True Quotes

• No, I've never moved on with a play. I did the original 'Closer' in London but didn't transfer to the West End or Broadway with it. The same is true of 'Iceman': I didn't go to the Old Vic or Broadway with that. I don't know; I feel an allegiance often to the play where you do it first, in the theatre that it's in; you do it for that space.

  

  Mark Strong
  • True
  • Space
  • Theatre

• But the reporter has the responsibility to determine, number one, whether that is true, and number two, to make a judgment as to whether it's in the public interest and whether or not it should be part of the debate.

  

  Bob Schieffer
  • True
  • Responsibility

• What makes art Christian art? Is it simply Christian artists painting biblical subjects like Jeremiah? Or, by attaching a halo, does that suddenly make something Christian art? Must the artist’s subject be religious to be Christian? I don’t think so. There is a certain sense in which art is its own justification. If art is good art, if it is true art, if it is beautiful art, then it is bearing witness to the Author of the good, the true, and the beautiful

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Good
  • Art
  • Beautiful

• True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Live
  • Knowledge
  • Lies

• Stay true to yourself because it goes a long way. If you don't know who you are, who are you really?

  

  Brandy
  • True
  • Long Way

• The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone's not true with themselves.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • True
  • I Know
  • Respects

• True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • Real
  • Strong
  • Alone

• Snowden has demonstrated true love for his country. He has done something to improve the lives of people.

  

  Jean-Michel Jarre
  • People
  • Country
  • Done

• There's something great about all your worst fears coming true and being said about you. There's a tremendous liberation on some level.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Great
  • True
  • Said

• In this journey, the fear creeps in from time to time. The hint of that is there because there's an unknown factor to everything. That's true in everyone's life. I don't choose to live there; I let it spark me.

  

  Kerri Walsh Jennings
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• There's certain things that people hold as truth but that are not always necessarily true.

  

  Jeremy Podeswa
  • People
  • Truth
  • True

• When you put your total faith in God, no matter what happens, to a person who's a true believer, if you die, you know you're going to heaven to be with God.

  

  Jim Bakker
  • God
  • Faith
  • Die

• It's true that Paris is made up of equal parts of social conservatism and anarchic experimentation, but foreigners never quite know where to place the moral accent mark.

  

  Edmund White
  • Up
  • Know
  • Moral

• When there's ever a breakthrough, a true breakthrough, you can go back and find a time period when the consensus was 'well, that's nonsense!' so what that means is that a true creative researcher has to have confidence in nonsense.

  

  Burt Rutan
  • Time
  • Confidence
  • Period

• God never forces a person's will into surrender, and He never begs. He patiently waits until that person willingly yields to Him. True surrender is a matter of being 'united together [with Jesus] in the likeness of His death' (Romans 6:5) until nothing ever appeals to you that did not appeal to Him. And after you surrender--then what? Your entire life should be characterized by an eagerness to maintain unbroken fellowship and oneness with God.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • God
  • Together

• We must delve deep into history the better to engage a true dialogue of civilisations. Fear of the present can impose upon the past its own biased vision.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • History
  • Past
  • Fear

• It is certainly true that writers take a stance at some variance from organized religion. This has not always been true. But since the romantic movement - and I'm referring now exclusively to poetry - the emphasis has been on the individual imagination defined against, rather than in terms of, any orthodoxy.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Imagination
  • Poetry
  • Romantic

• I grew up in a small hotel with many rooms, so when I became aware of 'The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe,' I inspected all the wardrobes, sure one had to be a portal to another world. I was also a true believer in faeries, and perhaps still am.

  

  Jo Beverley
  • Up
  • World
  • Small

• People often confuse visibility with a lot of other things. Sometimes I become a proxy for things that just aren't true about me. People will say, 'DeRay got millions of dollars in grants.' That's just not true... I'm broke.

  

  DeRay Mckesson
  • People
  • True

• Online gambling is very seductive and very illusory. It can seem like a really good idea. It can seem like what people told you to work hard and get ahead, but when someone shows you something and it's too good to be true, it probably is.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Mine is a story about a teenage single mother who struggled to keep her young family afloat. It's a story about a young woman who was given a precious opportunity to work her way up in the world. It's a story about resiliency, and sacrifice, and perseverance. And you're damn right it's a true story.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Up
  • World
  • Work

• I love a ballad in print o' life, for then we are sure they are true.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Life
  • True
  • Ballad

• Some people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn't happen. If that's the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be able to be comfortable in uncertainty.

  

  James Mattis
  • People
  • True
  • Risk

• … the Union can grow powerful only by fostering the manufacturing interest. This, Sir, I think the true American political economy.

  

  Friedrich List
  • American
  • Political
  • Powerful

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