True Quotes

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and as bound to use earthly blessings, not as means of satisfying lust or gratifying wantonness, but of supplying his absolute wants and necessities.

The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.

We are a country that has many friends, many allies, when we operate in the world, we operate with friends and allies that's been true for decades and if we wind up going to war in Iraq it will be true in Iraq.

None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.

I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

True Yankees are born, not made.

To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary.

Well, I look at it like this: When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal. If the soup tastes good, everything's cool, and you don't necessarily want to know what's in it. The same thing holds true with movies.

True strength is delicate.

I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of suffering, living at ease, when there are so few to contend for Christ and His cause.

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

Well, it wasn't a holiday, but I had expected to do some sightseeing when I went to Haiti to film a series called 'True Horror' for Discovery. Before I arrived, our film crew were kidnapped and held at knifepoint.

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

It's definitely a thing to be sitting there, getting a pedicure, and you look over and someone is reading an article about an aspect of your life that you know is not true. It's weird, it's uncomfortable, but I don't see it changing anytime soon, so I should figure a way to laugh through it.

Always stay true to yourselves.

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man.

The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices.

Someone's just told me the English are still trying to take over the United States - is that true?

I think it's a mother's dream come true to see it work out that way. Not just the mother, but certainly parents, to know that their children have a very solid moral foundation and religious foundation.

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

True health care reform cannot happen in Washington. It has to happen in our kitchens, in our homes, in our communities. All health care is personal.