True Quotes

Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

It's kind of true that they just start making the same movie over and over again. It's also true that the times dictate what kind of movies get made and what kind are not. So I'm always looking for something that's a little fresh and something that I haven't seen before.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Wide awake I can make my most fantastic dreams come true.

It is true that the eyes dominate the ears in our time.

It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.

The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self.

It is still true that it is easier to compose a poem in the form of a manual for adjusting a VCR than it is to write a piece using just tuning as a symphony.

Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.

Since 1935, this has been a pay-as-you-go system, and I always believed when I first started talking about Social Security that there was a little box that had my name on it and it had my benefits for when I retired. That is not true.

I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm interviewing somebody, I'm getting a combination of fact and truth and self-mythology and self-delusion and selective memory and faulty memory.

Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.

And before our current legislature adjourns, we intend to become the first state of full and true choice by saying to every low and middle-income Hoosier family, if you think a non-government school is the right one for your child, you're as entitled to that option as any wealthy family; here's a voucher, go sign up.

To be challenged means to strive. I'm almost certain that's true.

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Now, it's true I married my wife for her looks... but not the ones she's been givin' me lately.

Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.

Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not.

Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be one of the least.

True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.

Just because an individual in his 30s hasn't found true love and, yes, there are opportunities to date but it also forces you to be more particular. In so many ways, you become more adamant about finding that right person and not allowing yourself to open up to just anybody.

The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.

Anything that harms the integrity of the game is terrible. We always thought we were immune to drugs in baseball, but we know that's not true anymore.

Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem.

We are witnessing a slow, steady takeover of our true freedoms. We are becoming a socialist nation, and whoever can't see this is probably hoping it isn't true. If we permit Mr. Obama to take over all our industries, if we permit him to raise our taxes to support unconstitutional causes, then we will be in default. This great America will become a paralyzed nation.

We have lost that which has made us great over the generations, and that is the sense of individual and personal responsibility that we can come up, we can pursue our dreams and our aspirations and we won't be blocked by government regulation, by the inability to get a loan as a small business to make our dreams come true.

Well you know, it's true that as a fat person I run a greater risk of heart disease, diabetes, and a number of other things. But guess what? The amount of that risk is almost infinitessimal!

All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.