People use humor to cope. That is how we deal with things. In the darkest situations, there's humor. And if you don't show that, you're not being true to real life.
Jenji Kohan
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You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.
Julia Roberts
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Faith is the truth of passion. Since no passion is more true than another, faith is the truth of nothing.
Richard Scott Bakker
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My first campaign was pretty ugly: the incumbent came after me hard with a lot of things that weren't true.
Reid Ribble
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I want to tell stories that are true and that resonate and move people, that highlight both the tremendous beauty and ugliness available in the human experience.
Maya Hawke
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Our view of reality is like a map with which to negotiate the terrain of life. If the map is true and accurate, we will generally know how to get there. If the map is false and inaccurate, we generally will be lost.
M. Scott Peck
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An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's own prejudices, frames of reference and desires so as to experience as far as possible the speaker's world from the inside, step in inside his or her shoes.
M. Scott Peck
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I have always tried to be true to myself, to pick those battles I felt were important. My ultimate responsibility is to myself. I could never be anything else.
Arthur Ashe
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The true unconscious is the well-head, the fountain of real motivity. The sex of which Adam and Eve became conscious derived fromthe very God who bade them be not conscious of it.
D. H. Lawrence
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Some dreams truly are 'impossible dreams.' However, many aren't. Knowing the difference is often one of the first steps to finding your element, because if you can see the chances of making a dream come true, you can also likely see the necessary next steps you need to take toward achieving it.
Ken Robinson
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It is often said that education and training are the keys to the future. They are, but a key can be turned in two directions. Turn it one way and you lock resources away, even from those they belong to. Turn it the other way and you release resources and give people back to themselves. To realize our true creative potential-in our organizations, in our schools and in our communities-we need to think differently about ourselves and to act differently towards each other. We must learn to be creative.
Ken Robinson
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Facts are too busy being true to worry about how you feel about them.
Dan Wells