True Quotes

I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.

The new spirituality will also base itself on a third very large spiritual understanding, which is that life is eternal. Most religious people claim to believe that, but very few people actually live as if that were true.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

I make about two movies a year outside the 'True Blood' schedule. I work on a great show six months a year, then outside that I get to satisfy whatever creative urges I have. It's a great position, especially for a single guy like me.

I hate pork rinds. I couldn't imagine how anybody would ever get the idea of taking skin from a pig and frying it and then trying to sell it to people. And then people actually buy it to eat it. That is the true sign of the decline of the human race.

The Jews and the Arabs should settle their dispute in the true spirit of Christian charity.

Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism.

Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.

Someone asked me years ago if it were true that I disliked Jews, and I replied that it was certainly true, not at all because they are Jews but because they are folks, and I don't like folks.

It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.

Somebody once said, you have to wait 20 years before you can tell if a movie's any good or not so that's probably true.

It would be very discouraging if somewhere down the line you could ask a computer if the Riemann hypothesis is correct and it said, 'Yes, it is true, but you won't be able to understand the proof.'

We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.

It's true that I tend to daydream. I'm the same person in business as I am in music: I can be distracted and absentminded. It's my style.

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when it's also funny.

They committed murder, it is true; but their situation may have rendered it inevitable.

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term.

Hip-hop is the last true folk art.

With the end of the cold war, all the 'isms' of the 20th century - Fascism, Nazism, Communism and the evil of apartheid-ism - have failed. Except one. Only democracy has shown itself true the help of all mankind.

I was always a show-off - as a kid I was never afraid to make a fool of myself, and I guess that's still true.

It is true, there are many bad people; there are more of them than in the past, but that is because there are more people, meaning the population has tripled; there must be three times more bad people.

Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it.