True Quotes

The first step to believing something is true is wanting to believe it is true... or being afraid it is.

For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.

Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.

I really don't have a theme when I start a sculpture. The rock guides me to the final sculpture. I think that is true for many creative sculpture artists.

You have been tried by twelve good men and true, not of your peers but as high above you as heaven is of hell, and they have said you are guilty.

There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

The inspired Scriptures make the clear distinction between false and true riches and make plain the reason why happiness is gained and fully enjoyed only by those who find true riches.

It's true I'm more widely recognised now and get invited to take part in all sorts of events and projects but as a person, I haven't changed.

It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.

Just like I find men who talk sports who don't really know sports annoying, I think men might find women who don't really have a true passion and knowledge of sports maybe not so attractive.

I lost three times in my career. Losing to Holmes I could deal with, because I lost to a true champion.

In this business, it's easy for either your heart or your head to be swayed, and I try to always stay true to who I am.

Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan's true legacy, as I noted in 'The Nation' back in 2000, before the current right-wing mania for President Reagan gained its full force.

I think the most important thing for an artist is to not worry about what anybody else thinks. You just have to do what comes from your heart and your being and put it out there-that's true in any of the arts.

The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.

Spring is a true reconstructionist.

This above all; to thine own self be true.

Your true nature doesn't come out. So the gods let you do what you want because free will would be compromised if they showed up at the White House saying, 'Take us to your leader.'

In Mexico you have death very close. That's true for all human beings because it's a part of life, but in Mexico, death can be found in many things.

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true.

It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false.

So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!

It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese.

We represent people, and any good congressperson wants to know how their people at home feel about issues. I can tell you for sure in our office that is taken into account, and that is true for any congresspersons I know.

Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.

There are peaks and valleys in anything and that is especially true for the music business. It is very inconsistent. But if you are wise, you can let those downs really bring you to another level of your personality.

Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.