True Quotes

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.

In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.

When I grew up in the '60s, we were actually dominated by this, you know, sort of conforming '50s culture, even though we were like trying to express our own culture, like, the dominant culture was the thing that was forming us. And I think that that's true today.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts.

In trials of fact, by oral testimony, the proper inquiry is not whether is it possible that the testimony may be false, but whether there is sufficient probability that it is true.

It would be difficult to discover the truth about the universe if we refused to consider anything that might be true.

There is that thing about not working with animals and children - I don't think that's true. Although you should never work with donkeys.

If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That's a harsh statement, but I believe it to be true.

Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one.

Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.

I've skewered whites, blacks, Hispanics, Christians, Jews, Muslims, gays, straights, rednecks, addicts, the elderly, and my wife. As a standup comic, it is my job to make sure the majority of people laugh, and I believe that comedy is the last true form of free speech.

I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I'd better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams that came true.

It's a dream come true to have someone else portray me. Because I've been living this life for a long time, and I'm over myself.

When you go to meetings or auditions and you fail to prepare, prepare to fail. It is simple but true.

I'm not a true vegan.

Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishing industry; but alas, not always.

True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.

People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that's not true. You're always better off living.

Stars that shine bling in the moon night, might I find true love sqirreled away tonight?

The most frequent complaint is that it's hard. True. it's a hard game to win Also, many people ask me how to use the secret debugging commands, apparently under the impression that I'll tell them.

Change is the end result of all true learning.

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.

Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.

A lot of the American press at the time was saying 'just watch what happens when Bertelsmann tries to buy EMI, that will be a moment of truth that will show the Commission's true colors.' Well, that deal never happened either.

I'd rather see folks doubt what's true than accept what isn't.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

Oh, I love to lie. That's one of my favorite things in the world, coming up to somebody, especially press people, and telling them some enormous lie that couldn't possibly be true.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.