True Quotes
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My novels are never directly based on a true crime incident, but I want to get the details right. I want to know how homicide detectives think, what a SWAT team might do to prepare.
Marcus Sakey
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In most cases, people, even the most vicious, are much more naive and simple-minded than we assume them to be. And this is true of ourselves too.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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True love is a preview of heaven, and you do what you got to, to get it.
Alice Randall
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Whenever I had anything and saw a fellow being suffering, I was more anxious to relieve him than to benefit myself. And this is one of the true secrets of my being a poor man to this day.
Davy Crockett
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She wouldn't say what we both knew. 'The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true: is that it? But you know it is true now. I can almost tell you the day when you knew it is true. Why won't you say it, even to yourself?' She will not say it.
William Faulkner
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But if, as morning rises, dreams are true.
Dante Alighieri
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Follow your dreams. If you have a goal, and you want to achieve it, then work hard and do everything you can to get there, and one day it will come true.
Lindsey Vonn
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A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
Demosthenes
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See to it that each hour's feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Be true to yourself, stay focused and stay you, take advice from other folks, use what you can, but never mind what is not for you. For the most part, trust yourself and believe in what you are doing.
Musiq Soulchild
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The North knows it cannot enjoy true security so long as the South is enjoying itself next door, be it ever so harmless in military terms and even free of US troops.
Brian Reynolds Myers
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There are worlds beyond worlds and times beyond times, all of them true, all of them real, and all of them (as children know) penetrating each other.
P. L. Travers
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The true Amphitryon is the Amphitryon where we dine.
John Dryden
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She called me like a week later and said it was for T2. I loved The Terminator so it was pretty much like a dream come true.
Edward Furlong
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If it doesn't make sense, it's usually not true.
Judy Sheindlin
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I might act like it's an accident but the opposite is true. I'm incredibly calculated when it comes to my career.
Eva Mendes
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But it is not the job of truth to make us feel good. It is the job of truth to be true, and it is our job to deal with it.
William Deresiewicz
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If the Tony Awards want to remain relevant in the American theater conversation, then they need to embrace the true diversity of voices that populate the American theater.
Lynn Nottage
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True love can fear no one.
Seneca the Younger
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But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out.
John Gay
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True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.
William Butler Yeats
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What's great is that there are a lot of brands - like Thom Browne, Michael Bastian, and Rag & Bone - but they're all doing their own thing. That's what's important: to remain true to your own DNA.
Simon Spurr
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My sense of injustice about our family's 'weirdness' in not owning a car was amplified by the fact that we did not own a television, either - my parents were unapologetic about this and told me very cheerfully that I would thank them for it when I was older, which was quite true.
Eleanor Catton
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Power to do good is the true and lawful act of aspiring; for good thoughts (though God accept them), yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act; and that cannot be without power and place, as the vantage and commanding ground.
John Locke Nazareth